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Samuel Uhrdin | Genre painter

Samuel (Sam) Uhrdin (1886-1964) was a Swedish painter who was born in Siljansnäs, Dalarna, Sweden.


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Isaac Grunewald | Modern Expressionist painter


Isaac Grünewald (1889-1946) was a Swedish-Jewish Expressionist painter born in Stockholm. He was the leading and central name in the first generation of Swedish modernists from 1910 up until his death in 1946, in other words during almost his entire career spanning four decades. He was a highly productive painter as well as a writer and public speaker.
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Joseph Kleitsch ~ Plein Air painter


Joseph Kleitsch (1882-1931) was a Hungarian-American portrait and Plein Air painter who holds a high place in the early California School of Impressionism.
Born in Banad, Hungary on June 6, 1882, Kleitsch began painting at the age of seven. He later pursued art training in Budapest, Munich and Paris. He immigrated to the United States in 1912 and two years later, on July 22, 1914, he married Edna Gregatis of Chicago, Illinois with whom he would have his only child, Eugene. Influenced by his visits to the famous museums of Europe, Kleitsch continued with his love of portrait and figurative painting after relocating to California.
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Albert Goodwin | Victorian Visionary landscapes

Albert Goodwin (1845-1932) was a British landscape painter, specialising in watercolours. Goodwin was a prolific artist, producing over 800 works and continuing to paint well into his eighties. His work shows the influences of Turner and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Goodwin was born in Maidstone in Kent, the son of a builder and one of 9 children. After leaving school he became an apprentice draper. His exceptional artistic ability was recognised at an early age and he went on to study with the Pre-Raphaelite artists Arthur Hughes and Ford Madox Brown - the latter predicting that he would become "one of the greatest landscape painters of the age".
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Museum Masterpieces [Part.2]

Gyula Benczúr (Hungarian painter, 1844-1920) | Narcissus, 1881 | Hungarian National Gallery


Gyula Benczúr, a contemporary of Mihály Munkácsyand Pál Szinyei Merse, was a consistently outstanding exponent of academicism from his time at the Academy in Munich, and later a much feted artist in Budapest.
He was accomplished in every aspect of painting that could be learned from studying the works of his Renaissance and Baroque forebears.
These skills, encompassing composition and the precise, sensual depiction of details, are demonstrated in his Narcissus of 1881.
Surprisingly, however, Benczúr’s treatment of this Ovidian theme deviates from the traditional iconography.

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Vincent Van Gogh | Drawings for study

Perhaps the most prolific post-impressionist painter of all time, Vincent Van Gogh gave us his mind, his heart, his soul, and, most notably, his ear. His works are probably better known generally than those of any other painter in history.
Born in 1853, Van Gogh was the son of a Dutch Protestant minister.
Early in his life, he possessed a moody temperament that would later haunt him in his efforts to become a successful artist.
His brief and turbulent life is thought to epitomize the mad genius legend.


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Alfred Henry Maurer | The first American modernist painter

Alfred Henry Maurer (April 21, 1868 - August 4, 1932) was an American Modernist painter.
He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in New York City during the early twentieth century.
Highly respected today, his work met with little critical or commercial success in his lifetime, and he died, a suicide, at the age of sixty-four.


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Maxfield Parrish | Golden Age Illustrator


Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) deeply committed to the democratization of art, was probably the most popular artist of the twentieth century in the United States after Norman Rockwell link. Like many American artists, including Winslow Homer link, Parrish began his artistic career as an illustrator and became prominent through the publication of his work in popular magazines, such as Harper’s Weekly, Scribner’s, Ladies’ Home Journal, Life, and Collier’s. 
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Giovanni Giacometti | Post-Impressionist painter

Giovanni Ulrico Giacometti (7 March 1868 - 25 June 1933) was a Swiss painter.
He was the father of artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti and architect Bruno Giacometti.
Giovanni Giacometti was born in Stampa, the Grisans on March 7th, 1868.


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Johann Jungblut ~ Romantic Landscape painter





Johan Jungblut [1860-1912] was born in Sarrebourg on the French/German border in April of 1860, although in 1885 he made the German city of Dusseldorf his home. Johan Jungblut was a solitary figure who lived alone; he made frequent trips to Holland to paint, specialising in Winter scenes infused with tranquil light. Today the museums of Brooklyn and Mayence (in France) display his work.
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Andreas Achenbach ~ The Dusseldorf School of painting


Andreas Achenbach, (born Sept. 29, 1815, Kassel, Hesse-died April 1, 1910, Düsseldorf, Ger.), Landscape painter, a pioneer of the German Realist school. He studied at the Düsseldorf academy under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, but emancipated himself from the contemporary school of landscapists that delighted in the representation of Romantic scenery.
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Pino (Giuseppe Dangelico) 1939-2010