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Swiss, 17th – 18th century, male.
Born 15 August 1666, in Sursee; died 1740.
Painter, glass painter. Religious subjects, genre scenes. Glass painting.
He was the most distinguished member of his family, and examples of his work - generally subjects taken from history or the Old Testament - are not uncommon. He also painted genre scenes....
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German, 15th century, male.
Active in Wiener Neustadt.
Painter, glass painter.
Hans Ableger worked as apprentice to the painter Konrad Herer and bequeathed a sum of money to him in his will. He was invited to work at the court of Emperor Frederick III in ...
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French, 20th century, male.
Born in Angers; died 1943.
Painter. Designs for stained glass.
Michel Acézat was a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts in Angers. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in the decorative art section, where he obtained an honourable mention. He particularly specialised in the restoration and reproduction of 13th- and 16th-century stained glass windows....
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German, 15th century, male.
Active in Ulm.
Painter, glass painter. Religious subjects.
Acker belonged to a family of artists from Ulm. He is known to have produced religious paintings for the chapel of St Leonard in the church in Risstissen. They carry his signature and are dated ...
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Courtney Ann Shaw
(b Fort Plain, NY, Oct 27, 1925; d San Francisco, 2006).
American tapestry artist, painter and stained-glass designer. Adams studied painting at Syracuse University and with Hans Hoffmann in New York, where he was influenced by the medieval tapestries in the Cloisters and also by the work of Matisse. In the 1950s Adams was apprenticed to the influential French tapestry designer Jean Lurçat, from whom he learnt the bold colours and clear imagery that characterize his work. He also studied at the Ecole Nationale d’Art Décoratif in Aubusson before beginning to use a series of workshops, notably that of Marguerite and Paul Avignon, who wove his first nationally acclaimed tapestry, Phoenix and the Golden Gate (1957). Flight of Angels (1962) was exhibited at the first Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie in Lausanne. In 1976 his cartoon of California Poppies (San Francisco, CA Pal. Legion of Honor) was woven for the Five Centuries of Tapestry exhibition at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, as a demonstration piece. Later tapestries, for example ...
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Dutch, 17th century, male.
Active in Delft.
Glass painter, painter (glazed earthenware).
In 1620, Filps van Adrichhem joined the Guild of St Luke.
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Dutch, 16th century, male.
Born 1482, in Wyck; died 1577, in Antwerp.
Painter. Religious subjects. Designs for stained glass.
Richard Aertsz. was the son of a poor Dutch fisherman. His leg was amputated after having been badly burned and, as a result, he chose a profession that could accommodate his handicap. Due to his remarkable talent he was sent to study with Jan Mostaert the elder, who was then a successful artist in Haarlem. The young Aertsz. was reportedly likable and witty, and these personal qualities and his exceptional circumstances were perhaps a factor in making him a favoured student. It is certainly true that when Aertsz. left Mostaert his work showed a talent superior to that of his master. His first work was a painting of scenes from the life of Joseph, which he produced on the panel flaps of the high altar in the main church of Haarlem. He then went to Antwerp, and was made a member of the town's Academy in ...
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Christine Mullen Kreamer
(b Jan 25, 1930; d Lomé, Jan 4, 2010).
Togolese painter, sculptor, engraver, stained glass designer, potter and textile designer. Beginning in 1946, he received his secondary education in Dakar, where he also worked in an architecture firm. He travelled to France and received his diplôme supérieur from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. A versatile artist, Ahyi is best known for his murals and for monumental stone, marble and cement public sculptures. His work reflects the fusion of his Togolese roots, European training and an international outlook, and he counts among his influences Moore, Braque, Modigliani, Tamayo, Siqueiros and Tall. His work combines ancient and modern themes and materials, maternity being a prominent topic. The messages of his larger, public pieces operate on a broad level to appeal to the general populace, while smaller works often reflect his private engagement with challenges confronting the human condition. His compositions are both abstract and figurative and evoke the heroism and hope of the two world wars, Togo's colonial period and the struggle for independence from France, as well as the political efforts of the peoples of Vietnam, South Africa and Palestine. Ahyi has won numerous international prizes, including the prize of the city of Lyon (...
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German, 19th century, male.
Born 1837; died 1892, in Salzburg.
Painter, draughtsman. Designs for stained glass.
The son of Max Emmanuel Ainmiller, he was trained by his father and Heinrich Hess. His work was done mainly under the guidance of the former, at the royal institute of glass painting. Numerous models for stained glass windows are by his hand....
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French, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 11 January 1953, in Saïda.
Painter, pastellist, sculptor, engraver, draughtsman, illustrator. Designs for stained glass.
Figuration Libre, Citationism.
Jean-Michel Albérola lived in Algeria until 1962. He then went to France, living successively in several cities, including Marseilles, Toulouse, Avignon and Paris. He studied in Marseilles and in Aix-en-Provence. Until ...
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French, 17th century, male.
Active in Grenoble at the beginning of the 17th century.
Born in La Bastie d'Embrun (Hautes Alpes).
Painter, glassmaker.
Established as a master painter in 1610; five years later he married a sister of the painter Jacques Julien from Gap, who served Marshal de Lesdiguières. M. Meignien states that he was entrusted with various works....
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French, 20th century, male.
Born 1878, in Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe.
Painter, draughtsman. Landscapes. Designs for stained glass.
René Allard studied at a painter's workshop in Angers, where he specialised in the restoration of stained glass windows. He lived and worked in Chartres (a renowned centre for stained glass window making) for many years, and was then appointed a teacher of glass painting in Paris at the Hôtel Salé, today the Picasso Museum. He exhibited his work in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Français ...
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French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born in Angers.
Painter. Designs for stained glass.
His studio was in Laval. He worked mainly for his brother Ludovic, producing stained glass windows based on Ludovic's cartoons. Most of these windows are in Anjou. He also created stained glass windows for ...
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French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 24 March 1859, in Angers; died 1941, in Angers.
Painter, decorative artist, lithographer. Religious subjects, mythological subjects, genre scenes. Designs for stained glass.
He was a pupil of Ernest Hebert and Luc-Olivier Merson at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between ...
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Portuguese, 20th century, male.
Born 1893, in Fazenda-Saudade (Sao-Tomé); died 1970, in Lisbon.
Painter, draughtsman, newspaper cartoonist. Wall decorations, designs for stained glass.
Futurism.
José Sobral de Almada-Negreiros was an active witness of the Portugal of his time. He used a wide variety of methods in his unending attempt to open Portugal to Europe and the modern world. Although he was a writer, poet, polemicist and playwright, he had no formal training in art. In ...
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Belgian, 19th century, male.
Born 7 November 1840, in Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands.
Painter, draughtsman. Religious subjects. Designs for stained glass.
Michael van Alphen was a pupil of J. Portaels at the Brussels fine art academy. In 1866 he exhibited in Brussels and Amsterdam, and in ...
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Swiss, 16th century, male.
Born in Schaffhausen.
Painter, glass painter. Coats of arms.
Hans Konrad Altdorfer is recorded as living in Schaffhausen in 1552 and 1574. He worked at Constance, Germany, in 1555 and was settled there in 1588.
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French, 20th century, male.
Born 23 September 1923, in Paris.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman (including ink), illustrator. Portraits, landscapes. Wall decorations, designs for stained glass, designs for mosaics.
A self-taught artist, Gérard Altmann lived in Paris in the post-war years, moving to Provence in 1952. In the early years he was a figurative artist, painting mainly landscapes in muted colour tones. He received numerous commissions for murals, stained glass windows and mosaics, and shifted towards a relatively abstract approach, retaining some suggestion of reality and, in contrast to his figurative period, featuring strong colours. His architectural preoccupations, embodied in chiaroscuro, transcend the different periods. He shows perfect mastery of watercolour techniques, and also produces Indian ink drawings. He illustrated ...
