Henry Fuseli, "Paidoleteira" (1821), graphite and black chalk. Hamburg, Private collection of Thomas and Gianna Le Claire (all images courtesy the Courtauld Gallery) For starters, the “Modern Woman” ...

Henry Fuseli was born in the winter of 1741 in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. The son of Swiss painter and writer Johann Caspar Füssli, he studied in his native city but was forced to flee to ...

In December 1936, “Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism” opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibition featured ...

“When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent,” wrote the scholar Jacques Barzun in his 2000 book on the decline of the West, From Dawn to Decadence. Little in the ...

The painting, one of three existing versions of the composition, is based on the crucial scene in Shakespeare’s Macbeth when the play’s protagonist comes across the fate-telling witches. Two other, ...

After residing in private hands for more than 230 years, “The Three Witches” by the notoriously eccentric Anglo-Swiss painter Henry Fuseli has been acquired by the Huntington Library, Art Collections, ...

Henry Fuseli scandalized London, but his painting of a demonic visitor quickly became popular across art and culture. Chest pressure. You feel it at night, never quite knowing if its source is ...

Henry Fuseli was a Swiss artist known for his dramatic and imaginative depictions of supernatural experiences. "I hate clever women. They are only troublesome," he once remarked. Born in 1741 in ...

SAN MARINO (AP) — Southern California's Huntington Library has acquired an early version of Anglo-Swiss painter Henry Fuseli's classic "The Three Witches" and will put it on display beginning Saturday ...