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Peter Jakob Schober was a prominent German painter associated with Expressive Realism. Despite facing adversity during World War I and II, he remained committed to art and exhibited remarkable resilience. His artistic journey took him from Stuttgart to Paris, where he drew inspiration from Impressionism and Cézanne's techniques. Returning to Germany, he embarked on a successful career as an artist, receiving numerous commissions for art am Bau.
Schober's work expanded beyond Germany through his travels to Spain, France, Italy, and North Africa. His involvement in art organizations, including chairing the Stuttgarter Sezession, solidified his influence. The accolades and recognition he received, such as the Bundesverdienstkreuz and professorship, celebrated his artistic excellence. Peter Jakob Schober's impact on the art world remains enduring and profound.
Marten Rijckaert was a Flemish Baroque painter, famous for his landscapes in the Italian manner.
Marten Rijckaert was a pupil of Tobias Verhacht. He was registered as a master at the Antwerp Guild of St Luke's in 1607. Reikart was a close friend of Antonis van Dyck.
His work is characterised by rocky forest landscapes, often with waterfalls, ruins and architecture. These Italian landscapes are close to the works of Flemish painter Paul Brill, and the panoramic concept of his compositions owes a debt to the works of Jan Brueghel the Elder.
George Grosz was a twentieth-century German painter, graphic artist, and cartoonist. In his work one can find features of various styles of avant-garde art, including Dadaism, Expressionism, and Futurism.
George Grosz drew in every style in a sharp-grotesque and satirical spirit, ridiculing the vices of society. The erotic theme, which occupied a prominent place in Gross's work, was executed in the same spirit.
Grosz devoted more than 20 years to teaching at the Art Students League of New York, and was elected an honorary member of the American and Berlin Academies for his outstanding services to the arts.
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.
He was a member of the second generation of "Dutch Italianate landscape" painters. These were artists who travelled to Italy, or aspired to, in order to soak up the romanticism of the country, bringing home sketchbooks full of drawings of classical ruins and pastoral imagery. His paintings, of which he produced an immense number, (Hofstede de Groot claimed around 850, although many are misattributed), were in great demand, as were his 80 etchings and 500 drawings. His landscapes, painted in the Italian style of idealized rural scenes, with hills, mountains, cliffs and trees in a golden dawn are sought after. Berchem also painted inspired and attractive human and animal figures (staffage) in works of other artists, like Allaert van Everdingen, Jan Hackaert, Gerrit Dou, Meindert Hobbema and Willem Schellinks.
Peter Jakob Schober was a prominent German painter associated with Expressive Realism. Despite facing adversity during World War I and II, he remained committed to art and exhibited remarkable resilience. His artistic journey took him from Stuttgart to Paris, where he drew inspiration from Impressionism and Cézanne's techniques. Returning to Germany, he embarked on a successful career as an artist, receiving numerous commissions for art am Bau.
Schober's work expanded beyond Germany through his travels to Spain, France, Italy, and North Africa. His involvement in art organizations, including chairing the Stuttgarter Sezession, solidified his influence. The accolades and recognition he received, such as the Bundesverdienstkreuz and professorship, celebrated his artistic excellence. Peter Jakob Schober's impact on the art world remains enduring and profound.
Robert Breyer was a German modernist painter who worked in various genres.
Georg Arnold-Graboné was a painter of German impressionism and an art teacher.
Arnold-Graboné became well known for his unique style of Palette knife painting. His technique used the texture of thickly applied paint to create an actual three-dimensional representation of a landscape. In Graboné's works, the colors are remarkable for their brilliance, distinguishing his landscapes from those of other pallet-knife painters. The brilliance is a result of Graboné's color-separation technique in knife-painting. His favorite subjects were of the Alps of Bavaria and South Tirole, the Isle of Capri, the English Garden in Munich, the lake region surrounding Starnberg, and fishing boats on the North Sea. His unusual signature is incised into the wet paint with the opposite end of the brush, almost invariably on the bottom left hand of his oil paintings (and on the bottom right for watercolors).
Adalbert Waagen is a German landscape painter. Studied in Munich and Milan. In Munich he founded his studio. In 1869 he moved with his wife to Berchtesgaden and opened a studio with a direct view of Mount Wachsmann. The artist received commissions from all over Europe. His focus was on landscapes, primarily mountains. His work can be seen in the Martin von Wagner Museum, the Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg and the Munich City Museum.
Désiré Thomassin was an Austrian painter and composer.
Heinrich Bürkel was a German artist of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as a painter and graphic artist, representative of the Biedermeier style.
Heinrich Bürkel specialized in genre and landscape paintings, especially winter landscapes. He often used Staffage and depicted animals. His work showed the influence of the old Dutch and Italian masters. Bürkel enjoyed great popularity, his paintings were actively acquired for private collections, including in America. The master painted about 1000 paintings and created about 6000 drawings.
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.
Jan Lievens was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and engraver of the Golden Age and a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp.
It is known that while still very young, at the age of twelve, Lievens already created skillful paintings that amazed art lovers of Leiden. He was later friendly with Rembrandt, shared a studio with him, and painted in a similar style. Lievens was also a court painter in England and elsewhere.
Jan Leavens created genre scenes, landscapes, ceremonial portraits and sketches on various themes, as well as religious and allegorical images, which were already highly valued during his lifetime.
Jasper Francis Cropsey was an important American landscape artist of the Hudson River School.
Cropsey's interest in architecture continued throughout his life and was a strong influence in his painting, most evident in his precise arrangement and outline of forms. But Cropsey was best known for his lavish use of color and, as a first-generation member from the Hudson River School, painted autumn landscapes that startled viewers with their boldness and brilliance. As an artist, he believed landscapes were the highest art form and that nature was a direct manifestation of God. He also felt a patriotic affiliation with nature and saw his paintings as depicting the rugged and unspoiled qualities of America.
Hale Aspacio Woodruff is an American artist known for his murals, paintings and prints. He studied painting at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and at the Academy of Art Nouveau in Paris.
Hale Aspacio Woodruff was a prominent figure on the Harlem art scene in the 1920s and 1930s, where he worked alongside other influential artists such as Aaron Douglas and Jacob Lawrence. He was also a professor at Atlanta University, where he taught from 1931 to 1946. One of Woodruff's most notable works is his series of murals depicting the history of African Americans in America, which he painted for Talladega College in Alabama in the 1930s. The murals were later restored and are now in the college's David Hall Fine Arts Center.
Fairfield Porter is an American artist known for his realistic paintings depicting his family, friends, and the natural environment. Porter began his career as an abstract painter, but later switched to a realistic style. His work is notable for its vibrant colors and his ability to convey the atmosphere and mood of his subjects. He is also known for his landscapes, including seascapes, which often depict his native Maine. Porter was also a professor at Stony Brook University in Manhattan and wrote several essays and articles on art. His work can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Charles Ephraim Burchfield is an American artist known for his watercolor landscapes and mystical depictions of the world around him.
John Marin was an American artist, a prominent member of the first generation of American modernists. He is known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors.
William Payne was an English painter and etcher who invented the tint Payne's grey.
Payne hit upon certain methods which considerably increased the resources of watercolour art, especially in the rendering of sunlight and atmosphere. His style, as it was called, was one which was not only new and effective, but could be learnt without much difficulty, and he soon became the most fashionable drawing-master in London.
Among the innovations with which he is credited were "splitting the brush to give forms of foliage, dragging the tints to give texture to his foregrounds, and taking out the forms of lights by wetting the surface and rubbing with bread and rag". He also abandoned the use of outline with the pen, but the invention by which he is best known is a neutral tint composed of indigo, raw sienna, and varnish.
Thomas Moran was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He was a younger brother of the noted marine artist Edward Moran, with whom he shared a studio. A talented illustrator and exquisite colorist, Thomas Moran was hired as an illustrator at Scribner's Monthly. During the late 1860s, he was appointed the chief illustrator for the magazine, a position that helped him launch his career as one of the premier painters of the American landscape, in particular, the American West.
Moran along with Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Hill, and William Keith are sometimes referred to as belonging to the Rocky Mountain School of landscape painters because of all of the Western landscapes made by this group.
Jasper Francis Cropsey was an important American landscape artist of the Hudson River School.
Cropsey's interest in architecture continued throughout his life and was a strong influence in his painting, most evident in his precise arrangement and outline of forms. But Cropsey was best known for his lavish use of color and, as a first-generation member from the Hudson River School, painted autumn landscapes that startled viewers with their boldness and brilliance. As an artist, he believed landscapes were the highest art form and that nature was a direct manifestation of God. He also felt a patriotic affiliation with nature and saw his paintings as depicting the rugged and unspoiled qualities of America.
Edward John Burra was an English painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, best known for his depictions of the urban underworld, black culture and the Harlem scene of the 1930s.
John Marin was an American artist, a prominent member of the first generation of American modernists. He is known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors.
John Marin was an American artist, a prominent member of the first generation of American modernists. He is known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors.
John Marin was an American artist, a prominent member of the first generation of American modernists. He is known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors.
John Marin was an American artist, a prominent member of the first generation of American modernists. He is known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors.
William Payne was an English painter and etcher who invented the tint Payne's grey.
Payne hit upon certain methods which considerably increased the resources of watercolour art, especially in the rendering of sunlight and atmosphere. His style, as it was called, was one which was not only new and effective, but could be learnt without much difficulty, and he soon became the most fashionable drawing-master in London.
Among the innovations with which he is credited were "splitting the brush to give forms of foliage, dragging the tints to give texture to his foregrounds, and taking out the forms of lights by wetting the surface and rubbing with bread and rag". He also abandoned the use of outline with the pen, but the invention by which he is best known is a neutral tint composed of indigo, raw sienna, and varnish.
William Payne was an English painter and etcher who invented the tint Payne's grey.
Payne hit upon certain methods which considerably increased the resources of watercolour art, especially in the rendering of sunlight and atmosphere. His style, as it was called, was one which was not only new and effective, but could be learnt without much difficulty, and he soon became the most fashionable drawing-master in London.
Among the innovations with which he is credited were "splitting the brush to give forms of foliage, dragging the tints to give texture to his foregrounds, and taking out the forms of lights by wetting the surface and rubbing with bread and rag". He also abandoned the use of outline with the pen, but the invention by which he is best known is a neutral tint composed of indigo, raw sienna, and varnish.
William Payne was an English painter and etcher who invented the tint Payne's grey.
Payne hit upon certain methods which considerably increased the resources of watercolour art, especially in the rendering of sunlight and atmosphere. His style, as it was called, was one which was not only new and effective, but could be learnt without much difficulty, and he soon became the most fashionable drawing-master in London.
Among the innovations with which he is credited were "splitting the brush to give forms of foliage, dragging the tints to give texture to his foregrounds, and taking out the forms of lights by wetting the surface and rubbing with bread and rag". He also abandoned the use of outline with the pen, but the invention by which he is best known is a neutral tint composed of indigo, raw sienna, and varnish.
John Martin was a British painter, printmaker and illustrator.
Martin is known for his large-scale paintings of historical and religious subjects, as well as dioramas, which were very successful. John Martin was also a mezzotint engraver and among other things illustrated John Milton's Paradise Lost.
John Martin was hugely popular in Europe and influenced many artists. His fantastic architecture and magical, powerful landscapes boggled the mind and stirred the imagination. The French Romantic movement in both art and literature was inspired by it. Even when building railroad bridges in England, architects were inspired by Martin's works.
David Cox was a British landscape painter, celebrated for his pivotal role in the Birmingham School of landscape artists and as a precursor to Impressionism. Born in Birmingham in 1783, Cox initially worked in his hometown as a scene painter before pursuing a career in watercolors and, later, oils in London. His paintings are renowned for their dynamic depiction of the English and Welsh countryside, capturing the sublime effects of weather and light with a loose, expressive brushwork that distinguished him from his contemporaries.
Throughout his career, Cox experimented with various materials, notably adopting what came to be known as "Cox Paper," a rough paper that enhanced the textural effects of his watercolors. His works are held in high esteem and are part of collections in major museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tate Gallery, where his notable works such as "Journey Home" and "Rhyl Sands" are displayed.
In the latter years of his life, Cox returned to Birmingham, where he continued to innovate in both watercolors and oils until his death in 1859. His contributions to the landscape genre have left a lasting impact on the field of British art.
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Walter Crane was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the later 19th century.
Crane's work featured some of the more colourful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come. He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement and produced an array of paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles, wallpapers and other decorative arts. Crane is also remembered for his creation of a number of iconic images associated with the international Socialist movement.
Michael James Andrews was a British painter.
Detlev James Foth is a German painter. He studied free painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1979 to 1985. During the second semester his first solo exhibition took place at the Galeria de Arte Sala Goya in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. In 2001 he received an invitation from the Foreign Office in Berlin to hold a solo exhibition at the German Business Club in São Paulo, Brazil. He was the first German artist to have a solo exhibition at the Portuguese Cultural Institute (Instituto Camões) in Luanda, Angola. In 2012 the painter had, among other things, a solo exhibition at the Arthropologie Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. His works can be found in private collections and in public spaces. In addition to painting, Detlev Foth deals with literature and has published numerous plays, novels, short stories and poems.
John Singer Sargent was an American artist celebrated for his captivating portraits, which mirrored the luxury of the Edwardian era. Born to American parents in Florence, Italy, Sargent was a well-traveled individual, fluent in multiple languages, and exposed to European art from a young age. His early artistic training came under the tutelage of Carolus-Duran in Paris, which significantly influenced his style and approach to art. Sargent's work, characterized by its striking realism and attention to detail, gained international acclaim, especially among the aristocracy in England and the United States.
Noteworthy is John Singer Sargent's "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose," a piece that, after its display at the Royal Academy in 1887, solidified his status in the London art scene. This painting, along with many others, showcases his ability to capture the essence of his subjects, earning him numerous commissions from prominent figures of his time. However, by the early 20th century, Sargent shifted his focus to watercolors and murals, seeking respite from the demands of portrait commissions. His mural works, like those for the Boston Public Library, highlight his versatility and commitment to art beyond portraiture.
For collectors and art experts, understanding John Singer Sargent's journey—from his early days in Florence and Paris to his ultimate success as a portraitist and muralist—offers valuable insights into his artistic evolution and the historical context of his work. His pieces, housed in prestigious institutions worldwide, continue to captivate audiences with their elegance and technical prowess.
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John Singer Sargent was an American artist celebrated for his captivating portraits, which mirrored the luxury of the Edwardian era. Born to American parents in Florence, Italy, Sargent was a well-traveled individual, fluent in multiple languages, and exposed to European art from a young age. His early artistic training came under the tutelage of Carolus-Duran in Paris, which significantly influenced his style and approach to art. Sargent's work, characterized by its striking realism and attention to detail, gained international acclaim, especially among the aristocracy in England and the United States.
Noteworthy is John Singer Sargent's "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose," a piece that, after its display at the Royal Academy in 1887, solidified his status in the London art scene. This painting, along with many others, showcases his ability to capture the essence of his subjects, earning him numerous commissions from prominent figures of his time. However, by the early 20th century, Sargent shifted his focus to watercolors and murals, seeking respite from the demands of portrait commissions. His mural works, like those for the Boston Public Library, highlight his versatility and commitment to art beyond portraiture.
For collectors and art experts, understanding John Singer Sargent's journey—from his early days in Florence and Paris to his ultimate success as a portraitist and muralist—offers valuable insights into his artistic evolution and the historical context of his work. His pieces, housed in prestigious institutions worldwide, continue to captivate audiences with their elegance and technical prowess.
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Edward John Burra was an English painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, best known for his depictions of the urban underworld, black culture and the Harlem scene of the 1930s.
Elaine Marie Catherine de Kooning was an Abstract Expressionist and Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era. She wrote extensively on the art of the period and was an editorial associate for Art News magazine.
John Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home — now known as "Constable Country" — which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling".
Charles-Joseph Natoire was a prominent Rococo painter, known for his significant contributions to French art during his lifetime. Trained under François Lemoyne, Natoire excelled in various artistic endeavors, earning royal commissions and contributing to significant artistic projects in Versailles and Fontainebleau. His works included tapestry cartoons for the Manufacture de Beauvais and Gobelins, and he was known for his series on the History of Psyche and Don Quixote.
In 1751, Charles-Joseph Natoire became the director of the French Academy in Rome, a role he held until 1775. During this period, he mentored notable students like Hubert Robert and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Although his active painting career dwindled during his directorship, his influence on the students and the artistic community was significant.
Charles-Joseph Natoire's works can be found in various prestigious institutions, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Louvre. His painting "The Rebuke of Adam and Eve" is one such piece that showcases his mastery and attention to detail.
For collectors and experts in art and antiques, Charles-Joseph Natoire's works offer a glimpse into the Rococo style's elegance and the rich artistic heritage of 18th-century France. His contributions to tapestry and painting continue to be celebrated and studied for their historical and artistic value.
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