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Nicolas Neufchatel, known as Nicolas Lucidel, was a Flemish painter based in Germany.
Nicolas trained in Antwerp, where he became acquainted with the work of Frans Floris, Willem Kee and other masters contemporary with him in the 1540s. From 1561 the artist lived in Nuremberg.
Mostly Nicholas Neufchatel worked in Germany and was known as a talented portraitist. About forty of his portraits have survived, including a portrait of Maximilian II, other noble citizens and female images.
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain was a mid-18th-century French engraver and draftsmen working in London. He was best known for his finest imaginative landscapes.
Silke Schatz is a German artist, sculptor and installer.
She studied art in Germany and the United States and lives and works in Cologne. In her filigree drawings, collages, models and installations, Silke Schatz projects layered spaces.
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain was a mid-18th-century French engraver and draftsmen working in London. He was best known for his finest imaginative landscapes.
Silke Schatz is a German artist, sculptor and installer.
She studied art in Germany and the United States and lives and works in Cologne. In her filigree drawings, collages, models and installations, Silke Schatz projects layered spaces.
François-Louis Schmied was a French painter, illustrator, wood engraver, printmaker, editor and Art Deco binder.
François-Louis studied wood engraving at the École des Arts industriels in Geneva and painting at the École des Beaux-Arts de Genève. A Swiss, Schmied settled and naturalized in France in 1895. In 1910, he was commissioned to engrave and print Paul Jouve's illustrations for Rudyard Kipling's The Life of the Jungle, which was not published until 1919. For this book, now considered a masterpiece, the master produced about 90 color illustrations. Thanks to the success of this publication, Schmied was able to expand his activity and hire a group of craftsmen to execute his most famous and innovative works.
François-Louis Schmied is considered one of the greatest Art Deco artists and became particularly famous for his beautiful rare books for bibliophiles. Schmied's unique books were very expensive to produce, which required a lot of time and effort, and were always printed in very limited editions, from 20 to 200 copies. During the Great Depression, Schmied's expensive projects could not withstand the competition: the master was forced to sell off almost all his assets and close his workshop and store, and around 1932 he left for Morocco, where he died.
François-Louis Schmied's works are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also express his desire to combine art and literature. The talented artist conveyed with passion and precision the essence of the Art Deco style contemporary to him. Today, Schmied's works, reissued as fine art reproductions, not only convey the aesthetics and precision inherent in each of his originals, but also add a new dimension to them. His son, Theo Schmied, took over François-Louis Schmied's workshop in 1924, reviving its former glory and revitalizing it over time.
Arnold Schatz was a German animalist and landscape painter.
