Charles Krause Reporting Fine Art

CHARLES KRAUSE/REPORTING FINE ART will show the work of artists who have sought to influence, or who have been influenced by, the great social and political upheavals of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Its mission is to increase awareness of their impact---and to change the way their art and photography is understood, appreciated and valued by museum curators, art historians, art critics and collectors throughout the world.

Charles Krause discovered the extraordinary power and often haunting beauty of the art of protest, propaganda and political change while covering the wars and revolutions of Central America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East for The Washington Post, CBS News and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. His extensive personal collection ranges from the 18th to the 21st Century, and includes many of the artists whose work will be shown and represented by his new gallery.

Charles Krause's interest in the art of protest, propaganda and political change developed over the course of his career as a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, CBS News and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. On assignment in Latin America, Central Europe, Russia, Asia and the Middle East, he witnessed many of the wars and revolutions of his time. His reporting earned him an Emmy for his reports from Israel and the Middle East (1997), the Latin American Studies Association Media Award for his Central America coverage (1987) and the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award for his reporting from Jonestown, where he was shot and wounded while on assignment for The Washington Post (1978).

Charles Krause was first introduced to contemporary art as a teenager, when his parents began collecting work by Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Louise Nevelson and other important 20th century artists. His own collection of more than 100 oils and drawings reflects his interest in social and political change, ranging from an early 18th Century portrait of the last Inca, created by an anonymous Peruvian mestizo artist as a protest against Spanish colonial rule; original propaganda posters from the Russia and North Vietnam; to the work of the non-conformist Soviet artists Vladimir Nemuchin, Leonhard Lapin, Maxim Kantor and Alexandr Zhdanov.

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