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Fritz Klimsch | Figurative sculptor

German sculptor Fritz Klimsch (1870-1960) trained at the Königliche Akademische Hochschule für die bildenden Künste (Royal Fine Art Academy) in Berlin in the drawing class taught by the painter Ernst Hancke and in the modelling class under Albert Wolff.
From 1887-1890 he was a pupil of Fritz Schaper's.
While still a student, the young sculptor produced his first important work, winning awards and his first taste of recognition.


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Alberto Manfredi | Cubo-futurist painter

Italian painter🎨 and engraver Alberto Manfredi (Reggio Emilia, 1930-2001) after graduating at the University of Bologna was, for many years, professor of etching at the Fine Arts Academy in Florence.
He was one of the most respected and refined painters and print-makers in Italy. Manfredi frequently met Giorgio Morandi and made many portraits of him.
He moved also in literary circles and as a result illustrated over a hundred literary works and 'livres d’artiste'.
He held many exhibitions of his paintings which received critical acclaim (the critic Maccari wrote 'Manfredi is one of the very few painters who still knows how to draw').
As a result of his fine draughtsmanship he became a very accomplished printmaker of etchings, drypoints and linocuts, with a wonderful sense of the use of colour.
His subjects include portraits, landscapes, animals and female figures and a number of catalogues have been published by leading galleries in which he exhibited, in Italy and France.


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Martin Johnson Heade | Landscapes

From: Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum
The American painter Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) started out as a portraitist and took up landscape painting late in life.
He spent three years travelling around Europe during his formative years.
This first Grand Tour marked the start of an itinerant lifestyle which he continued to lead throughout his entire existence.
From 1840 to 1859 he lived in Philadelphia, New York, Saint Louis, Chicago, Trenton and Providence.


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John Martin | Romantic Landscape painter



John Martin (19 July 1789 - 17 February 1854) was an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator. Martin was born in July 1789, in a one-room cottage, at Haydon Bridge, near Hexham in Northumberland, the fourth son of Fenwick Martin, a one-time fencing master. He was apprenticed by his father to a coachbuilder in Newcastle upon Tyne to learn heraldic painting, but owing to a dispute over wages the indentures were cancelled, and he was placed instead under Boniface Musso, an Italian artist, father of the enamel painter Charles Muss.
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Stephan Bakałowicz | Academic painter

Stephan Bakałowicz /Степан Бакалович (1857, Warsaw -1947, Rome) was a Polish painter from Warsaw, famous in the Russian Empire. He was noted for his paintings on the subjects of Ancient Rome.
From 1936 he was a member of authorities of Polish Association of Artists - "The Capitol".

Bakałowicz was born in Warsaw, into an artistic Polish family. His father was a painter, his mother an actress and so it was only natural for the boy to be drawn to a career in the arts.
He received his first painting lessons from his father and then went on to study at the Warsaw School of Art before joining the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts in 1876.


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Kari-Lise Alexander, 1982 | Pop Surrealism painter

Kari-Lise Alexander’s expressive work explores themes rooted in her Scandinavian heritage.
Innocent maidens float in worlds of their own making, oftentimes losing themselves in their daydreams.
At a young age Kari-Lise was always experimenting with paints, pencils, pastels and anything else she could get her hands on.

In 2000 she studied fine art for two semesters but left college to pursue other interests.
It wasn’t until spring of 2009 that her heart led her back to painting and she hasn’t stopped since.


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Francis Danby | The Bristol School of painters


Francis Danby (16 November 1793 - 9 February 1861) was an Irish painter of the Romantic era. His imaginative, dramatic landscapes were comparable to those of John Martin. Danby initially developed his imaginative style while he was the central figure in a group of artists who have come to be known as the Bristol School. His period of greatest success was in London in the 1820s.
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Victorine Meurent | Manet’s favorite model

Victorine Meurent was Manet’s favorite model in the 1860s, posing for Street Singer, in the MFA’s collection, as well as for such other renowned works as Olympia and Luncheon on the Grass (both now in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris).
Victorine Louise Meurent (February 18, 1844 – March 17, 1927) was a French painter and a famous model for painters.
Although she is best known as the favourite model of Édouard Manet, she was also an artist in her own right who regularly exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon.


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Gabriel Sainz, 1967 | Surrealist painter


Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Gabriel Sainz has lived alternately between Buenos Aires and Patagonia. He formalized his training with Antonio López y Golucho (Spain), Guillermo Roux, Juan Doffo y Eduardo Faradje. He received the prestigious Fundación Antorchas scholarship under the directorship of Remo Bianchedi, Marcia Schvartz and María José Herrera.
His works can be found in museums and private collections in Argentina and numerous countries.
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Jules René Hervé (1887-1981) | Impressionist painter


Jules René Hervé🎨 was an French🎨 Academic painter, born in Langres, in Eastern France.
Known for his paintings of cityscapes and landscapes, Hervé painted in an Impressionistic style🎨 that captured the shimmering texture of the city and the softer light of the countryside.

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Sandro Botticelli | Art in Detail

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli (Italian: [sandro bottiˈtʃɛlli]; c. 1445 - May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.
Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.
In addition to the mythological subjects for which he is best known today, Botticelli painted a wide range of religious subjects (including dozens of renditions of the Madonna and Child, many in the round tondo shape) and also some portraits. His best-known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera, both in the Uffizi in Florence.


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Carl Hallström | Romantic Landscape painter

Carl Axel Thure Hallström (1850-1929) was a Swedish artist, a classical Romantic landscape painter. Today his works appear on the northern European auctions.
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Eugène Delacroix ~ Romantic painter | Quotes /Aforismi

  • Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
  • on Rubens... Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
  • on Titian... There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.
  • What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
  • Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
  • The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
  • A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.


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Jozef Israëls | The Hague school of painters


Jozef Israëls, (born January 27, 1824, Groningen, Netherlands-died August 12, 1911, The Hague), painter and etcher, often called the “Dutch Millet” (a reference to Jean-Franƈois Millet).
Israëls was the leader of the Hague School of peasant genre painting, which flourished in the Netherlands between 1860-1900. He began his studies in Amsterdam and from 1845 to 1847 worked in Paris under the academic painters Horace Vernet and Paul Delaroche.
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Jan Zoetelief Tromp | En plein air painter



Dutch painter Jan Zoetelief Tromp (1872-1947) was born in Jakarta, where his father worked as an official in the former Dutch East Indies Colony. He was a painter of landscapes and Genre scenes, working largely in oil and watercolor. At an early age he showed great aptitude for drawing and consequently began his artistic training in 1887 with a summer course at the Academy of Fine Art in The Hague. Tromp subsequently continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, receiving much attention from August Allebé, the director of the Academy.
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Nicolaas Roosenboom | Landscape painter


Portret van Nicolaas Johannes Roosenboom by Adolphe Frédéric
Nicolaas Johannes Roosenboom was born in Schellingwoude August 23rd, 1805 and he died is Assen, the 1st of March 1880 (The Netherlands). He was a student of Adreas Schelfhout. He travelled to Germany, Belgium, Scotland and Great Brittain. He also visited numerous Dutch towns and villages.
Nicolaas J. Roosenboom worked together with Eugène Verboeckhoven. Painter of summer landscapes, river and town views, but his preference were the winterlandscapes. N. J. Roosenboom was a.o. teachter of F. M. Kruseman. Exhibitions in Amsterdam and The Hague. Works in possession of numerous Dutch museums.
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Albert Guillaume | La Belle Époque


Albert Guillaume (14 February 1873 – 10 August 1942) was a French painter and caricaturist. Born in Paris, France, Albert Guillaume became a leading caricaturist during the Belle Époque. While remembered for his poster art, Guillaume also did oil paintings such as "Soirée parisienne", a portrait of Parisian dinner society. He created theater posters as well as advertising posters that were greatly influenced by the work of one of the preeminent poster painters, Jules Chéret.
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Eitan Vitkon, 1967 | Abstract photographer

Born in a small village in the south of Israel, Eitan Vitkon is an acclaimed contemporary photographer whose work has been exhibited and applauded worldwide. In 1996, Eitan moved to New York from Tel Aviv, to continue studying architecture, eventually receiving a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute in 1999.
It was during his studies that he developed a passion for photography, using the camera to sustain a creative mental space away from the more demanding and often rigid architecture pursuit.
His interest in urbanism and design from a physical and emotional standpoint inevitably spilled into his image making, culminating in what is now an impressive body of work spanning close to 15 years.


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Lubov Zubova, 1979 | Surrealist painter

The name of Russian artist Zubova Lyubov Aleksandrovna / Зубова Любов Александровна in art appeared at once and took its rightful place among the vast diversity of all kinds of artistic talents, whose works appear and produce a great impression in the Art halls of Moscow.
Among the numerous and collective exhibitions, in which Lubov Zubova participated, especially also participated in the International festival of arts "Traditions and contemporaneity" in the Bolshoi Manege 2009, and in the fifth – of the same name festival 2011. The fruits of it are in museums and private collections in Russia and abroad – in Holland, France. Made artistic level allowed her to become a member of the Creative Union of professional artists.


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Hugo Charlemont | Impressionist / genre painter

Hugo Charlemont (March 18, 1850 - April 18, 1939) was an Austrian painter, born in Jemnice, Moravia.
He was the son of the miniature painter Matthias Adolf Charlemont and the brother of the painters Eduard Charlemont (1848-1906) and Theodor Charlemont (1859-1938).
Hugo's daughter Lilly Charlemont also was an artist.
From 1873 he studied art at the Academy in Vienna under Eduard von Lichtenfels.


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Dietz Edzard | La Belle Époque

Dietz Edzard (1893-1963) was born in Bremen in 1893. He traveled extensively through Germany, Holland and France. Edzard, a colourful artist who has carried on the traditions of the masters of French🎨 Impressionism, studied painting with Max Beckmann.
In 1929, Edzard's work was included in an exhibition of Contemporary Painting at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, a museum dedicated to the Impressionist masters🎨. In 1938, Edzard married Suzanne Eisendieck (1908-1998), a well-regarded artist in her own right who worked in an Impressionistic style🎨.


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Ralph Curtis | Genre painter

Ralph Wormeley Curtis (1854-1922) American painter🎨, was Boston born and a graduate of Harvard.
He eventually lived in Europe and was a painter of portraits, genres🎨 and interiors.
Born into a prominent Boston family, after Harvard in 1878 at the age of twenty-four, Ralph Wormeley Curtis went to Europe with his family.
They eventually set up their primary residence in Venice🎨 on the Grand Canal buying part of the Palazzo Barbaro. It would be here that he would do most of his painting and would find himself at the center of a cosmopolitan circles of artists including Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Vernon Lee, and of course his cousin and friend: John Singer Sargent🎨.


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Le Pont des Arts, Paris

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Le Pont des Arts, Paris, 1867-1868
Le Pont des Arts/The Bridge of Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine. It links the Institut de France and the central square (cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre, (which had been termed the "Palais des Arts" under the First French Empire).
Between 1802-1804, under the reign of Napoleon I, a nine-arch metallic bridge for pedestrians was constructed at the location of the present day Pont des Arts: this was the first metal bridge in Paris. The engineers Louis-Alexandre de Cessart and Jacques Dillon initially conceived of a bridge which would resemble a suspended garden, with trees, banks of flowers and benches.
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Joe Bowen, 1955 | Cityscape painter


British painter Joe Bowen lives in the heart of mid Wales with his family, amongst rolling hills and valleys which provide a constant source of inspiration.
Joe’s professional painting career spans over 15 years, during which time his work has developed from traditional figurative painting through a number of stages, to the more liberal and vigorous style he now employs.
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Jean-François Raffaëlli | La Belle Époque


Jean-Francois Raffaëlli was born in Paris into a bourgeois family in which he enjoyed a privileged childhood until the age of fourteen when a reversal of his father's business fortunes forced him to seek employment. He held a series of jobs before being placed, unwillingly, in a commercial house as a book-keeper at the age of sixteen. While working there, he began to visit the Louvre and to spend his Sundays in the Musée de Luxembourg. His initial artistic interest was in drawing and as he developed this passion, he gave up his job and supported himself by singing in theatres and churches.
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Sarah Kidner, 1964 | Impressionist cityscape painter


Sarah Kidner was born in 1964. After much travelling, Sarah and her family moved to Ontario in 1969. Growing up in Toronto, Sarah was exposed to and inspired by many great art exhibitions from the Group of Seven to the French Impressionists. At the University of Toronto she studied history and philosophy. A love of skiing, hiking and travelling drew Sarah to Banff in 1987. Now living in Alberta with her twin boys, she finds the Rocky Mountains an ideal setting for creative inspiration.
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La Plaza de España, Seville

Spain Square / The Plaza de España is a plaza located in the Parque de María Luisa (Maria Luisa Park), in Seville, Spain built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929.
It is a landmark example of the Renaissance Revival style in Spanish architecture.
The Plaza de España, designed by Aníbal González, was a principal building built on the Maria Luisa Park's edge to showcase Spain's industry and technology exhibits. González combined a mix of 1920s Art Déco and 'mock Mudejar', and Neo-Mudéjar styles.
The Plaza de España complex is a huge half-circle with buildings continually running around the edge accessible over the moat by numerous bridges representing the four ancient kingdoms of Spain. In the centre is the Vicente Traver fountain. By the walls of the Plaza are many tiled alcoves, each representing a different province of Spain.


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Omar Sharif: Doctor Zhivago star, dies at 83

Omar Sharif, the Egyptian matinee idol who enthralled audiences around the world with his performances in the sweeping David Lean epics Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, has died. He was 83.
Sharif, who also was known for playing the smooth gambler/con man Nicky Arnstein opposite Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl (1968) and its 1975 sequel, died of a heart attack this afternoon in a hospital in Cairo, his longtime agent Steve Kenis confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. It was reported in May that Sharif had been battling Alzheimer's.


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Hendrik Mesdag | The painter of Sea scenes


Hendrik Willem Mesdag, born in a wealthy Groningen family of bankers, worked in his father’s business till the age of thirty-five. After an inheritance of his wife, Sientje van Houten, had rendered him independent, he abandoned his secure position at his father’s bank and followed his artistic ambitions. During a four years stay in Brussels he served his apprenticeship with the famous landscapist Willem Roelofs and grew familiar with the art of the Barbizon School, sharing their fascination for working in the open air (En plein air).
After a stay on the German island Norderney in 1868, Mesdag got fascinated by the sea.
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James Wilson Morrice | Post-Impressionist painter


James Wilson Morrice [1865 - 1924] was one of Canada’s first modernist painters. His landscapes, which showed the beauty of the country in a way the world had never seen before, helped form the identity of Canadian art, and his commissioned war scenes brought a new perspective to World War I.
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Maurice Prendergast | Post-Impressionist painter

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858-1924) was born in Saint John's, Newfoundland, to a shopkeeper who moved the family to Boston in 1868.
He left school after only eight or nine years and went to work for a commercial art firm. He never married and throughout his life was accompanied and supported by his brother Charles, a gifted craftsman and artist in his own right.
According to Charles, Maurice always wanted to be an artist and spent every available moment sketching. In 1892, Maurice traveled to Paris, where he spent three years.


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Seung Mo Park, 1969 | Wire Sculptor

South Korean artist Seung Mo Park 성 명 박 승 모 (朴勝模) creates gorgeous sculptures from tightly wrapped aluminium wire over fibreglass forms.
Park gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Dong A University in Busan, South Korea’s second largest city after Seoul.
Making up Park’s ‘Human’ series, the figures display painstaking attention to detail, from the bone structure and curves of the human bodies, to the delicate strands of hair and the folds and wrinkles of draped clothing.


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Richard Stainthorp | Wire Figurative Sculptor

British sculptor Richard Stainthorp captures the beautiful energy and fluidity of the human body using wire. The life-sized sculptures feature both figures in motion and at rest, expressed in the form of large-gauged strands that are densely wrapped around and through one another. By doing this, he gives the work an undeniable presence. Stainthorp also allows the bent wires to shine by keeping their metallic appearance free from any obvious painting or additions.
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Georges Braque | Fauve / Cubist painter


Georges Braque, (born May 13, 1882, Argenteuil, France-died August 31, 1963, Paris), French painter, one of the important revolutionaries of 20th-century art who, together with Pablo Picasso, developed Cubism.
His paintings consist primarily of still lifes that are remarkable for their robust construction, low-key colour harmonies and serene, meditative quality.

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Albert Marquet | Landscape Naturalist | Fauvist painter

Albert Marquet (Bordeaux, 26 Mar. 1875 - Paris, 14 June 1947) was a French painter and draughtsman. He was one of the Fauves, and for a time his boldness of colour almost matched that of Matisse (his lifelong friend). 
However, he soon abandoned Fauvism and turned to a comparatively naturalistic style. 
He painted some fine portraits and did a number of powerful female figures (1910-14), but he was primarily a landscapist.