Simon Glücklich | Pittore di genere

Simon Glücklich (27 marzo 1863, Bielsko-Biała, Polonia - 29 marzo 1943 a Monaco di Baviera, Germania) - pittore Tedesco a cavallo tra l'Otto ed il Novecento.

È nato a Bielsko (oggi Bielsko-Biała) nella Slesia austriaca, figlio del pittore decoratore Leo Glücklich.

Negli anni 1880-1890 studiò all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Vienna, sotto la direzione di Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892).

Pellizza da Volpedo | Il Quarto Stato / The Fourth Estate, 1901

The monumental painting Il Quarto Stato /The Fourth Estate by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (1868-1907) portrays a group of workers on strike.

It symbolises the social protest at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as the emergence of a new social class - the proletariat - which becomes aware of its rights within the new industrial society.

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo | Il Quarto Stato / The Fourth Estate, 1901 (detail) | GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano, Milano

Achille Funi (1890-1972) | Futurist painter

Achille Funi was an Italian painter🎨 who painted in a neoclassical style.

Funi was born in Ferrara. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts from 1906-1910 and joined the Nuove Tendenze movement as a painter of Cubo-Futurist works in 1914.

Having enlisted in the Volunteer Cyclist Battalion and served in World War I, he became a champion of the "return to order".

Giuseppe Pelizza da Volpedo | Neo-Impressionist painter

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (July 28, 1868 - June 14, 1907) was an Italian Neo-Impressionist painter.

He was born and died in Volpedo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy.

Pellizza was a pupil of Pio Sanquirico. He used a Divisionist technique in which a painting is created by juxtaposing small dots of paint according to specific color theory.

Yury Darashkevich, 1962

Belarusian painter Yury Darashkevich was born in Asipovichi.

"Following my passion, I attended and graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of the Arts in 1985. Upon graduation I began a career in the illustration and graphic design field, painting in my spare time.

After several successful solo shows in the early 90's, I started to devote my attention to my art. Shortly after making this career change, my family and I moved to Toronto Canada.