Johann Georg Meyer | Pittore di genere

Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen (1813-1886), noto come Meyer von Bremen, è stato un importante rappresentante della pittura di genere classica Tedesca.

Meyer è considerato un rappresentante della Scuola di pittura di Düsseldorf e fu membro della Colonia di pittori di Willingshausen.

Johann Georg Meyer realizzò circa 1.000 opere.

Meyer ricevette numerosi premi ed onorificenze.

Gil Bruvel, 1959 | Visionary painter / sculptor

Gil Bruvel is a visionary artist, capable of translating complex ideas and fleeting impressions into stunning works of art.

His curiosity about the human condition and the workings of the human mind is honed through daily meditative practice.

His art emerges from a deep contemplation of images, emotions, and sensations, which he refines continually before he casts them into material form.

Jack B. Yeats, l'Espressionista moderno

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) è stato un pittore Irlandese.

Jack Butler Yeats nacque il 29 agosto 1871 a Londra, figlio del ritrattista irlandese John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) e fratello del poeta William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).

Passò gli anni dell'infanzia a Sligo, una città sul mare nel nord dell'Irlanda, dai nonni materni.

Eugene Galien-Laloue | Belle Époque painter

French painter Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854-1941) was born in Paris on 1854.

He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter.

His paintings o f the early 1900s accurately represent the era in which he lived: a happy, bustling Paris, la Belle Époque, with horse-drawn carriages, trolley cars and its first omnibuses.

Galien-Laloue's works are valued not only for their contribution to 20th century art, but for the actual history, which they document.

Paul Renard | Impressionist painter

French artist Paul Renard (1871-1920) was studied at Rotterdams Academy of Art.

He spent most of his career painting narrative street scenes of Paris for which he became renowned.

His is a well listed artist and his work can be found in galleries throughout the world.

Konstantin Korovin | Il maestro dell'Impressionismo

Il pittore e scenografo, Konstantin Korovin / Константи́н Коро́вин (Mosca, 1861 - Parigi, 1939) è stato uno dei maggiori rappresentanti russi dell'Impressionismo.

Korovin è nato il 23 novembre 1861 a Mosca da una famiglia di mercanti, che in realtà, però, risultano da alcuni documenti ufficiali come "contadini della regione di Vladimir Gubernia".

Suo padre, Aleksey Mikhailovich Korovin, conseguì una laurea e si interessò molto alle arti ed alla musica che diffondeva, perfino, nell'azienda di famiglia fondata dal nonno di Korovin.

Jeremiah Stermer's realistic surrealism

Jeremiah Stermer was born in Baltimore in 1946.

He started his artistic path at the age of 11.

He considers himself a realist / surrealist, meaning that the theme is always surrealistic, but the painting is made in a traditional way.

He states that he draws and paints very naturally, and that he pays the particular attention on the air around the subjects of his paintings and considers the mood as the crucial element of his works.

Ilya Repin | A Parisian Café, 1875

Repin's time as an academic pensioner in Paris 1873-76 was a fruitful as well as confusing time for the rising young star of Russian realist painting and he responded to a bewildering variety of new stimuli with enthusiasm and uncertainty, painting both Russian motifs as well as the sights of contemporary France.

In particular it was a period of burgeoning experimentation as Repin (1844-1930) took cognisance of modern French artistic developments, the major outcome of which was his large canvas "A Parisian Café", which was sold in London in June 2011 for a record price by the artist.