Bolesław Barbacki (10 October 1891 – 21 August 1941) was a Polish painter. In World War II he was arrested by the Gestapo and shot

Carl Johan Fahlcrantz (29 November 1774 – 29 November 1861) was a Swedish painter.[1] Biography He was born in the Stora Tuna Parish of Dalarna, Sweden. He was the son of Johan Fahlcrantz and Gustafva De Brenner. His father was a vicar in Kungsåra parish. His brothers were the sculptor Axel Magnus Fahlcrantz (1780–1854) and the theologian Christian Eric Fahlcrantz (1780–1866). His great-grandfather Elias Brenner (1647–1717) was an artist and draftsman. His great-grandmo

Cathcart William Methven FRSE (24 September 1849 – 30 August 1925) was a Scottish civil engineer who was Engineer-in-Chief at Greenock on the Clyde, and appointed in 1888 as Harbour Engineer in Durban. Besides being an architect and able musician, he was, unusually, a gifted landscape artist and produced many fine paintings of Natal scenery. He founded the Durban Art Gallery in 1892.[1][2]

Carl Eneas Sjöstrand (11 September 1828 – 14 February 1906) was a Swedish sculptor who worked for over 40 years in the Grand Duchy of Finland.[1][2] Biography Sjöstrand was born at Stockholm, Sweden. He was the son of painter Carl Johan Sjöstrand (1789–1857) and his wife Johanna Sofia Morberg. He first trained at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts with Carl Gustaf Qvarnström (1810–1867). In the 1850s, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and

Carlos Federico Sáez (14 November 1878, Mercedes – 4 January 1901, Montevideo) was an artist from Uruguay. Biography He was born into a wealthy family in the city of Mercedes in western Uruguay. By the age of 13 he was producing outstanding paintings and drawings. In 1891 he moved to Montevideo to study with the painter Juan Franzi. The well-known painter Juan Manuel Blanes recommended that Sáez go to study in Italy, which was a fairly common practice for wealthy young

Boris Eremeevich Vladimirski, (February 27, 1878 – February 12, 1950), was a Soviet painter of the Socialist Realism school. Life and work Vladimirski was born in Kiev, Ukraine.[1] He began his artistic studies at age 10, later attending the newly established Kiev Art College (1900-1904) where he studied with Ivan Seleznyov, followed by the Academy of Arts and the Anton Ažbe School in Munich (1904-1908). He exhibited his first painting in 1906.[2] As an official Soviet art

Louis-Auguste Veillon (29 December 1834, in Bex – 5 January 1890, in Geneva) was a Swiss painter, noted for his Orientalist works. Life and career After obtaining a degree in Reformed theology in Lausanne, he joined François Diday at his studio in Geneva, where he primarily painted seascapes and mountain scenes from the Bernese Oberland. In 1858, he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. While in Paris, he spent a considerable amount of time in the Louvre, copying

Anton Hansch (24 March 1813 – 8 December 1876) was an Austrian landscape painter.[1] His work is included in the permanent collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum,[1] the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest;[2] the Salzberg Museum,[3] the Lichtenstein Museum Princely Collection,[4] the Vienna Museum[5] among other institutions. Early life Hansch was born in Vienna on 24 March 1813, to a family who ran a fashion and artificial flower factory. They considered this a part of hi

Alfréd Justitz (19 July 1879 – 9 February 1934) was a Czech Modernist painter and illustrator. Biography Justitz was born on 19 July 1879 in Nová Cerekev, Bohemia. He was one of three sons born into a Jewish family; their father was a medical doctor and their mother a homemaker.[1] His first contact with art came in Jihlava, where he met the aspiring painter, Roman Havelka, who was two years his senior. As a result, Justitz decided to pursue a creative career and began by

Biography Minns was born in Dungog, New South Wales, the son of Bridget Murray (c. 1846 – c. 1924), who married George E. Minns (born c. 1842) in 1869. They lived in Inverell,[3] where Minns had lessons in painting and drawing. Intending to have a career in law, Minns went to Sydney and worked for the law firm Abbot & Allen. However, he met the artist Charles Conder with whom he shared a studio. Minns then studied under Lucien Henry at Sydney Technical College, also taking l

Celso Lagar Arroyo was a Spanish painter. In the late nineteenth century, he was one of the first generation Spanish expressionist painters from the School of Paris, where he lived most of his life. He was influenced greatly by Cubism or Fauvism.[1][2][3] Biography Celso Lagar Arroyo was born in a small cathedral city Ciudad Rodrigo. In his early days, he went to Madrid to be part of the workshop of one of the best sculptors of the moment, Miguel Blay. During 1910 and 1911 h

Carl Frederik Stanley (c. 1738 – 9 March 1813) was an English-Danish sculptor, a leading proponent of early Neo-Classicism in Denmark. Early life and education Carl Frederik Stanley was born the son of Simon Carl Stanley, a sculptor of English descent who had been born in Denmark but moved to England. In 1746 the family returned to Denmark. After first training with his father, Carl Frederik Stanley became one of the first students to enter the new Royal Danish Academy of F

Atul Basu (22 February 1898 – 10 July 1977) was an Indian painter. [1] He was an expert in portraying realistic landscapes, portraits and village scenery. He used oil colors for painting. [2] [3] Early life and education Atul was born in 1898 at Mymensingh in the then Bengal Presidency . He spent his childhood in Mymensingh town. He started his primary education in the National Council of Education, Mymensingh branch. Then he studied in Jubilee Art Academy of Kolkata. The

Anton von Maron (8 January 1733 – 3 March 1808, Rome) was an Austrian painter who specialized in portraits. Life and work Maron was born on 8 January 1733, in Vienna, to painter Johann Leopold Maron (1696–1770) and his wife Anna Catharina (née Schuster). From 1741 to 1744, he was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he trained under Karl Aigen. He also studied with Daniel Gran.[1] In 1755, Maron moved to Rome. In 1754, Anton Raphael Mengs became director

Antoni Caba i Casamitjana (1838 – 25 January 1907) was a Spanish painter who worked in the Realistic style and is best known for his portraits. Biography Antoni Caba was born in Barcelona. He attended the Escola de la Llotja during the 1850s, where he studied with Pau Milà i Fontanals and Claudi Lorenzale. Supported by a stipend from the school board, he later attended the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, where his primary instructor was Federico de

August Christian Valdemar Hassel (9 February 1864 – 30 May 1942) was a Danish sculptor. Early life and education Hassel was born in Copenhagen, the son of captain and mechanic Johan Fridolin Hassel and Doris Henriette Eickhoff. He apprenticed under stucco artist and carver H.C. Berg from August 1879 and graduated from Copenhagen Technical College in January 1882. He graduated from the School of Decorative Arts on 25 May 1886. He later continued his training at the Royal Dan

Antonio Brugada (1804 – 1863) was a Spanish painter. Brugada is best known for his dramatic seascapes. He studied in the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando de Madrid between 1818 and 1821. Between 1820 and 1823 he was part of the National Military of Madrid. He sought asylum in France in 1823, and he established himself in Bordeaux, where he met Francisco Goya.[1] Brugada was instrumental in cataloging and identifying some of the mythological figures in Goya's c. 1823 Black

Antonio Cabral Bejarano (31 October 1798 – 1 August 1861) was a Spanish painter, considered to be an adherent of both the Europe-wide Romantic painting and the specifically Hispanic painting school of Costumbrismo. His ancestors for several earlier generations were painters, and he was initially trained by his father. He was mainly active in his native city of Seville, getting many commissions from its municipal government. He was the first Director of the Museum of Fine Arts

Count August Zamoyski (28 June 1893 – 19 May 1970) was a Polish sculptor, member of groups Bunt and Formiści. Zamoyski was an author of stone compositions in simplified and geometrised form. His first works were influenced by French cubism and Italian futurism. In 1920s he developed his own, monumental style in which he referred to Classicism. In his last period, Zamoyski was an author of expressive religious works. Selected works Ich dwoje (c. 1917) Leopold Zborows

Artúr Lajos Halmi (1866–December 3, 1939) was a Hungarian painter who has several works on display in the Hungarian National Gallery.[1][2] A student of Mihály Munkácsy,[3] he was internationally famed for his portraits. His portraits of opera singers led a 1979 history of the Metropolitan Opera House to note that "What Van Dyck was to the Stuart kings, Artur Halmi was to the sopranos of the first third of this century. He was the prima donna's best friend".[4] He received me