Austrian, 20th century, male.
Born 10 March 1871, in Waidhofen-am-Ybbs; died 19 May 1956, in Vienna.
Painter, sculptor, engraver, illustrator. Genre scenes. Toys.
Art Nouveau.
Secession group.
Andri studied under Julius Berger and Edouard Lichtenfels at the Venice Academy, then, from 1892, under Claus Meyer at Karlsruhe Academy, before returning to settle in Venice. In ...
(b Minas de Ríotinto, Huelva, Jan 12, 1871; d Vera de Bidasoa, Navarra, 1953).
Spanish printmaker, painter and writer . He was self-taught. He belonged to the Generación del 98 and the modernist literary movement. He began engraving in 1901 and won second prize at the Exposición Nacional, Madrid (1906), going on to win first prize in 1908. He also began etching c. 1908, and it became his favourite technique, although he also made lithographs. Both his prints and paintings have a literary content and focus thematically on life’s human aspects in a way reminiscent of the work of Toulouse-Lautrec. He illustrated Rubén Darío’s Coloquio de los centauros. Despite their lack of fine detail, his prints are realistic, for example Bar Types (etching and aquatint, c. 1906–9; Madrid, Bib. N.) and Beggars (etching and aquatint, c. 1910; Madrid, Bib. N.). His impressionistic painting style of the 1920s became more roughly worked later, possibly due to the loss of an eye in 1931. In ...
Swiss, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 31 July 1863, in Rolle (Vaud); died 1948, in Lausanne.
Painter, engraver, decorative artist. Figure compositions, figures, portraits. Murals, designs for stained glass, furniture.
Art Nouveau.
Ernest Bieler was the uncle of André Charles Bieler. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger. He divided his time between the mountainous regions of the Valais and the shores of Lake Geneva; his body of work evokes the everyday life of the peasant communities in the Valais and the Canton of Vaud at the beginning of the twentieth century. Bieler was commissioned to paint compositions for the ceiling of the Victoria hall in Geneva; decorative panels and windows for the federal government building in Bern; stained glass windows for the Vevey church of St-Martin; and decorations for the vintners' festival. Additionally, he exhibited woodcut engravings and designed furniture....
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active also active in Japan.
Born 1860, in Paris; died 1927.
Painter, engraver (etching), illustrator, poster artist.
Japonisme, Art Nouveau.
At a very young age, Georges Ferdinand Bigot trained under Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) and Carolus-Durand (1837-1917) at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He learnt etching with Félix Buhot and collaborated on the journal ...
(b Hamburg, Sept 14, 1876; d Pansdorf, nr Lübeck, May 13, 1954).
German painter, printmaker, poster and stage designer. He attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg (c. 1894), and art academies in Düsseldorf and Berlin (c. 1897). In the first decades of the 20th century he exhibited with the New Secessionists. He drew and painted still-lifes and figures in landscapes and interiors in a strongly Expressionist style, which revealed his admiration for Cubism and for the work of Ferdinand Hodler. He was an assiduous worker; besides paintings, woodcuts and lithographs, he designed stained-glass windows, mosaics (e.g. Kaiser Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, Berlin), murals and painted ceilings. He also decorated the interiors of a number of Berlin theatres, as well as the Marmorhaus cinema (1913). Klein and Gerhard Marcks joined Gropius to organize the 1914 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Cologne.
In the post-World War I ferment of cultural and political activity, Klein, with Max Pechstein and others, founded the Novembergruppe in Berlin in ...
(b Brooklyn, NY, Oct 27, 1877; d White Plains, NY, July 13, 1949).
American painter, illustrator and lithographer. As an organizer of the Armory Show (1913) alongside Arthur B. Davies, he played an integral role in unveiling European modernism to the USA. While he painted landscapes of Maine, Cézanne-inspired still lifes and a series based on the American West, his expressive portraits of circus and vaudeville performers remain his best-known works.
In 1901, he trained at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, but soon transferred to the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich where he studied under Barbizon painter Heinrich von Zügel (1850–1941) until 1903. Upon returning to New York in 1903, he worked as an illustrator for publications such as Life and Puck, exhibited at the Salmagundi Club (1905) and organized artists’ balls for the Kit Kat Club. Working in an Impressionist style, he participated with Robert Henri in the Exhibition of Independent Artists (1910)....
Dutch, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 26 November 1876, in Utrecht; died 1958, in Blaricum-Amsterdam.
Painter, potter, lithographer. Murals, designs for stained glass.
Groups: De Stijl, Abstraction-Création.
Bart van der Leck started out working for various glassmakers in his native Utrecht before going on to attend the college of industrial arts (where he studied under A.J. van der Kinderen) and then the royal academy of fine arts in Amsterdam. He lived in Amersfoort ...
Danish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 9 July 1872, in Copenhagen; died 1956.
Painter, engraver. Figures, portraits, genre scenes, landscapes.
Symbolism, Art Nouveau.
Einar Nielsen lived and worked in Gjern, a small town in Jutland, between 1894 and 1900. He participated in the Parisian exhibitions, especially the ...
Swiss, 19th century, male.
Born 11 May 1850, in Basel; died 1 June 1901, in Riehen.
Painter, watercolourist, lithographer. Genre scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures.
Art Nouveau.
Hans Sandreuter spent three years in Basel completing his apprenticeship in lithography. It would seem that he continued his studies in Würzburg and Verona. He was a pupil of Franz Xaver (?) Barth at the academy of fine arts in Munich and of Arnold Böcklin, whom he accompanied to Florence in ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 24 October 1883, in New York; died 18 November 1945, in Brandenburg.
Painter, engraver, draughtsman, decorative designer. Figures. Designs for ceramics, stage sets.
Jugendstil, Art Deco.
Paul Scheurich studied at the arts academy in Berlin from 1902 to 1904. In ...
Russian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 7 January 1865, in St Petersburg; died 22 November 1911, in Moscow.
Painter, illustrator, designer. Mythological subjects, genre scenes, portraits, landscapes. Stage sets.
Art Nouveau, Symbolism.
Peredvizhniki (Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions), Abramtsevo Artists’ Colony.
The son of the composer Alexander Serov and the musician Valentina Bergman, ...
Peruvian, 20th century, male.
Born 1941, in Lima.
Painter, engraver.
Art Nouveau group.
In 1960, José Tang enrolled at the school of fine arts in Lima remaining there for three years. He also studied engraving in Rio de Janeiro. On his return to Lima in ...
