Amaldus Nielsen | Naturalist painter

Amaldus Clarin Nielsen (1838-1932) was a Norwegian painter.

Early life

He was born in Halse as a son of shipmaster and merchant Niels Clemetsen Nielsen (1795-1845) and his wife Andrea Marie Møller (1802-1866).

He grew up in Mandal in Vest-Agder county, Norway.

He lived most of his childhood and adolescence without a father.

He received some tuition from a traveling drawing teacher and traveled to Copenhagen to study in 1854.

Djordje Prudnikoff | Pittore figurativo

Djordje Prudnikoff (1939-2017) è stato un pittore, grafico e designer Russo-Serbo. Prudnikoff è nato a Užice ed è stato affermato come uno degli artisti contemporanei più originali emergenti dall'ex Jugoslavia.

Nel 1946 la famiglia si trasferì a Belgrado.

Dopo aver completato le scuole superiori, Prudnikoff fu ammesso all’Accademia delle Belle Arti. Pochi mesi dopo la abbandonò per iscriversi all’Accademia delle Arti Applicate dove si diplomò nella classe del Professor Mihailo Petrov.

Durante i suoi studi Prudnikoff venne premiato diverse volte per meriti nel campo del “graphic design”.

Ernst Lorenz Murowana | Romantic painter

Ernst Hugo Lorenz-Murowana (1872-1950) was an German painter, active in Berlin.

His paintings show predominantly nocturnes views of Berlin, Potsdam, landscapes of Pomerania and from the Baltic Sea, flowers and interiors.

He worked as a painter as well as restorer, and used to live and work in Berlin until his death in 1950.

As he was born in Wielkopolska it is often mistakenly portrayed as a Polish painter.

Jacques Le Nantec, 1940 | Scultore figurativo

Jacques Le Nantec, vero nome Jacques Métayer - è uno scultore Francese nato a Nantes.

Alla età di tredici anni, ripristinò una statuetta rotta e scoprì la passione per la scultura.

Nell’ottobre del 1957, ad Annecy espose le sue prime quindici opere, tra cui due a grandezza naturale.

L'arte visionaria di Anne Bachelier, 1949

Anne Bachelier è nata in Louvigne du Desert, Francia.

Ha studiato presso la Ecole des Beaux Arts, La Seyne-sur-Mer tra il 1966-1970.

L'artista cattura il suo pubblico con avvincenti immagini estremamente fantasiose che sono uniche per inventiva ed immediatamente riconoscibili.

Le sue metafisiche fantasie oniriche evocano sentimenti potenti ma anche pacifici e protettivi.

Odysseas Oikonomou, 1967 | Children portrait painter

Albanian-born Greek painter Odysseas Oikonomou /Οδυσσέας Οικονόμου was born in Dhuvjan, Albania to Greek parents.

He paints from the age of five years old.

At the age of 14 years old, ending eight-year primary school, and after double competition (in Gjirokaster, Berat,) wins a place in the Artistic Liceu "Ajet Xhindole" in Berat.

After a four-year studying, ending in 1985 with excellent the school.

His first teacher was the eminent painter Sotir Capo «Artist i Merituar».

In 1990 he graduated from the Pedagogical Institute of Gjirokastra «Eqerem Çabej».

Adam Miller, 1979 | Renaissance / Baroque style painter

Adam Miller's paintings explore the intersection between mythology, ecology and humanism.

Visually inspired by baroque and Hellenistic narrative painting they take a polytheistic approach to contemporary folklore, questions of progress and the experience of human narrative in the face of technological change and the struggle to find meaning in a world poised between expansion and decay.

Miller's work is mannerist in it's use of the human form as a vehicle of feeling and thought beyond the literal representation of a particular person.

Edouard Vuillard | Les Nabis Group

Édouard Vuillard, in full Jean-Édouard Vuillard (born Nov. 11, 1868, Cuiseaux, France-died June 21, 1940, La Baule), French painter, printmaker, and decorator who was a member of the Nabis group of painters in the 1890s.

He is particularly known for his depictions of intimate interior scenes.

Vuillard studied art from 1886-1888 at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.