Dino Valls is a Spanish painter born in 1959 in Zaragoza. Building on a childhood passion for drawing, Valls taught himself to paint in oils beginning in 1975. After completing his degree in Medicine and Surgery in 1982, Valls devoted himself full-time to the profession of painting. As one of the Spanish representatives of the vanguard of figurative art, Valls' work displays the strong influence of past masters and their studies of the human being. In the early '90s, Vall

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

Carlos Enríquez Gómez (August 3, 1900 – May 2, 1957), was a Cuban painter, illustrator and writer of the Vanguardia movement (the Cuban Avant-garde). Along with Víctor Manuel, Amelia Peláez, Fidelio Ponce, Antonio Gattorno, and other masters of this period, he was involved in one of the most fertile moments in Cuban culture. He is considered by critics to be one of the best, and most original, Cuban artists of the 20th century. Enríquez strove to develop a genuinely Cuban st

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

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

Bertram Schmiterlöw (20 January 1920, Karlskrona–28 December 2002, Stockholm) was a Swedish painter, printmaker, draughtsman and sculptor. Bertram Schmiterlöw's artistry extends through more than five decades and is characterized by figurative, expressive and colorist works where light and surface jointly create the setting. The themes are often of a desolate, dreamy atmosphere where people are portrayed more as staffage figures rather than as the primary subject matter of th

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

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

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

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

Arturo García Bustos (August 8, 1926 – April 7, 2017) was a Mexican painter and print maker. He is known as one of “Los Fridos” students who studied under Frida Kahlo at her home in Coyoacán.[1] Arturo García Bustos was born in Mexico City, near the Zócalo. He grew up during the time when Mexican muralism was dominant, which drew him to art. After attending high school at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria Núm 1, specializing in architecture, he entered the Escuela Nacional de

Anton Stefanov Mitov (Bulgarian: Антон Стефанов Митов; 1 April 1862, in Stara Zagora – 20 August 1930, in Sofia) was a Bulgarian painter, art critic, art historian, social activist and corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Biography When he was fifteen, Ottoman troops burned his hometown and massacred over 14,000 people. His family fled to Svishtov, where they lived in poverty. He took a job as a clerk in Romania and remained there until Bulgaria was li

Antoni Reichenberg (7 June 1825, Gorlice, Austrian Empire – 23 January 1903, Ternopil, Austria-Hungary) was a Polish priest, Jesuit, and artist. He took care of orphans and the poor in Ternopil.[1] Biography In 1848, he participated in the Hungarian Revolution.[2] Reichenberg studied painting in Budapest and the Munich Academy of Arts, graduating in 1862. During his studies, he was friends with Jan Matejko.[2][3][4] He studied theology in Munich and Przemyśl, where he was

Anton Gvajc ( 21 August 1865 - August 3 1935) was a Slovene painter.[1] The majority of his work is genre and landscape painting. He also worked as a teacher in Gorica, Trieste and Maribor.