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Eduardo Chillida is a Spanish sculptor, graphic artist and printmaker known for his monumental abstract works.
Stefan Szczesny is a German expressionist painter, draftsman and ceramic sculptor, co-founder of the Neue Wilde movement.
Szczesny's vivid paintings and figurative works are inspired by the spirit of the Caribbean and the colorful, sensual Mediterranean way of life. One of his famous works is Living Planet.
The talented and versatile artist has also worked on the entire island of Mainau: he has created numerous ceramics of various shapes and sizes, large glass steles and many other objects, including a bridge and a painted NT airship, turning the island into a real work of art.
Julius Seyler is a German artist and athlete, the first double European speed skating champion.
He received his art education at the Munich Academy. For several years Julius Seyler lived in the USA and created many paintings depicting the life and history of the Montana Indians, which made him famous.
Zhao Wou-Ki (Chinese: 赵无极, pinyin: Zhào Wújí) was a Chinese-French painter. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Zao Wou-Ki graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he studied under Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu.
Franz Heckendorf was a German painter and graphic artist who was particularly successful during the Weimar Republic. During the National Socialist era, he was sentenced to ten years in prison after helping Berlin Jews threatened with deportation to extermination camps to escape to Switzerland.
Karl Fred Dahmen is a German artist, one of the most important representatives of German post-war art and the Informel movement. In 1967 he took up the post of Professor of Fine Arts at the Munich Academy.
He painted expressive abstract pictures with a tectonic structure, and since the mid-1950s, relief paintings and collages on the damage to the local landscape caused by open-pit mining. Later in Dahmen's oeuvre, glazed object boxes appear, recounting the impressions of his daily working life.
Pierre Mignard, called "Mignard le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits. He was a near-contemporary of the Premier Peintre du Roi Charles Le Brun with whom he engaged in a bitter, life-long rivalry.
Peter Hill Beard was an American artist, photographer, diarist, and writer who lived and worked in New York City, Montauk and Kenya. His photographs of Africa, African animals and the journals that often integrated his photographs, have been widely shown and published since the 1960s.
Walasse Ting (Chinese: 丁雄泉, pinyin: Ding Xiongquan) was a Chinese-American visual artist and poet. His colorful paintings have attracted critical admiration and a popular following. Common subjects include nude women and cats, birds and other animals.
