Ahmad Madoun was a Syrian artist. He was born in Palmyra in 1941 and died in a car crash in 1983.[1] He became distinguished in the field of plastic arts in Syria. He studied art privately. His home city inspired many of his paintings. His painting Celebration provides a sample of his style. His works are visible in the national museum in Damascus-Culture Ministry. Special collections of his works are found in, Syria Egypt Germany America France Switzerl

Agustín Esteve y Marqués (May 12, 1753 – 1830) was a Spanish painter, mainly active in the Royal household in Madrid. Biography Agustín Esteve was a portraitist to the Spanish Crown, who was influenced by Francisco Goya, including numerous copies of portraits by the great master. Among his masterworks is the portrait of the Countess of San Andrés de Parma. Condesa de Lerena, Mª Josefa Piscatori Díaz de Lavandero (ca.1800). Esteve was born in Valencia, in the province of th

Agostinho José da Mota (18 June 1824 – 21 August 1878) was a Brazilian painter and teacher. Biography He was born in Rio de Janeiro. His inclination for art emerged early in childhood. In 1837 he enrolled in the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. He was a brilliant student and received the prize of travel to Europe in 1850. He lived in Rome from 1851 to 1855, and studied under the guidance of French landscape painter Jean-Achille Benouville.[1] Returning to Brazil in 1859 he

Afanasy Prokopievich Razmaritsyn (Russian: Афанасий Прокопиевич Размарицын; 1844 in Ukraine? – 1917 in Odessa) was a Russian-Ukrainian historical genre painter associated with the Peredvizhniki. Biography He was born to a noble family, probably somewhere in Ukraine. Originally, he was employed at the Odessa office of the State Bank of the Russian Empire. He was fond of making pencil sketches of his friends, who told him he should take up art professionally.[1] In 1874, he l

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 Pierre Sunaert, Adolphe Sunaert or Adolf Sunaert (Ghent, 27 November 1825 – Ghent, 17 April 1876) was a Belgian painter, printmaker, teacher and author.[1] He played a role in the organization and conservation of the art collections of the city of Ghent.[2] Life Adolphe Pierre Sunaert was born in Ghent where he trained as a civil engineer at the local School of Civil Engineering and obtained a diploma of teacher of the middle school. At the creation of a special sch

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

Ādams Alksnis (10 March 1864 – 21 March 1897) was a Latvian painter. He is one of the first painters who started to paint daily scenes from Latvian peasant life. Biography Alksnis was born on 10 March 1864 in Vecalkšņi homestead, Mazsalaca parish (now Valmiera Municipality), Kreis Wolmar, Livonian Governorate however he was raised in Rūjiena where his father opened a book store. He graduated from a local municipal school and traveled to Riga to study art. He studied dra

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

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