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William Straube, full name William Carl Johannes Bertram Straube, was a German expressionist painter and painting teacher.
Straube acquired his expressive style as a student at Henri Matisse's academy in Paris in 1908-1911, then his studies at the Stuttgart Academy enriched and intensified this style. Straube belonged to the artistic circle of the Rhenish Expressionists, formed around 1910 around August Macke. This time was characterized by the struggle between the French avant-garde and the emerging modernism in Germany.
During the Nazi campaign against degenerate art in 1937, several of Straube's paintings were confiscated and destroyed.
Straube was a member of the Association of German Artists and was a lifelong teacher of drawing.
Johannes Michael Wilhelm Grützke was a German painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and medallist.
Francesco Clemente is an Italian contemporary artist. He has lived at various times in Italy, India and New York City. Some of his work is influenced by the traditional art and culture of India. He has worked in various artistic media including drawing, fresco, graphics, mosaic, oils and sculpture. He was among the principal figures in the Italian Transavanguardia movement of the 1980s, which was characterised by a rejection of Formalism and conceptual art and a return to figurative art and Symbolism.
