Constantin Kluge | Parisian street scenes

Constantin Kluge /Константин Константинович Клуге (1912-2003) was an French award winning painter originally from Russia. Raised mostly in Manchuria and Beijing, Kluge eventually settled in Paris and became a French citizen.

He is known for his French landscapes and romantic scenes of Paris.

Constantin Kluge was born on January 29, 1912 in Riga, then a large industrial port city in the Russian Empire. Kluge was born into a family of means and some status.

His paternal grandfather had spent years in France studying the cultivation of vines and wine making. Returning to Russia he developed a successful winery. Kluge's father, also Constantin, was a member of the Russian Army General Staff and a White Army sympathizer.

Alfred Mira | Cityscape painter

Italian-born American painter Alfred S. Mira (1900-1980) and his realistic, gritty, intimate Greenwich Village street scenes should be better known. Born in 1900 in Sicily, Italy to a carpenter father, he left school and began working for an interior decorator, dreaming of going to art school but without the 50 cents a day it cost to attend.

He did make a career out of painting though; he listed his address as East 8th Street and his occupation as painter in the 1940 census. And he sold his work at the Washington Square outdoor art exhibit, a heralded event decades ago.

Gino Piccioni (1873-1941)

Gino Piccioni [Foligno (Perugia) 1873 - Biella (Vercelli) 1941] è stato un pittore e scultore Italiano.

Poco nota l’attività di questo pittore che, dopo avere ricevuto la propria formazione a Roma, sotto la guida di A. Vertunni e R. Franzi, soggiornò a lungo in Germania. Dai cataloghi delle esposizioni si desume che dovette concentrare la sua produzione nell'arco di un quindicennio (1899-1912), misurandosi per lo più con temi di paesaggio, non estranei a toni di compiaciuto sentimentalismo.

Angiolo Tommasi | Macchiaioli Art Movement

Angiolo Tommasi (Livorno, 1858 - Torre del Lago Puccini, Lucca, 1923) was an Italian painter, active in the Macchiaioli movement. He was the brother of the painter Ludovico and cousin of the painter Adolfo Tommasi all three were influential for the arts in their native Tuscany in the late 19th and early 20th-centuries. Angiolo painted both genre and landscape themes. The second of the five brothers, Angiolo was born in Livorno.

Akira Tanaka | Abstract Figurative painter

Akira Tanaka /田中阿喜良年譜 (1918-1982) is a Japanese figurative painter who mainly worked in France. We owe him in particular numerous scenes describing the daily life of the Parisians, his main source of inspiration.

Born in Osaka in 1918, Tanaka studied at the School of Fine Arts of Kyoto (1943) before settling permanently in France in 1959 (in direct line with other Japanese artists such as Tsuguharu Foujita or Takanori Oguiss). Starting in 1955, he participates in several exhibitions (in Japan, United States, Australia as well as New Zealand) and receives in 1957 the 1st Prize of the Japanese critics («Grand Shell Prize») and the Grand Prize of the Kodobijutsu show.