Icon painters 20th century
Aleksandr Ivanovich Blokhin was a Russian Soviet painter.
Alexander Ivanovich Blokhin was engaged in painting icons for several decades. In 1925-1928 he worked in the Palekh artyel of ancient painting. He painted papier-mâché items (caskets, cigarette cases, powder pots) on literary subjects, also executed genre and battle compositions.
Ludwig Seitz was a German-born Italian painter of the last third of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as a historical and religious painter, the son of the famous painter Alexander Maximilian Seitz.
Ludwig Seitz dealt mainly with religious subjects and was characterized by his ability to masterfully recreate the styles of the Old Masters. He made an important contribution to the restoration and decoration of churches in Rome and created a number of frescoes and images for various cathedrals and chapels. In particular, he worked on the altarpieces and the restoration of the paintings in the castle of Prince Fürstenberg on the shores of Lake Constance.
Ivan Fyodorovich Seleznyov (Russian: Иван Федорович Селезнёв) was a Russian and Soviet artist of the last third of the 19th - first third of the 20th centuries. He is known as a painter of academic direction and a teacher.
Ivan Seleznyov worked in historical, portrait and domestic genres, as well as painted landscapes and still lifes. He became famous for his paintings on the subjects of Russian history, life scenes and realistic genre portraits. He also created and restored frescoes in churches in Kiev and was one of the organizers of the Kiev Fellowship of Religious Painting.
Ludwig Thiersch was a German and Greek painter of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as a painter who specialized in historical, mythological and religious subjects, as well as an iconographer.
Thiersch began his career as a painter by creating paintings of Hindu mythology. In 1852 he traveled to Athens, where he became interested in Byzantine art. One of his most famous works in iconography was the decoration of the iconostasis in the Greek church of St. Etienne in Paris. The master also worked in Vienna and St. Petersburg, creating frescoes and icons.