Georges d'Espagnat | Impressionist painter

Georges d'Espagnat (1870-1950) was a French🎨 Impressionist painter and engraver, known for his depictions of figures, still lifes and landscapes.

D'Espagnat made more than a thousand canvases, using the vivid colors of the Fauvist painters, highlighting them with darker lines like in Renoir's works.

Made in the tradition of his mentor Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨, d’Espagnat believed that paintings should adhere to the formal concern of artists like Tintoretto🎨, while also taking cues from nature.

Lionello Balestrieri | Impressionist / Romantic painter

Lionello Balestrieri was born in Cetona in 1872 into a family of humble origins. When his family moved to Rome he enrolled at the Istituto di Belle Arti and then at the same institution at Naples where he was taught by Domenico Morelli and, privately, by Gioacchino Toma.

In 1897 he moved to Paris where he earned his living as an illustrator.

As a result of his friendship with the musician Giuseppe Vannicola he became so drawn to the musical circle that the subject matter of his art was mainly either musicians or music.

Helmut Leherb | Fantastic realism painter / sculptor

Born as Helmut Leherbauer (1933-1997) in Vienna, Helmut Leherb studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the Academy of Arts in Stockholm, 1948-1954.

In 1955 he married Lotte Prohohs and moved to Vienna and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Albert Paris Gütersloh.

He joined a group of artists who later became known as the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.

1959 exhibited jointly with Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden in the Upper Belvedere.

Jean-Gabriel Domergue | La Parisienne

Jean-Gabriel Domergue (4 March 1889 - 16 November 1962) was a French painter specialising in portraits of Parisian women.

Domergue was born in Bordeaux and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

In 1911, he was a winner of the Prix de Rome.

From the 1920s onward he concentrated on portraits, and claimed to be "the inventor of the pin-up".

He also designed clothes for the couturier Paul Poiret.

George Hendrik Breitner | Impressionist painter

From: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923) was born in Rotterdam. In 1876, he enrolled at the academy in The Hague.

Later, he worked at Willem Maris's studio.

In this early period he was especially influenced by the painters of the Hague School. Breitner preferred working-class models: labourers, servant girls and people from lower-class neighbourhoods.

He saw himself as 'le peintre du peuple', the people's painter. In 1886, he moved to Amsterdam, where he recorded the life of the city in sketches, paintings and photos.