Impressionist
Giuseppe Abbati was an Italian painter of the second third of the 19th century. He is known as a painter who belonged to the group of Italian patriot artists called Macchialloli.
Abbati created paintings in a free style of painting with bright spots of color, characteristic of the Macchiaioli style. His works are characterized by a bold treatment of lighting effects. Characteristic of Abbati's artistic style is the luminous landscape scene seen through the doorway of a darkened interior. Some of the master's landscapes are executed in a strongly elongated horizontal format.
Louise Abbéma was a French artist of the late 19th century and the first third of the 20th century. She is known as a painter, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor of the so-called "Belle Epoque" of European history and was considered "the official painter of the Third Republic.
As a painter, Louise Abbema worked primarily in portrait and thematic genres in oil and watercolor techniques. As a designer, she created decorative panels for theaters and administrative buildings. The artist also collaborated with art magazines, publishing drawings and articles in them.
Lucien Adrion was a French post-impressionist painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He is known for his depictions of the French countryside and beaches, as well as of Parisian life, including landscapes, still lifes, figures and landmarks.
Throughout his career, Adrion exhibited his work at the Salons in Paris, where he was praised for his ability to capture the movement and transience of city life.
Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa was part of the second generation of the Hague School painters. Akkeringa is primarily known for his paintings and watercolours of women and playing children at the beach, women mending nets and intimate tea-time conversations.
Manuel Khristoforovich Alajalov (Russian: Мануил Христофорович Аладжалов) was a Russian and Soviet artist of Armenian origin. He is known as a painter, graphic artist, teacher and is considered one of the significant continuers of the traditions of the Russian landscape school of the first third of the twentieth century.
Manuel Alajalov in his works revealed the beauty of nature of central Russia. One of his favorite motifs were winter rural landscapes. The painter painted with thick pastose strokes, striving to preserve the impression of natural spontaneity and freshness of color.
Alajalov was a member of various creative associations, he was one of the founders of the Union of Russian Artists.
Antonio Ambrogio Alcati was an Italian academic painter, portraitist, master of frescoes and teacher. He studied painting at the Vercelli Institute of Fine Arts and the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
Ambrogio Alcati's work is also influenced by Impressionism.
August Allebé was an artist and teacher from the Northern Netherlands. His early paintings were in a romantic style, but in his later work he was an exponent of realism and impressionism. He was a major initiator and promoter of Amsterdam Impressionism, the artist's association St. Lucas, and the movement of the Amsterdamse Joffers. Amsterdam Impressionism – sometimes referred to by art historians as the School of Allebé – was the counterflow to the very strong Hague School in the movement of Dutch Impressionism. As a professor at the Royal Academy of Amsterdam (Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten) he fostered a cosmopolitan attitude toward art and the promotion and motivation of his students, and provided a significant stimulus to developments in modern art.
William Herbert Allen was an English landscape watercolour artist whose career spanned more than 50 years from the 1880s to the 1940s. He was invariably referred to as «W. H.» rather than by his given name. He produced several thousand watercolours, chalk and pencil sketches mainly of the landscapes, traditions and people of West Surrey and North-east Hampshire. In addition, he produced scenes of other parts of the British Isles and various parts of continental Europe. These works included commissions in Italy for the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dublin, Edinburgh and Preston museums. He was made a member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1903 and the Royal Society of British Artists in 1904 and his work was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1927.
Otto Altenkirch was a German impressionist painter and stage designer. He studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.
Otto Altenkirch was one of the founders of the Künstlervereinigung Dresden, one of the artists who worked at the Dresden Museum and the Opera House.
For two decades one of his favourite subjects was the linden alley in Rheinsberg. In 1941 and 1943 his works were exhibited in the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung (exhibition of Nazi-approved art in Munich).
Nikolay Andreyevich Andreyev (Russian: Николай Андреевич Андреев) was a Russian and Soviet sculptor and graphic artist, a theater artist, a member of the Association of the Wanderers. He is known as a portraitist and author of monuments to writers and revolutionary figures, as well as the founder of the "Leniniana": the artist created about 100 sculptural and 200 graphic images of Vladimir Lenin.
Nikolay Andreyev over the course of his career worked in different styles - both impressionism, symbolism, and realism. He also turned to neoclassical stylization and art nouveau, and adhered to academism when creating theatrical scenery.
Charles Angrand was a French painter and draftsman known for his Pointillist style and depictions of rural life. Born in Normandy, Angrand moved to Paris in his youth to study art. He was initially influenced by the Realist and Impressionist movements, but later developed his own style of Pointillism, which he applied to landscapes, cityscapes, and genre scenes.
Angrand's Pointillist technique involved the use of small, distinct dots of color that, when viewed from a distance, blended together to create the impression of a more vibrant and luminous image. His work often focused on the people and landscapes of rural France, and he was particularly interested in the effects of light and atmosphere on his subjects.
Angrand exhibited his work at many important exhibitions, including the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne in Paris. He was also involved in the Neo-Impressionist movement, which sought to explore the scientific principles of color and optics in painting.
Despite his contributions to the development of Pointillism, Angrand's work was largely forgotten after his death, and it was not until the mid-20th century that he began to be rediscovered by art historians and collectors. Today, his paintings are represented in many important collections, including the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Fyodor Vasilievich Antonov (Russian: Фёдор Васильевич Антонов) was a Soviet and Russian artist of the twentieth century. He is known as a painter, graphic artist, textile artist, teacher, and professor.
Fyodor Antonov created landscapes, portraits and thematic compositions. In his genre works he immortalized the life and life of Soviet youth, as well as the formation of industry in the USSR. During the Great Patriotic War, the artist created portraits of heroes, as well as posters with a simple and direct pictorial form. Antonov's works are in various museum collections, including the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum and many private collections.
Anatoly Afanasyevich Arapov (Russian: Анатолий Афанасьевич Арапаов) was a Russian and Soviet artist of the first half of the twentieth century. He is known as a painter, graphic artist, theater and film artist.
Anatoly Arapov designed plays in the leading theaters in major cities of the Russian Empire, and then the USSR, and in 1920-1930 he worked at the film studios of Moscow and Leningrad, participating in the creation of the most popular films of those years. As a painter, Arapov made his way from Symbolism and Constructivism to Socialist Realism. Among the genres in which he worked are portrait, still life, landscape with views of ancient parks and ancient Russian architecture.
Avigdor Arikha (Hebrew: אביגדור אריכא) was a Romanian-born French–Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian.
Arikha painted directly from the subject in natural light only, using no preliminary drawing, finishing a painting, pastel, print, ink, or drawing in one session. His profound knowledge of art techniques and masterly draughtsmanship enabled him to abide by this principle of immediacy, partly inspired by Chinese brush painting.
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).
Friedrich August Baer was a German painter who initially pursued law but turned to painting after being inspired by Eduard Schleich's work. He was a self-taught artist who received guidance from Adolf Lier and Hermann Baisch. Baer was a member of the Munich Art Association and exhibited his works in various exhibitions across Germany and Austria. He became interested in painting high mountain landscapes and was occasionally misunderstood for his unique style. Baer was also a writer and book illustrator and received several medals and awards for his artistic achievements.
Albert Baertsoen was a Belgian painter, pastellist and graphic artist. His debut as a painter came in 1887, when he participated in an exhibition in Brussels held by the secessionist group l'Essor. He continued his studies in Paris, at the art school of Alfred Philippe Roll, and exhibited at the Salon in 1889. In 1894, he helped found the "Cercle des Beaux-Arts d'Ostende". From 1896 to 1901, he continued to exhibit throughout Europe, winning several Gold Medals. In 1913, he served as a member of the art jury for the Ghent World's Fair. During World War I, he lived in London, returning to Ghent in 1919. That same year, he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
Sattar Bahlulzade (Russian: Саттар Бахлул оглы Бахлулзаде) was a 20th-century Azerbaijani Soviet landscape painter. He is known as a painter, graphic artist, landscape painter and caricaturist.
Bahlulzade created lyrical landscapes praising Azerbaijani nature, which were characterized by realism and detail. As a classical landscape painter he was especially famous for his second period of creativity (1940-1960). The artist's paintings were closely intertwined with the traditions of Azerbaijani art, and in the last years of his life the influence of Neo-Impressionism was manifested. Bahlulzade also created graphic works, including still lifes.
World museums preserve about 150 paintings and 30 graphic works by this artist.
Hermann Baisch was a German painter of the second half of the 19th century. He is known as a landscape painter.
Baisch found inspiration for his landscapes in the neighborhoods around Munich. He often depicted livestock in his paintings, which created a cozy and warm atmosphere. The artist preferred to work en plein air, and his works showed the influence of French Impressionism. His most successful works, in particular, are considered to be "Cows in the pasture", "Morning", "Near Dortrecht at low tide", "On the Dutch Canal".
Baisch was a member of the academies of fine arts in Berlin, Munich and Vienna, as well as a professor at the Art School in Karlsruhe.
Vasily Nikolayevich Baksheyev (Russian: Василий Николаевич Бакшеев) was a Russian and Soviet artist of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. He is known as a painter and teacher.
Vasily Baksheyev became famous as the author of genre scenes, including revolutionary themes. But the main genre of his work throughout his career was the landscape. In this genre the artist combined impressionistic manner with lyrical symbolism.
Baksheyev was a member of several creative associations and was one of the organizers of the Association of Realist Artists.
Myron G. Barlow was an American painter and illustrator known for his genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes. He was began his artistic training at the Art Institute of Chicago. Later, he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, where he was influenced by the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements.
Barlow worked as an illustrator for various publications, including Harper's Weekly, Scribner's Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post. He also taught at the Art Students League in New York City.
Barlow's paintings often depicted everyday life, with a focus on working-class people and their surroundings. His use of color and light gave his paintings a sense of warmth and intimacy.
Barlow was a member of several art organizations, including the National Academy of Design, the Society of American Artists, and the American Watercolor Society. He received numerous awards and honors during his lifetime, including a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.
Today, his paintings can be found in several museums and institutions, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Brooklyn Museum in New York City.
Hans von Bartels was a German painter.
Bartels is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Although an oil painter of great power, he is also one of the leading German water-colour painters, mainly of marines and scenes of fishing life, painted with rude vigour and a great display of technical skill. Bartels made a great contribution to the development of the watercolour. He was the first to use watercolour paint of large formats without the earlier conventions. From 1887 Von Bartels came every summer to the Dutch coast, especially to Katwijk aan Zee, to paint the fisherfolk and their labour. He excels in storm scenes and in depicting the strong, healthy fishing-folk of the northern coasts. He became an honorary member of leading English, German, Dutch, Belgian and Austrian art societies.
William Henry Bartlett was an Irish-born British painter and member of the Royal Society of British Artists. He painted a large number of pictures of the hard life of the common people of Ireland, as well as many coastal and rural landscapes of this rugged country.
Emil Bartoschek was a German painter and Bauhaus-artist.
Bartoschek's later work turned back to the modern painting and produced a large quantity of impressionistic, abstract, expressionist and surrealist oil paintings, drawings, watercolors, tempera paintings, charcoal, chalk and graphite drawings.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Baskakov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Баска́ков) was a Soviet and Russian artist. He is known as a realist painter, a representative of the Leningrad school of painting.
Nikolai Baskakov painted thematic pictures on military, historical-revolutionary and industrial themes, as well as portraits, landscapes, etudes from life. He worked in technique of oil painting and drawing. In pictures-portraits the artist achieved a deep inner drama, the disclosure of the significance of historical events and the image of a contemporary. He achieved a special expressiveness of the image, including a landscape in the composition of the thematic paintings or a portrait.
Moritz Bauernfeind was an Austrian painter, graphic artist, illustrator and cartoonist.
Moritz studied at the Academies of Fine Arts in Vienna and Munich, then at the Académie Julian in Paris, early landscapes painted in the style of Impressionism.
Bauernfeind gained fame in the early 20th century as an illustrator of political satire, notably in Meggendorfer's Humorous Notes and Der Flo. Between 1900 and 1905 he published more than 200 satirical drawings in Der Scherer and Simplicissimus, and in 1909 a series in the Illustrirten Zeitung in Leipzig. And color illustrations for fairy tales and legends were eagerly published by juvenile and many other publications. Bauernfeind's fantastic genre images with stylized figures and a touch of burlesque attract with their unusualness and mystery.
Leonardo Bazzaro was an Italian painter who worked mainly on landscapes and vedutas. He studied painting at the Brera Academy in Milan.
Leonardo Bazzaro is considered one of the leading representatives of Lombard naturalism.
James Carroll Beckwith was an American landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Naturalist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth and very early twentieth century as a respected figure in American art.
Adalbert Franz Eugene Begas is a German painter and portrait painter. In 1862, Adalbert followed his brother, the sculptor Reinhold, to the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Art in Weimar, where he began working in the workshop of Arnold Böcklin.
Xu Beihong (Chinese: 徐悲鴻; Wade–Giles: Hsü Pei-hung; 19 July 1895 – 26 September 1953), also known as Ju Péon, was a Chinese painter.
He was primarily known for his Chinese ink paintings of horses and birds and was one of the first Chinese artists to articulate the need for artistic expressions that reflected a modern China at the beginning of the 20th century. He was also regarded as one of the first to create monumental oil paintings with epic Chinese themes – a show of his high proficiency in an essential Western art technique. He was one of the four pioneers of Chinese modern art who earned the title of "The Four Great Academy Presidents".
George Wesley Bellows was an American painter and lithographer known for his bold, energetic depictions of urban life and sports. He was studied at the Ohio State University and the New York School of Art under Robert Henri.
Bellows' early works were influenced by the Ashcan School of American art, which focused on the gritty reality of urban life. He became known for his vivid depictions of street scenes, tenements, and the working-class people of New York City.
Later in his career, Bellows began to focus on sports as a subject matter, particularly boxing and baseball. His paintings of boxers are some of his most famous works and are admired for their powerful compositions and dramatic lighting.
Bellows was also an accomplished lithographer, producing a large number of prints during his career. He was a member of the National Academy of Design and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Today, his works can be found in several museums and collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Vasiliy Vasiliyevich Belyashin (Russian: Василий Васильевич Беляшин) was a Russian and Soviet artist, graphic artist, and painter of the Silver Age. He is known as a portrait painter, landscape painter, printmaker, and illustrator. As a painter, the artist was especially famous for his series of self-portraits.
Vasiliy Belyashin worked mainly in the impressionist style.
Pavel Petrovich Benkov (Russian: Павел Петрович Беньков) was a Russian and Soviet artist of the first half of the twentieth century. He is known as a painter, graphic artist, theater decorator, and teacher.
Pavel Benkov created portraits, landscapes, cityscapes, genre paintings. His style in his mature years can be described as impressionist, with attention to color and light. In 1929 he moved to Central Asia, where his style took on unique characteristics, reflecting local landscapes and culture. His work has had a significant influence on the painting traditions of Uzbekistan and Central Asia.
Jean Béraud was a French painter renowned for his numerous paintings depicting the life of Paris, and the nightlife of Paris society. Pictures of the Champs Elysees, cafés, Montmartre and the banks of the Seine are precisely detailed illustrations of everyday Parisian life during the "Belle Époque". He also painted religious subjects in a contemporary setting.
Mikhail Andreevich Berkos (Russian: Михаил Андреевич Беркос) was a Russian and Ukrainian artist of Greek origin at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is known as a painter, graphic artist and teacher.
Mikhail Berkos worked mainly in the genre of landscape, being under a strong influence of Impressionism. In his works he often referred to the theme of Ukrainian nature. The painter used oil and water color techniques. A characteristic feature of his manner of painting was a round, dotted, dense brushstroke, creating a shimmering, vibrating surface.
Mario Bettinelli was an Italian painter.
At the beginning of his artistic career Mario Bettinelli focused on allegorical subjects and women's portraits. And during the thirties and especially after the Second World War, he devoted himself to depicting the Lombard landscape.
Tom Beyer is a German artist.
Beyer studied at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts, traveled throughout Europe, in 1931 opened a studio in Berlin and joined the Communist Party. Although the National Socialists who came to power in Germany in 1937 forbade him to exhibit, from 1939 to 1945 Beyer took part in World War II as a Wehrmacht soldier.
After the war, Beyer led an active social and artistic life. He was also a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and became its chairman in 1950. As a member of the SED, Beyer reflected in his works the socialist construction in his country, depicting nature and people. He created a large mural for the Löwenschen Saal hall in the Stralsund town hall. From 1972 he taught part-time at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art.
Robert Beyschlag was a German painter of the 19th century. He is known as a painter, famous for his paintings of mythological subjects and portraits of women.
Beyschlag early in his career created genre paintings depicting the medieval era, but later turned his attention to mythology, a prime example of which is the oft-repeated depiction of Psyche in his works. Inspired by Romanticism, the artist also created pastoral subjects with peasant women and shepherdesses. His work was characterized by optimism, theatricalization and idealization of characters, as well as rich colorism. He also created frescoes for the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, depicting scenes from the history of the Crusades.
François Joseph Binjé, known as Frans or Franz Binjé (dit Frans ou Franz Binjé) was a landscape painter who depicted rural views. He painted in oil, watercolour and pastel.
François Joseph Binjé was self-taught, later becoming a teacher. His realistic style was eventually influenced by Impressionism. He participated in regional exhibitions from 1874, as well as international exhibitions (Berlin 1869 and Paris 1900). Two of his works appeared in the catalogue of the Giroux Gallery in 1927. He is widely represented in the collections of the Walloon Art Museum in Liège.
