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Arcabas  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 1926, in Frémery (Moselle).

Painter, sculptor, decorative designer. Figure compositions, religious subjects, landscapes. Murals, church decoration, designs for mosaics and stained-glass windows, stage sets, stage costumes.

Arcabas studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and also had a degree. He was a friend of the painter Dimitri Varbanesco. He exhibited in numerous towns in France and abroad. From ...

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Batbedat, Vincent  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 17 August 1932, in Poyanne (Landes).

Sculptor, draughtsman. Monuments, jewels.

Neo-Constructivism.

Vincent Batbedat settled in Paris in 1950 and studied at the École Spéciale d'Architecture and then at the École des Beaux-Arts while attending the Académie Julian. In this period he concentrated on sculpture. In ...

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Bichweiler, Hermann Robert  

German, 19th – 20th century, male.

Potter, sculptor, architect. Jewellery.

Jugendstil.

Hermann Robert Bichweiler was active between 1872 and 1893 in Hamburg, where he had his own studio. His ornaments are characteristic of a specific style peculiar to Hamburg.

Hamburg (Mus. für Kunst und Gewerbe)

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Blatas, Arbit  

Lithuanian, 20th century, male.

Active in France from 1933 then in the USA.

Born 19 November 1908, in Kaunas; died 27 April 1999.

Painter, sculptor. Portraits, interiors with figures, landscapes, still-lifes. Stage sets, stage costumes, monuments.

The pupil in Russia in a Soviet school for artistically gifted children, Arbit Blatas exhibited for the first time in Lithuania in 1933, then in Germany when he was studying at the academy in Berlin. He settled in Paris around 1933, and spent some time between 1940 and 1948 in the USA where many museums had acquired his works....

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Bury, Pol  

Belgian, 20th century, male.

Active since 1961 active in France.

Born 26 April 1922, in Haine-St-Pierre; died 27 September 2005, in Paris.

Sculptor, collage artist, photomontage artist, monotype artist, illustrator. Designs for jewellery, monuments.

Kinetic Art.

Groups: Hainaut Surrealist group, Haute Nuit, Madí, CoBrA.

Pol Bury first stayed in France between 1929 and 1932. In 1938 he attended the academy of fine arts in Mons. In 1940 he made his debut in Surrealism with a journal entitled ...

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Dampt, Jean Auguste  

French, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 2 January 1854, in Venarcy; died 26 September 1945, in Dijon.

Sculptor, furniture designer, jeweller. Busts, statues, groups.

Jean Auguste Dampt studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, and then under Jouffroy and Dubois at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris....

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Demassieux, Francis  

Belgian, 20th century, male.

Born 1932, in Ukkel.

Sculptor, painter, draughtsman, decorative designer, jeweller.

Demassieux's figurative sculptures in bronze, terracotta, polyester and silver have a stripped aspect in their manner of representing human movement through space.

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Derain, André  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 10 June 1880, in Chatou; died 10 September 1954, in Garches, as the result of an accident.

Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, pastellist, draughtsman (red chalk/charcoal/ink), sculptor (including bronze), engraver (wood/metal), lithographer, illustrator. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, nudes, hunting scenes, scenes with figures, horse racing scenes, landscapes, waterscapes, landscapes with figures, urban landscapes, seascapes, architectural views, still-lifes, flowers, fruit...

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Domenika  

German, 20th – 21st century, female.

Active since 1973 active in France.

Born 1954, in Biberach.

Painter (mixed media). Stage costumes.

Conceptual Art.

From 1968, Domenika corresponded at length with the German sculptor Josef Beuys. In 1975 she met Rüdiger. She has exhibited in 1974, in Milan; ...

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Edel, Alfredo  

Italian, 19th – 20th century, male.

Active in France.

Born 1859, in Codogno; died 16 December 1912, in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.

Painter, watercolourist, sculptor. Stage costumes, figurines.

Edel made figurines and theatre costumes. He worked for Coquelin, Sarah Bernhardt, the Comédie Française and Barnum in Paris, as well as the Olympia Theatre in London and La Scala in Milan....

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Erté  

Russian, 20th century, male.

Active from 1910 in France.

Born 1892, in St Petersburg; died 21 April 1990, in Paris.

Painter (including gouache), sculptor, draughtsman, illustrator, stylist, decorative designer. Stage costumes and sets, designs for jewellery, furniture.

Art Deco.

The son of an admiral in the Imperial navy, Erté was a pupil of Ilya Repin in St Petersburg. He went to Paris at the age of eighteen, apparently attended the Académie Julian and was admitted to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Jean-Paul Laurens' workshop. He began his career in 1913 with the couturier Paul Poiret. From that year onwards, he designed stage costumes for Mata-Hari, Mistinguett and Gaby Deslys and in 1914 he worked for the journals ...

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Filhos, Jean  

French, 20th century, male.

Born 10 March 1921, in Le Mas-d'Agenais (Lot-et-Garonne); died 25 August 2002, in Bourges (Cher).

Sculptor, worker in precious metals. Objets d'art, jewels.

Jean Filhos's study of architecture was interrupted by World War II, and by his activity in the French Resistance ...

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Gallaway, Mary Louise  

American, 20th century, female.

Active in France.

Born 1942, in Houston.

Sculptor, ceramicist, pastellist, jeweller. Monuments.

Mary Louise Gallaway has lived and worked in France since 1971. She received a master's degree in art from the University of Paris in 1988. She studied ceramics in Japan, under Matsatsugu Hitomi, and engraving at the Pratt Graphic Art School, New York. She runs the École d'Arts Plastiques in Suresnes near Paris. In ...

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General, David M.  

Canadian First Nations (Oneida), 20th–21st century, male.

Born 1950, in Oshweken (in Ontario).

Sculptor (stone/bronze/wood). Masks, jewellery.

David General grew up on the Grand River Reserve in Southern Ontario. He worked as a schoolteacher before deciding to become an artist after a trip to the Manitoulin Island Reserve, which inspired him to use visual art to promote his Native American heritage. He is a self-taught artist and briefly worked as a painter before turning exclusively to sculpture in the mid-1970s after meeting Bill Reid. Throughout his career he has been heavily involved in working for First Nations (Native American) rights: he co-founded and chaired the Society of Canadian Artists of Native Ancestry (SCANA), has been the coordinator for the Department of Indian Affairs art collection and was an elected representative, and latterly Chief (...

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Goncharova, Natalia  

Russian, 20th century, female.

Born 4 June 1881, in Ladyzhino; died 17 October 1962, in Paris.

Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, pastellist, draughtswoman (including charcoal), sculptor, engraver, illustrator, decorative artist. Local scenes, figures, portraits, scenes with figures, landscapes, animals, flowers, still-lifes (flowers/fruit), costumes. Stage sets.

Symbolism, Rayonism...

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Gosen, Philipp Theodor von  

German, 20th century, male.

Born 10 January 1873, in Augsburg; died 1943, in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), or Berlin.

Sculptor, medallist. Busts, statuettes, designs (jewels).

Jugendstil.

Between 1892 and 1899, Philipp Theodor von Gosen studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich under the supervision of W.V. Rümann. In ...

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Gris, Juan  

Spanish, 20th century, male.

Active from 1906 in France.

Born 23 March 1887, in Madrid; died 11 May 1927, in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

Painter (gouache), watercolourist, sculptor, draughtsman, newspaper cartoonist, engraver (etching), lithographer, illustrator, mixed media artist. Figures, portraits, landscapes, urban landscapes, still-lifes, flowers. Stage sets, stage costumes...

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Haozous, Robert (Bob)  

Native American (Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache), 20th–21st century, male.

Born 1 April 1943, in Los Angeles.

Sculptor, painter, printmaker, jewellery maker.

The Chiricahua Apache artist Bob Haozous, son of the well-known Apache sculptor Allan Houser (Haozous is the indigenous name which became Houser when anglicised), is a noted figure in his own right, having the distinction of contributing work to two Venice Biennales (...

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Indiana, Robert  

American, 20th century, male.

Born 13 September 1928, in New Castle (Indiana).

Painter, sculptor. Stage sets, stage costumes, posters.

Pop Art.

Robert Indiana trained at the John Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, in 1945 and 1946, then at the Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica (New York), Art Institute of Chicago from 1949 to 1953, Skowhegan School of Painting (Maine), University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art, and then in London. Afterward, he travelled to Mexico, Europe, and the interior of the USA. In 1958, he moved to New York and, in 1978, settled in Vinhalven, on an island in Maine....

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Jones, Allen  

British, 20th century, male.

Born 1937, in Southampton, England.

Painter, sculptor, draughtsman. Scenes with figures, figures. Stage sets, stage costumes.

Pop Art.

Allen Jones studied painting at Hornsey College of Art from 1955 to 1959 and from 1960 to 1961 (the intervening year was spent at the Royal College of Art in London). He travelled to Paris in 1958, where he discovered the work of Robert Delaunay. He taught in the USA in the mid-1960s, and then returned to live and work in London. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1981 and a full member in 1986.

Allen’s earliest sculptural compositions feature warm colours and forms circled with haloes of paler tints. Initially reminiscent of Braque, his work later evolved in the direction of Pop Art, using vivid colours applied to everyday subjects such as a representation of a ‘bus together with its speed’, sometimes defined by drawing from the repertory of Conceptual Art. In ...