Max Liebermann (German, 1847-1935)

Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 - 8 February 1935) was a German painter🎨 and printmaker of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism🎨 in Germany.

The son of a Jewish fabric manufacturer turned banker from Berlin, Liebermann grew up in an imposing town house alongside the Brandenburg Gate.

He first studied law and philosophy at the University of Berlin, but later studied painting and drawing in Weimar in 1869, in Paris in 1872, and in the Netherlands in 1876-77.

Leonardo Bazzaro | Prayer in Chioggia / Orazione a Chioggia, 1900

In 1897 Leonardo Bazzaro exhibited Prayer (in Chioggia) at the 2nd Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Città di Venezia where it was given a lukewarm reception by the critics on the whole, due to the fact that the subject was not new in the artist’s output.

Indeed, the theme of mourning expressed through a lyrical blend of figures and landscape had already inspired Ave Maria (Milan, Galleria d’Arte Moderna) dating to 1882, although this work was set in the Charterhouse of Pavia, and it recurs again in Peace to the Shipwrecked (whereabouts unknown) of 1897, which was awarded the gold medal at the III Milan Triennale that year and shown at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900.

Leonardo Bazzaro | Orazione a Chioggia o Preghiera o Per i poveri naufraghi, 1897 | Gallerie di Piazza Scala

Giuliano Boscaini, 1958 | Watercolour painter

Giuliano Boscaini is an Italian painter, known for his watercolor landscapes, urban scenes, seascapes and portrait paintings.

Boscaini was born in the province of Como. He started his working activity very early, specialising in thefield of advertising as a graphic designer.

In 1986, he decidedto start working as a freelancer in this area, working fornumerous leading firms in the country.

His passion, aptitudeand imagination in drawing soon pushed him towards art.Finally, after experimenting with different techniques, herealised that his greatest satisfaction derived from water-colouring.

Paul Signac (1863-1935) | Art Quotes

• "Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance..."- Paul Signac

• "The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music". - Paul Signac

• "Divisionism is a complex system of harmony, an aesthetic rather than a technique". - Paul Signac

• "The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future". - Paul Signac

• "The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions". - Paul Signac

• "The Neo-Impressionist does not stipple, he divides. And dividing involves... guaranteeing all benefits of light". - Paul Signac

• "The Pointillist chooses a means of expression by which he applies colour on a canvas in small dots rather than spreading it flat". - Paul Signac

Paul Signac | Pointillist painter

Paul Victor Jules Signac (1863-1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the Pointillist style.

Paul Signac was born in Paris. He followed a course of training in architecture before deciding at the age of 18 to pursue a career as a painter after attending an exhibit of Monet's work.

He sailed around the coasts of Europe, painting the landscapes he encountered.

He also painted a series of watercolors of French harbor cities in later years.