Archip Ivanovič Kuindži | Paesaggista

Nel 1913 Il’ja Repin disse su Archip Kuindži:

"L’illusione della luce era il suo dio, e non c’era artista capace di raggiungere questa meraviglia della pittura in egual misura".

Archip Ivanovič Kuindži (Архип Иванович Куинджи; Mariupol', 27 gennaio 1842 - San Pietroburgo, 24 luglio 1910) è stato un pittore Russo, specializzato in soggetti paesaggistici e di origine dai greci del Ponto, detti anche pontici o greci del Mar Nero.

Friedrich Kaulbach | Portrait / Historical scenes painter

Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Kaulbach (8 July 1822 - 17 September 1903) was a German painter from Bad Arolsen, Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont.

His father was Christian Kaulbach (1777-1847), a cabinet maker in Arolsen.

He was also the cousin and at one time the student of the painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach, son of Philipp Karl Friedrich v. Kaulbach (1775-1846), goldsmith and amateur painter.

Franz Xaver Petter | Still life of flowers

Franz Xaver Andreas Petter (23 October 1791 - 11 May 1866) was an Austrian artist.

Petter was born in Lichtental; his father was a painter of porcelain, and it was intended that he should follow in the same profession, but Petter developed an interest in oil painting.

He studied under Johann Baptist Drechsler at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

François Barraud | Figurative painter

François Barraud (24 November 1899 - 11 September 1934) was a Swiss painter.

Barraud was the second eldest of four brothers who all painted or sculpted at various points in their lives.

The brothers, François, Aimé, Aurèle and Charles, were largely self-taught artists having been raised as professional plasterers and house painters.

Barraud attended evening classes at the local art school in 1911 together with his brothers.

Georg Macco | Orientalist painter

Georg Macco (23 March 1863, Aachen - 20 April 1933, Genoa) was a German landscape painter and illustrator, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

He is primarily known for his Orientalist works.

He was inspired by stories of his great-great-uncle, the history and portrait painter Alexander Macco, who painted a portrait of the Queen of Prussia and was a close friend of Beethoven and Goethe.

Adolf Dietrich | Naïve painter

Adolf Dietrich (November 9, 1877 - June 4, 1957) was one of the most renowned Naïve artists and Swiss painters of the 20th century.

Adolf Dietrich was born to poor farmers in the canton of Thurgau as the youngest of 7 children.

Upon discovering his exceptional graphical talents, his schoolteacher suggested that he become a lithographer.

His parents, however, refused since he was needed as a farmhand.

Ernst Samuel Geiger | Landscape painter

Ernst Samuel Geiger ((Turgi, 1876 - Villeneuve, 1965)) was a Swiss painter and woodcutter.

Geiger was the son of the wine merchant Ulrich and Sophie, née Schwarz. His sister Marie was the mother of Max Bill.

From 1892 to 1896 Geiger attended the Alte Kantonsschule Aarau, where he was a classmate of Albert Einstein and received drawing lessons from Max Wolfinger.

Josef Schuster (1873-1945) | Still Life painter

Josef Schuster (July 26, 1873 in Vienna-Heiligenstadt - February 8, 1945 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter.

He was the son of a railway official and painter and brother of the painter Karl Maria Schuster.

After a year of private lessons, Josef Schuster studied as a guest from 1895 to 1897, then as a regular student until 1904 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Christian Griepenkerl and Kazimierz Pochwalski.

Joseph Schuster | Still life of flowers

Joseph Schuster (June 17, 1812 in Grätz, Austrian Silesia - March 15, 1890 in Vienna) was an Austrian flower painter.

He is not to be confused with the painter Josef Schuster (1873-1945).

Joseph (Josef) Schuster moved to Vienna with his family when he was a child, where he attended the first two classes of high school.

Raymond Wintz (French, 1884-1956)

Raymond Wintz (Joseph Raimond Wintz) was a Paris-born painter and engraver whose most famous paintings were of marine and coastal views in Brittany.

He is best known for his painting The Blue Door, which is still widely available as a poster and print.

Life

Raymond Wintz was born on 25 March 1884.

He was the son of the painter Guillaume Wintz (1823-1899) and the husband of the painter Renée Carpentier-Wintz (1913-2003).

Raymond Wintz | The Blue Door, 1927

Pio Joris | Genre painter

Pio Joris (8 June 1843 - 6 March 1921) was an Italian painter, engraver and watercolorist.

Pio Joris was born in Rome and attended the Istituto di Belle Arti as a child.

In 1861, he enrolled at the Accademia di San Luca, where he remained for just a year.

On a visit to the 1st Esposizione Nazionale di Belle Arti of Florence in 1861, he was attracted by the naturalistic works from the Naples school.

Alexandra Savina, 1962 | Cubist painter

Alexandra Savina was born and brought up in Kiev, Ukraine and graduated from the Fine Art School and Teachers College (Department of Art).

She worked as an art teacher and designer.

In 2005, Aleksandra came to Canada and currently resides in Toronto.

She was mesmerized by the beautiful landscapes of her new country and home, and these landscapes have become her new source of inspiration.

Pierre-Joseph Redouté | The Raphael of flowers

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 - 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Château de Malmaison, many of which were published as large, coloured stipple engravings.

He was nicknamed "the Raphael of flowers" and has been called the greatest botanical illustrator of all time.

Redouté produced over 2,100 published plates depicting over 1,800 different species, many never rendered before.

Redouté was an official court artist of Marie Antoinette, and continued painting through the French Revolution and Reign of Terror.

He survived the turbulent political upheaval to gain international recognition for his precise renderings of plants, which remain as fresh in the early 21st century as when first painted.

Dmitri Spiros, 1971 | Pittore Impressionista astratto

Dmitry Spiros è un artista impressionista contemporaneo, cresciuto nell'Asia centrale.

Attualmente vive e lavora in Messico.

Spiros ha iniziato a studiare pittura nel 1992 e ha conseguito il diploma cinque anni dopo.

Il genere preferito di Spiros è il paesaggio urbano ed astratto.

Michel Devanakis, 1962 | Figurative painter

Michel Devanakis is a contemporary figurative painter. He lives and works in Athens, Greece.

- "Restless autodidact, adventurer and traveller, making art to live and share my own moments of wonder and happiness!Works held in private collections in Canada, France, Greece and Italy.

Born and raised in Douala (Cameroon) from Greek parents, I studied Graphic Design and advertising in France.

In the years following my studies, I lived and worked in many countries (France, Bermuda, Mexico, Canada) before settling in Greece in 1997, where I founded my own agency.

I have been awarded for my design works and have been the art director for numerous magazines (+Design, Insider Athens, Bonjour, etc.)".