With the old horse-drawn cabs replaced by motor taxis, Ury found his perfect motif, and another at a busy station in the heart of Berlin.
cityscape
He started painting the streets of Berlin in 1888, when its cabs were still drawn by horses. He remained in search of his perfect motif until they had been replaced by motor taxis.
Views from Monet’s two visits, in 1871 and 1874, and the common people and places seen by George Breitner, to Max Liebermann’s view of the Jewish quarter.
From major fires lighting the night sky, a vegetable market, the elegant houses of the Golden Bend, City Hall with Atlas above, to the most picturesque synagogue in Europe.
Crowded apartments in Montmartre, the Lower East Side in New York City, smoke in Charleroi and Dortmund, workers’ cottages, and more smoke.
Gullible young women trafficked into prostitution, or were whole families squeezed out because of cold weather, crop failure including potato blight, loss of common land, and war.
By the end of the 19th century, 80% of those in Europe lived in towns and cities, drawn there by the promise of material riches that were not available to them in the country. This new series explores what they faced.
Hard manual labour and human shields in the First World War, before Tennis at Newport, Jack Dempsey boxing, and a final Summer Fantasy.
Originally intending to be a pro sportsman, became one of the pioneers of the Ashcan School with his gritty scenes of ordinary people in New York.
Electric light on the banks of the Seine in Paris, and in the shopping centres of Berlin, herald the eternal light of today’s city centres.
The Eclectic Light Company 