fairytale painting
Carl Spitzweg was a German romanticist painter, especially of genre subjects. He is considered to be one of the most important artists of the Biedermeier era.
Václav Jan Emanuel Radimský was a Czech landscape painter. He is considered one of the most important representatives of Czech impressionism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied painting at the academies of fine arts in Munich and Vienna.
Václav Radimský came to France in the early 1890s to study at the Barbizon School. In Giverny he joined a group of painters that also included Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, who had an indelible influence on his painting style.
Václav Radimský is considered to be one of the first Czech painters to achieve artistic and commercial success in France and to gain great recognition in French society.
Raymond Redvers Briggs was a British writer, illustrator, and cartoonist.
A professional illustrator, he worked on the design of children's books. In the 1960s, Briggs discovered his talent and ability to combine words and pictures, using a form of strip cartooning that defined his later work.
Briggs is best known for his wordless book The Snowman, published in 1978, a sort of cute children's tale but with deep meaning. The animated and musical versions of this book are popular in Britain and are shown annually at Christmas.
