Ramon Casas | Modernist painter

Ramón Casas i Carbó (1866-1932) was a Spanish artist.

Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid and beyond; he was also known for his paintings of crowd scenes ranging from the audience at a bullfight to the assembly for an execution to rioters in the Barcelona streets.

Also a graphic designer, his posters and postcards helped to define the Catalan art movement known as Modernisme.

Bruno Bruni, 1935 | Surrealist Lithographer

Italian-born German painter🎨, sculptor and lithographer Bruno Bruni🎨 has become one of the most famous contemporary artists in Germany. He shot to fame thanks to a representational art with mass appeal. He is famous not only as an artist but also as a Hamburg character: He's almost a work of art himself.

Admired as one of Germany's top ranking artists, Bruno Bruni🎨 was born in Gradara - Pesaro, a small Italian town near the Adriatic Sea.

Dino Buzzati | Symbolist / Surrealist painter

Dino Buzzati-Traverso (14 October 1906 - 28 January 1972) was an Italian🎨 novelist, short story writer and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera.

His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel The Tartar Steppe, but he is also known for his well received collections of short stories.

However, Dino Buzzati was also a skilful painter and illustrator - his talent became apparent with the evocative, beautifully crafted color plates of his 1945 children’s book The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily.

Rose Frantzen, 1965 | Symbolist painter

American painter🎨 Rose Frantzen was born and raised in the community of Maquoketa, a city of about 6000 people in east-central Iowa.

Ms. Frantzen trained at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. She also studied at Chicago's Palette and Chisel Academy and at the Lyme Academy of Arts in Connecticut. She has worked under the mentorship of Richard Schmid🎨 and made painting tours of Australia, Guatemala, Mexico and Russia.

Asher B. Durand | Hudson River School painter

Asher Brown Durand, (born August 21, 1796, Jefferson Village, New Jersey, U.S. - died September 17, 1886, Jefferson Village), American painter🎨, engraver, and illustrator, one of the founders of the Hudson River school🎨 of landscape painting.

He was apprenticed in 1812 to an engraver.

By 1823 his reputation was established with his engraving of John Trumbull’s painting Declaration of Independence.