Johann Victor Krämer | Orientalist painter

Johann Victor Krämer (23 August 1861 in Adamsthal - 6 May 1949 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter and photographer, working generally within the Orientalist genre.

He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, and received many awards through his life.

Eilif Peterssen | Skagen painter

Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen (4 September 1852 - 29 December 1928) was a Norwegian painter.

He is most commonly associated with his landscapes and portraits.

Biography

Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was born in Christiania, now Oslo, Norway.

He was the son of Jon Peterssen (1814-1880) and Anne Marie Andersen (1812–1887).

He grew up in the neighborhood of Hegdehaugen in the district of Frogner.

Hans Gude | Romantic painter

Hans Fredrik Gude (March 13, 1825 - August 17, 1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters.

He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Romanticism.

He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Gude's artistic career was not one marked with drastic change and revolution, but was instead a steady progression that slowly reacted to general trends in the artistic world.

Betsy Westendorp de Brias, 1927 | Homage to life

Betsy Westendorp de Brias is a Spanish contemporary painter.

Westendorp is best known for her cloudscapes, her flowers, and her high-society portraits, including those of Spain’s Royal Family - she painted the now-King Felipe VI and his sisters as a child.

In 2021 the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, in partnership with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, De La Salle University Publishing House, and Pioneer Insurance, is honoring Betsy Westendorp de Brias with the artist’s major retrospective entitled, "Passages: Celebrating the Artistic Journeys of Betsy Westendorp".

Ettore Roesler Franz | Vanished Rome / Roma sparita

Ettore Roesler Franz, painter and watercolorist, son of Luigi and Teresa Biondi, was born in Rome on May 11, 1845 and here died on March 26, 1907.

Founder and President of the Society of Watercolor Artists in Rome, he is among the Italian painters of the nineteenth century who most exposed and have established himselves in Italy and abroad.

He can be considered as one of the most valuable examples of the late nineteenth century of Realism genre and among the best Italian watercolourists ever.

Maurice Barraud (Swiss, 1889-1954)

Maurice Barraud (born on February 20, 1889 in Geneva and died on 11 novembre 1954 in the same city), was a Swiss painter and illustrator.

At a young age, Maurice Barraud, together with his brother, Gustave François, who later also established himself as a painter, led a studio for advertising graphics.

He also studied painting and modeling at the École des Beaux-Arts.

In 1914, he moved to painting and, together with his brother, Émile Bressler, Gustave Buchet and others, founded the artist group "Le Falot".

Gustave Buchet | Futurist painter

Gustave Louis Buchet (1888-1963) was a painter from the canton of Vaudv - Swiss Confederation, active in Paris during the interwar period, marked by Futurism and then Purism.

Gustave Buchet began his artistic training with four years of study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, where he was particularly influenced by Eugène Gilliard.

From 1910-11 he attended, for four months, the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris and then returned back to Geneva.

Frederick Sandys | Pre-Raphaelite painter

From: Tate Gallery

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Sandys, born Anthony Frederick Augustus Sands at Norwich, studied under his father Anthony Sands, a drawing master and portrait and subject painter.

He was educated at Norwich Grammar School and at the Government School of Design at Norwich.

An early patron was the Revd James Bulwer, Rector of Stody and a former pupil of Cotman.

Sandys made architectural and antiquarian drawings for him and etched his drawings.

Georg Achen | Naturalist painter

Georg Nicolai Achen (23 July 1860 - 6 January 1912) was a Danish painter.

One of the more accomplished Naturalists of his generation, from the 1890s he specialized in portraits.

Born in Frederikssund and moved with his family to Copenhagen in 1871, he was the younger brother of the architect Eggert Achen.

Achen first studied painting under Vilhelm Kyhn before attending the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1877 to 1883.

Thereafter he studied under P.S. Krøyer at Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler.

He first exhibited at Charlottenborg in 1883 and at Den Frie in 1896.

In the 1880s, he painted mainly landscapes but from the 1890s, he became one of Denmark's most popular portraitists, creating especially artistic paintings of members of his family.

Under the influence of Vilhelm Hammershøi, his interiors with a dark female figure in pink, grey and brownish hues testify to his simple, aesthetic approach.

One of his most appreciated works is Drømmevinduet (The Dream Window), an oil painting of a maid peering out of one of the windows in Liselund Slot, painted in 1903.

Georg Achen died in Frederiksberg on 6 January 1912.

Awards

In 1890, Aachen was awarded the Thorvaldsen Medal for Min Moders Portræt, a portrait of his mother. | Source: © Wikipedia

Georg Nicolai Achen (23 luglio 1860-6 gennaio 1912) è stato un pittore Danese.

Uno dei Naturalisti più affermati della sua generazione. Dal 1890 si specializzò in ritratti.

Nato a Frederikssund e trasferitosi con la famiglia a Copenaghen nel 1871, era il fratello minore dell'architetto Eggert Achen.

Achen studiò pittura per la prima volta con Vilhelm Kyhn prima di frequentare la Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts dal 1877 al 1883.

Successivamente studiò con P.S. Krøyer al Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler.

Espone per la prima volta a Charlottenborg nel 1883 ea Den Frie nel 1896.

Nel 1880 dipinse principalmente paesaggi, ma dal 1890 divenne uno dei ritrattisti più famosi della Danimarca, creando dipinti particolarmente artistici dei membri della sua famiglia.

Sotto l'influenza di Vilhelm Hammershøi, i suoi interni con una figura femminile scura in tonalità rosa, grigie e marroni testimoniano il suo approccio estetico semplice.

Una delle sue opere più apprezzate è Drømmevinduet (La finestra dei sogni), un dipinto ad olio di una cameriera che sbircia da una delle finestre di Liselund Slot, dipinto nel 1903.

Georg Achen morì a Frederiksberg il 6 gennaio 1912.

Premi

Nel 1890 Aachen ricevette la medaglia Thorvaldsen per Min Moders Portræt, un ritratto di sua madre. | Fonte: © British Wikipedia

Emma Sandys | Pre-Raphaelite painter

Emma Sandys (born Mary Ann Emma Sands) (1843-1877) was a 19th-century British Pre-Raphaelite painter.

Emma Sandys was born in Norwich, where her father, Anthony Sands (1806-1883), gave her some early art lessons.

In 1853 the family added a ‘y’ to their surname.

Leonardo Bazzaro | Pittore naturalista

Considerato uno dei principali esponenti del naturalismo lombardo, al pari di Eugenio Gignous e Filippo Carcano, la produzione artistica di Leonardo Bazzaro (1853-1937) è maggiormente concentrata su soggetti paesaggistici dove viene esaltata la rappresentazione del quotidiano familiare.

Nei primi anni di attività, Bazzaro si orienta su vedute prospettiche di interni di chiese e di noti palazzi milanesi, con un'impronta verista di matrice sei-settecentesca derivata dal maestro Giuseppe Bertini: gli ex compagni di Brera gli attribuiscono il soprannome piccolo Velasquez, ad attestare la forte intensità espressiva raggiunta in queste prima fase.

Thomas Benton | Regionalist painter

From: National Gallery, Washington D.C.

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Named after his great-uncle, a five-term senator, Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) was born on April 15, 1889, in Neosho, Missouri.

His father, Maecenus Eason Benton, was a lawyer and a United States representative from 1896-1904, so the young Benton spent his early years in both Washington, DC, and southwest Missouri.

Benton dropped out of high school at 17 and started working as a cartoonist for the Joplin American newspaper.

His mother, Elizabeth Wise Benton, was supportive of his artistic ambitions, but Benton’s father enrolled him in the Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois, in 1906 before agreeing to allow him to attend the Art Institute of Chicago in 1907.

Henry Asencio, 1971 | Flamenco dancers

Henry Asencio's paintings often explore themes of emotion, spirituality, and identity through expressive forms, rich colors, and dynamic interplay of light and shadow.

Asencio's painting style is loosely defined in a contemporary format, combining elements of expressionism and realism with abstract painting techniques. Asencio's art has been described as "abstract expressionism" and "abstract realism".

He says of his own style:

The Amsterdamse Joffers / Le Signore dell'Post-impressionismo Olandese

The Amsterdamse Joffers were a group of women artists who met weekly in Amsterdam at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

They supported each other in their professional careers.

Most of them were students of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten and belonged to the movement of the Amsterdam Impressionists.

Each one became a successful artist.

Thérèse Schwartze (1851-1918)

Henri Houben | Genre painter

Henri Houben (Antwerp, 1858-1931) was a Belgian genre painter.

He originally studied to be a violinist, but his interest in painting took the upper hand, so he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), where he studied under Charles Verlat.

He later assisted Verlat with his panoramic paintings ("March of the Russian Army" and "The Battle of Waterloo") and executed decorative paintings from designs by Albrecht De Vriendt in the Antwerp City Hall.

Mark Grantham, 1966 | Abstract painter

Mark Grantham was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he continues to reside.

He has been painting full-time since 1996.

He grew up on Leeds Street in the city's north end, and completed his first oil on canvas at age 11.

After receiving Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees from Dalhousie University, Grantham went on to study architecture at the Technical University of Nova Scotia, from where he holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies degree as well as a Masters degree in Architecture.

Nicolaas van der Waay | Genre painter

Nicolaas van der Waay (1855-1936) was a Dutch decorative artist, watercolorist and lithographer.

He worked in many genres, including stamp, coin and banknote designs.

He is perhaps best known for the allegorical illustrations he created for the Golden Coach and a series of paintings depicting the lives of girls from the Amsterdam Orphanage.

His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Coba Ritsema | The Amsterdamse Joffers group

Jacoba Johanna (Coba) Ritsema (26 June 1876, Haarlem - 13 December 1961, Amsterdam), was a portrait painter from the Netherlands.

Together with eight other artist friends, she founded an artists' association, which was introduced by the art critic Albert Plasschaert as the Amsterdam Joffers. The group of female artists contributed significantly to the acceptance of women in art at that time.

Jacoba, or Coba, was born in 1876 as the daughter of the book printer Coenraad Ritsema and his wife Jeanette (Jannetje) Moulijn in an artistic family with one sister and two brothers.

Gioacchino Toma | Genre painter

Gioacchino Toma (24 January 1836 - 12 January 1891) was an Italian art instructor and painter, noted primarily for historic, realistic and genre subjects in a Romantic style.

Toward the end of his life, Toma authored his autobiography, Memories of an Orphan (Ricordi di un Orfano, Giannini and Figli, 1886) relating a series of memories to his son, Gustavo: his difficult childhood; his tenacity; his desire for redemption; and his civil and political commitment.

Arthur Claude Strachan | British Cottages

Predominantly a landscape and cottage painter in watercolour, Arthur Claude Strachan (1865-1935) was born in Edinburgh on 15th March 1865, the son of George Strachan, an architect, and his wife, Mary (née Dalrymple).

He studied art in Liverpool and later travelled throughout the UK painting the country landscapes.

Between 1885-1929 he exhibited in London and in the provinces and also showed four works at the Royal Academy.

The whole Strachan family moved to Liverpool some time in the 1880s.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Come ti amo? / How Do I Love Thee?

Come ti amo? Lascia che conti tutti i modi.

Ti amo con la profondità, la vastità, l'altezza

che l'anima mia raggiunge quando smarrita tocca i confini

dell'essere e della grazia ideale.

Harriet Hosmer | Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Harvard University, Cambridge

Gabriel von Max | Romantic / Symbolist painter

Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (23 August 1840 – 24 November 1915) was a Prague-born Austrian painter.

He was born Gabriel Cornelius Max, the son of the sculptor Josef Max and Anna Schumann.

He studied between 1855 and 1858 at the Prague Academy of Arts with Eduard von Engerth.

His studies included parapsychology (somnambulism, hypnotism, spiritism), Darwinism, Asiatic philosophy, the ideas of Schopenhauer, and various mystical traditions.

The spiritual-mystical movement was emphasized by the writings of Carl du Prel, and the Munich painter Albert Keller was also an influence.

Thérèse Schwartze | Self-portrait, 1888 | Uffizi Gallery

The artist presents herself by citing a well-known precedent: Sir Joshua Reynolds, who in his youthful self-portrait of 1749 portrays himself while making a screen with one hand over his eyes and holding the tools of his trade in the other.

After an initial apprenticeship with his father, Thérèse studied at the Rijksakademie, in Munich and in Paris.

Returning to Amsterdam she opened a very active studio, receiving important commissions and awards.

Claude Monet at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Claude Monet | Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875

From: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

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From low on a hillside, we look up at a light-skinned woman and boy standing in tall grass against a sunny blue sky in this vertical painting.

The woman stands at the center of the composition, and the moss-green parasol she holds over her head almost brushes the top edge of the canvas.

Her body faces our left but she turns her head to look at us.

Her long dress is painted largely with strokes of pale blue and gray with a few touches of yellow.

Her voluminous skirts swirl around her legs to our left.

Lovis Corinth | Impressionist / Expressionist painter

Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.

Corinth studied in Paris and Munich, joined the Berlin Secession group, later succeeding Max Liebermann as the group's president.

His early work was naturalistic in approach.

Corinth was initially antagonistic towards the expressionist movement, but after a stroke in 1911 his style loosened and took on many expressionistic qualities.

His use of color became more vibrant, and he created portraits and landscapes of extraordinary vitality and power.

Corinth's subject matter also included nudes and biblical scenes.

Frank Holl R.A. | Victorian painter

Francis Montague Holl RA (London 4 July 1845 - 31 July 1888 London) was an British painter, specializing in somewhat sentimental paintings with a moment from a narrative situation, often drawing on the trends of social realism and the problem picture in Victorian painting.

He was also, especially in his later years when the demand for social realism slackened, a portrait painter, mostly of official-type portraits of distinguished and therefore elderly men, including members of the royal family.

He died in his early 40s, which some contemporaries attributed to overwork, as he had been very busy in the last twenty years of his life.

Vincenzo Volpe | Verismo painter

Vincenzo Volpe (December 14, 1855 – February 9, 1929) was an Italian painter.

From 1874 to 1890, he painted mostly genre scenes.

From 1891 to 1896, he concentrated on religious art, then returned to genre works and portraits.

Vincenzo Volpe was born in Grottaminarda, Campania.

His family moved to Naples when he was eight, and in 1871 he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti there and studied with Domenico Morelli.

Maggie Siner, 1951 | Semi-realist Still life / Figure painter

A quiet voice in contemporary art, Siner’s paintings are prized for their enduring qualities: a perfect sense of the fleeting moment, exquisite clarity of light, bold gestural brushwork, delicately balanced structure, fine craftsmanship, the captured moment of absolute recognition and beautiful whimsical takes on the everyday world.

Her subjects range from the intimate (a handful of cherries), to the monumental (earth and sky), to intimate portraits and unpredictable combinations of objects.

Maxmilian Ciccone, 1972 | Figurative painter

Italian painter Maxmilian Ciccone was born in the beautiful mountainous region of Calabria, near Catanzaro.

As a child, was evident his artistic inclination which later led him to study art at the Liceo Artistico of Catanzaro.

Without ay further education, his art career has continued to grow steadily.

His intense passion for art lead him to study painters of the past, such as: Caravaggio, Shishkin and Kramskoi.

La Cappella degli Scrovegni

La Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padova - Italia, dedicata a Santa Maria della Carità ed affrescata tra il 1303-1305 da Giotto (1267-1337) su incarico di Enrico degli Scrovegni, costituisce uno dei massimi capolavori dell'arte occidentale.

La navata è lunga 29,88 m, larga 8,41 m e alta 12,65 m; l'abside è costituito da una prima parte a pianta quadrata, profonda 4,49 m e larga 4,31 m, e da una successiva, a forma poligonale a cinque lati, profonda 2,57 m e coperta da cinque unghiature nervate.

La superficie affrescata è di circa 700 m², compresi i circa 180 m² della volta dipinta quasi solo di azzurro.

Virginia Woolf | Resta viva / Stay alive

Qualunque cosa succeda, resta viva.

Non morire prima di essere morta davvero.

Non perdere te stessa, non perdere la speranza, non perdere la direzione.

Resta viva, con tutta te stessa, con ogni cellula del tuo corpo, con ogni fibra della tua pelle.

Resta viva, impara, studia, pensa, costruisci, inventa, crea, parla, scrivi, sogna, progetta.

Erik Werenskiold | Mrs. Heimbeck Study for The Dinner Party, 1929

René Rousseau-Decelle | Le pesage de Longchamp, 1910

René Rousseau-Decelle studied with the master of French Academic painting, William Bouguereau, in the waning years of the older artist’s life.

It is clear that the young Rousseau-Decelle quickly moved away from the tightly-painted images of French peasant girls and threw himself headlong into the world of the haute bourgeoisie of fin-de-siècle Paris.

Like his master, Rousseau-Decelle found a very commercially successful niche and adhered to that formula throughout his career.

René Rousseau-Decelle | Le pesage de Longchamp, 1910 (detail)

Peter Ilsted | Copenhagen Interior School

Peter Ilsted (14 February 1861 - 16 April 1933) was a leading Danish artist and printmaker. He was most associated with domestic interior scenes.

Biography

Peter Vilhelm Ilsted was born at Sakskøbing in Guldborgsund, Denmark. He was the son of merchant Jens Peter Ilsted and Johanne Sophie Lund.

He was the brother-in-law of painter Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916). He married Ingeborg Lovisa Petersen (1869-1945) in 1891.

He came to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1878, completing his course of study in five years.

He made his debut at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1883.

Hans Ole Brasen | Genre painter

Hans Ole Brasen (16 January 1849 - 24 February 1930) was a Danish painter. He won the Eckersberg Medal (an annual award of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts) in 1894.

Brasen was born in Hillerød to a merchant father.

His mother had painted some flower paintings as a young girl which inspired him to take up painting.

In 1863, he began an apprenticeship with master painter Ernst Schmiegelow, who supported his artistic talent and helped him get into the Art Academy.

Erik Henningsen | Genre painter

Erik Ludvig Henningsen (1855-1930) was a Danish painter and illustrator.

He is best known for his Social Realist paintings of poor and exposed groups in the 1880s and 1890s. He was the younger brother of Frants Henningsen who was also a painter.

Erik Henningsen was born in Copenhagen to Frants Ludvig Henningsen (1820-1869), a grocer, and Hilda Charlotte Christine née Schou (1824-1880).

He showed an early artistic talent and was articled to decorative painter A. Hellesen.