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Luigi Zuccoli was a 19th century Italian painter.
Luigi Zuccoli began his creative journey at the Milan Academy under the tutelage of Pelagio Palaggi. In 1855, at a prestigious exhibition organised by the Imperial Academy of Arts, Zuccoli presented his magnificent work The First Christian Martyrs.
The artist's works spoke of everyday life, depicting complex genre scenes and sketches of Italian everyday life. His skill transcended borders, winning the hearts of people far beyond his native country. Zuccoli travelled extensively throughout England and Belgium in search of inspiration, and from time to time exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.
Johnny Friedlaender was a leading German/French 20th-century artist, whose works have been exhibited in Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Japan and the United States. He has been influential upon other notable artists, who were students in his Paris gallery. His preferred medium of aquatint etching is a technically difficult artistic process, of which Friedlaender has been a pioneer.
Norbert Prangenberg was an abstract painter, sculptor, and engraver. Though he had no formal training and did not fully engage with art until his 30s, Prangenberg did finally come up with a style that was uniquely his own, not fitting comfortably into the neo-expressionist or neo-geo movements of his time, in the 1970s and 1980s. At this time, he was considered a major figure in contemporary German art. Though he got his start with abstract paintings, he also became known for making sculptures of all sizes; and while his work initially appears abstract, the titles given sometimes allude to the human body or a landscape. As a trained gold- and silversmith, as well as a glassblower, he always showed an attention to materials and how they could be physically engaged with. He was interested in how his own two hands could affect the painting or sculpture's surface. Traces of the artist's hand appear literally throughout his entire oeuvre, before he lost the battle with liver cancer in 2012.
