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Biography
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) - Spain (Málaga)
Naive Art / Primitivism, Surrealism, Synthetic Cubism, Realism, Expressionism, Primitivism, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Neo Classicism, Symbolism, Post Impressionism, Abstract Art, Neo Expressionism, Op Art, Analytical Cubism, Impressionism
Pablo Picasso (/pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæsoʊ/ Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso] 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, t...... |
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Biography
Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) - Spain (Figueres (Girona))
Surrealism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Symbolism, Abstract Expressionism, Expressionism, Impressionism, Pointillism, Verism, Metaphysical Art, Abstract Art
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known professionally as Salvador Dalí (/ˈdɑːli, dɑːˈli/ Catalan: [səɫβəˈðo ðəˈɫi] Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli]), was a prominent Spanish surrealist artist of Catalan ethnicity born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, bes...... |
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Biography
Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) - France (Le Cateau-Cambrésis)
Expressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Abstract Expressionism, Post Impressionism, Realism, Naive Art / Primitivism
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwɑ matis] 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the a...... |
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Biography
Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956) - United States (Cody)
Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Art, Expressionism
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety he was a major artist of his generation. ...... |
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Biography
Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz) (1903 - 1970) - Latvia (Dvinsk)
Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, Abstract Art, Minimalism, Surrealism, Expressionism
马克·罗斯科，乳名Marcus Rothkowitz （拉脱维亚语：Marks Rotko，1903年9月25日－1970年2月25日）生于沙俄时代的拉脱维拉，1910 移民美国。年青时以兼职赚取费用求学，当过演员、场记、画家、待者、挨过饿。1929年成为一所犹太教会的兼职教师，也是表现主义(Ten)十的创始成员。后因患病、沮丧、忧郁、酗酒及服用过量镇定剂和抗忧郁药物，导致于1970年切断静脉自杀身亡。尽管他本人排斥被打上流派分类的标签，但他的作品和画风依然被认为是抽象表现主义的典范之作。 1903年9月马克·罗斯科生于沙俄时期的陶格夫匹尔斯，今属拉脱维亚。其父佳柯比是一位药剂师和知识分子。和沙俄时代其他城市犹太裔的境遇不同，罗斯科一家并未遭受排犹主义的直接暴力影响，但是犹太人在当时的大环境...... |
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Biography
Jasper Johns United States (Augusta)
Neo-Dada, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism
Jasper Johns is a non-fiction coffee table book written by Michael Crichton about the artist Jasper Johns. It was originally published in 1977 by Harry N. Abrams Inc in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, and a second revised edition (ISBN 0810935155) was published in 1994. The psychiatrist Janet Ross owned a copy of the painting N...... |
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Biography
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (1901 - 1985) - France (Le Havre)
Expressionism
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movem...... |
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Biography
Frantisek Kupka (1871 - 1957) - Czech Republic (Opo?No)
Expressionism, Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Orphism, Abstract Expressionism
František Kupka (23 September 1871 – 24 June 1957), also known as Frank Kupka or François Kupka,[1] was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic Cubism (Orphism).[2] Kupka's abstract works arose from a base of realism, but later evolved into pure abstract art.[3]...... |
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Biography
Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011) - United States (Lexington)
Op Art, Abstract Expressionism, Neo Expressionism, Minimalism
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (/saɪ ˈtwɒmbli/ April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011 ) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns but chose to live in Italy after 1957. His paintings are predominantly large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fi...... |
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Biography
Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956) - United States (New York City)
Cubism, Expressionism, Naive Art / Primitivism
Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germany at 16 to study and perfect his art. He started his career as a cartoonist in 1894 and met with muc...... |
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Biography
Paul Nash (1889 - 1946) - United Kingdom (Kensington)
Dada, Expressionism
Paul Nash (11 May 1889 – 11 July 1946) was a British surrealist painter and war artist, as well as a photographer, writer and designer of applied art. Nash was among the most important landscape artists of the first half of the twentieth century. He played a key role in the development of Modernism in English art. Born in London, Nash grew up in Bu...... |
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Biography
Philip Guston (1913 - 1980) - Canada (Montreal)
Abstract Expressionism, Metaphysical Art, Neo Expressionism, Social Realism, Expressionism
Philip Guston, born Phillip Goldstein (June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980), was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, an art movement that included many abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a transition from abstract expressionism to neo-expressionism in painting, abandonin...... |
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Biography
Mária Bozóky (1917 - 1996) - Hungary (Nagyvárad)
Expressionism, Impressionism
Maria Bozoky was a Hungarian artist, art critic and author. She was born in Nagyvárad, Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) in 1917. Bozoky studied liberal arts and medical sciences on the Pázmány Péter University. She started to work as a sociologist in villages, and soon as a journalist, for the 'Új Nemzedék' (New Generation) and 'Nemzeti Újság' (Nation...... |
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Biography
Gene Davis (1920 - 1985) - United States (Washington)
Abstract Expressionism, Color Field
Gene Davis (August 22, 1920 - April 6, 1985) was an American Color Field painter known especially for his paintings of vertical stripes of color. Davis was born in Washington D.C. in 1920 and spent nearly all his life there. Before he began to paint in 1949, he worked as a sportswriter, covering the Washington Redskins and other local teams. Workin...... |
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Biography
David Michael Hinnebusch United States (Pittsburgh)
Abstract Art, Contemporary, Expressionism, Figurative Expressionism, Neo Expressionism, Neo Figurative Art, Neo Dada
David Michael Hinnebusch is an American contemporary artist. His work lives in the world of thinkers Marshall McLuhan, Douglas Hofstadter (esp. Metamagical Themas), Osho, Malcolm Gladwell, and English comedy writing. The subject matter of his work is autobiographical and centers around his Los Angeles-based punk-rock and film-making careers. Born i...... |
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Biography
Richard Diebenkorn (1922 - 1993) - United States (Portland)
Expressionism, Color Field, Abstract Expressionism
Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was an American painter. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. His later work (best known as the Ocean Park paintings) were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim. Richard Clifford Diebenkorn Jr. was bor...... |
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Biography
Nikolai Ge (1831 - 1894) - Russia (Voronezh)
Realism, Romanticism, Academicism, Expressionism
Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (his French ancestors' last name was De Gay) (Russian: Николай Николаевич Ге 27 February [O.S. 15 February] 1831 – 13 June [O.S. 1 June] 1894) was а Russian realist painter and an early Russian symbolist famous for his works on historical and religious motifs. Nikolai Ge was born in Voronezh City, to a Russian noble family of...... |
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Biography
Max Weber (1881 - 1961) - Poland (Bia?Ystok)
Expressionism, Cubism
Max Weber (April 18, 1881 – October 4, 1961) was a Jewish-American painter and one of the first American Cubist painters who, in later life, turned to more figurative Jewish themes in his art. He is best known today for Chinese Restaurant (1915), in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, "the finest canvas of his Cubist phase," in th...... |
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Biography
Avigdor Arikha (1929 - 2010) - Romania (Rădăuți)
Contemporary Realism, Expressionism
Avigdor Arikha (April 28, 1929 – April 29, 2010) was a Romanian-born French–Israeli painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and art historian. Avigdor Arikha (originally Victor Długacz) was born to German-speaking Jewish parents in Rădăuţi, but grew up in Czernowitz in Bukovina, Romania (now in Ukraine). His family faced forced deportation in 1941 to the...... |
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Biography
Yiannis Moralis (1916 - 2009) - Greece (Arta)
Expressionism, Abstract Art, Realism, Cubism
Yiannis Moralis (Greek: Γιάννης Μόραλης also transliterated Yannis Moralis or Giannis Moralis 23 April 1916 – 20 December 2009) was an important Greek visual artist and part of the so-called "Generation of the '30s". Born in Arta, Greece, in 1916, Moralis moved to Athens with his parents in 1927. From the age of 15 he studied at the Athens School o...... |
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Biography
Benjamin Shahn (1898 - 1969) - Lithuania (Kaunas)
Social Realism, Expressionism
Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content. Shahn was born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, then occupied by the Russian Empire, to Jewish parents Joshua Hessel and Gi...... |
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Biography
Will Barnet (1911 - 2012) - United States (Beverly)
Social Realism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Surrealism, Expressionism, Pop Art, Realism, Indian Space Painting
Will Barnet (May 25, 1911 – November 13, 2012) was an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds. Born in 1911 in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet knew by the age of ten that he wanted to be an artist. As a ...... |
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Biography
David Kakabadze (1889 - 1952) - Georgia (Kukhi)
Expressionism, Abstract Art, Cubism
David Kakabadze (Georgian: დავით კაკაბაძე) (20 August 1889 – 10 May 1952) was a leading Georgian avant-garde painter, graphic artist and scenic designer. A multi-talent, he was also an art scholar and innovator in the field of cinematography as well as an amateur photographer. Kakabadze's works are notable for combining innovative interpretation of...... |
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Biography
Albert Bloch (1880 - 1961) - United States (St. Louis)
Expressionism, Symbolism
Albert Bloch (August 2, 1882 – March 23, 1961) was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group of early 20th-century European modernists. Bloch was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He first studied art at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. In 1901–03 he produced comic strips and c...... |
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Biography
Ad Reinhardt (1913 - 1967) - United States (Buffalo)
Abstract Art, Synthetic Cubism, Color Field, Abstract Expressionism, Expressionism
Adolph Frederick "Ad" Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as abstract expressionism. He was also a mem...... |
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Biography
Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984) - United States (Brooklyn)
Abstract Expressionism
Lenore "Lee" Krassner (October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984) was an American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. She is one of the few female artists to have had a retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art. Krasner was born as Lena Krassner (outside the family she was known as Lenore Krasner) on October 27, 1908 ...... |
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Adolph Gottlieb (1903 - 1974) - United States (New York)
Abstract Expressionism, Primitivism, Color Field, Cubism
Adolph Gottlieb (Nueva York, 14 de marzo de 1903 - Long Island, 1974), fue un pintor y escultor del expresionismo abstracto estadounidense. Estudió en la Art Students League y Parsons The New School for Design de Nueva York, así como en Francia y Alemania. Perteneció al grupo de los expresionistas norteamericanos que, en 1935, formaron el grupo The...... |
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Biography
Paul Werner (1930 - 2013) - Netherlands (Arnhem)
Figurative Expressionism, Expressionism
Paul Werner is a Dutch artist born in Arnhem in 1930 and died in 2013. He is known for his figurative expressionism style. He was active from 1959 to 2013 and was part of the Expressionism art movement. His genres include figurative and landscape and his fields are painting and drawing.... |
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Biography
Benny Andrews (1930 - 2006) - United States (Plainview)
Expressionism, Figurative Expressionism
Benny Andrews (November 13, 1930 – November 10, 2006) was an American painter, printmaker, creator of collages, and educator. Andrews was born into a family of ten on November 13, 1930 in small community called Plainview, Georgia. His mother Viola was very strict on her beliefs, and constantly promoted education, religion and most importantly, free...... |
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Hans Bellmer (1902 - 1975) - Germany (Kattowitz)
Expressionism, Surrealism
Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 – 24 February 1975) was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he'd b...... |
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Biography
Rudolf Láng (1904 - 1991) - Hungary (Hungary)
Expressionism
Rudolf Láng was a Hungarian artist who was born in 1904. He was known for his etching style and expressionist works. Láng's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 20 USD to 65 USD. He passed away in 1991.... |
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Biography
John Hoyland (1934 - 2011) - United Kingdom (Sheffield)
Abstract Expressionism, Color Field
John Hoyland RA (12 October 1934 – 31 July 2011) was a London-based British artist. He was one of the country's leading abstract painters. John Hoyland was born on 12 October 1934, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, to a working-class family, and educated at Sheffield School of Art and Crafts within the junior art department (1946–51) before progressing to S...... |
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Biography
John Muafangejo (1943 - 1987) - Namibia (Etunda Lo Nghadi)
Expressionism
John Ndevasia Muafangejo (born 5 October 1943 in Etunda lo Nghadi, Angola died 27 November 1987 in Katutura Township, Windhoek) was a Namibian artist who became internationally known as a maker of woodcut prints. He created linocuts, woodcuts and etchings. Muafangejo came from the people of Kwanyama (Kuanjama), who inhabit the northern parts of Ova...... |
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Paul Jenkins (1923 - 2012) - United States (Kansas City)
Abstract Expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction
Paul Jenkins (July 12, 1923 – June 9, 2012) was an American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri and studied at the Art Students League of New York with Yasuo Kuniyoshi for four years. In 1953, he traveled to Europe, working for three months in Taormina in Sicily before settling in Paris, France. From 1955 on, the ar...... |
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Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992) - United States (Chicago)
Abstract Expressionism
Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American "second generation" abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. She was a member of the American abstract expressionist movement, even though much of her career took place in France. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, Helen Frankenthaler, Shirley Jaffe and Sonia Gechtoff, ...... |
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Dimitris Mytaras (1934 - 2017) - Greece (Chalkis)
Expressionism, Realism, Abstract Art, Surrealism
Dimitris Mytaras (Greek: Δημήτρης Μυταράς 18 June 1934 – 16 February 2017) was a Greek artist who is considered one of the important Greek painters of the 20th century. His work was mainly inspired by the human figure, and a combination of naturalism and expressionism. From the 1960s onward, Mytaras moved in the direction of naturalism, while from ...... |
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Hilma Af Klint (1862 - 1944) - Sweden (Solna)
Abstract Art, Abstract Expressionism
Hilma af Klint was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first abstract works known in Western art history. A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian. She belonged to a group called 'The Five', comprising a circle of women inspired by Theosophy,...... |
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Biography
Werner Peiner (1897 - 1984) - Germany (Düsseldorf)
Expressionism, New Medievialism, Neo Expressionism
Werner Peiner (20 July 1897 - 19 August 1984) was a German painter. He was first influenced by realism, and later by New Objectivity, but he would become known has one of the most talented official painters of the Third Reich.... |
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Albert Tucker (1905 - 1995) - Canada (Oshawa)
Expressionism
Albert William Tucker was a Canadian mathematician who made important contributions in topology, game theory, and non-linear programming. He was born in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, and earned his B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1928 and his M.A. at the same institution in 1929. In 1932, he earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University under the superv...... |
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Alice Bailly (1872 - 1938) - Switzerland (Geneva)
Expressionism
Alice Bailly (25 February 1872 – 1 January 1938) was a radical Swiss painter, known for her interpretations on cubism, fauvism, her wool paintings, and her participation in the Dada movement. In 1906, Bailly had settled in Paris where she befriended Juan Gris, Francis Picabia, and Marie Laurencin, avant-garde modernist painters who influenced her w...... |
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Biography
Martiros Sarian (1880 - 1972) - Russia (Novaya Nakhichevan)
Expressionism, Post Impressionism
Martiros Sarian (Armenian: Մարտիրոս Սարյան Russian: Мартиро́с Сарья́н 28 February [O.S. 16 February] 1880 – 5 May 1972) was an Armenian painter, the founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting. He was born into an Armenian family in Nakhichevan-on-Don (now part of Rostov-on-Don, Russia). In 1895 at the age of 15, he completed the Nakhi...... |
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Biography
Hedda Sterne (1910 - 2011) - Romania (Bucharest)
Conceptual Art, Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, Op Art
Hedda Sterne (August 4, 1910 – April 8, 2011) was a Romanian-born American artist who was an active member of the New York School of painters. Her work is often associated with Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism. Sterne was born as Hedwig Lindenberg in Bucharest, Romania, on August 4, 1910. She was the daughter of Jewish parents Eugenie (née Wex...... |
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Marie-Thérèse Auffray (1912 - 1990) - France (Saint-Quay-Portrieux)
Expressionism
Marie-Thérèse Auffray (11 October 1912 – 27 September 1990) was a French painter and fighter in the French Resistance during World War II. She began her career in the 14th arrondissement of Paris and was known for her expressionist works. She remained independent of the art market, whose mercantile codes she always rejected.... |
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Vilho Lampi (1898 - 1936) - Finland (Oulu)
Expressionism
Vilho Henrik Lampi (19 July 1898 – 17 March 1936) was a Finnish painter who is best known for his self-portraits and paintings of Liminka and the people who lived there. He was born in Oulu, Finland and studied at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts from 1921 to 1925. After finishing his studies, he returned to Liminka, where he lived and painted his ...... |
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Max Jacob (1876 - 1944) - France (Quimper)
Expressionism
Max Jacob (French: [maks ʒakɔb] 12 July 1876 – 5 March 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic. He was born in Quimper, Brittany, France, and spent his childhood there. In 1897, he left the Paris Colonial School to pursue a career as an artist. Jacob was one of the first friends Pablo Picasso made in Paris, and they shared a room on th...... |
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Carmen Delaco Spain (Spain)
Figurative Expressionism
Carmen Delaco is a Spanish artist born in 1976. She is known for her Neo-Figurative Art paintings and has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, including in the United States, South Korea, China, and the United Kingdom. Delaco's paintings often feature figurative elements and are executed in a range of mediums, including oil on ca...... |
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Irma Blank (1934 - 2023) - Germany (Celle)
Abstract Expressionism, Conceptual Art, Minimalism
Irma Blank (1934 – 14 April 2023) was a German-born Italian artist. Her work, based on printed text that she transcribed in ink, has been described as 'drawing languages without words' and thus 'a form of communication beyond specific language', including sounds. Blank was born in Celle, Lower Saxony. In 1955, age 20 and inspired by Johann Wolfgang...... |
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M.F. Husain (1915 - 2011) - India (Pandharpur)
Cubo Expressionism
Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) was an Indian artist known for executing bold, vibrantly coloured narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. He was one of the most celebrated and internationally recognised Indian artists of the 20th century. He was one of the founding members of Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. M.F. Hus...... |
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Gerard Sekoto (1913 - 1993) - South Africa (Botshabelo)
Expressionism, Social Realism
Gerard Sekoto was a South African artist and musician. He is recognized as a pioneer of urban black art and social realism. His work was exhibited in Paris, Stockholm, Venice, Washington, and Senegal, as well as in South Africa. Sekoto was born in Botshabelo, Mpumalanga, South Africa in 1913. He was the son of Andreas Sekoto, a leading member of th...... |
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Max Oppenheimer (1885 - 1954) - Austria (Vienna)
Expressionism
Max Oppenheimer, also known as MOPP, was an Austrian painter and graphic artist. He was born in Vienna on 1 July 1885 and studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts of Prague. Along with Egon Schiele, he was considered one of Austria's leading avant-garde artists. His work was influenced by several different...... |
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František Hudeček (1909 - 1990) - Czech Republic (Němčice U Holešova)
Expressionism
František Hudeček was a Czech painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. He was born on April 7, 1909, in Němčice u Holešova, Czech Republic. Hudeček studied at the Uměleckoprůmyslové školy v Praze and was a member of the Skupina 42, a Czech artistic group established in 1942. He was known for his paintings and drawings, which often featured common ...... |
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Grigor Khanjyan (1926 - 2000) - Armenia (Yerevan)
Expressionism
Grigor Khanjyan (Armenian: Գրիգոր Խանջյան 29 November 1926 – 19 April 2000) was a Soviet and Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator. He is most notable for his illustrations of historical novels and poems, and murals and tapestries on historical topics. In 1983 Khanjyan was appointed a member of the highest order of chivalry in Soviet art (only ...... |
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Júlio Resende (1917 - 2011) - Portugal (Porto)
Expressionism
Júlio Resende was a Portuguese painter born in Porto in 1917 and died in 2011. He was a transitional painter between figuration and abstraction, with a strong lyrical feature and a personal and syncretic way of reflecting different plastic experiences, such as expressionism, geometrism, gesturalism, neo-realism, non-figuration or neo-figurativism. ...... |
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Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (1891 - 1966) - Georgia (Tbilisi)
Expressionism
Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan (Armenian: Ալեքսանդր Բաժբեուկ-Մելիքյան, Georgian: ალექსანდრე ბაჟბეუქ-მელიქიანი, Russian: Александр Александрович Бажбеук-Меликов 11 September 1891 – 20 July 1966) was a Soviet Georgian artist, graphic designer and sculptor of Armenian origin. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1903, he began his studies at the School of...... |
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Ulfert Wilke (1907 - 1987) - Germany (Bad Toelz)
Abstract Expressionism
Ulfert Wilke (1907–1987) was an internationally recognized painter, museum director and art collector connected to the abstract expressionism movement. His father, Rudolf Wilke, was an illustrator for the satirical magazine, Simplicissimus. Wilke was born in Bavaria, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1938. He is best known for his lar...... |
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Vasiliy Ryabchenko Ukraine (Odesa)
Neo Expressionism, Transavantgarde, Contemporary, Conceptual Art, Light And Space, Expressionism
Vasiliy Ryabchenko is a Ukrainian painter, photographer, and installation artist. He was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1954. He is one of the key artists in contemporary Ukrainian art and the 'New Ukrainian Wave'. He started his art education in 1966 at the Odesa Art School and later entered the painting department of the Odesa Art College. In 1974-197...... |
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Vytautas Kasiulis (1918 - 1995) - Lithuania (Simnas)
Expressionism
Vytautas Kasiulis was a Lithuanian painter of the School of Paris. He was one of the most famous Lithuanian artists who became exiled in Paris after the annexation of their country by the Soviet Union. Kasiulis was born in Simnas, Lithuania in 1918. He began his artistic education at the Kaunas School of Art in 1939. In 1942, he participated in sev...... |
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Frank Bowling British Guiana (Bartica)
Abstract Expressionism, Color Field
Frank Bowling is a British artist who was born in British Guiana. He is particularly renowned for his large-scale, abstract 'Map' paintings, which relate to abstract expressionism, colour field painting and lyrical abstraction. Bowling has been described as 'one of Britain’s greatest living abstract painters', as 'one of the most distinguished blac...... |
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Volodymyr Loboda Ukraine (Dnipro)
Expressionism, Abstract Art, Neo Expressionism, Suprematism
Volodymyr Loboda is a Ukrainian painter, sculptor and poet. His works represent Soviet Nonconformist Art movement. He was born in Dnipro, Ukraine in 1943. He studied at the Kyiv Art School, Kyiv, Ukraine. He is one of the most famous Ukrainian non-conformist artists.... |
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Nemanja Vučković Serbia (Surdulica)
Abstract Art, Abstract Expressionism, Figurative Expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction
Nemanja Vučković is a Serbian painter born in Surdulica in 1990. He is known for his abstract expressionist style and his use of acrylic as a medium. He has exhibited his work in various galleries and has received recognition for his talent. His painting 'Lifeline', created in 2016, is a notable example of his artistic style.... |
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Hermann Max Pechstein (1881 - 1955) - Germany (Zwickau)
Expressionism
Max Hermann Pechstein (Zwickau 31 de diciembre de 1881 - 29 de junio de 1955), pintor expresionista alemán y artista gráfico. Formado en la Academia de Dresde y en la Kunstgewerbeschule, en 1906 se integró en Die Brücke. Trabajó en un expresionismo atemperado influido por la pintura fauvista francesa, especialmente Matisse. En 1908 se trasladó a Be...... |
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Otto Constantin Romania (Constanta)
Expressionism
Otto Constantin is a Romanian artist born in 1990 in Constanta. He is known for his ironic works inspired by folklore and mythology, mostly of Romanian and Balkan culture. He works in various fields such as painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, and illustration. He is also a designer.... |
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Sidney Amaral (1973 - 2017) - Brazil (São Paulo)
Neo Expressionism
Sidney Amaral was a Brazilian artist born in São Paulo in 1973. He studied painting and drawing with Professor Pedro Álvares between 1991 and 1998. Amaral was known for his critical manipulation of archives of Afro-Brazilian history and his use of various artistic languages, including painting, sculpture, jewelry design, ceramics, and music. He pas...... |
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Chris Ofili United Kingdom (Manchester)
Neo Expressionism
Christopher Ofili, CBE (born 10 October 1968) is a British Turner Prize-winning painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. He was one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in Trinidad and Tobago, where he currently resides in Port of Spain. He also lives and works in London and Bro...... |
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Bernard Cohen United Kingdom (London)
Lyrical Abstraction, Abstract Expressionism
Bernard Cohen is a British painter. He is regarded as one of the leading British abstract artists of his time. Cohen studied at Central Saint Martins School of Art in London between 1950-1951, followed by the Slade School of Art from 1954-1956. In 1957 Cohen received the Boise Traveling Scholarship and together with the French Government Scholarshi...... |
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Sattar Bahlulzade (1909 - 1974) - Azerbaijan (Baku)
Expressionism, Neo Impressionism
Sattar Bahlulzade foi um pintor azerbaijão, mais conhecido por suas pinturas paisagísticas que retratam a natureza do Azerbaijão. Ele é considerado o fundador do impressionismo azerbaijão. Entre as obras mais conhecidas de Bahlulzade estão Tears of Kapaz (1965), Bank of the Gudiyalchay (1953), Dream of the Land (1961), Evening Above the Caspian Sea...... |
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Zani Corrado Italy (Italy)
Figurative Expressionism, Expressionism
Zani Corrado es pintor italiano, nacido en 1952 en Italia. Es conocido por su estilo figurativo expresionista. He has been active since 1986 and his work has been sold in subastas with realize prices ranging from ... to ....... |
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Houria Niati Algeria (Khemis Miliana)
Neo Expressionism
Houria Niati (born 1948 in Khemis Miliana, Algeria) is an Algerian, contemporary artist living in London. Niati specializes in mixed media installations that criticize Western representations and objectification of north African and Middle Eastern women. Her installations notably have live performances most commonly traditional Algerian music such ...... |
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Cristiano Tassinari Italy (Forli)
Figurative Expressionism, Contemporary Realism
Cristiano Tassinari is an Italian artist, born in Forli, Italy in 1980. He is known for his paintings and is a remarkable figure of Italian-German Contemporary art. Tassinari studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and has exhibited his works in various galleries including Ncontemporary Gallery in Milan, Italy. His style is characterized as Figurative ...... |
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Manuel Cargaleiro Portugal (Vila Velha De Ródão)
Abstract Expressionism
Manuel Cargaleiro, (born 1927 in Vila Velha de Ródão), is a Portuguese artist who creates ceramic and painting. Cargaleiro learned as an autodidact. He produced earthenware squares, the Portuguese Azulejo, an art that still has its importance in Portugal, and had been brought by the Arabs to the Iberian peninsula. He settled in France in 1957, a co...... |
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Mihai Sârbulescu Romania (Bucharest)
Expressionism
Mihai Sârbulescu é um pintor romeno e cofundador do grupo artístico Prolog, juntamente com Paul Gherasim, Constantin Flondor, Christian Paraschiv. Nasceu em Bucareste em 1957. Estudou na Nicolae Tonitza High School of Fine Arts em Bucareste e formou-se em 1981 no Instituto de Belas Artes Nicolae Grigorescu. É professor da Universidade Nacional de A...... |
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Michael Hafftka United States (Manhattan)
Figurative Expressionism
Michael Hafftka è un pittore espressionista statunitense che vive a New York. Il suo lavoro è rappresentato nelle collezioni permanenti di numerosi musei, tra cui: Il Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, New York Public Library, McNay Art Museu...... |
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Frank Helmuth Auerbach -
Expressionism
Frank Helmut Auerbach (born 29 April 1931) is a German-British painter. Born in Germany, he has been a naturalised British citizen since 1947. Auerbach was born in Berlin, the son of Max Auerbach, a patent lawyer, and Charlotte Nora Burchardt, who had trained as an artist. Under the influence of the British writer Iris Origo, his parents sent him t...... |
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Vilmos Aba-Novak (1894 - 1941) -
Expressionism
Vilmos Aba-Novák (Hungarian: Aba-Novák Vilmos, til 1912: Hungarian: Novák Vilmos March 15, 1894 – September 29, 1941 ) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist. He was an original representative of modern art in his country, and specifically of its modern monumental painting. He was also the celebrated author of frescoes and church murals at Szeg...... |
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Geta Brătescu (1926 - 2018) - Romania (Ploiești)
Abstract Expressionism
Geta Brătescu (4 May 1926 – 19 September 2018) was a Romanian visual artist with works in drawing, collage, photography, performance, illustration and film. Brătescu studied at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, between 1945 and 1949 under George Călinescu and Tudor Vianu, and at the Academy of Fine Arts under Camil Ressu. She was exp...... |
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Kerry James Marshall -
Existential Art, Expressionism, Primitivism
Kerry James Marshall (born October 17, 1955) is an American artist born in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he previously taught at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a 1978 graduate of Otis College of Art and Design. Although he currentl...... |
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Richard Pousette-Dart (1916 - 1992) -
Abstract Expressionism
Nathaniel Jermund Pousette-Dart (7 September 1886 - 17 October 1965) was a painter and an art writer from St. Paul, Minnesota. The son of Swedish immigrants Algot Elias Pousette and Mathilda Nilson, he studied painting at the Art Students League in New York City Philadelphia under the painter Robert Henri and at the Academy of Fine Arts. After he r...... |
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Alexander Bogen (1916 - 2010) - Estonia (Tartu)
Expressionism
Alexander Bogen (Hebrew: אלכסנדר בוגן born 24 January 1916 – 20 October 2010) was a Polish-Israeli visual artist, a decorated leader of partisans during World War II, a key player in 20th century Yiddish culture, and one of the trailblazers for art education and Artists' associations in the emerging state of Israel. Bogen was born in Tartu, Estonia...... |
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Bruno Schulz (1892 - 1942) - Poland (Drohobych)
Expressionism
Bruno Schulz was a Polish Jewish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. In 1938, he was awarded the Polish Academy of Literature's prestigious Golden Laurel award. Several of Schulz's works were lost in the Holocaust, including short stories from t...... |
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