Artists’ Childhood
I always wondered what were as children of famous artists? What also became the beetle? I collected some photos of them. Enjoy 🙂
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
Vincent Van Gogh about at age 13 ca. 1866
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Pablo Picasso | Still life with jug and bread 1921
Oil on canvas 101 x 128 cm
Collection of Baron E. de Rothschild
Pablo Picasso at age 5 in 1886
Pablo Picasso at age 8 with his sister Lola in 1889
Pablo Picasso at age 15 in 1896
Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
Edvard Munch | Landscape, Kragerø 1912
Oil on canvas 72.4 x 100.3 cm
Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Edvard Munch at age 1 with his mother Laura Cathrine Munch in 1864
Edvard Munch at age 2 in 1865 – Photo J. Lindegaard, Munch Museum
Edvard Munch about at age 15
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Paul Klee | Hammamet with Its Mosque 1914
Watercolor and graphite on paper mounted on cardboard 23.8 × 22.2 cm
from The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Paul Klee at age 5 and his sister Mathilda in 1884
Klee Paul at age 13 in 1892
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
Frida Kahlo | Fruit of Life 1954
Oil on masonite 38 x 52 cm
Frida Kahlo Museum, Coyoacán, Mexico
Frida at age 4 in 1911
Frida at age 5 in 1912
Frida at age 6 in 1913
Frida on June 15, 1919 – Portrait at 12 years old, photo by her Father Guillermo Kahlo
Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
Egon Schiele | Sunset 1913
Leopold Museum, Vienna
Egon Schiele at age 2 years 1892
Egon Schiele and his sisters Melanie and Elvira, Vienna ca. 1893
Egon Schiele and his sisters Melanie and Gerti, Vienna ca. 1895
Egon Schiele at age 8 1898
Egon Schiele at age 12 years with his sisters Melanie and Gerti, Vienna 1902
Egon Schiele ca. 1906 about at age 16
Jackson Pollock (1912–1956)
Jackson Pollock | Untitled ca. 1948–1949
Dripped ink and enamel on paper 56.8 x 76.2 cm
Gift of Lee Krasner Pollock, 1982
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Paul Jackson Pollock at age 16 in 1928
Jackson Pollock 2 years old feeding ducks 1914
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
Alberto Giacometti at age 9 with his siblings – left to right Ottilia, Bruno, Alberto, Diego – Stampa 1910
Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
Mark Rothko | Orange, Red, Yellow 1961
The Rothkowitz children – Albert is on the left, then Sonia, the man with mustache is unidentified, then Marcus (later MARK ROTHKO) and Morris – Photo probably taken before 1910
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989)
Salvador Dalí | The Persistence of Memory 1931
Oil on canvas 24.1 x 33 cm – The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Salvador Dalí at age 1 in 1905
Salvador Dalí at age 7 in 1911
Salvador Dalí 6 years old with his parents, siblings, grandmother and aunt in 1910
Photo by Josep Picho
René Magritte (1898–1967)
René Magritte | In praise of dialectics (L’Éloge de la dialectique) 1937
oil on canvas 65.5 × 54.0 cm – National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
René Magritte with his mother Adeline Magritte ca. 1899
Paul, Raymond and René Magritte as children ca. 1905
Brothers Raymond, René and Paul Magritte ca. 1910
Andy Warhol at age 3 with his mother Julia and brother John 1932
Via Warhol Museum Collection
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