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Jean-Jacques Bachelier was a French painter and innovator of porcelain and a member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.
Originally a still-life painter, he later became world-renowned for his significant contributions to applied art. In 1765, Bachelier founded an art and crafts school in Paris with his own funds. He was in charge of the painters at the porcelain manufactory in Vincennes, where figures were produced from unglazed porcelain - biscuit. For many years Bachelier was the Director of Sevres porcelain manufactory and in fact became the creator of the Sevres style.
Bachelier also conducted research on encaustic painting (a painting technique in which the binding substance of paints is wax) and published works on art education.
Elfriede Balzar-Kopp is a German ceramic artist.
She trained at the state ceramics engineering workshop in Höhr, worked in Karlsruhe at the State Maiolica Manufactory, and founded her own pottery workshop in Höhr in 1927.
Elfriede Balzar-Kopp initially focused on local Baroque vessels in her work and combined them with other styles. Her unique ceramic animal figurines, jugs, and genre scenes are sought after by collectors, and many of the objects she created adorn galleries around the world. Her son Heiner Balzar (born 1937) is one of the outstanding ceramic artists of the second half of the 20th century.
Doris Lucy Eleanor Bloomfield Boyd was an Australian artist, painter and ceramicist. Doris Gough studied under Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin at the National Gallery School where she met Merric Boyd, a fellow student and potter. In 1915, she married Boyd. Doris decorated many of Merric Boyd's works between 1920 and 1930. These were mostly pieces for domestic use, featuring Australian flora and fauna.
Klaus Eberlein was a German graphic artist, illustrator and ceramic sculptor. He initially completed training as a chromolithographer. From 1962 to 1968 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and from 1968 he was a master student of Hermann Kaspar, receiving a final diploma from the academy. Eberlein was a member of the Association for Original Etching, the Dachau Artists' Association and the Munich Artists' Association. In 2013 he was accepted into the South German literary association Münchner Turmschreiber.
Tsugouharu Foujita was a French twentieth-century artist of Japanese descent. He is known for his unique style, combining elements of Japanese painting and printmaking with European realism.
Foujita created a wide range of works in a variety of genres, including nudes, images of cats, portraits of women and children, and self-portraits. He later converted to Catholicism and began creating paintings with religious themes. The artist was internationally recognized, and his work was exhibited in many countries around the world. His work was characterized by the perfection of pictorial technique, virtuosity of drawing and an atmosphere of sophistication. The master also showed talent in graphics, photography, ceramics, theater, cinema and fashion design. Prices for his paintings were comparable to those of Picasso's works.
Emile Gallé was a French artist and designer who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major innovators in the French Art Nouveau movement. He was noted for his designs of Art Nouveau glass art and Art Nouveau furniture, and was a founder of the École de Nancy or Nancy School, a movement of design in the city of Nancy, France.
Bernard Palissy was a French natural scientist, painter, ceramicist and sculptor, geologist and writer of the French Renaissance.
Born into a family of artisans, Palissy apprenticed with his father as a glass artist and traveled throughout southwestern France comprehending pottery and studying geology. Today he is best known for his amazing lead-glazed pottery with images of various animals and people. After seeing a white glazed cup, probably of Chinese porcelain, in the 1540s, he set out to learn the secrets of its manufacture. His early research is described in De l'art de la terre. Although Palissy never succeeded in reproducing what he saw, his experiments gave him a thorough knowledge of the chemical compositions of minerals.
From 1575 in Paris, Palissy gave public lectures on natural history, which were published as Discours admirables (1580). In this treatise, Bernard Palissy touches on an incredibly wide range of subjects, from the techniques of ceramics, metallurgy and chemistry to hydrology, geology and fossils. He correctly identified fossils as the remains of ancient life. This work reveals him as a writer and scientist, a creator of modern agronomy and a pioneer of the experimental method, with scientific views generally more advanced than those of his contemporaries.
Maria Oksentiyivna Prymachenko (Russian: Мария Авксентьевна Примаченко) was a Soviet and Ukrainian artist of the twentieth century. She is known as a bright representative of primitivism. Self-taught Maria Prymachenko painted more than 800 paintings during her long life.
Maria Prymachenko drew inspiration from folk folklore and filled her works with symbolic content. She achieved international recognition early on, but refused to move to the capital and lived all her life in her native village. In addition to painting, the artist was fond of embroidery and painted ceramics, as well as illustrated books by Ukrainian writers and poets.
People's Artist was in favor of the authorities. She was awarded with numerous honorary titles, orders and medals. Maria Prymachenko was constantly visited by well-known cultural workers. Her paintings were constantly exhibited at international exhibitions. Most of Prymachenko's paintings are now kept in the National Museum of Ukrainian Decorative Folk Art.
Eun Nim Ro is a South Korean artist who has worked in Germany.
She moved to Germany as a nurse in 1970, where she had the opportunity to exhibit her first works and receive art education. Eun Nim Ro developed an intuitive style of painting that combined Korean brush and ink drawings with the expressiveness of Western art. Naively drawn signs of fish, birds, trees and human figures became the artist's symbols. Eun Nim Ro's creative work is not limited to painting, she has also worked in other disciplines such as performance, calligraphy, painting, ceramics or installation. She has designed the windows of St. Johannes Church in Altona, among others, as well as light walls for government buildings in Seoul.
In 1990, Eun Nim Ro took up a professorship at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. In 1995, the artist became an honorary citizen of Seoul, and in 2015 she was also awarded the title of professor in Korea.
Serafim Nikolaevich Sudbinin (russian: Серафим Николаевич Судьбинин), born Golovastikov (Головастиков), was a Russian actor, painter and sculptor.
Serafim came from the merchant family of Golovastikov, his grandfather was an icon painter. In the 1890s he worked as an actor in provincial theaters, in 1898-1904 - in the Moscow Art Theatre, playing several significant roles in the plays of Gorky, Leo Tolstoy and others. In the theater he performed under the pseudonym Sudbinin. In the same years he began to engage in drawing, modeling, photography. In 1902 Sudbinin made a trip to Paris, where he decided to seriously engage in sculpture and soon left the theater.
Since 1904 he has lived permanently in Paris, receiving a scholarship from S. T. Morozov, studied under the guidance of L. S. Sinaev-Bernstein and J.-A. Enzhalber. In 1906 he became a pupil and assistant of the great sculptor Auguste Rodin. Several portraits of Rodin by Sudbinin are kept in the Rodin Museum in Paris. Sudbinin created many portraits and sculptures of famous people in bronze, marble and plaster. In 1913 he executed for the Imperial Porcelain Factory figures of artists T. P. Karsavina, L. V. Sobinov, K. S. Stanislavsky in the role of Stockman, Anna Pavlova in the roles of Bacchante, Giselle, Swan.
After 1917 Sudbinin remained in France. For many years he collaborated with Sevres manufactory and with the workshop of L. Delashënal. Delashënal. Later he had his own workshop in Sevres, where he created decorative vessels, was engaged in fine plastic art in the Art Deco style, in particular, performed figures of animals. Several works by Sudbinin in different years were acquired by the Museum of Ceramics in Sevres and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.
Since 1922 Sudbinin often visited the United States, where he had many orders, in particular created a series of park sculptures for the Minister of Finance E.-U. Mallon. He also turned to religious themes, creating wooden sculptures, stylized in the spirit of early Gothic, with the use of colored varnish and gilding; he was fond of Oriental ceramics and the artistic culture of the Aztecs.
Narcisse Vivien was a French artist known for his decorative and ornamental art, as well as his contributions to the Art Nouveau movement. He was particularly renowned for his work in the field of ceramics, creating intricate and stylized designs that incorporated elements of nature and fantasy.
Vivien trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and went on to establish his own studio, where he created a wide range of works including pottery, glassware, metalwork, and furniture. He drew inspiration from a variety of sources, including ancient mythology, Japanese art, and the natural world.
Vivien's work is characterized by its use of flowing, organic forms, intricate patterns, and a strong sense of line and color. His designs often featured delicate flowers, twisting vines, and fantastical creatures, creating a sense of whimsy and magic that was characteristic of the Art Nouveau style.
Today, Vivien's work is highly prized by collectors and art enthusiasts, and his legacy continues to influence artists and designers around the world.
