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Edward Harrison Compton was a German landscape painter and illustrator of English descent.
Like his father he was inspired by the Alps to become a mountain painter (Bergmaler) working in both oils and watercolour. However, an attack of Polio at the age of 28 meant that he had to find more accessible landscapes to paint in Germany, England, northern Italy and Sicily. He also provided illustrations for several travel books published by A & C Black.
Tatyana Alekseevna Mavrina (Russian: Татьяна Алексеевна Маврина) was a Soviet and Russian artist of the twentieth century. She is known as a painter, graphic artist and illustrator of children's books. Mavrina worked in the genres of portrait, landscape and still life in a style close to primitivism. She boldly experimented with watercolor, gouache and easel graphics.
Tatyana Mavrina is also known as a researcher of folklore. She traveled extensively to distant cities, got acquainted with folk art, made sketches of old architecture. By the drawings of Mavrina later researchers studied the life of the Russian provinces.
For her contribution to the illustration of children's books Mavrina was awarded the State Prize of the USSR, as well as the international literary prize named after HK Andersen. Mavrina's works, as well as her collection of handicrafts are kept in the Russian Museum and the Pushkin Museum.
Jacques François Joseph Carabain was a Dutch-Belgian painter, known primarily for his scenes of cities and buildings in the Romantic-Realist style. He was especially interested in Medieval and Baroque structures, and was often attracted to busy market places.
Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde was a Dutch Golden Age painter, active in Haarlem, Amsterdam, and The Hague, who is best known today for his cityscapes.
Robert Gwathmey was an American abstractionist and realist painter; his son Charles Gwathmey was an architect. Robert Gwathmey was a socialist and was influenced by many artists, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh and others. He worked in the style of symbolic abstraction. Gwathmey's works are in famous museums and collections in the United States.
Michael Bach is a contemporary German painter.
Emilio Sánchez Font was a Cuban-born American painter and graphic artist known for his architectural paintings and graphic lithographs. His works are in the permanent collections of renowned museums such as: The Metropolitan and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and many others.
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Béla Kádár was a Hungarian painter influenced by Der Blaue Reiter, Cubism, Futurism, Neo-Primitivism, Constructivism, and Metaphysical painting.
William Shakespeare was a British poet and playwright and writer.
William's father, John Shakespeare, was a merchant and official in Stratford. There are reports that he was a sailor for a time before joining a theater company in London. Beginning in the 1590s, Shakespeare began writing plays, and in 1593 he published a poem, Venus and Adonis, which became popular. He dedicated it to the Duke of Southampton, who was a philanthropist and patron of talent, and soon his business was booming.
From 1592 to 1600 Shakespeare wrote his dramas and romantic comedies "Richard III", "The Taming of the Shrew", "Romeo and Juliet", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Merchant of Venice", as well as the comedies "Much Ado About Nothing", "Twelfth Night" and the tragedy "Julius Caesar". The playwright's business was so successful that he even bought a large house in Stratford. In 1599, Shakespeare became one of the owners, playwright and actor of the new theater "Globe". In 1603 King James took Shakespeare's troupe under his direct patronage. In the mature period, the great playwright turned to tragedies, there were "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear", "Macbeth" and others.
Although in the 19th century researchers had some doubts about the authorship of many of these works, William Shakespeare is considered the greatest English playwright, one of the best playwrights in the world. His plays have been translated into all major languages and to this day form the basis of the world theatrical repertoire, most of them have been screened many times. According to the Guinness Book of Records, Shakespeare remains the world's best-selling playwright, and his plays and poems have sold more than 4 billion copies in the nearly 400 years since his death.
Francis Newton Souza was an Indian-American British Asian artist. He was a founding member of the Progressive Artists' Group of Bombay. Souza's style exhibited both decadence and primitivism.
Franz von Stuck was a German painter, sculptor, printmaker, and architect. Stuck was best known for his paintings of ancient mythology, receiving substantial critical acclaim with The Sin in 1892.
