Playwrights Contemporary art
Arthur Fauser was a German painter, graphic artist and playwright.
Arthur Fauser learned to draw virtually on his own, fulfilling graphic commissions. In 1934 he took part in anti-fascist organizations, was a soldier during World War II, and afterwards returned to art.
Since 1946, he has written radio plays and plays. Fauser also worked with black-and-white and color woodcuts and lithographs, depicting still lifes and landscapes. Later, along with watercolor and oil painting, etching became his favorite medium.
He was the father of the writer Jörg Fauser (1944-1987).
Jovan Mihailović is a Serbian and American musician, artist and writer.
Jovan Mihailović was born and raised in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, where he and his family survived the Nazi occupation and the transition to communism. From a young age, he demonstrated artistic ability and began to draw, paint and play the violin. He studied at the Belgrade Theater Academy, worked as a playwright in Yugoslavia and traveled throughout Western Europe as a folk musician before immigrating to Sweden, Canada and finally Chicago in 1971.
Jovan was an active member of Chicago's creative community for four decades, writing dozens of novels, plays, and short stories, as well as performing music in restaurants and cafes. He also created many hundreds of drawings and paintings that are full of emotionally intense images from the artist's mystical universe of beauty.
Raimonds Staprans is a Latvian-born American artist and playwright living in San Francisco, California.
He emigrated from Latvia to the United States in the mid-1940s, and studied art at the University of Washington and the University of California, Berkeley.
Staprans is best known for his depictions of ordinary everyday objects, such as paint cans, chairs and cabinets, which are painted in bright colors and set against a monochromatic background. His work balances on the edge between realism and abstraction. Staprans has also gained recognition as a playwright, having written several plays on the theme of "the Soviet occupation of Latvia.
