Slava Groshev, 1967

Russian painter🎨 Слава Грошев is quite simply an outstanding artist producing masterworks that should grace any serious collection of art. A Moscow native Слава Грошев trained both there and in Montreal, Canada.

Ever since he has been producing work on a range of subjects, including not only religious themes, but more traditional landscapes and realist figure work that often comes with a twist.

Auguste Toulmouche (1829-1890)

Auguste Toulmouche was a French painter🎨 known for his luxurious portraits of Parisian women.

Auguste Toulmouche was born in Nantes to Émile Toulmouche, a well-to-do broker, and Rose Sophie Mercier.

He studied drawing and sculpture locally with the sculptor Amédée Ménard and painting with the portraitist Biron before moving to Paris in 1846 to study with the painter Charles Gleyre.

He was said to be one of Gleyre's favored students, and he exhibited his first paintings at the Paris Salon in 1848 when he was just 19.

Hans Thoma | The Twelve Months

Hans Thoma | January

Born in the Black Forest to a family of manual laborers, German painter, Hans Thoma (1839-1924) studied lithography in Basel in 1853, and after 1855 worked in Furtwangen with a miniaturist, painting watches and jewelry cases.

He entered the Karlsruhe Kunstschule in 1858 where his teachers included Ludwig Des Coudres, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, and Hans Canon. His major interest during this period was landscape.

Gustav Pope (1831-1910) | Victorian era painter

Gustav Pope was a British painter🎨 of Austrian origin. Active in the Victorian era, he incorporated several styles on his work, but in his mature style he showed influences of the second wave of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Jeanne Saint Chéron, 1973 | Ballet dancers

French painter🎨 Jeanne Saint Chéron is self-taught. His inspirations are mainly drawn from the horse world, fascinated by both the explosive power and the refined elegance of the animal.

Rich in symbols, touching fantasy and allegory his work can be summarized in the equestrian art where animal. This is the art of transporting us beyond appearances.

Roberto Ferri, 1978 | Via Crucis

Roberto Ferri is an Italian artist🎨 and painter from Taranto, Italy, who is deeply inspired by Baroque painters🎨 -Caravaggio in particular- and other old masters of Romanticism, the Academy and Symbolism.

In 1996, he graduated from the Liceo Artistico Lisippo Taranto, a local art school in his hometown.

Pierre Grisot (1911-1995) | Ballet dancers

Pierre Grisot was born in Paris. He was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited frequently in Paris, in particular at the Salon des Independants and with the group of The Paris School, showing together with the contemporary artists Vlaminck🎨, Raoul Dufy🎨 and Villon.

Léon Zeytline (1885-1962) | Paris painting

Léon Zeytline / Леон Цейтлин was a Russian painter🎨 whom moved from Moscow to the capital of France at the beginning of the 20th century.

He started depicting daily life of Paris during the 1920's, illustrating the numerous and famous squares and boulevards, such as the "Boulevard de l'Opéra" and "Les Champs Elysées" for example.

Swiss Art History and Sitemap

Alberto Giacometti | Surrealist/Existentialist/Figure sculptor

Switzerland lies at the crossroads of several major European cultures. Three of the continent's major languages, German, French and Italian, are national languages of Switzerland, along with Romansh, spoken by a small minority.

Therefore, Swiss culture is characterized by diversity, which is reflected in a wide range of traditional customs. The 26 cantons also account for the large cultural diversity.