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Friedrich Kallmorgen was a German Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and cityscapes.
Friedrich Kallmorgen was a German Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and cityscapes.
Friedrich Kallmorgen was a German Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and cityscapes.
Friedrich Kallmorgen was a German Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and cityscapes.
Friedrich Kallmorgen was a German Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and cityscapes.
Friedrich Kallmorgen was a German Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and cityscapes.
Oswald Achenbach was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Though little known today, during his lifetime he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe. Through his teaching activities, he influenced the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His brother, Andreas Achenbach, who was twelve years older, was also among the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century. The two brothers were humorously called "the A and O of Landscapes" (a reference to their initials matching a common German reference to the Alpha and Omega).
Otto Grashof was a German painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as a draftsman, engraver, and portrait painter. He also did historical painting, battle-painting, animal studies, and landscape art. Grashof is considered one of the founders of Chilean painting.
Grashof went to St. Petersburg in 1838, where he carried out portrait commissions for the aristocracy, and some of his works ended up in the collection of Emperor Nicholas I. Later he visited Chile as well as Brazil. He held the titles of "painter to the Russian emperor and Brazilian court painter."
Otto Dill was a German painter. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Tomaso Buzzi was an Italian architect and designer.
He also worked as a furniture and glass designer and wrote articles in Domus and Dedalo. Buzzi's slow departure from modernism accentuated after 1945, when he worked mainly as a private architect for the Italian aristocracy and the big bourgeoisie of the Volpi, Agnelli, etc.
Tomaso Buzzi was an Italian architect and designer.
He also worked as a furniture and glass designer and wrote articles in Domus and Dedalo. Buzzi's slow departure from modernism accentuated after 1945, when he worked mainly as a private architect for the Italian aristocracy and the big bourgeoisie of the Volpi, Agnelli, etc.
Tomaso Buzzi was an Italian architect and designer.
He also worked as a furniture and glass designer and wrote articles in Domus and Dedalo. Buzzi's slow departure from modernism accentuated after 1945, when he worked mainly as a private architect for the Italian aristocracy and the big bourgeoisie of the Volpi, Agnelli, etc.
Tomaso Buzzi was an Italian architect and designer.
He also worked as a furniture and glass designer and wrote articles in Domus and Dedalo. Buzzi's slow departure from modernism accentuated after 1945, when he worked mainly as a private architect for the Italian aristocracy and the big bourgeoisie of the Volpi, Agnelli, etc.
Tomaso Buzzi was an Italian architect and designer.
He also worked as a furniture and glass designer and wrote articles in Domus and Dedalo. Buzzi's slow departure from modernism accentuated after 1945, when he worked mainly as a private architect for the Italian aristocracy and the big bourgeoisie of the Volpi, Agnelli, etc.
Charles Ephraim Burchfield is an American artist known for his watercolor landscapes and mystical depictions of the world around him.
Tomaso Buzzi was an Italian architect and designer.
He also worked as a furniture and glass designer and wrote articles in Domus and Dedalo. Buzzi's slow departure from modernism accentuated after 1945, when he worked mainly as a private architect for the Italian aristocracy and the big bourgeoisie of the Volpi, Agnelli, etc.
Edward Hopper was an American painter renowned for his skill in depicting the solitude of modern life with evocative uses of light and shadow. Born in 1882 in Nyack, New York, Hopper's early exposure to art came from his supportive parents who nurtured his talents. He began formal art studies at the New York School of Art, learning under influential teachers like William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. Henri, in particular, encouraged his students to paint personal significance into their works.
Hopper’s style, characterized by its emphasis on solitude and the mundane aspects of American life, often featured settings such as diners, gas stations, and apartment interiors. One of his most famous works, Nighthawks, depicts patrons sitting in a brightly lit diner at night, each seemingly lost in their own thoughts—a perfect example of his theme of urban isolation.
Throughout his career, Hopper enjoyed considerable success and influence, culminating in several retrospectives, including a prominent one at the Museum of Modern Art. His approach to depicting light and his stark, realist views on everyday scenes influenced generations of artists and continue to captivate audiences today. His works are pivotal in understanding American realism and are held in high esteem in museums across the United States.
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Léon Georges Jean-Baptiste Carré was a French Orientalist painter and illustrator known for his contribution to the Fauvist movement.
Carré's style was characterized by bright colours and bold strokes. He sought to express his emotions and convey the essence of the subject through intense and unnatural colours. Carré's paintings often depicted landscapes, still lifes and portraits.
Léon Carré also experimented with other artistic movements such as Cubism and Post-Impressionism. This allowed him to develop a unique artistic language which combined elements of different currents.
René Boylesve, birth name René Marie Auguste Tardiveau, is a French writer and literary critic, a member of the Académie Française.
Boylesve was educated at Poitiers, Tours, and Paris, studying humanities and fine arts, natural sciences, and law. Ten years later, under his mother's maiden name, he wrote his first novel, The Physician of the Lady of Nean (1894). These were followed by other books, and then came the series known as the "Touraine novels": "Mademoiselle Cloke" (1899), "Beke" (1901), "The Child at the Balustrade" (1903), "The Educated Girl" (1909) and others. In these works, the author expertly depicts the mores of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. With a richly detailed style and characteristic irony Boylesve tells about the triumph of conventional values over artistic and spiritual aspirations.
In 1918 René Boylesve was elected a member of the French Academy.
Madeleine Gras, full name Louise Augustine Madeleine Gras, was a French bookbinder and designer.
Madeleine Gras studied at the Central Union of Decorative Arts and also apprenticed with Henri Nulhac. She designed Art Deco bindings and first appeared in 1922 at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts.
Pierre Falké, full name Pierre André Michel Falké, was a French painter and printmaker, illustrator and cartoonist.
Pierre Falké was a well-known humorist in the French press in the first half of the 20th century, collaborating with popular humor and satirical magazines. He drew comic strips and caricatures. In painting, Falké specialized mainly in marine views. He also illustrated more than sixty books and practiced wood engraving.
Pierre Mac Orlan, real name Pierre Dumarchey, is a French writer, poet, screenwriter, playwright, artist and journalist.
Pierre Dumarchey spent his youth leading a bohemian lifestyle, but by the age of 20 he had already published several collections of short stories with his own illustrations. He socialized with many contemporary writers and artists, played the accordion, and many of his songs were quite popular in cabarets. In World War
I in 1916, Pierre Dumarchey was wounded, after which he worked as a war correspondent. In the late 1920s, he became an influential critic of film and photography. And later became a famous writer under the pseudonym Pierre Mac-Orlan. Based on his most famous novel Quai des Brumes ("Port of Shadows"), French director Marcel Carné made a movie of the same name in 1938.
In addition to his numerous novels, Mac-Orlan published under various pseudonyms in erotic magazines. Pierre Mac-Orlan was a very prolific writer: in 1969-1971, a collection of his works in 24 volumes was published, which, however, did not include his many erotic works.
Pierre Louÿs, real name Pierre Félix Louis, was a French poet and writer.
He specialized in erotic and ancient themes in the Art Nouveau style. Louÿs's most famous work is The Songs of Bilitis. It is a collection of erotic poetry with strongly lesbian themes, written in the manner of Sappho. Although Louÿs claimed that these poems had a Greek source, this ultimately proved to be a hoax.
Georges Levitsky was a Russian-born bookbinder who worked in Paris in the early 20th century.
In 1907, bookbinder Georges Levitsky emigrated from Odessa to Paris, where he opened his own workshop in 1910. He produced unique, luxurious Art Deco products in limited editions for bibliophiles. Levitsky collaborated with famous artists and illustrators, and his clients included King Albert I of Belgium and King Alexander I of Serbia.
Edouard Chimot was a French Art Deco painter, illustrator and editor.
Edouard studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Nice and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lille. After the war, he was able to prove himself as an illustrator and master publisher. At the height of the Art Deco heyday, Chimot received a number of commissions to illustrate books with his original engravings, the first of which was the rare book Les Après-Midi de Montmartre with fourteen engravings by Chimot.
In 1920, Édouard Chimot founded his own publishing house, Éditions d'Art Édouard Chimot. Through this venture, he not only continued to create his own art, but also collaborated with other artists and writers to create high quality limited edition books, often with his distinctive illustrations. Édouard Chimot was associated with late Symbolist and decadent culture, and his own work is sometimes referred to as post-Symbolist. His collaborations with famous writers and poets, including Paul Verlaine and Charles Baudelaire, brought his illustrations to the forefront of the Art Nouveau movement.
With the collapse of the financial system in the early 1930s in Europe, the demand for luxury products also fell, but the artist continued to work, produce books and paint. Chimot's artistic style is characterized by sensuality and romanticism. He was an artist of the female figure, style, eroticism and embodied the essence of Art Deco imagery.
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.
George Barbier was a French artist and illustrator, fashion designer, who influenced the development of the Art Deco movement.
George Barbier studied painting at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Initially he worked as an illustrator for several famous Parisian fashion magazines, and gradually his drawings began to define the style of women's clothing. The emergence of the Art Nouveau style moved Barbier to create luxurious fashions for cabarets, theaters, and movies. He depicted extravagant theatrical costumes with sparkling rhinestones, high headdresses and huge plumes. Barbier created stage costume designs for Diaghilev's famous Russian Ballet.
He also illustrated catalogs and many literary works, including works by Charles Baudelaire and P. Verlaine, and was an author and designer of jewelry.
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.
