Nicola Simbari (1927-2012) | Abstract painter

Nicola Simbari was an Italian painter.

Though born in San Lucido, Calabria, Nicola Simbari was raised in Rome, where his father was an architect for the Vatican.

He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and in the 1940s he began devoting himself to painting in a studio at Via del Babuino in central Rome.
He began to develop a distinct style stemming from impressions of life, nature and the Mediterranean, impressions which abstractly reflect themselves in the purely vivid and passionate colors of his work.

Franz Eybl | Reading girl, 1850

Franz Eybl (1 April 1806 - 29 April 1880) was an Austrian painter.

Eybl was born in the Viennese suburb of Gumpendorf at Große Steingasse 136 (today Stumpergasse 55).

By 1816, at the age of ten, he had already entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, studying under Josef Klieber and Josef Mössmer.

Between 1820-1823 he studied under Johann Baptist von Lampi and Franz Caucig, reproducing antique statues and casts.

Eugene de Blaas | Gipsy Girl

Eugene de Blaas, also known as Eugene von Blaas or Eugenio Blaas (24 July 1843 - 10 February 1931), was an Italian-Austrian painter in the school known as Academic Classicism.

Carlo Perindani (Italian Impressionist painter, 1899-1986)

Italian painter⏭ Carlo Perindani (1899-1986) was born in Milan, in Corso Garibaldi, and had only ever seen the sea once, as a child, with the eyes of someone who dreams of liberty while he is a prisoner; and for a long time he kept tight hold of it in his heart to give himself strength.

Perindani lived for a while on the Italian island of Capri which is famous for its beautiful coast line.

Kurt Anderson, 1957

Anderson è un pittore ad olio che lavora in molti generi: floreale, paesaggio, figurativo e ritratto.

I suoi dipinti sono stati esposti in molte delle principali gallerie e musei del paese e hanno ricevuto il massimo dei voti in molti concorsi nazionali tra cui Oil Painters of America, Open Market National ed International Artist magazine.

Anderson è autore o coautore di otto libri sulla pittura, incluso il suo libro più recente "Expression by Design - The Art of Kurt Anderson".

Armand Guillaumin | Landscapes in Crozant

Armand Guillaumin (February 16, 1841 - June 26, 1927) was a French impressionist painter and lithographer.

Guillaumin was called the leader of the École de Crozant, a diverse group of painters who came to depict the landscape in the region of the Creuse around the village of Crozant.

Erté | Art Déco painter / sculptor

Romain de Tirtoff /Роман Петрович Тыртов (1892-1990) was a Russian / French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté.

Tirtoff was born as Roman Petrov de Tyrtov in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire in a very distinguished family with roots traced back to 1548.

His father Pyotr Ivanovich de Tyrtov was a Fleet Admiral.

In 1910-1912 Romain moved to Paris to pursue a career as a designer.

This decision was made over strong objections of his father, who wanted Romain to continue a family tradition and to become a naval officer.