Adrià Pina (born 1959) is a Spanish painter from L'Alcudia, Valencia. Among his honors Pina received the X BMW Spanish painting prize in 1995.[1] Biography Adrià Pina was born in L'Alcùdia on 5 March 1959. He is characterized by a photorealistic language. He has exhibited in New York City, London, Seoul, Barcelona and Madrid.[2] In 1995 Pina received from Queen Sofía of Spain the Medal of Honor awarded to him as well as to another nine artists (including Fabio Hurtado, Elen

Adolphe Féder[a] (16 July 1886 – 13 December 1943) was a Jewish-Ukrainian painter and illustrator. He moved to France in 1908, where he remained until his deportation and subsequent murder at the hands of the Vichy regime. Féder is best-known today for the artwork he produced of those interned with him in the Drancy internment camp.[1] Life Early life and education Born to Jewish-Ukrainian merchant parents, in 1905 Féder found himself involved in the revolutionary Bund Lab

Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (8 December 1815 – 9 February 1905) was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings. Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the two most prominent German painters of the 19th century,[1] and was the most successful artist of his era in Germany.[2] First known as Adolph Menzel, he was knighted in 1898 and changed his name to Adolph von Menzel. His popularity in his native country, owing especially

Jorge Octavio Morel Tavárez (known as Yoryi Morel) was a Dominican painter, musician, and teacher born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic; he is remembered as the leading costumbrista painter in the country and one of the early progenitors of the Dominican modernist school of painting, along with contemporaries Jaime Colsón, Darío Suro, and Celeste Woss y Gil.[2] His style integrated realist and post-Impressionist techniques depicting a range of subject matter

Adolfo Guiard Larrauri (10 August 1860 – 8 March 1916) was a Spanish painter in the Impressionist style. Biography He was born in Bilbao, Spain, one of the fifteen children of Alphonse Guiard, a photographer who had come from France. The family was generally well off, but suffered hard times after his father's studio burned as the result of a shelling during the Third Carlist War. The writer, Nicolás de Viar y Egusquiza [es], has recounted how his (Viar's) mother gav

Eilert Adelsteen Normann (1 May 1848 – 26 December 1918)[1] was a Norwegian painter who worked in Berlin. He was a noted painter of landscapes of Norway.[2] Normann was the artist who invited Edvard Munch to Berlin, where he painted The Scream.[3] Normann's fjord paintings are credited with making the Norwegian fjords a more popular tourist destination.[4] Biography Normann was born in 1848 in Bodin Municipality in Norway. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 186

Erich Carl Hugo Adamson (more commonly known as Adamson-Eric; 18 August 1902 – 2 December 1968) was an Estonian artist who worked mainly within the medium of painting in applied art. Life Erich Carl Hugo Adamson was born 18 August 1902 in Tartu. He was the fourth child of Jaan and Anna Adamson. Adamson attended school at Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in his native Estonia before relocating to Berlin to study at the Charlottenburg Art and Crafts School [de]. After studying in

Adam Kossowski (5 December 1905 – 31 March 1986) was a Polish artist, born in Nowy Sącz, notable for his works for the Catholic Church in England, where he arrived in 1943[1] as a refugee from Soviet labour camps and was invited in 1944 to join the Guild of Catholic Artists and Craftsmen.[2]

Abraham Ángel Card Valdés (March 7, 1905 – October 27, 1924) was a Mexican artist known under his given names Abraham Ángel; he dropped his surnames after his brother Adolfo expelled him from his family home when Abraham Ángel was barely 16.

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1860–1933) was a Hungarian, Jewish artist[1] known for historical and mythological painting, particularly of subjects pertaining to ancient Rome. Some of his major history paintings have been lost, and many of his smaller works were retained by his heirs until the early 1980s. Although he was one of the most successful artists of fin-de-siècle Vienna, these circumstances, along with the rise of Gustav Klimt and the Vienna Secessionists, put his reputatio

Ablade Glover FGA FRSA CV (born 1934) is a Ghanaian painter and educator. He has exhibited widely, building an international reputation over several decades, as well as being regarded as a seminal figure on the West African art scene. His work is held in many prestigious private and public collections, which include the Imperial Palace of Japan, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, and O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, United States. Glover has received several nat

Matija Skurjeni (1898–1990) was a Croatian painter associated with the naïve art movement. He helped to found the Association of Independent

Tyeb Mehta (26 July 1925 – 2 July 2009) was an Indian painter, sculptor and film maker. He was part of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group

Anil Karanjai (27 June 1940 – 18 March 2001) was an accomplished Indian artist. Born in East Bengal, he was educated in Benaras, where his f

František Bohumír Zvěřina (4 February 1835 – 27 December 1908) was a Czech painter. Life Zvěřina was born in Hrotovice. The tenth of t

Karl Felix Eisengräber (7 March 1874, Leipzig - 29 April 1940, Munich) was a German painter. Biography Felix Eisengräber began his stu

Wilhelm Emelé (30 May 1830 Buchen, Odenwald - 11 October 1905 Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German painter of horses, military scenes and hunt

Giovanni Cingolani (1859 - 23 April 1932) was an Italian painter and art-restorer, mainly working with sacred subjects. Biography He w

Ricardo Acevedo Bernal (4 May 1867 – 7 April 1930) was a Colombian portrait painter, composer and photographer. Biography He was born

Robert Charles Goff (1837–1922) was a printmaker and painter who specialised in topographical scenes. As an etcher he was strongly influence