Italian, 19th century, male.
Active in Rome and later in Venice.
Born c. 1820, in Padua.
Painter, decorative designer. Landscapes.
Bresolin studied in Florence under Marko. He worked at first as a decorative artist, later becoming a landscape artist.
French, 19th – 20th century, female.
Born in Paris.
Painter. Figures, landscapes, winter landscapes, seascapes, gardens, flowers. Decorative panels.
Daughter of the sculptor A. Zoegger, Marie Anne Camax-Zoegger studied under Henner, who painted a portrait of her as The Young Artist. She was a member of the Société Nationale and president of the Syndicat des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs. She painted compositions featuring children, flowers and landscapes and also produced decorative panels. ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1924, in Limoges.
Painter, watercolourist, decorative designer. Landscapes.
Michel Delmas studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués. A landscape artist, he often painted from nature and with emphasis on the sky and the light, views of the region of Sens, Brittany and Provence in oil or watercolour. He has produced a number of murals including a ceramic frieze for a secondary school in Sens....
Italian, 15th – 16th century, male.
Born after 1490, in Ferrara; died c. 1548, in Ferrara.
Painter, decorative artist, caricaturist. Religious subjects, landscapes.
Ferrara School.
Battista Dossi was a landscape artist and caricaturist. He was the pupil of Lorenzo Costa, and worked almost exclusively with his brother Giovanni, although they did not get on. Battista had a difficult temperament and was physically deformed, and only communicated with his brother in writing. According to Barruffaldi, they lived in Rome for six years, then in Venice for five years, where they painted from nature, and had the best teachers....
French, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1749, in Versailles; died 1825, in Paris.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, sculptor, draughtsman (wash), engraver, decorative artist. Mythological subjects, allegorical subjects, historical portraits, hunting scenes, interiors with figures, gardens. Stage costumes and sets, furniture, designs for fabrics, frontispieces.
Dugourc's father, who was in the service of the Duke of Orléans, had a considerable fortune. Dugourc was permitted to attend the lessons taken by the Duke of Chartres (the future Philippe-Égalité), and at the age 15 left for Rome, attached to the embassy of the Count of Cani. From his infancy, he had shown an aptitude for drawing, perspective and architecture. However, the death of his mother, followed shortly after by the loss of his father's fortune, changed his life. From being an amateur, Dugourc became a professional artist, and executed paintings, sculptures and engravings. In a work published in ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 8 April 1880, in Anzin; died 20 September 1947, in Paris.
Painter, draughtsman (charcoal), engraver, lithographer, illustrator, designer. Historical subjects, military subjects, religious subjects, sporting subjects, figures, portraits, historical portraits, scenes with figures, local scenes, genre scenes, street scenes, interiors with figures, church interiors, landscapes, waterscapes, seascapes, gardens, panoramas...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 2 November 1876, in Paris; died 31 December 1958.
Painter, designer, engraver. Genre scenes, nudes, landscapes, gardens, still-lifes. Designs (wallpapers/fabrics), designs for stained glass, theatre decoration.
Art Deco.
Francis Jourdain was the son of the writer, art critic and architect Franz Jourdain. He studied painting and colour engraving under Henri C. Guérard, and worked in the evenings at the studio of Eugène Carrière. He also studied under Albert Besnard and collaborated with him for three months on the decoration of the chapel of the Berck hospice. He took part in exhibitions of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and was made an associate member of the Society. With his father - for many years the president - he was one of the founder members of the Salon d'Automne. He collaborated on the magazine ...
Hungarian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 15 March 1880, in Vienna; died 1968.
Painter. Scenes with figures, interiors, landscapes, gardens. Designs for tapestries, furniture, objets d'art and fabrics.
Artur Lakotos was born Artur Schlosser, and decided to change his German name to its Hungarian equivalent when his family returned to Vienna after having lived in Budapest ...
French, 18th century, male.
Born 22 January 1690, in Paris; died 14 September 1743, in Paris.
Painter (including gouache), draughtsman (including red chalk). Genre scenes, interiors with figures, hunting scenes, scenes with figures, allegorical subjects, figures, portraits, landscapes, landscapes with figures, gardens, animals, birds. Decorative schemes, decorative designs, murals...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 14 November 1906, in Ercheu.
Painter, decorative artist. Landscapes.
Gérard Langlet taught drawing. Primarily a landscape artist, he also produced lithographs and some decorative work, particularly for the teacher training college in Châlons-sur-Marne, for the dining hall of the secondary school in Rheims and for the Le Mabillon university refectory in Paris. He took part in several annual salons including: Salon des Artistes Français, Salon des Indépendants and Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and in ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 26 September 1916, in Amiens; died 23 December 1992, in Paris.
Painter (including gouache/wash), designer. Portraits, landscapes, gardens, bestiaries. Wall decorations, stage costumes and sets, designs for tapestries.
Dominick Marty was born into a family of artists. His father was the illustrator André-Édouard Marty; his mother the violinist Madeleine Marty-Zipelius. In his formative years, he was involved in the creation of stage scenery and costumes. He worked for the ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 20 April 1920, in Paris; died 2000.
Painter, watercolourist, lithographer, illustrator. Figures, nudes, portraits, interiors, landscapes, landscapes with figures, urban landscapes, gardens, waterscapes, seascapes, still-lifes, flowers. Decorative panels, designs for stained glass.
Maurice Robert Savary was a pupil of Nicolas Untersteller and Maurice Brianchon at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1940 to 1949. He spent time in Madrid from 1948 to 1949, then went to Italy, returning with the Prix de Rome. He was then appointed a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, Rouen. From 1957 he lived in Paris and passed most of his summers in Collioure. He won a number of awards, including: 1950, the First Grand Prix de Rome; 1948, the Casa Velázquez prize, Madrid; 1957, the international prize at the Menton Biennale; 1975, gold medal at the Salon des artistes Français, Paris; 1982, medal at the Academie des Beaux-Arts Institut de France; 1985, silver medal at the Salon de la Marine, Paris, and a gold medal two years later....
Dutch, 16th century, male.
Born 1526, in Leeuwarden; died between 1606 and 1609, in Antwerp.
Painter, architect, draughtsman, engraver, designer of ornamental architectural features, decorative artist, art restorer. Religious subjects, landscapes, architectural views, interiors, church interiors, gardens, decorative motifs (grotesques), models (buildings).
Prague School.
Hans Vredeman de Vries was a pupil of Cornelis Floris (Cornelis Cornelis de Vriendt) and studied painting in Amsterdam. He was a great traveller and went to Mechelen, to Antwerp in 1549 and again in 1562 and from 1575 to 1585 and then to Leipzig. In 1586, he went to Frankfurt and then Brunswick, where he was based until 1596. In 1591 he was in Hamburg. Between 1592 and 1595 he worked in Danzig (now Gdansk) where he designed the fortifications and some ornamental motifs and also decorated the town hall and a number of churches. Next he went to Prague (1596-1598), to the court of Rudolph II, and to Amsterdam and The Hague. He had two sons, Salomon and Paul, who worked with him....
