Hans Baluschek (1870-1935) | Vita ed Opere

Hans Baluschek è stato un rappresentante di spicco del Realismo Sociale Tedesco, ed in quanto tale, cercò di ritrarre la vita della gente comune con vivida schiettezza.

I suoi dipinti si incentrarono sulla classe operaia di Berlino.

Appartenne al movimento della Secessione di Berlino, un gruppo di artisti particolarmente interessati agli sviluppi avanguardistici dell'arte - in particolare dell'Espressionismo Tedesco.

Nonostante ciò, lungo l'arco della sua vita egli fu conosciuto principalmente per le sue fantasiose illustrazioni del famoso libro per bambini "Peterchens Mondfahrt".

Dopo il 1920 divenne un membro attivo del Partito Socialdemocratico tedesco, che all'epoca professava ancora una visione marxista della storia.

Salon des Refusés (May 15, 1863)

Salon des Refusés is generally known as an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, but the term is most famously used to refer to the Salon des Refusés of 1863.

Today by extension, salon des refusés refers to any exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show.

Among the exhibitors were Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, Armand Guillaumin, Johan Jongkind, Henri Fantin-Latour, James Whistler and Édouard Manet, who exhibited his famous painting "Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe", officially regarded as a scandalous affront to taste.

Édouard Manet | Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1863 | Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Oskar Zwintscher | Art Nouveau painter

Oskar Zwintscher (1870-1916) was a German painter. He is often associated with the Jugendstil movement.

From 1887-1890 he studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and, from 1890-1892 was a student of Leon Pohle and Ferdinand Pauwels at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.

After his studies, he became a free-lance painter in Meißen, where he received a stipendium, awarded to Saxon painters by the "Munkeltsche Legat". This enabled him to work for three years with no financial worries.

In 1898, he presented his first large collection of paintings to the public.

That same year, he was a prizewinner at a contest held by the entrepreneur Ludwig Stollwerck to select artists for a new line of trading cards.

Erwin Guillermo, 1951 | Expressionist painter

Guillermo was born in Guatemala City.

He is actually one of the best representatives of Guatemalan Art.

His creative production started in the 60s and throughout the 50 years of 30 years it has been enriched constantly with many experiences, acquired through his constant curiosity to explore new ways of expression.

The intelligent management of artistic mediums has given him the capacity to excel in different techniques and express his own experimental manifestations to a level that situates him between the best artists of his generation.

Blandford Fletcher | Genre painter

William Teulon Blandford Fletcher, noto come Blandford Fletcher (1858-1936), è stato un pittore naturalista Britannico.

Figlio di un commerciante di biancheria, contro la volontà del padre, Fletcher studiò alla South Kensington School of Art dall'età di sedici a vent'anni, dove vinse la medaglia d'argento ed il premio della Regina.

Durante quel periodo visitò anche la Bretagna e fece conoscenza per la prima volta con Stanhope Forbes ed i suoi amici.