Karin Lieven

Karin Lieven was an artist. Born in 1899, Karin Lieven died in 1978. Also born in 1899 and from this same generation are Walter Cyliax, Fritz Van Hall, John Bowes, Benji Asada and Boris Erdman.

Additional Biographical Background of Karin Lieven

Born in 1899, Karin Lieven was largely influenced by the 1900s and 1910s. The first decades of the 20th century were marked by the energetic development of visual and pictorial art. These decades were an era of experimentation, with artists exploring ideas surrounding Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, and Abstraction. These innovations have taken hold of artists' communities and collectives around the world, with many groups exploring various methods to express their ideas.

After World War I, artists began to explore the psychological uses of art in response to the horrors they had experienced. Dadaism, an absurd movement directly influenced by the events of the war, spread to many countries in Europe and established the careers of well-known artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Hannah Höch and Kurt Schwitters. The movement of surrealism, inspired by ideas concerning psychology and the subconscious that were first developed by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, developed from ideas posed by Dada.