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Maurice Max Ingrand, better known as Max Ingrand was a French artist and decorator, known for his work in studio glass and his stained glass windows.
Ingrand created numerous church stained glass windows during the late 1940s to 1960s. In the aftermath of World War II, he was tasked with replacing 47 of the stained glass windows destroyed at Notre-Dame de Paris.
Max Ingrand was noted for his modern designs.
Carlo Scarpa was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape and the history of Venetian culture, and by Japan. Scarpa translated his interests in history, regionalism, invention, and the techniques of the artist and craftsman into ingenious glass and furniture design.
Ercole Barovier is an Italian glass artist and designer.
In 1936 he founded Ferro Toso Barovier together with his brothers Dezio and Artemio Toso, which became Barovier — Toso & Co. in 1939 and Barovier & Toso in 1942.
He was also artistic director of the glassworks until 1972.
Franco Albini was an Italian Neo-Rationalist architect, designer and university instructor in design.
Franco Albini was an Italian Neo-Rationalist architect, designer and university instructor in design.
Georg Baselitz is a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. In the 1960s he became well known for his figurative, expressive paintings. In 1969 he began painting his subjects upside down in an effort to overcome the representational, content-driven character of his earlier work and stress the artifice of painting. Drawing from myriad influences, including art of Soviet era illustration art, the Mannerist period and African sculptures, he developed his own, distinct artistic language.
Melvin John Ramos was an American figurative painter, specializing most often in paintings of female nudes, whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art.