Egon Schiele | Expressionist painter

Egon Schiele, (1890, Tulln, near Vienna - 1918, Vienna), Austrian Expressionist painter, draftsman and printmaker noted for the eroticism of his figurative works.

As a student at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts (1907-09), Schiele was strongly influenced by the Jugendstil movement, the German Art Nouveau.

He met Gustav Klimt, leader of the Vienna Sezession group, and the linearity and subtlety of Schiele’s work owe much to Klimt’s decorative elegance.

François Gall | Impressionist painter

François Gall (22 March 1912, Hungary - 9 December 1987, France) was an Hungarian-born French🎨 modern impressionist painter.

François Gall was born "Ferenc Erdelyi Gall" in 1912 in Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj Napoca).

In 1936, at age 24 years, he moved to Paris.

Early in 1939, Gall returned to Kolosvàr to attend the bedside of his dying father. Once there, he could not return to France as the declaration of war was imminent.

Gall's war time years were finished in Wels, Austria where he was a medic.

Albert André | Post-Impressionist painter

Benjamin André Albert Marie (1869-1954) the well-known Post-Impressionist artist and painter of 'intimiste'interiors, still lifes and Parisian scenes, was born in Lyon.

André spent his childhood vacations in Laudun where his family owned vineyards.

Aged 20 he left for Paris where he studied painting at the Académie Julian.

On the same course were Louis Valtat, Maurice Denis and Pierre Bonnard, and like them he began painting in a Post-Impressionist manner, using the colours, light and subject matter of the mainstream Impressionists but adding more expression and design.

Pierre-Eugène Montézin | Post-Impressionist painter

Pierre-Eugène Montézin🎨 (1874-1946) was a French artist🎨, who was part of the post-impressionist wave.

Although Pierre-Eugène Montézin was a painter of landscapes, he spent most of his life in Paris.

He loved the open air and the country areas of the Ile-de-France, yet he was born on a narrow street in the French capital.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Montézin see:

• Pierre-Eugène Montézin | Paris painting🎨

Pierre-Eugène Montézin | Painter of Paris

Pierre-Eugène Montézin (1874-1946) was born in the very heart of Paris.

His father was a lace artist, but also a lover of nature who took his young son on expeditions to the country.

These trips were to have a profound effect on his later life and work.

Montézin’s father apprenticed his son to the workshop of a decorator specialising in murals.

However, Montézin also studied under the painter Ernest Quost (1844-1931) and it was Quost together with Montézin’s interest in the Impressionists that persuaded him to embark on a career as a painter.