French, 20th century, male.
Born 17 September 1881, in Mulhouse.
Painter, engraver (etching), illustrator. Landscapes, architectural views.
Achener had a full training, first at the École des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg, then in Munich in the studios of the engraver Peter Halm and the painter Ludwig von Loefftz. He was also a pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris....
(b Holywood, County Down, Ireland, Jan 26, 1922).
Australian painter, printmaker, book designer, lecturer, collector, gallery director and publisher of limited edition artists’ books, of Irish decent. He worked as a draughtsman before entering war service in the British Admiralty from 1940 to 1949, including five years in Colombo, where he made sketching trips to jungle temples with the Buddhist monk and artist Manjsiro Thero. Between 1949 and 1951 Adams worked as an exhibition designer in London and studied wood-engraving with Gertrude Hermes in her evening class at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (now Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design). In 1951, after moving to Melbourne, Adams began a 30-year teaching commitment at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), where he instructed many of the younger generation of Australian printmakers, including George Baldessin and Jan Senbergs. A brief return to Britain and Ireland in 1957–8 provided experience with Dolmen Press, Dublin, which published his first book of engravings, ...
French, 19th century, male.
Born 28 April 1845, in Rouen; died September 1909, in Rouen.
Engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, architect, art writer.
Jules Adeline was a first-time exhibitor at the Paris Salon in 1873, when, as a young architect, he initially contributed sketches and architectural projects. From ...
British, 19th century, male.
Born 13 March 1804, in London; died 21 October 1872, in Barnes.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator, architect. Landscapes with figures.
Thomas Allom studied architecture under Francis Goodwin and collaborated with him on various projects in towns throughout England. In 1834, he started drafting plans for the Houses of Parliament; these were engraved on the express instructions of the House of Commons....
(b San José, June 1, 1907; d 1998).
Costa Rican engraver, painter, illustrator, draughtsman, writer and critic. He studied for a year from 1931 at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes but was otherwise initially self-taught, using Louis Gonse’s L’Art japonais (Paris, 1883) as a source. He produced a series of caricature drawings, influenced by Cubism, in the Album de dibujos de 1926. During 1929 he met the sculptors Juan Manuel Sánchez and Francisco Zúñiga (the latter was also a printmaker), and through his interest in German and Mexican Expressionist printmakers, he developed a passion for wood-engraving. His first wood-engravings were published in the periodical Repertorio Americano (1929). He went on to contribute wood-engravings and drawings to collections of short stories and poetry, educational books, periodicals and newspapers. In 1931 he taught drawing and wood-engraving at the Escuela Normal in Heredia. He exhibited at the Salones Anuales de Artes Plásticas in San José (1931–6...
British, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1752; died 1821.
Engraver, draughtsman, illustrator. Portraits, architectural views, topographical views.
William Angus studied under William Walker and went on to produce a large number of well-executed and pleasing prints of manor houses and family seats in England and Wales. Angus worked as an illustrator and was retained by various topographical publishers of the day. He engraved from his own drawings but also from originals by Shothard, Paul Sandby, Edward Daynes, George Samuel and other leading artists. He is remembered for a series of plates for ...
(b Emden, East Frisia [now Germany], Dec 28, 1630; d Amsterdam, 6–7 Nov, bur Nov 12, 1708).
Dutch painter, draughtsman, calligrapher and printmaker of German origin. He was the son of Gerhard Backhusz. (Backhusen) of Emden, and he trained as a clerk in his native town. Shortly before 1650 he joined the Bartolotti trading house in Amsterdam, where his fine handwriting attracted attention. He practised calligraphy throughout his life (examples in Amsterdam, Rijksmus.; Dresden, Kupferstichkab.; London, BM). During his early years in Amsterdam he also displayed his skilled use of the pen in drawings, mainly marine scenes, done in black ink on prepared canvas, panel or parchment. He probably derived this technique and subject-matter from Willem van de Velde (ii) the elder’s pen drawings of the 1650s. Bakhuizen continued to produce pen drawings until the 1660s, some depicting recognizable ships and existing views, such as his Ships Leaving Amsterdam Harbour (Amsterdam, Kon. Coll. Zeemanschoop), others depicting unidentified locations, as in the View of a Dutch Waterway (Amsterdam, Ned. Hist. Scheepvaartsmus.)...
British, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1754, in Norwich, baptised 5 June 1754; died 21 or 6 December 1828, in Hatfield, in very reduced circumstances.
Engraver (etching and stippling), illustrator, printmaker, draughtsman. Portraits, architecture, mythology, religious subjects.
The son of John Baldrey the Elder, John Baldrey the Younger entered the Royal Academy School to study engraving in ...
Romanian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in France.
Born 8 July 1947, in Bucharest.
Painter, engraver, illustrator.
After graduating from the school of architecture and town planning in Bucharest in 1971, Tudor Banus went to the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris to study architecture, painting and engraving. In ...
British, 19th century, male.
Activec.1890.
Engraver (etching), draughtsman, illustrator. Topographical views, architectural views, urban landscapes.
Charles Barrett illustrated topographical works in pen and went on to publish Essex, the first edition of which carried 99 illustrations and 13 etchings and the second 128 illustrations and 13 etchings; then ...
(b New Brunswick, NJ, Aug 15, 1922; d Northampton, MA, June 3, 2000).
American sculptor, illustrator and printmaker. Baskin studied at the New York University School of Architecture and Allied Arts (1939–41), the School of Fine Art (1941–3) and New School for Social Research (1949). He also studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris (1950) and the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence (1951). Inspired by the iconic, monolithic imagery of Ancient Egyptian and Sumerian art, and the similar stylistic qualities of Romanesque and Italian Gothic, he consistently and inventively made use of the archaic mode in such prints as the powerful woodcut Man of Peace (1952; see Fern and O’Sullivan, p. 61) as well as in his sculpture. A traditionalist, he carved in wood and stone, and modelled in clay, taking the human figure as his subject. He firmly believed that painting and sculpture should mediate between artist and viewer some moral insight about human experience, and he was convinced that abstract art could not do this. Throughout his career he rejected spatial penetration of form, preferring the holistic look of such works as the ...
(di Giacomo di Pace)
(b Cortine in Valdibiana Montaperti, 1484; d Siena, between Jan and May 1551).
Italian painter, sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker and illuminator. He was one of the protagonists, perhaps even the most precocious, of Tuscan Mannerism, which he practised with a strong sense of his Sienese artistic background but at the same time with an awareness of contemporary developments in Florence and Rome. He responded to the new demand for feeling and fantasy while retaining the formal language of the early 16th century. None of Beccafumi’s works is signed or dated, but his highly personal maniera has facilitated almost unanimous agreement regarding the definition of his corpus and the principal areas of influence on it. However, some questions concerning the circumstances of his early career and the choices available to him remain unanswered. The more extreme forms of Beccafumi’s reckless experimentation underwent a critical reappraisal only in the later 20th century.
The primary sources of information concerning Beccafumi are Vasari’s biography (1568) and archival findings, mostly 19th century, relating to the artist. Vasari, although a direct acquaintance of Beccafumi in his last years and in a position to gather information from mutual friends, was, predictably, unreliable in regard to his early career. According to Vasari, Mecherino, the son of a poor farmer named Giacomo di Pace, became the protégé of ...
French, 19th century, male.
Born 30 January 1782, in Bordeaux; died 21 February 1863, in Paris.
Painter (including gouache), engraver, lithographer, illustrator. Historical subjects, mythological subjects, genre scenes, architectural interiors. Wall decorations, low reliefs.
Studied initially in Bordeaux under Pierre Lacour the Elder, then became a pupil of Vincent and David. He exhibited on a regular basis at Salons between ...
(b Salzburg, May 1, 1753; d Prague, June 25, 1829).
Austrian painter, printmaker, draughtsman, illustrator and teacher, active in Bohemia. He was taught by his father, the sculptor and painter Josef Bergler the elder (1718–88), and, during his stay in Italy, by Martin Knoller in Milan and Anton von Maron in Rome. An accomplished portrait painter, he was employed as official painter by bishops and cardinals at Passau and painted a number of altarpieces in Austria and especially in Bohemia. He helped establish the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (1800), which placed a new emphasis on draughtsmanship, composition and Classical subjects and models. As the first Director of the Academy, Bergler won new academic prestige for art in Bohemia and, for himself, a privileged position in obtaining commissions such as the Curtain at the Estates Theatre (sketches, 1803–4; Prague, N.G., Convent of St Agnes). He also published albums of engravings intended as models (Compositions and Sketches...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 17 January 1913, in Paris; died 9 August 1994.
Painter, engraver, illustrator. Figure compositions, local figures, landscapes, urban landscapes, architectural views, still-lifes (including flowers/fruit). Murals, designs for tapestries.
Roger Bezombes studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts from 1934 and won a grant enabling him to travel in Africa in 1936. Also in 1936 he took the Prix de Rome and according to some sources, a National prize in 1939. He also had guidance from Maurice Denis and used to consult the works of Gauguin, Van Gogh and Matisse. Later he was one of the winners of the Hallmark Prize in 1949 and according to some, he gained the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1946; according to others he won the Great International Painting Prize in 1956. In 1955 he was appointed official painter to the Navy. He travelled in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Greece, Crete, Palestine, North Africa and the USA. Under the Moroccan sun he convinced himself that, 'the least little Arab weaver knows more about colours than the learned Chevreul with his chemistry and striped wheels', an opinion not shared by the Impressionists, neither Seurat nor Delaunay, nor, as his letters to Theo make clear, by Van Gogh, by whom, however, Bezombes claimed to be influenced. In 1947 he completed his ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1920, in Paris.
Painter, lithographer, illustrator. Animals. Medals.
The son of an architect, and a gifted student of chemical engineering, Jacques Birr discovered painting at a very young age. As a Bachelor of Science, he pursued a career in the printed fabrics sector of industry. In ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1896, in Algiers; died 1966, in New Delhi, as the result of an accident.
Architect, sculptor, painter, screen printer, illustrator.
Groupe Espace.
Bloc was an engineer at the École Centrale in 1920. Being in contact with Frantz, Francis Jourdain, Mallet-Stevens, Le Corbusier and Auguste Perret, he founded the review entitled ...
(fl mid-19th century).
?French draughtsman and lithographer active in the USA and Peru. He lived briefly in the USA, where in 1852 he published a book containing 32 woodcuts depicting American working-class figures. Later he moved to Lima, the capital of Peru, where he published two albums of hand-coloured lithographs, Recuerdos de Lima...
British, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1719, in Dorrington (Shropshire); died 1804, in Cheapside, London.
Painter, engraver, illustrator. Landscapes, urban landscapes, architectural views.
Being the son of an engineer, John Boydell intended to follow the same career as his father. However, at the age of 20, he resolved to learn engraving. He went to London and trained under W.H. Toms, whose engraving ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1872, in Paris; died 1941, in Paris.
Engraver (aquatint/etching/dry-point), draughtsman, illustrator. Figures, nudes, genre scenes, landscapes, urban landscapes, architectural views.
Auguste Brouet studied under Gustave Moreau and Auguste Delâtre at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He started out by duplicating Rembrandt's plates, before working for Whistler and Degas. He illustrated several literary works, including: ...
