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Biography
Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) - Netherlands (Zundert)
Post-Impressionism, Realism, Post Impressionism, Cloisonnism
Vincent Willem van Gogh, a pivotal Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, profoundly influenced Western art with his iconic works. In a career spanning just over a decade, he produced about 2,100 artworks, which included around 860 oil paintings, predominantly in his final years. His oeuvre, renowned for its vibrant colors, emotive spontaneity, and forc...... |
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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
Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) - France (Aix-En-Provence)
Post-Impressionism, Romanticism, Cubism, Impressionism, Post Impressionism
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) was a pioneering French Post-Impressionist artist who played a crucial role in transitioning from 19th-century Impressionism to 20th-century Cubism. While early influences included Romanticism and Realism, evident in works like the murals at Jas de Bouffan, Cézanne later honed a unique style through scrutinizing Impressioni...... |
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Biography
Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) - France (Paris)
Post-Impressionism, Cloisonnism, Post Impressionism
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), a French Post-Impressionist artist, is celebrated for his innovative use of color and the Synthetist style, which diverged sharply from Impressionism. Gauguin's bold artistic choices were largely unappreciated until after his death, but his final decade in French Polynesia generated a body of work deeply expre...... |
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Biography
Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) - Netherlands (Amersfoort)
Neoplasticism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Post Impressionism, Modernism
Piet Mondrian, born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (1872-1944), was a foundational figure in modern abstract art. Transforming from a figurative painter, Mondrian embarked on a trajectory towards pure abstraction, distilling art to basic geometric elements. His vision was steeped in an idealistic quest for universal values and aesthetics, severing ties ...... |
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Biography
Georges Pierre Seurat (1859 - 1891) - France (Paris)
Post-Impressionism, Pointillism, Neo-Classicism, Neo Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Impressionism
Georges Pierre Seurat (1859-1891), a trailblazing French post-Impressionist, is celebrated for inventing pointillism and chromoluminarism, painting techniques that revolutionized the use of color and light. He is also known for his meticulous conté crayon drawings on coarse paper. Seurat was a study in contrasts, marrying a refined, sensitive appro...... |
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Biography
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1878 - 1935) - Ukraine (Kiev Governorate Of Russian Empire)
Suprematism, Cubism, Geometric Abstract Art, Expressionism, Fauvism, Symbolism, Abstract Art, Pointillism, Cubo-Futurism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Post-Impressionism, Neo-Classicism, Realism, Constructivism, Post Impressionism, Neo Suprematism
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1879-1935) was a revolutionary Russian avant-garde artist and theorist who profoundly influenced the abstract art movement in the 20th century. Born in Kiev to a Polish family, Malevich is celebrated for creating Suprematism, an art movement prioritizing basic geometric forms and pure artistic feeling over representat...... |
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Biography
Franz Marc (1880 - 1916) - Germany (Munich)
Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Realism, Symbolism
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc, born on February 8, 1880, in Munich, was a seminal German painter and printmaker and a pivotal figure in the German Expressionism movement. He co-founded Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal that became synonymous with the group of artists associated with it. Marc's mature works, characterized by vivid colors and ...... |
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Biography
Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903) - United States (Charlotte Amalie)
Realism, Impressionism, Pointillism, Post-Impressionism
Camille Pissarro (French: [kamij pisaʁo] 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from ...... |
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Biography
Alfred Sisley (1839 - 1899) - France (Paris)
Impressionism, Realism, Post-Impressionism
Alfred Sisley (/ˈsɪsli/ French: [sislɛ] 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He deviated into figure paintin...... |
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Biography
Henri De Toulouse Lautrec (1864 - 1901) - France (Albi)
Art Nouveau, Post-Impressionism, Post Impressionism
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French: [ɑ̃ʁi də tuluz lotʁɛk]), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a col...... |
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Biography
Maurice Utrillo (1883 - 1955) - France (Montmartre)
Post-Impressionism, Post Impressionism
Maurice Utrillo (French: [mɔʁis ytʁijo]), born Maurice Valadon (26 December 1883 – 5 November 1955), was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who was born there. Utrillo was the son of the artist Suzanne Valadon (born Marie-Clémentine...... |
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Biography
Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858 - 1924) - Canada (St. John's)
Post-Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Impressionism, Naive Art / Primitivism
Maurice Brazil Prendergast (October 10, 1858 – February 1, 1924) was an American Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolor, and monotype. He exhibited as a member of The Eight, though the delicacy of his compositions and mosaic-like beauty of his style differed from the artistic intentions and philosophy of the group. Maurice Prenderg...... |
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Biography
Jean Edouard Vuillard (1868 - 1940) - France (Cuiseaux)
Post-Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Cloisonnism, Pointillism, Intimism
Jean-Édouard Vuillard (French: [vɥijaʁ] 11 November 1868 – 21 June 1940) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis. Jean-Édouard Vuillard was born on 11 November 1868 in Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire), where he spent his youth in 1878 his family moved to Paris. Vuillard's father, a retired army captain, was 27 years older than his mo...... |
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Biography
Paul Signac (1863 - 1935) - France (Paris)
Post-Impressionism, Pointillism, Neo Impressionism
Paul Victor Jules Signac (French: [pɔl siɲak] 11 November 1863 – 15 August 1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the Pointillist style. Paul Signac was born in Paris on 11 November 1863. He followed a course of training in architecture before deciding at the age of 18 to pursue a career as a p...... |
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Biography
Pierre Bonnard (1867 - 1947) - France (Fontenay-Aux-Roses)
Post Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Japonism
Pierre Bonnard (French: [bɔnaʁ] 3 October 1867 — 23 January 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis. Bonnard preferred to work from memory, using drawings as a reference, and his paintings are often characterized by a dreamlike quality. The intimate do...... |
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Biography
Zinaida Serebriakova (1884 - 1967) - Ukraine (Neskuchnoye Estate)
Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Impressionism
Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (née Lanceray) (Russian: Зинаи́да Евге́ньевна Серебряко́ва Ukrainian: Зінаї́да Євге́нівна Серебряко́ва, 12 December [O.S. 30 November] 1884 – 19 September 1967) was a Russian (later French) painter. Zinaida Serebriakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkov (now Kharkiv, Ukraine) into one of the most re...... |
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Biography
Julian Alden Weir (1852 - 1919) - United States (West Point)
Impressionism, Tonalism
Julian Alden Weir (West Point, 30 agosto 1852 – New York, 8 dicembre 1919) è stato un pittore impressionista statunitense. Appartenne al gruppo dei Ten American Painters e frequentò la Cos Cob Art Colony . Weir nacque e crebbe a West Point, figlio del pittore Robert Walter, professore di disegno all'Accademia militare di West Point. Anche suo frate...... |
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Biography
Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942) - Germany (Munich)
Post-Impressionism, Impressionism
Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942) was an English painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the 20th century. Sickert was a cosmopolitan and eccentric who often favoured ordinary people and urban scenes as his su...... |
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Biography
David Davidovich Burliuk (1882 - 1967) -
Post-Impressionism, Realism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Futurism, Primitivism, Cubo-Futurism, Cubo Futurism, Fauvism, Surrealism, Abstract Art
David Davidovich Burliuk (Ukrainian and Russian: Дави́д Дави́дович Бурлю́к 21 July 1882 – 15 January 1967) was a Russian and Ukrainian Futurist, Neo-Primitivist, book illustrator, publicist, and author associated with Russian Futurism. Burliuk is often described as "the father of Russian Futurism." David Burliuk was born in 1882 in Semyrotivka near...... |
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Biography
Theo Van Rysselberghe (1862 - 1926) - Belgium (Ghent)
Pointillism, Post Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism
Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe (23 November 1862 – 14 December 1926) was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the century. Born in Ghent to a French-speaking bourgeois family, he studied first at the Academy of Ghent under Theo Canneel and from 1879 at the Académie Royale des Bea...... |
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Biography
Denis Maurice (1870 - 1943) - France (Granville)
Post-Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Symbolism
Maurice Denis (French: [dəni] 25 November 1870 – 13 November 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist and writer, who was an important figure in the transitional period between impressionism and modern art. He was a associated with Les Nabis then the Symbolist movement, and then with a return to neo-classicism. His theories contributed to the ...... |
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Biography
Konstantin Yuon (1875 - 1958) - Russia (Moscow)
Art Nouveau, Socialist Realism, Post-Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Realism, Symbolism
Konstantin Fyodorovich Yuon or Juon (Russian: Константи́н Фёдорович Юо́н October 24 [O.S. October 12] 1875 – April 11, 1958) was a noted Russian painter and theatre designer associated with the Mir Iskusstva. Later, he co-founded the Union of Russian Artists and the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. Yuon was born in Moscow to the fami...... |
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Biography
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878 - 1939) - Russia (Khvalynsk)
Symbolism, Post-Impressionism
Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin, Russian: Кузьма Сергеевич Петров-Водкин (November 5, 1878 – February 15, 1939) was an important Russian and Soviet painter and writer. Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin was born in Khvalynsk (Saratov Oblast) into the family of a local shoemaker. His first exposure to art was in his early childhood, when he took some lessons from a...... |
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Biography
Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874 - 1939) - United States (Owosso)
Impressionism
Frederick Carl Frieseke (April 7, 1874 – August 24, 1939) was an American Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. An influential member of the Giverny art colony, his paintings often concentrated on various effects of dappled sunlight. He is especially known for painting female subjects, both indoors and out. In...... |
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Biography
Edouard Cortes (1882 - 1969) - France (Lagny/Marne)
Post-Impressionism
Edouard Léon Cortès (1882–1969) was a French post-impressionist artist of French and Spanish ancestry. He is known as "Le Poete Parisien de la Peinture" or "the Parisian Poet of Painting" because of his diverse Paris cityscapes in a variety of weather and night settings. Cortes was born on August 6, 1882, in Lagny-sur-Marne, about twenty miles east...... |
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Biography
Mikhail Nesterov (1862 - 1942) - Russia (Ufa)
Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Post-Impressionism, Realism, Post Impressionism
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Не́стеров 31 May [O.S. 19 May] 1862, Ufa – 18 October 1942, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet painter associated with the Peredvizhniki and Mir Iskusstva. He was one of the first exponents of Symbolist art in Russia. He was born to a strongly patriarchal merchant family. His father was a dra...... |
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Biography
Edward Henry Potthast (1857 - 1927) - United States (Cincinnati)
Impressionism
Edward Henry Potthast (June 10, 1857 – March 9, 1927) was an American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England. Edward Henry Potthast was born on June 10, 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Henry Ignatz Potthast and Bernadine Scheiffers. Starting in 1870 he st...... |
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Biography
Frank Weston Benson (1862 - 1951) - United States (Salem)
Impressionism
Frank Weston Benson, frequently referred to as Frank W. Benson, (March 24, 1862 – November 15, 1951) was an American artist from Salem, Massachusetts known for his Realistic portraits, American Impressionist paintings, watercolors and etchings. He began his career painting portraits of distinguished families and murals for the Library of Congress. ...... |
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Biography
Eugène Anatole Carrière (1849 - 1906) - France (Gournay-Sur-Marne)
Post-Impressionism
Eugène Anatole Carrière (16 January 1849 – 27 March 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the Fin de siècle period. His paintings are best known for their brown monochrome palette. He was a close friend of the sculptor Rodin and his work influenced Picasso. Some see traces of Carrière's monochrome style in Picasso's Blue Period. He was born at Gou...... |
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Biography
Moise Kisling (1891 - 1953) - Croatia (Kraków)
Post-Impressionism
Moïse Kisling, born Mojżesz Kisling (January 22, 1891 – April 29, 1953), was a Polish-born French painter. He moved to Paris in 1910 at the age of 19, and became a French citizen in 1915, after serving and being wounded with the French Foreign Legion in World War I. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, after the fall of France, and returned t...... |
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Biography
Henri Edmond Cross (1856 - 1910) - France (Douai)
Post-Impressionism, Neo Impressionism, Pointillism
Henri-Edmond Cross, born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix, (20 May 1856 – 16 May 1910) was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement. He was a significant influence on Henri Matisse and many other artists. His work was instrumental...... |
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Biography
Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862 - 1938) - United States (Groton)
Impressionism
Edmund Charles Tarbell (West Groton, 26 aprile 1862 – 1º agosto 1938) è stato un pittore impressionista statunitense. Appartenne al gruppo dei "Ten American Painters" e oggi le sue opere sono in gran parte conservate nello "Smithsonian American Art Museum", nella "Corcoran Gallery of Art", presso la "National Academy of Design" e nella Casa Bianca....... |
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Biography
Ernest Lawson (1873 - 1939) - Canada (Halifax)
Impressionism
Ernest Lawson (March 22, 1873 – December 18, 1939) was a Canadian-American painter and a member of The Eight, a group of artists who formed a loose association in 1908 to protest the narrowness of taste and restrictive exhibition policies of the conservative, powerful National Academy of Design. Though Lawson was primarily a landscape painter, he a...... |
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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
Gwen John (1876 - 1939) - United States (Haverfordwest)
Post Impressionism
Gwendolen Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. Her paintings, mainly portraits of anonymous female sitters, are rendered in a range of closely related tones. Although she was overshadowed during her lifetime by her brother Augustus John, her reputation has grown steadily since ...... |
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Biography
Charles Courtney Curran (1861 - 1942) - United States (Hartford)
Impressionism
Charles Courtney Curran (1861–1942) was an American painter. He is best known for his canvases depicting women in various settings. Curran was born in Hartford, Kentucky in February, 1861, where his father taught school. A few months later after the beginning of the Civil War, the family left there and returned to Ohio, eventually settling in Sandu...... |
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Maxime Emile Louis Maufra (1861 - 1918) -
Impressionism, Post-Impressionism
Maxime Maufra (May 17, 1861 in Nantes – May 23, 1918), was a French landscape and marine painter, etcher and lithographer. Maufra first began painting at 18. He was encouraged to do so by two artists from Nantes such as the brothers Charles Leduc and Alfred Leduc and the landscape painter Charles Le Roux. However, he did not fully embrace his paint...... |
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Biography
Robert Julian Onderdonk (1880 - 1922) - United States (San Antonio)
Impressionism
(Robert) Julian Onderdonk (July 30, 1882 – October 27, 1922) was a Texan Impressionist painter, often called "the father of Texas painting." Julian Onderdonk was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, a painter, and Emily Gould Onderdonk. He was raised in South Texas and was an enthusiastic sketcher and painter. As a teenager Onde...... |
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Biography
Charles Edward Conder (1868 - 1909) - United Kingdom (Tottenham)
Impressionism
Charles Edward Conder (24 October 1868 – 9 February 1909) was an English-born painter, lithographer and designer. He emigrated to Australia and was a key figure in the Heidelberg School, arguably Conder was born in Tottenham, Middlesex, the second son, of six children, of James Conder, civil engineer and Mary Ann Ayres. He spent several years as a ...... |
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Biography
Gazmend Freitag Kosovo (Pataçani I Poshtëm)
Contemporary Realism, Impressionism, Post Impressionism, Realism
Gazmend Freitag was born on 25 May 1968 in Pataçani i Poshtëm, Kosovo. Even as a child Gazmend demonstrated a talent for drawing and devoted himself to art. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, Albania, where he graduated in 1992. Gazmend Freitag is a remarkable figure of Albanian Contemporary Realism. He has had his work shown in nati...... |
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Robert Lewis Reid (1862 - 1929) - United States (Stockbridge)
Impressionism
Robert Lewis Reid (July 29, 1862 – December 2, 1929) was an American Impressionist painter and muralist. Robert Reid was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston under Otto Grundmann, where he was also later an instructor. In 1884 he moved to New York City, studying at the Art Students League, an...... |
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Biography
Vladimir Tatlin (1885 - 1953) - Ukraine (Kharkov)
Cubism, Constructivism, Realism, Expressionism, Abstract Art, Post-Impressionism
Vladimir Yevgraphovich Tatlin (Russian: Влади́мир Евгра́фович Та́тлин 28 December [O.S. 16 December] 1885 – 31 May 1953) was a Soviet painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an important artist in the Constructivist movement. H...... |
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Biography
Tom Thomson (1877 - 1917) - Canada (Claremont)
Post Impressionism
Thomas John "Tom" Thomson (August 5, 1877 – July 8, 1917) was an influential Canadian artist of the early 20th century. He directly influenced a group of Canadian painters that would come to be known as the Group of Seven, and though he died before they formally formed, he is sometimes incorrectly credited as being a member of the group itself. Tho...... |
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Biography
Henry Tonks (1862 - 1937) - United Kingdom (Solihull)
Impressionism
Henry Tonks, FRCS (9 April 1862 – 8 January 1937) was a British surgeon and later draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a caricaturist. He became an influential art teacher. He was one of the first British artists to be influenced by the French Impressionists he exhibited with the New English Art Club, and was an associ...... |
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Biography
Konstantinos Maleas (1879 - 1928) - Turkey (Constantinople)
Post-Impressionism, Symbolism
Konstantinos Maleas (Κωνσταντίνος Μαλέας) (Constantinople, 1879 - Athens, 1928) was one of the most important Post-impressionist Greek painters of the 20th century. Along with Konstantinos Parthenis, he is sometimes considered Greece's most important modern artist. Maleas was born and grew up in Constantinople, far away from the Greek artistic cent...... |
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Giuseppe Abbati (1836 - 1868) - Italy (Naples)
Impressionism
Giuseppe Abbati (January 13, 1836 – February 21, 1868) was an Italian painter who belonged to the group known as the Macchiaioli. Abbati was born in Naples. He received early training in painting from his father Vincenzo, who specialized in paintings of architectural interiors, and Abbati's own early paintings were interiors. He participated in Gar...... |
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Louise Abbema (1853 - 1927) - France (Étampes)
Impressionism
Louise Abbéma (30 October 1853 – 10 July 1927) was a French painter, sculptor, and designer of the Belle Époque. Abbéma was born in Étampes, Essonne. She was born into a wealthy Parisian family, who were well connected in the local artistic community. She began painting in her early teens, and studied under such notables of the period as Charles Jo...... |
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Biography
Martin Rico Y Ortega (1833 - 1908) - Spain (Madrid)
Impressionism
Martín Rico y Ortega (12 November 1833, El Escorial – 13 April 1908, Venice, Italy) was a Spanish painter of landscapes and cityscapes. Rico was one of the most important artists of the second half of the nineteenth century in his native country, and enjoyed wide international recognition as well, especially in France and the United States. From hi...... |
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Biography
Fujishima Takeji (1867 - 1943) - Japan (Kagoshima)
Impressionism, Post Impressionism
Fujishima Takeji (藤島 武二, October 15, 1867 – March 19, 1943) was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing Romanticism and impressionism within the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. In his later years, he was influenced by the Art Nouveau movement.... |
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Biography
Fernand Combes (1856 - 1943) - France (Les Herbiers)
Impressionism
Fernand Combes, born Franc Georges Fernand Combès, (15 May 1936 – 20 January 2017) was a French songwriter. Over the course of his career, he wrote songs for Claude François, Sylvie Vartan, Michel Polnareff, Gilbert Bécaud, Joe Dassin and Gérard Berliner.... |
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Biography
Jessie Willcox Smith (1863 - 1935) - United States (Philadelphia)
Impressionism, Romanticism
Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was a prominent female illustrator in the United States during the Golden Age of American illustration and "one of the greatest pure illustrators". She was a prolific contributor to respected books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Smith illustrated stories and articl...... |
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Biography
Antonio Sicurezza (1905 - 1979) - Italy (Santa Maria Capua Vetere)
Post Impressionism
Antonio Sicurezza was an Italian painter. His work is representative of the Italian figurative art of that period. His artistic production includes still lives, portraits, landscapes, nudes, and altar pieces. Born at Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Sicurezza studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, winning a scholarship to fund his studies. He obta...... |
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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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Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871 - 1955) - Russia (Saint Petersburg)
Art Nouveau, Post Impressionism
Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva was a Russian and Soviet artist and painter most notable for her watercolor painting. She was also one of the pioneers of the woodcut technique in Russia. She studied painting at the Stieglitz School of Technical Drawing, and subsequently at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Ilya Repin. The academy only started to...... |
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Richard Jack (1866 - 1952) - United Kingdom (Sunderland)
Impressionism
Richard Jack RA (15 February 1866 – 29 June 1952) was a painter of portraits, figure subjects, interiors and landscapes, and prominent war artist for Canada. Jack was born 15 February 1866 in Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom. He studied at York School of Art before winning a national scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1886. There h...... |
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Ivan Meštrović (1883 - 1962) - Croatia (Vrpolje)
Art Deco, Impressionism
Ivan Meštrović was a Croatian and Yugoslav sculptor, architect, and writer. He was the most prominent modern Croatian sculptor and a leading artistic personality in contemporary Zagreb. He studied at Pavle Bilinić's Stone Workshop in Split and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he was formed under the influence of the Secession. He traveled ...... |
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Stanisław Szukalski (1893 - 1987) - Poland (Warta)
Art Deco, Impressionism
Stanisław Szukalski was a Polish sculptor and painter who became a part of the Chicago Renaissance. Szukalski's art exhibits influence from ancient cultures such as Egyptian, Slavic, and Aztec combined with elements of art nouveau, from the various currents of early 20th century European modernism - cubism, expressionism, futurism and pre-Columbian...... |
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Gregoire Boonzaier (1909 - 2005) - South Africa (Newlands)
Impressionism
Gregoire Johannes Boonzaier OMSS (31 July 1909 – 22 April 2005) was a South African artist well known for his landscapes, portraits and still life paintings. He was a famous exponent of Cape Impressionism, a founder of the New Group, and a contributor, through his art works, to the struggle against apartheid.... |
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Thalia Flora Karavia (1871 - 1960) - Greece (Siatista)
Impressionism
Thalia Flora-Karavia (Greek: Θάλεια Φλωρά-Καραβία, 1871–1960) was a Greek artist and member of the Munich School who was best known for her sketches of soldiers at war. Thalia Flora was born in 1871 in Siatista, Western Macedonia. In 1874 she moved with her family to Istanbul. There she obtained a scholarship that let her study from 1883 to 1888 at...... |
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Vincenzo Irolli (1860 - 1949) - Italy (Naples)
Impressionism
Vincenzo Irolli (30 September 1860 – 27 November 1949) was an Italian painter. Vincenzo Irolli was born in Naples. He enrolled at the Naples Institute of Fine Arts, where his masters included Gioacchino Toma, in 1877 and graduated three years later. The work he presented regularly at the exhibitions of the Naples Società Promotrice di Belle Arti as...... |
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Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (1857 - 1929) - Portugal (Almada)
Impressionism
Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (Almada, 21 November 1857 – Lisbon, 6 November 1929), who is usually referred to as Columbano, was a Portuguese Realist painter. Usually considered the greatest Portuguese painter of the 19th century, he has been compared to the likes of Wilhelm Leibl and John Singer Sargent. Columbano was born in Cacilhas, Portugal. He w...... |
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Julian Fałat (1853 - 1929) - Poland (Tuligłowy)
Impressionism
Julian Fałat (Tuligłowy, near Lwów, 30 July 1853 – 9 July 1929, Bystra Śląska) was one of the most prolific Polish watercolorists, one of the country's foremost landscapists, and a leading impressionist. He studied at the Kraków School of Fine Arts under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, then at the Art Academy of Munich. In the course of his 1885 travels a...... |
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Nina Arbore (1889 - 1942) - Romania (Tecuci)
Post Impressionism
Nina Arbore was a Romanian painter and illustrator, known for her still-lifes and portraits. She was born in Tecuci, Romania in 1889 and died in Bucharest, Romania in 1942. She studied at the Women's Academy of the Munich Artists' Association and later in the studio of Henri Matisse in Paris. She held her first personal exhibition in Bucharest and ...... |
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Simeon Velkov (1885 - 1963) - Bulgaria (Panagyuriste / Panagjuriste / Panagyurishte)
Post Impressionism
Simeon Velkov (1885-1963), Bulgarian. Born on 11.04.1885 in Panagyrishte, died on 10.09.1963 in Sofia. Graduated (1910) painting from the Industrial School of Arts, Sofia, in the class of Prof. Ivan …... |
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Nicolae Vermont (1866 - 1932) - Romania (Bacău)
Impressionism
Nicolae Vermont (10 de octubre de 1866 – 14 de junio de 1932) fue un pintor realista rumano, artista gráfico y muralista. He was noted for his wide range of subjects and his interest in social issues, and was an associate of the post-Impresionists Ştefan Luchian and Constantin Artachino, as well as a friend of the controversial art collector and po...... |
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Vytautas Kairiukstis (1890 - 1961) - Lithuania (Sejny)
Impressionism
Vytautas Kairiūkštis (Polish: Witold Kajruksztis, 1890 in Sejny – 1961 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian constructivist artist. From 1910 to 1911 Kairiukstis attended the Vilnius Drafting School. In 1923 Kairiūkštis organised the New Art Exhibition which lasted from May 20 to June 20. In this he was aided by Władysław Strzemiński, who had moved to Vilni...... |
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Aristarkh Vasilevich Lentulov (1882 - 1943) -
Cubo-Futurism, Cubism, Post-Impressionism, Realism
Aristarkh Vasilyevich Lentulov (Russian: Лентулов, Аристарх Васильевич) (January 16, 1882 - April 15, 1943) was a major Russian avant-garde artist of Cubist orientation who also worked on set designs for the theatre. Aristarkh Lentulov was born in the town of Nizhny Lomov in Penza Oblast, Russia into the family of a rural priest. He studied art in ...... |
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Józef Mehoffer (1869 - 1946) -
Post Impressionism, Art Nouveau
Józef Mehoffer (19 March 1869 – 8 July 1946) was a Polish painter and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time. Mehoffer was born in Ropczyce, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, and later at the Academy of Fine...... |
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Niccolò Cannicci (1846 - 1906) - Italy (Florence)
Realism, Impressionism
Niccolò Cannicci (1846–1906) was an Italian painter best known for his urban and rural views, often depicting the intersection of the urban and industrial landscape with the rural and pastoral.... |
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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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Georgi Mashev (1887 - 1946) - Bulgaria (Pazardzhik)
Post Impressionism
Georgi Mashev was a Bulgarian painter, caricaturist and illustrator. He was born in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria in 1887 and died in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1946. He studied painting at the Drawing school in Sofia, at the Art Academy of St. Petersburg, at the Art Academy of Brussels under professor Edmond Picard. He is known for his paintings, caricatures and i...... |
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Konstantin Ivanovich Gorbatov (1876 - 1945) -
Post Impressionism
Konstantin Ivanovich Gorbatov was a Russian post-impressionist painter. Gorbatov was born in Stavropol in the Samara province. He lived in Riga from 1896 to 1903, and studied civil engineering before painting. Gorbatov moved to St. Petersburg in 1904 and studied at the Baron Stieglitz Central School for Technical Draftsmanship. He initially entered...... |
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Hoca Ali Riza (1858 - 1930) - Turkey (Üsküdar)
Impressionism
Hoca Ali Rıza (1858 in Üsküdar – 20 March 1930 in Üsküdar) was a Turkish painter and art teacher, known primarily for his Impressionist landscapes and architectural paintings.... |
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Hugo Mühlig (1854 - 1929) -
Impressionism
Hugo Mühlig (9 November 1854 in Dresden - 16 February 1929) was a German Impressionist painter. From 1881, he lived in Düsseldorf, as a painter of landscapes and genre scenes. Hugo Mühlig was the son of the landscape painter Meno Mühlig, and nephew of the landscape painter Bernhard Mühlig. He first studied painting with his father, then at the Dres...... |
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