Henri Lamy, 1985 | Abstract painter

Henri Lamy is a French figurative painter, being used to paint, thanks to his father, when he was a kid, Henri admires Pollock «drip painting» technique (that consists in dropping paint from the palette knife he uses, straight to the canvas, or even throwing it).

Seduced by acrylic painting, the quality of his work is enhanced by the sharp and expressive colours of his compositions, abstract when you are close, getting figurative when you go further.

He became part of the 59 Rivoli (old art squat, that now belongs to the city of Paris, gathering more than 30 artists), and currently exhibits in Beijing (in collaboration with Coral Contemporary Art).

Luigi Querena (1824-1887) | Veduta painter

Luigi Querena was an Italian painter🎨, born in Venice. Following in the footsteps of his father Lattanzio, a painter of historical and religious works, Luigi enrolled at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts at the age of 12 years.

He studied under Federico Moja and distinguished himself as a vedute painter. The contemporary art critic Sagredo said that Luigi was reviving Canaletto🎨.

Henri Fantin-Latour | Symbolist / Still Life painter

"I even belief that the schools and artistic movements is past.

After the Romantic movement, born of classicizing exaggeration, after the Realist movement, product of the follies of Romanticism, it may be seen that there is a great foolishness in all these ideas.

We are going to achieve a personal manner of feeling" - Henri Fantin-Latour🎨 (1836-1904).

Giovanni Sottocornola | Divisionist / Genre painter

Giovanni Sottocornola (1855-1917) was an Italian painter🎨.

He was born in Milan of humble origins.

In 1875 he enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he attended the courses of Raffaele Casnedi and Giuseppe Bertini until 1880 and met his fellow students Gaetano Previati🎨, Emilio Longoni🎨 and Giovanni Segantini🎨.

While the portraits and still lifes presented at the Brera exhibitions of the following years enjoyed considerable success on the art market, he began to address social themes early in the new decade and experimented with the Divisionist technique in paintings like The Worker’s Dawn (1897, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan).

Giovanni Sottocornola | The worker's dawn / L'alba dell'operaio, 1897

Giovanni Sottocornola🎨 was an Milanese painter, best known for his charming genre scenes set in Italy’s Lombardy region.

Sottocornola was born in Milan, Italy, in 1855.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Sottocornola see:

• Giovanni Sottocornola | Divisionist / Genre painter🎨

Gaspar van Wittel | Baroque / Veduta painter

Caspar van Wittel or Gaspar van Wittel - born Jasper Adriaensz van Wittel; Italian name variations: Gaspare Vanvitelli, Gasparo degli Occhiali- (1652/1653, Amersfoort - September 13, 1736, Rome) was a Dutch painter and draughtsman who had a long career in Rome.

He played a pivotal role in the development of the genre of topographical painting known as veduta.

He is credited with turning topography into a painterly specialism in Italian art.

Angelo Morbelli | Divisionist / Genre painter

Angelo Morbelli (1853-1919) was an Italian painter of the Divisionist style.

A grant from the City Council of Alessandria enabled Morbelli to enrol at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, in 1867.

He was awarded the Fumagalli Prize at the Brera exhibition of 1883 for Last Days (Milan, Galleria d’Arte Moderna) as well as a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889.

Frida Kahlo to José Bartoli | Love letter, 1946

"My Bartoli-Jose-Guiseppe-my red one,

I don’t know how to write love letters.

But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you.

Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty.

I would like to give you the prettiest colors, I want to kiss you…

[I want] our dream worlds to be one.

I would like to see from your eyes, hear from your ears, feel with your skin, kiss with your mouth. In order to see you from below [I would like] to be the shadow that is born from the soles of your feet and that lengthens along the ground upon which you walk….

Frida Kahlo | Surrealist painter

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)🎨 was an Mexican painter who produced mostly small, highly personal self-portraits using elements of fantasy and a style inspired by native popular art.

Kahlo was born in Coyoacán, Mexico, near Mexico City.

While a student at Mexico City's National Preparatory School in 1925, she sustained severe injuries in a bus accident. During her recuperation, Kahlo taught herself to paint.

After three years she took some of her first paintings to the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera🎨, who encouraged her to continue her work.

Jacek Malczewski | Symbolist painter

Jacek Malczewski (15 July 1854 - 8 October 1929) is one of the most revered painters of Poland🎨, associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following the century of Partitions.

He is regarded as the father of Polish Symbolism🎨.

In his creative output, Malczewski combined the predominant style of his times, with historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the Romantic ideals of independence, Christian and Greek traditions, folk mythology, as well as his love of the natural environment.

Malczewski was born in Radom, part of Congress Poland controlled then by the Russian Empire.

Swedish Artists | Sitemap

Swedish art refers to the visual arts produced in Sweden or by Swedish artists.

Sweden has existed as country for over 1,000 years, and for times before this, as well as many subsequent periods, Swedish art is usually considered as part of the wider Nordic art of Scandinavia.

It has, especially since about 1100, been strongly influenced by wider trends in European art.

After World War II, the influence of the United States strengthened substantially. Due to generous art subsidies, contemporary Swedish art has a big production per capita.

Anders Zorn | Waking up, 1898 Watercolor on paper

Hugo Simberg | Symbolist painter

Hugo Simberg - Autoritratto, 1907

Hugo Gerhard Simberg (1873-1917) was a Finnish symbolist painter and graphic artist.

Life and career

Simberg was born at Hamina (original Swedish Fredrikshamn), the son of Colonel Nicolai Simberg and Ebba Matilda Simberg (born Widenius).

In 1891, at the age of 18, he enrolled at the Drawing School of the Viipuri Friends of Art, and he also studied at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Association (fi) from 1893-1895, but in 1895 he decided to become the private pupil of Akseli Gallen-Kallela at his wilderness studio Kalela in Ruovesi.

He studied under Gallen-Kallela for three periods between 1895-1897.

August Hagborg | Naturalist painter

Vilhelm Nikolaus August Hagborg (26 May 1852, Gothenburg - 30 April 1921, Paris) was a Swedish painter who spent most of his life in France.

His father was an Associate Professor. Against the wishes of his parents, he decided on a career in art and, from 1872-1874, he studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm with Vicente Palmaroli.

In 1875, he went to Paris to complete his training, but ended by spending most of his life there. Initially, he focused on genre scenes🎨 and imagined historical scenes from 18th century France. Some of them were sent home and one was purchased by King Oscar II.

Saidov Aydemir / Айдемир Саидов, 1979 | Figurative painter

Saidov Aydemir /Айдемир Саидов was born in a family member of the Artists Union of Russia, Honored Art Worker of Kuban, Seyfullah Aydemirovicha Saidov.

In 2000 he graduated from Krasnodar Art College, and in 2006 St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after IE Repin - Academy of Fine Arts Painting workshop O.A.Eremeeva, qualification of a painter.

Paintings by Aydemir are now in museums in Russia as well as in private collections in Great Britain, the USA, Germany, China and several other countries.

Lauri Blank, 1969 | Romantic Figurative painter

Lauri Blank was destined to be a creative soul with a burning passion for art. Raised by an artistic mother who attended design school in NYC, and grandparents that are still performing musicians (well into their 80’s), Lauri was constantly engaged by creativity and artistic expression; the foundation of a future art career.

Her talents were immediately recognized by patrons in Washington D.C. and the Miami area, where she accepted numerous important commissions.

And then in 1999, Lauri’s career would take a different turn, one that resembled one of the masters she studied for most of her life.

Kathy Fincher, 1949 | Romantic realism painter

Kathy Fincher is one of the most licensed children's painters in America. Awarded "Life Time Achievement Award" by the Save the Arts Foundation at their Grammy Awards 2013.

Fincher was born in an artistic family. She entered in the world of drawing, painting and illustration at a very young age. She focuses on painting children using pastels.

She is the proud recipient of the Quintessence award which is given to the America’s best painter and which is organized by "Save the Arts Foundation".

Michael Cheval, 1966 | Absurdist painter

Michael Cheval, born Mikhail Khokhlachev / Михаил Хохлачев is a contemporary artist specializing in Absurdist paintings, drawings and portraits.

He is the co-founder of Cheval Fine Art Inc. and currently resides in New Jersey, United States.

His work is internationally acclaimed and has been exhibited regularly in galleries across the United States and Europe.

Michael Cheval was born in Kotelnikovo, a small town in southern Russia.

Paul Van Ginkel, 1960 | Figurative / Abstract painter

Born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada, Van Ginkel moved with his family to Calgary in 1973. In search of change and new stimulation he then moved to Vancouver in 1996, however, returned to Calgary in 2001.

Prior to earning a Master of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University in New York, he was educated at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary.

After working as an illustrator for 6 years, Van Ginkel has been a fine art painter specializing in western themes since 1990.

Some artists who inspire and influence him include John Singer Sargent, Diego Velázquez and Frans Hals. Part of Van Ginkel's growth as an artist has come from extended painting trips to major art centres including New York, Italy, Australia, Mexico and Santa Fe.

In addition to collecting endless and inspiring subject matter as a result of global travel, Van Ginkel also attends reference photo shoots in various parts of the Southwest.

Ippolito Caffi | Solar eclipse in Venice, 6 July 1842

Born at Belluno in the Veneto, Ippolito Caffi🎨 (1809-1866) was a precocious landscape - architectural subjects and seascapes or urban vedute - painter and reporter.

His light-filled paintings are unsurpassed in immortalising the soul of the places and peoples he encountered during his many trips throughout Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean basin.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Caffi see:

• Ippolito Caffi | Romantic / Visionary Landscape painter🎨

Carlo Canella | Vedutista painter

Carlo Canella (1800, Verona - 1879, Milan) was an Italian painter.

Having received his artistic training from his father Giovanni, a decorator and set designer, Canella took part in the Brera exhibitions on a regular basis as from 1829 with urban views, portraits and genre scenes of a Neo-Flemish character.

He also painted the occasional landscape but came to specialise in perspective views of various Italian cities, especially Milan and Verona, under the influence of his elder brother Giuseppe in the mid-1830s.

Wlastimil Hofman | Symbolist painter

Wlastimil Hofman (1881-1970) was a Polish painter, one of the more popular painters of the interwar and postwar years.

Hofman was born Vlastimil Hofmann in Prague to Ferdynand Hofmann, a Czech, and Teofila Muzyk Terlecka, a Polish woman. In 1889 Vlastimil's family moved to Kraków in Poland, where he attended St Barbara's School and then the Jan III Sobieski high school.

In 1896, he became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he studied under, i.a., Jacek Malczewski.

Marion Lucka, 1963 | Surrealist painter

German painter Marion Lucka was born in Kaiserhammer near Selb.

Since her childhood she wanted to express herself through her painting.

After finishing secondary school in Bayreuth, she began a vocational training to become a litographer in the resident porcelain industry.

Victor Gabriel Gilbert | Genre painter

French painter🎨 Victor Gabriel Gilbert (Paris, 1847 - Paris, 1933) was a genre painter🎨, particularly interested in the portrayal of market scenes and the picturesque details therein.

Gilbert was awarded🎨 the Bonnat prize in 1926.

Gilbert had been elected Chevalier de Legion d’Honneur and died in 1933.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Gilbert see:

• Victor Gilbert | Academic /Genre painter🎨

John Atkinson Grimshaw | Artworks

British Victorian-era artist John Atkinson Grimshaw was born in Leeds in 1836.

His father was a policeman but in 1848 he found work with the Great Northern Railway Company. Grimshaw's parents were strict Baptists and his mother strongly disapproved of his interest in painting and on one occasion she destroyed all his paints.

In 1852 Grimshaw became a clerk at the Great Northern Railway office in Leeds. The city had several art galleries and Grimshaw was able to see the work of Holman Hunt (The Light of the World), Henry Wallis (Death of Chatterton) and William Powell Frith (Derby Day).

Hans Andersen Brendekilde

Hans Andersen Brendekilde (1857-1942) was a Danish painter.

Hans Andersen Brendekilde grew up in Braendekilde, a small village close to Odense on the island of Funen.

He was a distant relation of Hans Christian Andersen, the famous writer of fairytales, and like his relation he had a very poor childhood.

The fathers of both were clog makers.

At the age of 4 Brendekilde left his parents and lived with his grandparents until the age of 10 when he made his living as a shepherd, getting board and lodging.

Gustave Courbet | Life and Artworks

Gustave Courbet was born in 1819 in Ornans, a small town in the heart of the Franche-Comté. He was the eldest of four children, and the only son. They were a close-knit family and prosperous, thanks to his father's extensive estates.

Courbet showed his affection for his family throughout his life. He left behind many portraits of them, sometimes among the figures in his great compositions.

He had a similar fondness for his native region which he used as a background in a number of his paintings. At various times in his life, Courbet travelled to the north of France where he was well liked. He lived in Paris, visited Saintonge, the birthplace of his friend Castagnary, went to Normandy with the American painter Whistler, and also to Montpellier at the invitation of Bruyas, his friend and patron. But he always returned to the Franche-Comté.

It was with "an unshakeable self-confidence and indomitable tenacity" (Castagnary) that Courbet launched into a prolific artistic career consisting of four key periods.