French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 27 May 1873, in La Varenne-St-Hilaire.
Draughtsman, humorist, poster artist, illustrator.
Jack Abeillé collaborated on many newspapers and publications. He participated in collective exhibitions dedicated to humorous art, both in France and abroad. Most notably, he was one of the illustrators of ...
German, 20th century, male.
Born 26 August 1882, in Berlin; died 4 July 1939, in Berlin.
Draughtsman, illustrator, poster artist, caricaturist.
Symbolism, Jugendstil.
Hermann Abeking was still very much influenced by the Jugendstil, and particularly by Aubrey Beardsley and Jan Toorop. He worked on several German magazines, including the ...
French, 20th century, female.
Born 13 August 1937, in Paris.
Painter, draughtsman.
Achimsky studied at a school of graphic art and began her working life as a draughtswoman in advertising and the cinema. She began to paint in 1972 and exhibited at group exhibitions in Paris and in the provinces. She exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Automne from ...
Russian, 20th century, male.
Active from 1923 and naturalised in France.
Born 15 May 1898, in Saki; died 21 January 1980, in Paris.
Painter, engraver, graphic designer, illustrator. Portraits, circus scenes, landscapes, still-lifes, flowers.
Michael Adlen settled in Vienna when still very young, attended art school there and started exhibiting. In ...
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1966, in New York.
Graphic artist, photographer.
Amy Adler studied at the Cooper Union in New York, receiving a BFA there in 1989. She also studied at the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin, Germany, in 1987. She obtained a MFA from University of California (Los Angeles) in ...
Romanian, 20th century, male.
Active in Israel from 1960.
Born 24 July 1912, in Romania.
Painter, engraver. Portraits, landscapes, animals.
Oswald Adler settled in Bucharest in 1934 and worked in advertising and graphic design. He trained late: he attended the academy of applied arts in Vienna in ...
Cuban, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1947, in Pilon.
Engraver, lithographer, graphic designer.
Roger Aguilar graduated from the school of artistic education in Cuba in 1965. He has taken part in collective exhibitions since 1967. In 1975 he was awarded first prize for lithography at the National Engraving Salon. He works as a graphic artist for the Ministry of Culture....
Austrian, 20th century, female.
Born 1937, in Traun.
Painter, pastellist, engraver, illustrator.
Having followed courses in calligraphy and typography at the fine art school in Linz, Helga Aichinger taught herself painting and engraving. From 1960 she executed woodcuts, pastels, collages, children's books and dolls. She exhibited in Vienna, Linz, Traun, Prague, Istanbul and Ankara and took part in collective exhibitions in Bologna, Bratislava, Belgrade, Beirut and at the Menton Biennale. Aichinger was awarded 'The Most Beautiful Books' diploma by the city of Vienna in ...
Belgian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1948, in Antwerp.
Painter, watercolourist, graphic designer. Figures.
Roger van Akelyn evokes the anguish inherent in the human condition, sometimes using quasi-surrealist imagery.
Ukranian, 20th century, male.
Born 16 April 1901, in Khar'kov (now Kharkiv); died 16 September 1968, in Moscow.
Painter, stage designer, graphic artist, theatre director.
Nikolay Pavolovich Akimov studied under Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Aleksandr Yakovlev and Vasily Shukhayev in St Petersburg from 1915 to 1919. He worked as a stage designer in Kharkiv ...
Lebanese, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active also active in France.
Born 1962, in Saïda.
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator. Figures, portraits.
This artist is a self-taught book and magazine illustrator who divides his time between Beirut and Paris. He has exhibited drawings and paintings at one-man shows in Beirut (since ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 7 August 1924, in Paris.
Painter, poster artist, illustrator. Designs for tapestries.
In 1944, Pierre Alary studied under Brianchon at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He exhibited work from 1950 at the Salon d'Automne, from 1965 at the Salon Comparaisons, and showed work at the Salon des Peintres Témoins de Leur Temps from ...
Italian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in France since 1990.
Born 8 February 1957, in Parma.
Painter.
Stefano Alberici uses thickly laid on paint to produce abstract compositions of stripes and fairly basic graphic marks. His work has appeared in collective exhibitions in several countries, and in solo shows in Parma, Paris and Milan since ...
Romanian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1849, in Romania; died 11 November 1906, in Paris.
Painter, draughtsman, poster artist. Landscapes, waterscapes.
Hugo d'Alesi was known principally for his colour posters. He undertook a lot of work for railway companies, producing tasteful depictions of picturesque places in France and abroad....
American, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 1968, in Buffalo (New York State).
Painter, graphic artist.
Laylah Ali studied at Williams College, obtaining degrees in studio art and English literature. She also studied with the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She received a master's degree in fine art from Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, in ...
Italian, 18th – 19th century, male.
Active at the end of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century.
Engraver, illustrator.
Aliprandi was a line and stipple engraver and illustrator who engraved a number of Fragonard subjects, together with scenes of the Revolution (in the manner of Le Barbier) and several portraits of Louis XVIII (after A. du Morrona). He also illustrated the Venice Almanach of ...
French, 20th century, female.
Painter, illustrator. Figures, fruit. Stage costumes and sets.
A graduate of the École des Arts appliqués, Géraldine Allier started out as a graphic illustrator in the advertising and publishing industries. With the help of Louis Bercut, with whom she worked for several years, she then started making her own sets and costumes: ...
German, 20th century, male.
Active in America.
Born 1909, in Dessau.
Painter.
Heinz Allner trained at the Bauhaus between 1927 and 1930, notably under Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. He settled for a time in Paris in 1933, where he worked in graphic art and typography, disciplines he had acquired at the Bauhaus. He remained in Paris until ...
Turkish, 20th century, male.
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, graphic artist. Posters, book covers.
Yurdaer Altintas founded the Turkish Association of Graphic Designers. He produces paintings that take their inspiration from Turkish folk tales or shadow theatre. Altintas has created numerous posters for the theatre. He painted the illustrations for ...
9th century, male.
Miniaturist.
Identified in the dedication to the Vivian Bible (now preserved in Paris) as a co-illustrator along with Sigvaldus and Aregarius.
