Hans Herrmann | Genre painter
Johann Emil Rudolf Herrmann, known as Hans (8 March 1858, Berlin - 21 July 1942, Berlin) was a German landscape and genre painter. He specialized in scenes of the Netherlands.He studied at the Prussian...
View ArticleLouise Glück | Sunset / Tramonto
La mia grande felicitàè il suono che fa la tua vocechiamandomi anche nella disperazione; il mio doloreche non posso rispondertiin parole che accetti come mie.... Read more .. »
View ArticlePaul Merwart | Genre painter
Paul Merwart, or Paweł Merwart (25 March 1855, Marianivka, Kherson Governorate, Ukraine - 8 May 1902, Saint-Pierre, Martinique) was a French-Polish illustrator and painter; mostly of portraits and...
View ArticleVictor Hugo | "Guai a chi avrà amato solo corpi.."
From: Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862"Guai a chi avrà amato solo corpi,forme, apparenze. La morte glitoglierà tutto. Cercate di amarele anime. Le ritroverete".Odd Nerdrum | Bright nightsI miserabili...
View ArticleLori Putnam, 1962 | Modern Impressionist painter
Modern Impressionism stretches the boundaries with artists painting in styles ranging from near realism to almost abstraction. Putnam’s work is closer to the latter.Recognized for her expressive...
View ArticleJosé Benlliure y Gil | Genre painter
From: Museo Carmen Thyssen MálagaJosé Benlliure was born in Cañamelar, a seaside village in Valencia, on 30 September 1855.The son of a modest painter and decorator and brother of the sculptor Mariano...
View ArticlePedro Salinas | Ciò che tu sei.. / Lo que eres.. / What you are..
Ciò che tu seimi distrae da ciò che tu dici.Lanci parole velociinghirlandate di risa,e m’inviti ad andaredove mi vorranno condurre.Fabian Perez... Read more .. »
View ArticleWenzel Tornøe | Genre painter
Wenzel Ulrik Tornøe (1844-1907) was a Danish genre painter. Tornøe was the son of birch judge Jens Wenzel Tornøe (1792-1866) and Eleonore Jakobine - born Lacoppidan (1797-1872).From 1861-65, he studied...
View ArticleGotthardt Kuehl | Impressionist painter
Gotthardt Kuehl (28 November 1850 - 9 January 1915) was a German painter and a representative of early German Impressionism. He gained wide international recognition during his lifetime.His father,...
View ArticleVincent van Gogh | Orchard in Blossom
Vincent van Gogh | Peach Trees in Blossom, April 1888 | Courtauld Gallery, LondonThis is van Gogh’s last view of a plain outside Arles that he often painted since settling in the south of France in...
View ArticlePedro Salinas | Non rifiutare i sogni / Don’t reject dreams / No rechaces los...
Non rifiutare i sogni in quanto sogni.Tutti i sogni possonoesser realtà, se il sogno non finisce.La realtà è un sogno. Se sogniamoche la pietra è la pietra, quello è la pietra.A correre nei fiumi non è...
View ArticleJohn Donne | Il sogno / The Dream
Per nessun altro, amore, avrei spezzatoquesto beato sogno.Buon tema per la ragione,troppo forte per la fantasia.Sei stata saggia a svegliarmi. E tuttaviatu non spezzi il mio sogno, lo prolunghi.Tu così...
View ArticleEva Bonnier (1857-1909)
Eva Fredrika Bonnier (1857-1909) was a Swedish painter and philanthropist.Born in Stockholm as the daughter of publisher Albert Bonnier and a member of a leading family of publishers, Bonnier studied...
View ArticleHanna Pauli | Genre painter
Hanna Hirsch, later Hanna Pauli (Stockholm, 13 January 1864 - 29 December 1940, Solna), was a Swedish painter; primarily of genre scenes and portraits.Hanna Hirsch was a daughter of music publisher...
View ArticleFritz Syberg | Naturalist painter
Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Syberg, generally known as Fritz Syberg, (28 July 1862, Fåborg - 20 December 1939, Kerteminde) was a Danish painter and illustrator, one of the or Funen Painters...
View ArticleHerbert Davis Richter | Floral still life painter
Herbert Davis Richter (1874-1955) was born in Brighton 10th May 1874. His family moved to Lansdown on the outskirts of Bath and it was at the Bath School of Art that Richter studied Furniture Design...
View ArticleRobert Högfeldt | Watercolor cartoonist
Gustaf Robert Högfeldt was born in 1894 in Eindhoven, Netherlands and died in 1986 in Stockholm.He was a painter, primarily known for his watercolours.His pictures often feature comical and...
View ArticlePhilippe Mercier | Rococo painter
Philippe Mercier (also spelled Philip Mercier; 1689 - 18 July 1760) was an artist of French Huguenot descent from the German realm of Brandenburg-Prussia (later Kingdom of Prussia), usually defined to...
View ArticleMary Quant | The birth of miniskirt
"The sixties mini was the most self indulgent, optimistic 'look at me, isn't life wonderful' fashion ever devised. It expressed the sixties, the emancipation of women, the Pill and rock 'n' roll. ......
View ArticleHarvey Dinnerstein | Figurative painter
Harvey Dinnerstein (April 3, 1928 - June 21, 2022) was a figurative artist and educator.A draftsman and painter in the realistic tradition, his work included genre paintings, contemporary narratives,...
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