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Belgian, 20th century, male.

Born 1896, in Liège; died 1995.

Painter, collage artist, watercolourist, illustrator, decorative designer, designer.

Futurism, Constructivism.

Groupe 7 Arts.

Baugniet attended the art academy in Brussels where he studied under the Belgian Symbolist painter Jean Delville. He married the dancer and painter Akarova (Marguerite Acarin). His early paintings were figurative, and he was then influenced by French Cubism and international Constructivism. In 1922, Baugniet became a member of the Belgian group ...

Belgian, 20th century, male.

Born 3 July 1923, in Aarschot; died 9 April 1988, in Middelkerke.

Collage artist.

Neo-Constructivism.

Emiel Bergen was a student at the academy of fine arts in Louvain and became an eminent historian of Constructivism, writing studies on Moholy-Nagy, Mondrian, Albers, Max Bill and others. He produced collages with aluminium elements ...

German, 20th century, female.

Born 20 October 1896, in Paderborn; died 8 August 1971, in Schmelz.

Painter, collage artist.

Constructivism.

From 1915 to 1918, Ella Bergmann studied at the academy of fine arts in Weimar, where she married her fellow student Robert Michel in 1919...

Polish, 20th century, male.

Born 1903, in Warsaw; died 1975, in Warsaw.

Collage artist, photomontage artist.

Constructivism.

Mieczyslaw Berman studied in Warsaw and produced political work intended to be a vehicle for the Polish Communist Party's propaganda. He was influenced by the political photomontages resulting from Russian Constructivism and also by John Heartfield. After his works had been almost entirely destroyed, he made a few replicas after ...

Polish, 20th century, male.

Born 1907, in Warsaw; died 1957, in Cracow.

Painter, collage artist, photomontage artist.

Neo-Constructivism.

Janus-Maria Brzesky trained in Poznan, Italy and in Paris. Upon his return to Poznan in 1929-1930, he produced his first collages, then practiced photography, from which he created photomontages. He also created avant-garde films: ...

German, 20th century, male.

Born 1890, in Hanover; died 1964, in Hanover.

Painter, collage artist.

Constructivism.

Groups: Novembergruppe, Cercle et Carré, Abstraction-Création, Phases.

Carl Buchheister studied in Hanover and Berlin before leaving for the 1914-1918 war. He taught himself painting and started to paint seriously from ...

French, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 23 September 1955, in Paris.

Painter, collage artist, illustrator. Landscapes, nudes.

Neo-Constructivism.

Louis Chagnon taught history and geography from 1987 to 1995, before taking up painting full-time. He was awarded the Prix Artcolle at the 6th Salon de Collage Contemporain, in Paris in ...

Dutch, 20th century, male.

Born 15 December 1896, in Berlin; died 13 March 1983, in Wassenaar (The Hague).

Painter, collage artist, photomontage artist.

Dadaism, Constructivism.

Having studied at a school of painting and fine arts in Berlin, Paul Citroen abandoned painting in 1914 to become a bookseller. In ...

Argentinian, 20th century, male.

Active in France.

Born 27 November 1937, in Buenos Aires.

Installation artist, painter, draughtsman, sculptor, photographer, mixed media.

Neo-Constructivism.

Cafone was a student at the school of art in Buenos Aires and at the Slade School in London. A sculptor who abandoned his sculptor's tools very early on, he looked to drawing as a medium through which to find an equivalent, a medium in which he proved to have astonishing dexterity. His paintings employ mixed media, incorporating sheets of lead, for example. Harking back to his work as an installation sculptor, he also took the venue in which he was exhibiting into account, if needs be creating certain works directly onto the walls of the gallery. If a certain preciousness of materials, and in particular the ornamental details, are set aside, there is a relationship here between Cofone's work and Minimalism, given their common refusal to attach any meaning to the completed object other than the one that defines - in the most material terms possible - its physical relationship with the artist who has created it, not in his image, but on his scale....

Romanian, 20th century, female.

Active in Argentina from 1940 and in France from 1961; naturalised in 1981 in France.

Born 27 November 1923, in Bucharest.

Painter, engraver, ceramicist, collage artist. Figures, landscapes. Designs for stained glass.

Neo-Constructivism, Symbolism.

Simona Ertan took classes in drawing, painting and linoleum engraving in Bucharest from 1934 to 1940. At the end of 1940 she left with her family for Argentina and settled in Buenos Aires. There, while continuing to paint, she took classes in aesthetics and pottery. In 1950, her encounter with Picasso's ...

Hungarian, 20th century, male.

Born 21 March 1887, in Érsekujvár; died 1967, in Budapest.

Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, graphic designer, engraver, collage artist, sculptor.

Dadaism, Constructivism.

Lajos Kassák ran away from home aged 13. He started his working life as a blacksmith and locksmith. He came into contact with the workers' movement and contributed to the Social Democrat magazine ...

Latvian, 20th century, male.

Born 4 January 1895 , in Rŭjiena, Latvia; died 26 February 1938 , in Moscow

Painter, collage artist, photomontage artist, poster artist, lithographer, sculptor.

Constructivism, Vhutemas, Productivism, Suprematism.

Unovis, October.

Gustav Klucis studied at the City Art School in Riga (1913-1915), then at the school of design under the aegis of the Imperial Society for the Fostering of Art (1915-1917) in Petrograd (now St Petersburg). He completed his training at Vasily Meshkov’s school of design and painting, Il’ya Mashkov’s studio in the State Free Art Studio (Svoma) in Moscow, and the higher artistic and technical workshops (Vkhutemas) under the direction of Kazimir Malevich and Antoine Pevsner. An associate member of the INKhUK (Institute of Artistic Culture) productivist group in Moscow from 1921 to 1925, he taught courses at the Vkhutemas from 1924 to 1930. He was a founder member of the October group in 1928....

French, 20th century, male.

Born 10 February 1923, in Paris; died 1983, in Paris.

Painter, pastellist, collage artist, sculptor, draughtsman, engraver. Designs for tapestries.

Neo-Constructivism.

Mennessons followed courses in history and art from 1946. He made contact with Henri Laurens and Albert Gleizes, becoming a student of the latter for two years and working in his studio. When Gleizes died, Mennessons was forced to return to Paris in reduced circumstances. He travelled to Germany and Switzerland many times in the 1970s. From ...

Swiss, 20th century, male.

Born 1930, in Lugano.

Collage artist, draughtsman.

Neo-Constructivism.

.Gianni Metalli's work is characterised by his perceptive arrangement of elementary geometric forms: circles, lines and rectangles. His work has featured in group exhibitions since 1960, notably at the fine arts museum in Argau in ...

German, 20th century, male.

Born 27 February 1897, in Vockenhausen, near Eppstein (Taunus); died 1983.

Painter (mixed media), collage artist.

Constructivism.

Robert Michel returned from military service in 1917 and studied in Weimar, where he met the painter Ella Bergmann, whom he married in 1919, the year the Bauhaus opened in Weimar. They settled in Schmelz, painting together and mutually influencing each other. From 1932 to 1945, Michel was inactive as a painter, having been placed on the proscribed list by the National Socialist regime; during this period, he lived in Vockenhausen, where he worked as a fish merchant and hydro-engineer....

Hungarian, 20th century, male.

Active in the United States from 1937.

Born 20 July 1895 , in Bácsbarsód or Bács-Borsód; died 24 November 1946 , in Chicago.

Painter (mixed media), collage artist, photomontage artist, sculptor, draughtsman, graphic designer, typographer, photographer (photogrammes), filmmaker. Stage sets.

Constructivism, Op Art, Kinetic Art Bauhaus...

Brazilian, 20th century, male.

Active also active in the USA.

Born 26 July 1937, in Rio de Janeiro; died 1980, in Rio de Janeiro.

Painter, installation artist.

Neo-Constructivism, Conceptual Art.

In 1954, Oiticica entered the school of the museum of modern art in Rio de Janeiro. He and his brother Cesar, who became an architect, studied there with Ivan Serpa. He was soon moving in avant-garde circles and he joined the group ...

Hungarian, 20th century, male.

Active from 1933 active in England.

Born 13 June 1899, in Budapest; died 1967, in London.

Painter (mixed media), collage artist, sculptor. Architectural integration.

Constructivism.

MA Group, Artists' International Association.

Laszlo Peri was a mason in Budapest and studied architecture there. He spent time in Vienna and Paris in 1919, and Russia in 1920, before settling in 1921 in Berlin for 13 years. There he worked as an architect for the municipal council. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he moved to London, where he worked as a painter, graphic designer and architect, taking the name Peter Peri. From 1918 to 1920 he produced designs influenced by Central European Expressionism. From 1921 he was with his compatriot Moholy-Nagy in Berlin; he joined the Constructivist movement and was a co-signatory, with Erno Kallai, Moholy-Nagy and Kemeny, of a manifesto on Constructivism in the Berlin magazine ...

Croat, 20th century, male.

Born 1924, in Okucani.

Sculptor, painter (mixed media), engraver.

Neo-Constructivism, Op Art.

Exat 51 Group.

From 1943 to 1946 Yvan Picelj was a student at the fine arts academy in Zagreb where he settled. After his time at the academy, he made study trips to France, Sweden, Italy, Belgium and the USA. In ...

Russian, 20th century, female.

Born 1889, in Ivanovskoje; died 25 May 1924, in Moscow.

Painter (including gouache/mixed media), collage artist, designer, potter. Nudes, figures. Stage sets.

Suprematism, Constructivism.

Bubnovy Valet (Jack of Diamonds) group.

Liubov Sergueievna Popova came from a cultivated family. She studied in the studios of Stanislav Zhukovsky (...