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Richard Adams is a British artist and illustrator living and working in Sussex.
Adams received an honors degree in graphic design from Leicester Polytechnic and initially worked as an illustrator in London. Richard Adams creates all his paintings using chalk pastels, then fixes and impregnates with a special varnish that leaves an impenetrable surface. He depicts a variety of English landscapes and seashores, often inhabited by quirky characters and animals, as well as amusing domestic scenes. The artist successfully captures the humor and absurdity of everyday life in a bygone and contemporary English style.
Adams' work is regularly exhibited in London and other UK cities to great acclaim, and internationally in Sydney, Washington DC, Bremen and Madrid.
Henry Thomas Alcken was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. His most prolific period of painting and drawing occurred between 1816 and 1831.
Samuel Alken the Elder was a British painter, printmaker and illustrator.
Samuel Alken studied at the Royal Academy School in London. In 1779 he published A New Book of Ornaments Designed and Engraved by Samuel Alken, and later established himself as one of the most distinguished engravers in the new technique of aquatint. Alken produced magnificent compositions of the British countryside, including moonlit night scenes. His works include engravings by George Morland, Richard Wilson, Thomas Rowlandson, and Francis Wheatley. In 1796 his plates of sixteen views of the lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland, after drawings by John Ames and John Smith, were published, and in 1798 a set of aquatint views of North Wales after drawings by the Rev. Brian Broughton.
His sons, Samuel Alken the Younger (1784-1824), Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851) and Samuel Henry Alken (1810-1894) also became artists.
Carl Johann Arnold was a German painter, draftsman, and graphic artist.
He was the son and pupil of the designer and wallpaper maker, landscape and portrait painter, lithographer, and decorator Carl Heinrich Arnold (1793-1874).
He first studied at the Academy in Kassel and then went to Berlin. Carl Johann Arnold painted pictures of animals, canvases on historical events, and numerous portraits. In particular, he created many portraits of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, for which he was apparently appointed royal Prussian court painter. Arnold also produced drawings, etchings, and lithographs that were published in the popular magazines of the time.
Charles Aubry was a French painter, illustrator and caricaturist who worked in Saumur from 1810-1840.
From 1817. Aubry made drawings and illustrations of military costume. He was soon recognized as one of the best lithographers and draughtsmen of military scenes, showing a particular talent for depicting cavalry. Charles Aubry's colored lithographs were published in a publication on the uniforms of the Swiss Royal Guard (Collection des Uniforms de l'Armee Francaise, 1823), as well as caricatures in the Comic Album de Pathologie (1823).
In 1822 Charles Aubry was appointed professor of art at l'Ecole Militaire de Saumur.
Vsevolod Grigorievich Averin (Russian: Всеволод Григорьевич Аверин) was a Ukrainian Soviet graphic artist and book illustrator. He was one of the most important Ukrainian animal painters of the first half of the 20th century, incorporating avant-garde techniques into his work.
Averin worked in book and easel graphics, especially lithography, as well as portrait and landscape painting. He illustrated many well-known works, including the Atlas of Human Anatomy and a novel by M. Twain. His work was characterised by an exquisite style and harmonious design, and his estate includes some 300 bindings, 3,000 illustrations and 90 posters.
Friedrich Baedeker, full name Friedrich Wilhelm Justus Baedeker or F. W. J. Baedeker, was a German pharmacist, bird egg collector and bird illustrator.
In addition to his work as a pharmacist, Baedeker had a passion for ornithology and was a good artist. His 774 watercolors are known, depicting some 386 European birds. In time, Baedeker became widely known as an ornithologist and zoologist, and his huge collection included about 4,000 eggs of various European and exotic birds.
Baedeker joined the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft (German Society of Ornithologists) in 1851, shortly after its founding, and published several books on birds. One of these was Die Eier der europaeischen Voegel nach der Natur gemalt ("The Eggs of European Birds Drawn from Nature").
James Barenger is a British animal artist and illustrator.
He was born James Barenger Sr. James Barenger was a metal chaser and naturalist painter. Barenger specialized in depicting horses, dogs, and other animals, as well as noblemen's hunting scenes, which were consistently successful in the 19th century.
Barenger's patrons included the Duke of Grafton, the Marquis of Londonderry and the Earl of Derby. The artist produced entire series of prints depicting hunting, shooting, bullfighting and horse racing, which were published in sporting publications.
Jacques Barraband was a French zoological and botanical illustrator, renowned for his lifelike renderings of tropical birds. His pictures were based on mounted specimens and his illustration was considered the most accurate ones made during the early 1800s.
Randolph Caldecott was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester. The Caldecott Medal was named in his honour. He exercised his art chiefly in book illustrations. His abilities as an artist were promptly and generously recognised by the Royal Academy. Caldecott greatly influenced illustration of children's books during the nineteenth century. Two books illustrated by him, priced at a shilling each, were published every Christmas for eight years.
Caldecott also illustrated novels and accounts of foreign travel, made humorous drawings depicting hunting and fashionable life, drew cartoons and he made sketches of the Houses of Parliament inside and out, and exhibited sculptures and paintings in oil and watercolour in the Royal Academy and galleries.
Dean Cornwell was an American illustrator and muralist. His oil paintings were frequently featured in popular magazines and books as literary illustrations, advertisements, and posters promoting the war effort. Throughout the first half of the 20th century he was a dominant presence in American illustration. At the peak of his popularity he was nicknamed the "Dean of Illustrators". He began his professional career as a cartoonist for the Louisville Herald. Soon thereafter he moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Art Institute and worked for the Chicago Tribune. Cornwell's paintings were in Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook, and Good Housekeeping magazines. He painted murals for the Los Angeles Public Library, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands, California etc. Cornwell taught and lectured at the Art Students League in New York. He served as president of the Society of Illustrators from 1922 to 1926, and was elected to its Hall of Fame in 1959.
Alfred Kubin was an outstanding Austrian engraver, illustrator and writer, and a prominent representative of the Symbolic and Expressionist trends in the visual arts in the first half of the 20th century. Alfred Kubin's works are full of phantasmagoric and grotesque depictions of dreams, motifs of desolation and fear.
Rostislav Alexandrovich Danov (Russian: Ростислав Александрович Данов) was a Soviet artist of the late twentieth century. He is known as a graphic-animalist, naturalist, writer and professional snake artist.
Rostislav Danov began practicing animalistics in the last years of his life. He was the author of many works, some of which are kept in the Darwin Museum in Moscow. The artist illustrated books, including "Rare and Endangered Animals. Amphibians and Reptiles." Gorlov was also working on an unfinished book, "Year of the Snake," where he planned to describe the seasons of Turkmen nature through the eyes of a gyurza. His manuscripts, hundreds of drawings and 15 volumes of field diaries with graphic sketches have been preserved.
Pieter Cornelis de Moor, a Dutch artist, stands out as a versatile and innovative figure in the art world. His education at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam and the Drawing Academy in Antwerp laid the foundation for a career marked by diversity and creativity. De Moor's achievements, including a silver medal in the Prix de Rome in 1887, underline his early recognition and the promise of his artistic journey.
De Moor's artistry was not confined to a single medium; he was adept in drawing, etching, painting, watercolor, producing lithographs, and working as an illustrator. His artworks, ranging from "Dancing Women" to "Poultry on a Yard" and "An Elegant Lady Feeding Peacocks," showcase his broad thematic interests and technical skills. Notably, his works are held in prestigious collections, including the Rijksmuseum and the Dordrechts Museum.
The artist's life was rich with experiences, having worked across Europe and eventually settling in the United States. His legacy, punctuated by exhibitions in museums such as Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Drents Museum, continues to captivate art enthusiasts and collectors.
For collectors and art experts, delving into the works of Pieter Cornelis de Moor offers a unique glimpse into the evolution of Dutch art. His contributions, particularly in the realm of Symbolism, highlight an era of artistic exploration and innovation.
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Edmond De Schampheleer was a Belgian landscape painter and engraver. After completing his studies with Eugène-François de Block in Antwerp, he set himself up as a landscape painter; taking a realistic approach, derived from Théodore Fourmois and the French artists of the Barbizon School. He also combined plein aire techniques with large-scale painting in his studio. His style increasingly came to resemble that of the 17th century Dutch artists.
Carl Friedrich Deiker was a German animal painter.
He depicted with particular interest the wild animals of Germany - deer and wild boar; battles between male deer, broods of wild piglets escaping from hunters. Some of his canvases are devoted to birds of prey - falcons, hawks as well as grouse, grouse; the life of foxes, hares and other animals and birds. The painter also illustrated animal scenes in art magazines and hunting literature.
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille was a French academic painter and military artist noted for his precision and realistic detail. He was regarded as the "semi-official artist of the French army". Detaille made his debut as an artist at the Salon—the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts—of 1867 with a painting of Meissonier's studio. At the Salon of 1868, he exhibited his first military painting, The Drummers Halt, which was based solely on his imagination of the French Revolution. Detaille enlisted in the 8th Mobile Bataillon of the French Army when the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870; by November he was seeing and experiencing the realities of war. This experience allowed him to produce his famed portraits of soldiers and historically accurate depictions of military manoeuvres, uniforms, and military life in general. He eventually became the official painter of the battles. He published a book called L'Armée Française in 1885, which contains over 300 line drawings and 20 color reproductions of his works.
Richard Doyle was a British illustrator of the Victorian era. His work frequently appeared, amongst other places, in Punch magazine; he drew the cover of the first issue, and designed the magazine's masthead, a design that was used for over a century.
Thomas Duttenhoefer was a German sculptor, draughtsman, graphic artist, and illustrator, and professor at the University of Mannheim.
In addition to his human figures, Thomas Duttenhoefer's figurative work includes many depictions of animals in a deliberately crude manner.
He is a member of the New Darmstadt Secession, the Palatinate Secession and the Argo Group, Speyer.
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.
Ivan Semyonovich Efimov (Russian: Иван Семёнович Ефимов) was a Russian and Soviet artist of the first half of the twentieth century. He is known as an animal painter, graphic artist, sculptor, illustrator and reformer of the puppet theater.
Ivan Efimov worked in different genres and techniques, but all his work, including decorative and applied art, was focused on animalistic themes. He created works for the Moscow subway, train stations, sanatoriums and many other places and became famous for his technique of through volume relief in sculpture. The master also illustrated more than 20 books.
Efimov also created erotic works - about a thousand sheets with various thematic series, but the public learned about them only after the collapse of the USSR.
Maria Paula Figueiroa Rego was a Portuguese-British visual artist known particularly for her paintings and prints based on storybooks. Rego's style evolved from abstract towards representational, and she favoured pastels over oils for much of her career. Her work often reflects feminism, coloured by folk-themes from her native Portugal.
Otto Clemens Fikentscher the Elder was a German painter, draughtsman and illustrator of the Düsseldorf School. Although it is unclear whether he is related to the artist Otto Fikentscher, who was married to Jenny Fikentscher, Otto Fikentscher (the Elder) studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and specialised in historical painting and the depiction of horses in battle scenes. He was a member of the artists' association Malkasten and served as a war correspondent during conflicts such as the German-Danish War and the Franco-Prussian War. Fikentscher's works were reproduced in popular magazines and showed his lively and dynamic style.
Paul Flora was an Austrian cartoonist, graphic artist, and illustrator known for his skill with pen and ink.
Flora's work has appeared in the famous New York Times and The Observer newspapers, and his drawings have graced the stamps of Liechtenstein and Austria. Paul Flora has been one of Europe's most famous illustrators since the 1960s.
He also produced books, films and sets.
David (Dudu) Gerstein is an Israeli painter, sculptor, draftsman and printmaker.
Gerstein received a broad education: he studied at the Bezalel Academy, then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in New York he continued his studies at the Art Students League, and in 1974 he received a diploma from St. Martin's School of Art in London. He works freely in all media: printmaking, painting, sculpture, drawing, murals and monumental creations.
In the 1970's Gerstein began experimenting with three-dimensional works, leaving cut-out fragments hanging in space. After many innovations, David began creating wall sculptures made with laser cutting and automotive paint. He created his own kind of pop art and gained an international reputation for his signature style with colorful images of numerous cyclists, butterflies, dancers, runners and more. With the advent of computers, he was able to convert his drawings into perfectly formatted patterns that can be faithfully reproduced in a metalworking shop.
And Gerstein's recognizable monumental sculptures can be seen in cities around the world. His street sculpture Momentum is Singapore's tallest public sculpture.
Dmitry Vladimirovich Gorlov (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Горлов) was a Soviet artist of the twentieth century. He is known as a graphic artist, sculptor, illustrator, master of decorative and applied plastic art and is considered the founder of Soviet animalistics.
Dmitry Gorlov is the author of monumental and decorative and easel sculptures, as well as toys made of different materials. He created a fountain and bas-reliefs for the Moscow Zoo, as well as reliefs on the monument to the fable writer I. A. Krylov on the themes of his fables. Gorlov also worked at the Gzhel ceramic factory, creating animal statuettes.
Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism. It was the first book of his Danzig Trilogy, the other two being Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. His works are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension, and Grass was an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The Tin Drum was adapted as a film of the same name, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1999, the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history".
John August Groth was an American illustrator and teacher. He gained recognition as a war correspondent-illustrator, where he incorporated a technique he called the "speed line." He was the first art director of Esquire Magazine and taught at the Art Students League, the Pratt Institute, and the Parsons School of Design. In 1940, he was featured in an exhibition at MOMA, titled, "PM Competition: The Artist as Reporter." He covered six different wars and was one of the first correspondents in Paris after its liberation. Groth illustrated such classic books as: A Christmas Carol, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Grapes of Wrath, The War Prayer, and Gone with the Wind. His work is in collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Wenceslaus Hollar, born on July 13, 1607, in Prague, was a Bohemian artist acclaimed for his etchings and engravings. His journey in art began in Germany, where he studied under the engraver Matthäus Merian. Hollar's career flourished when he moved to England, where he worked for various print sellers and publishers, including the notable John Ogilby and antiquarian Sir William Dugdale.
Hollar is remembered for his intricate and detailed works that include over 2,000 pieces, ranging from classical and historical subjects to portraits, costumes, and topographical scenes. His skill in translating texture into the etched medium was unparalleled, even as he lost most of the sight in one eye. Some of his most significant works include "Views of London," created after the Great Fire of London in 1666, which became valuable historical records of the city.
Tragically, Hollar's life was marked by hardships, including financial struggles and the loss of his young son to the plague. Despite these challenges, his dedication to his craft never waned. He continued to produce high-quality works until his death on March 25, 1677, in extreme poverty. Today, his works are held in high regard and are preserved in prestigious collections such as the British Museum in London and the National Gallery in Prague.
Hollar's legacy is a testament to his exceptional talent and his ability to capture the essence of his subjects with precision and depth. His works continue to be a rich source of historical and artistic knowledge, particularly for collectors, auctioneers, and experts in art and antiques.
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Adi Holzer is an Austrian visual artist, illustrator, draughtsman, painter, graphic artist, glass painter and sculptor of bronze sculptures and glass sculptures. He works alternately in his studios in Værløse in Denmark and Winklern in Austria. In Austria he is a member of the Carinthian Art Association.
Samuel Howitt, full name William Samuel Howitt, was a British artist and illustrator.
Howitt was an amateur artist, but a very hardworking and talented one. For the most part, he painted hunting scenes, racing with horses, and depicted wild exotic animals in tropical landscapes. Howitt was also an engraver, creating many plates from his drawings, and a gifted illustrator, decorating several hunting and sporting books and fables with his drawings.
Bernhard Jäger, born on June 17, 1935, in Munich, Germany, is a multifaceted artist known for his work as a painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Initially pursuing biology between 1956 and 1957, Jäger later shifted to art studies at the Werkkunstschule Offenbach, graduating in 1961. His background in biology notably influenced his artistic career, adding a unique depth and perspective to his creations.
Jäger co-founded the Gulliver-Presse with fellow lithographer Thomas Bayrle, and during this time, he also embarked on a secondary career as a publisher until 1966. His contributions to the world of book art are significant, with some of his illustrated books being awarded the prize "Die schönsten Bücher des Jahres" by the Stiftung Buchkunst in 1970, 1984, and 1994. He is also known for designing thirty book covers for Jorge Luis Borges' "The Library of Babel" published by the Gutenberg Book Guild in 2007.
Besides his contributions to book art, Jäger has held positions as a guest lecturer and head of the evening school at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He also served as a visiting professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Bernhard Jäger is a member of the Darmstadt Secession and a recipient of the Prize of the Heitland Foundation in 1998. His works are included in public collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Klingspor Museum, Offenbach.
For collectors, auctioneers, and experts in art and antiques, Bernhard Jäger's work offers a rich blend of artistic styles influenced by his diverse background. His works, especially his lithographs known as "X-ray graphics," are sought after in the art market.
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Theophilus Johnson was a British artist, amateur naturalist and publisher.
He trained as a clerical worker and then started his own printing business. Johnson had a passion for the natural sciences and spent much time in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London. His drawings and books cover a wide range of topics, from molluscs to mammals, but his main interest was entomology.
Theophilus Johnson's publications on entomology depict the various species of moths found in the British Isles on beautifully colored watercolor sheets, and include illustrations of their larvae as well as the plants they feed on. During his lifetime he illustrated more than 46 volumes with original watercolors.
Pierre Paul Jouve was a French painter, sculptor and illustrator.
Paul was the son of painter and ceramicist Auguste Jouve, as a child he frequented the Jardin des Plantes and the Musée de la Histoire Naturelle de Paris and drew wild cats, which he fell in love with throughout his life. He entered the École des Arts Décoratifs and then the École des Beaux-Arts, exhibiting at the Salons from the age of 16. As part of the World Exhibition in 1900, Zhuv was commissioned by the architect René Binet to create a hundred-meter bas-relief frieze depicting wild animals.
In 1905, Marcel Bing organized the first solo exhibition of Paul Jouve, which featured 64 of his works. In 1907 Juve lived at the villa of French artists Abd el-Tif in Algeria, then went to Greece. After World War I he traveled to the Far East, visiting Ceylon, Saigon in the French colony of Cochinchin (now Vietnam), and Phnom Penh in Cambodia. He then explored the jungles of Africa. Paul Jouve became widely known for his paintings and sculptures depicting the animals of Africa. He was the first recipient of the Abd el-Tif Prize in 1907 and then the Indochina Prize in 1921.
Today, Paul Jouve is best remembered for his depictions of big cats and his illustration of an edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book in collaboration with engraver F.L. Schmid (1873-1941), which was published in 1919. Juve became a director of the Society of Decorative Artists, and he was elected a member of the French Academy of Fine Arts in 1945. Throughout his long life, the artist continued to travel. He visited the United States and Bermuda, which inspired a panel entitled Poisson, which is now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Reims.
Paul Jouve died in his studio in Paris in 1973 at the age of 95.
Nikolay Nikolaevich Karazin (Russian: Николай Николаевич Каразин) was a Russian military officer, painter, and writer, known for his depictions of wars and exotic places. Born in 1842 in Kharkov (now Ukraine), Karazin came from a family of prominent intellectuals, including his grandfather Vasily Karazin, who founded Kharkiv University.
Karazin's career began in the military, where he participated in campaigns against the January Uprising in Poland and in Central Asia. His firsthand experiences in battles, such as the 1868 Bukhara campaign and the 1873 Khiva campaign, greatly influenced his later work as a painter and writer. After retiring from the military, he focused on creating large canvases depicting military actions in Turkestan, as well as writing numerous adventure and ethnographic stories and novels.
Karazin's works, which include "In the Distant Confines" (1875) and "From Orenburg to Tashkent" (1886), reflect his deep engagement with the landscapes and cultures of Central Asia. His children's book "Cranes Flying South" remains popular for its vivid storytelling and illustrations. Karazin also contributed significantly to the visual arts, participating in early designs for the Moscow Metro and becoming an academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1904.
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Georgy Nikolaevich Karlov (Russian: Георгий Николаевич Карлов) was a Soviet artist of the second half of the twentieth century. He is known as a painter, graphic artist and illustrator.
Georgy Karlov began his career by teaching drawing in schools, during the Great Patriotic War he drew anti-fascist and propaganda posters. During his career he illustrated more than 100 children's books, collaborated with the magazine Murzilka and illustrated "adult" satirical works. The artist created realistic depictions of animals with anthropomorphic features and rich facial expressions. His book-textbook "The Image of Birds and Animals" collected the experience of an animalist and filled the gap in the literature on the image of animals.
Edward Kay, or Ed(ward) Kay, is an English painter and illustrator, trained at the Royal Academy School in London.
Kay's work is inspired by art history and kitsch, and he masterfully combines styles. He works in a variety of genres, but the portraits and still lifes in his paintings become suddenly unconventional.
August Köllner (German: Augustus Koellner or Köllner), full name Augustus Theorore Frederick Adam Kollner, was a German and American painter and illustrator, engraver, and publisher.
August Köllner studied painting and lithography in Frankfurt, moved from Germany to the United States, and settled in Philadelphia in 1839. He soon took a job with Huddy and Duvall's U.S. Military Journal. In the 1840s he worked on a series of watercolors, fifty-four of which were published in 1848-51 by the Paris firm of Goupil, Vibert & Co. under the title Views of American Cities.
August Köllner worked on book illustrations, designed various merchandise, and worked for other lithographic firms in Philadelphia until he went into business for himself as a printer and lithographer. He exhibited his drawings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 1865 and 1868.
Alexey Nikanorovich Komarov (Russian: Алексей Никанорович Комаров) was a Russian and Soviet artist of the twentieth century. He is known as a painter, sculptor and animalist.
Alexey Komarov became famous for his illustrations in children's books and graphic works. His works cover a variety of subjects, from landscapes to animals. He has also created posters on a variety of subjects, including children's health care and the defense of the homeland during World War II. Komarov is also known for his watercolors as well as his sculptural works, including animal figures and busts. His works decorate various museums and exhibition pavilions.
Nikolay Nikolaevich Kondakov (Russian: Николай Николаевич Кондаков) was a Soviet artist of the twentieth century. He is known as a graphic artist and animal painter, as well as a scientist-biologist.
Nikolay Kondakov was involved in biological research, working in various research institutes and taking part in expeditions. His significant contribution to science lies in the creation of drawings of fauna representatives. These illustrations were used in publications such as the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, Red Books, animal atlases, and textbooks. Kondakov created tens of thousands of drawings, making him a significant figure in both biology and the art of artistic illustration.
Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert was a German painter, author and illustrator, who specialized in animal images. After illustrating the books of Alfred Brehm, he travelled to German East Africa to observe animals in their habitat and produced numerous paintings that defined Africa for many Germans of the period.
Heinrich Lang was a German battle-painter, illustrator, and writer.
He received his art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and also studied at the veterinary school of the Ludwig-Maximilian University and at local stud farms. Lang was very interested in horses and painted many pictures of them, including battle scenes, scenes from the stables or from the circus.
Maria Langer-Scheller is a German artist who started her artistic career with oil paintings, but later devoted herself to watercolors. She has worked as a graphic designer for Ffluge Blatter and the Merkur newspaper in Dachau, among other publications. In 1914, in Leipzig, she was exhibited at an exhibition of book graphics. She illustrated children's books for the Cassirer publishing house in Berlin. In addition, she created works as an independent artist. Her favorite technique was watercolor. Maria Langer-Scheller has been a member of various artists' associations, including the German Artists' Association, the Munich Artists' Association, the GEDOK and the Dachau Artists' Association. In 1919, she became one of the co-founders of the Dachau Artists' Group, which organized the first exhibition of artists in that city. In addition to her work as an artist, she wrote poems and stories, which she published in daily newspapers, often supplementing them with paper clippings and drawings.
Francis Prout Mahony, also known as Frank Mahony was an Australian painter, watercolorist and illustrator. Mahony became known for his excellent drawings of horses. He worked for The Antipodean, The Sydney Mail and the Australian Town and Country Journal. In addition to his periodical work, he illustrated numerous books, including Where the Dead Men Lie, and Other Poems by Barcroft Boake, While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson and Dot and the Kangaroo, a children's book by Ethel Pedley. His oils were moderately successful. He is best remembered as a capable painter of animals and is represented in the Sydney, Hobart and Wanganui, New Zealand galleries.
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc, a pivotal figure in German Expressionism, remains celebrated for his innovative contributions to 20th-century art. Born in Munich, Bavaria, within the German Empire on February 8, 1880, Marc's journey into the art world was profoundly influenced by his education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His distinct artistic vision is most famously encapsulated in works like "The Tower of Blue Horses", "Yellow Cow", and "Blue Horse I", each radiating with vibrant colors and emotional depth. Marc's affiliation with Der Blaue Reiter, a journal he co-founded, underscored his role in the German Expressionist movement, emphasizing the spiritual and symbolic significance of color in art.
Marc's oeuvre predominantly features animals, presented not merely as subjects but as embodiments of primal purity and emotional resonance. This choice of subject matter, combined with a stark, almost cubist portrayal, allowed Marc to explore themes of spirituality, masculinity (often symbolized by blue), and the tumultuous essence of life itself. His work "Fate of the Animals", which hangs in the Kunstmuseum Basel, exemplifies this thematic exploration, portraying a premonition of chaos and destruction that eerily anticipated the outbreak of World War I.
Tragically, Marc's promising career was cut short by his death at the Battle of Verdun on March 4, 1916, during World War I, where he served in the German Army. Despite his premature demise, Marc's legacy endures through his profound impact on modern art, as seen in his vibrant compositions that continue to captivate audiences in galleries and museums worldwide. His artworks, once labeled as "degenerate" by the Nazis, have transcended this vilification, achieving acclaim and fetching high sums at auction, with "Die Füchse (The Foxes)" reaching a record £42,654,500.
For collectors and experts in art and antiques, Marc's work represents not only a high point in German Expressionism but also a window into the artist's profound belief in the spiritual power of color and form. His legacy is a testament to the enduring allure and significance of early 20th-century modern art. To stay updated on sales and auction events related to Franz Marc's work, signing up for updates offers a direct link to the vibrant legacy of this remarkable artist.
Arvid Mather was a German impressionist and modernist painter, illustrator, and graphic artist.
He studied painting at the Düsseldorf Academy and belonged to Heinrich Nauen's circle. Mather participated in the exhibitions of Junges Rheinland as well as in the Rheinische Secession.
Tatyana Alekseevna Mavrina (Russian: Татьяна Алексеевна Маврина) was a Soviet and Russian artist of the twentieth century. She is known as a painter, graphic artist and illustrator of children's books. Mavrina worked in the genres of portrait, landscape and still life in a style close to primitivism. She boldly experimented with watercolor, gouache and easel graphics.
Tatyana Mavrina is also known as a researcher of folklore. She traveled extensively to distant cities, got acquainted with folk art, made sketches of old architecture. By the drawings of Mavrina later researchers studied the life of the Russian provinces.
For her contribution to the illustration of children's books Mavrina was awarded the State Prize of the USSR, as well as the international literary prize named after HK Andersen. Mavrina's works, as well as her collection of handicrafts are kept in the Russian Museum and the Pushkin Museum.
Hans Meid was a German painter, graphic artist and illustrator.
Meid attended an art and craft school in Karlsruhe, and then at the art academy he became a pupil of impressionist Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917) and realist Walter Kontz (1872-1947). In 1907 the Meissen porcelain manufactory engaged him as a designer; in 1908 he settled in Berlin as a freelance artist. His success was recognized with the Villa Romana Prize (1910) and membership in the Berlin Secession (1911). In 1919 Meid became a lecturer in printmaking at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. In 1927 he was elected a full member of the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, where he also headed the graphic arts workshop.
In the first decades of the twentieth century Hans Meid, together with his close friend Max Slevogt, was one of the leaders of Impressionism. He created an extensive collection of etchings, lithographs and engravings, a large number of illustrations for works of world literature, including Cervantes' Don Quixote, Goethe's Selective Affinity and many others. He designed book covers for 44 publishers (notably Schünemann and S. Fischer). He later added ink drawing, watercolor and oil painting. In 1948 Hans Meid became a lecturer at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, he was also a member of the German Artists' Association.
Gustave Miklos was a sculptor, painter, illustrator and designer of Hungarian origin. An influential sculptor involved with Cubism and early developments in Art Deco, Miklos exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants during the 1910s and 1920s, and in 1925 showed at the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts; the exhibition from which the term "Art Deco" was derived. He became a naturalized French citizen in 1922, and a member of The French Union of Modern Artists (UAM) in 1930. In addition to his painting and sculptural works, Miklos illustrated over thirty books, designed close to 200 bookbindings, numerous posters, in addition to furniture designs.
Adolphe Philippe Millot was a French painter, illustrator, lithographer, and entomologist.
Millot is known for his talented, painstaking and meticulous illustrations of many sections of natural history in the encyclopedia Petit Larus. He was also a senior illustrator for the National Museum of Natural History, a member of the Salon des Artistes de France and the Society of Entomologists of France.