Jules Grün (1868-1934) | Painter of the Belle Époque

Jules-Alexandre Grün was a French🎨 Post-impressionist painter, poster artist and illustrator.

He is called the last great artist of the Belle Époque.

Jules-Alexandre Grün was a student of the famous theater decorator of the Paris Opera, Jean-Baptiste Lavastre, and the landscape painter and long-time jury member of the Paris Salon, Antoine Guillemet.

Leopold Survage | Abstract / Cubist painter

Léopold Frédéric Léopoldowitsch Survage (1878-1968) -variant names Léopold Sturzwage, Leopold Sturwage, Leopoldij Sturzwasgh, Leopoldij Lvovich Sturzwage- was a French painter of Russian-Danish-Finnish descent born in Lappeenranta, Finland.

At a young age, Survage was directed to enter the piano factory operated by his Finnish father.

Mihai Criste, 1975 | Surrealist painter

Mihai Criste | The Kiss of Autumn

Mihai Criste is a creative Romanian painter who is fascinated by abstraction, mystery and surrealism🎨.

He graduated from the Visual Arts Academy in Romania in 2001 and since then has been participating in group exhibitions along with illustrating children’s books, such as the The Wizard of Oz.

The graceful composition of his paintings, along with his creative concepts and titles, give his pieces a special touch and him a great degree of distinction.

Albert Braïtou-Sala | Figurative painter

Albert Sala dit Albert Braïtou-Sala (1885-1972) was a French painter.

Born in the port town of La Goulette, Albert discovers his artistic vocation in the establishment of the White Fathers of Carthage in which he is a pupil.

In 1899, he lost his father, Moses Sala, and had to leave school to provide for his family.

He worked in a bakery and collector in a department store, but also pursued artistic studies at the school of painting of Tunisia where he is master Maurice Bismouth (1891-1965).

Blanche-Augustine Camus | Neo-impressionist painter

Blanche-Augustine Camus (1884-1968) was a French neo-impressionist painter, associated with the style of Divisionism, noted for her luminous landscapes and gardens of the south of France, often combined with graceful outdoor portraits of her family and friends.

Born in Paris, she studied at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts from 1902-1908 with Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Adolphe Déchenaud.

Konstantin Gorbatov (1876-1945) | Romantic Landscape painter

Konstantin Ivanovich Gorbatov was a remarkable Russian🎨 landscape artist who infused his works with incredible elegance, serenity and poetical beauty.

Gorbatov's oeuvre currently may not be so well known to the general public, but art connoisseurs understand the value of his unique, sophisticated and vibrant artworks.

Frederick McCubbin (1855-1917) | Impressionist painter

Frederick McCubbin was an Australian artist🎨 and prominent member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian Impressionism.

Frederick McCubbin was a son of Melbourne.

He was born and brought up in working-class Melbourne, he trained at the National Gallery of Victoria’s art school from 1872-1886 and was drawing master there from 1886-1917.

Francesco Paolo Michetti | Genre painter

Francesco Paolo Michetti (1851-1929) was an Italian painter known especially for his genre works.

He was born in Tocco da Casauria in the Province of Chieti. His father having died when he was a boy, Michetti was forced to work with a local artisan.

In 1868, Michetti was awarded a stipend by the province to study at the Accademia (now Istituto) in Naples under Domenico Morelli.

Valérie Hadida, 1965 | Figurative sculptor

Valérie Hadida is a contemporary French🎨 sculptor and painter, working mainly in Bronze and clay.

This set of sculptures is from Les "petites bonnes femmes"/ The Little Women series, which has been described by critics as a “poetic encounter….[meant] to make us travel the path of women from adolescence to maturity and through the various emotions and moods that drive these generations of women".

Trained at l’Ecole d’arts plastiques et publicité de la ville de Paris (EMSAT) and employed in the studio of Marielle Polska for 6 years, a character designer for several animated features and winner of the Paul Ricard Foundation Prize in 1991, she has been Exhibited in galleries since 1990.

Emil Nolde | The Die Brücke Group

German painter in oils and watercolour of landscapes, still life and figure compositions, lithographer, etcher and wood-engraver.

Born near Nolde, a village in North Schleswig. Changed his name from Hansen to Nolde in 1902. Worked as wood carver in several furniture factories, studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Karlsruhe 1888-9 and began to sketch landscapes and portraits in his spare time.

Taught drawing at the Museum of Industrial Arts in St Gall, Switzerland, 1892-7. First oil paintings 1896.

Decided to devote himself to painting and studied at Friedrich Fehr's private school in Munich 1898-9 and with Adolf Holzel in Dachau 1899; also spent part of 1899-1900 in Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian.

In the following years, lived mainly in Berlin and on the island of Alsen.

Claude Théberge (1934-2008) | Abstract painter

The career of Claude Théberge provides a prime example of how time works in magical and often unforeseen ways…

This Canadian painter🎨, a graduate of Quebec City’s École des Beaux-Arts, won bursaries from both the Canada Arts Council and the Quebec Government and attended the greatest art and design schools in France.

He captured the top prize in a United Nations competition involving 65.000 graphic artists from throughout the world.

Armand Guillaumin | Paysages | Page 3

Armand Guillaumin (February 16, 1841 - June 26, 1927), was a French impressionist painter, best remembered for his landscapes of Paris, the Creuse département, and the area around Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel near the Mediterranean coast in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region of France.

Francesco Lojacono | Scenery painter

Francesco Lojacono or Lo Jacono (1838-1915) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes and seascapes.

He was born in Palermo, Sicily, and received his early training there with his father Luigi, a history painter, and Salvatore Lo Forte.

Francesco Lojacono won a gold medal for a small canvas presented at an exhibition in Palermo, and this gained him a stipend to move in 1856 to Naples, where attended the school of Filippo Palizzi.

Guy de Maupassant: "I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt"

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance

Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer, one of the fathers of the modern short story.

• "I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt".

• "I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth".

• "You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government".

Elin Danielson-Gambogi | Naturalist painter

Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi (3 September 1861 - 31 December 1919) was a Finnish painter, best known for her realist works and portraits. Danielson-Gambogi was part of the first generation of Finnish women artists who received professional education in art, the so-called "Painter sisters' generation".

The group also included Helene Schjerfbeck.

Early life and studies

Elin Danielson was born in the small village of Noormarkku, near the city of Pori in Western Finland to Karl Danielson and Rosa Amalia Danielson.

Her early years were however spent at Ilmajoki as her father attempted farming there. Because of the Finnish famine of 1866–68, the farm failed. After being forced to sell the farm, her father Karl shot himself.

Her mother Rosa returned to Noormarkku with her two daughters.

Ramón Casas i Carbó | Il pittore modernista

Ramón Casas i Carbó (1866-1932) è stato un pittore Spagnolo, famoso per i suoi ritratti e caricature della buona società di Barcellona, Madrid e Parigi.

Divenne famoso anche per i suoi quadri sulle rivolte sociali.

Fu anche disegnatore grafico e cartellonista pubblicitario, mezzi con cui diffuse il movimento modernista.

Figlio di una famiglia benestante, il padre aveva fatto fortuna a Cuba e la madre proveniva da una ricca famiglia, rivelò presto la sua inclinazione per l’arte.

Andre Kohn, 1972 | Dancers

Andre Kohn is one of the most collected figurative painters on the American art scene today.

He followed his apprenticeships with a classical art education at the University of Moscow where he studied with members of the last great generation of Russian Impressionists. He fondly remembers the majesty of the University.

Diego Velázquez | Life and Artworks

Velázquez (1599-1660) was born in Seville in southern Spain, at that time an important city with a thriving artistic community.

At the age of eleven, Velázquez was apprenticed to Francisco Pacheco, Seville's most significant artist and art theorist.

From Pacheco, Velázquez learned the technical skills of drawing and painting, still-life and portraiture and soon surpassed his master.

Francis Bacon | Expressionist painter

Born to an British family in Dublin on 28 October 1909, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was the second of five children of Christina Firth, a steel heiress, and Edward Bacon, a race-horse trainer and former army officer. His childhood, spent at Cannycourt, County Kildare, was blighted by asthma from which he suffered throughout his life.

With the outbreak of war in 1914, his father took the family to London and joined the Ministry of War; they divided the post-war years between London and Ireland. Bacon repeatedly ran away from his school in Cheltenham (1924-6).

After his authoritarian father, repelled by his burgeoning homosexuality, threw him out of the family home for wearing his mother’s clothes, Bacon arrived in London in 1926 with little schooling but with a weekly allowance of £3 from his mother.

Henri Rousseau | Post-Impressionist painter

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner.

He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector.

He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.

Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.

Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists.