Dutch, 20th century, male.
Born 1883; died 1950.
Painter. Urban landscapes.
Amsterdam, 5 June 1990: View of Rome with St Angel Castle and the Tiber (1925, oil on canvas, 25½ × 52¼ ins/65 × 132.5 cm) NLG 1,150
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Dutch, 20th century, female.
Born in Cilacap (Java), Indonesia.
Painter. Portraits, still-lifes.
Edith van der Aa exhibited some still-lifes and her Portrait of A.H. Lemaître at the Paris Salon des Indépendants in the 1930s.
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Swedish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1 July 1877, in Johannishus.
Painter. Portraits.
Having studied at the academy of art in Copenhagen in the last few years of the 19th century, Arvid Aae went on to specialise in painting portraits of children.
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Finnish, 20th century, male.
Born 3 February 1898, in Kuortane; died 11 May 1976, in Helsinki.
Architect, designer, painter, draughtsman, watercolourist. Figures, landscapes, landscapes with figures, urban landscapes, still-lifes. Models (furniture/glass).
Alvar Aalto was adamant that his experience as a painter was an indispensable adjunct to his profession as an architect, noting repeatedly that modern architecture had its roots in painting. As an architecture student, he took private lessons with the Finnish painter Eero Järnefelt. He moved in artistic circles and was frequently to be found in the company of the sculptor Wäinö Altonen and the painters Henry Ericsson and Eemu Myntti. For a period, he also worked as an art critic....
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Finnish, 20th century, male.
Born 8 March 1894, in Martilla (Swedish St Mårtens); died 30 May 1966, in Helsinki.
Painter, sculptor. Figures. Monuments.
Vallio Aaltonen studied at the school of painting of the Turku Artistic Association. He became a teacher and member of the academy of Finland, as well as an associate member of the art academies of Brazil and the USSR....
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Hungarian, 20th century, male.
Born 1894, in Bucharest.
Painter.
Together with the painters Karóly Patko, Pal Molnar, Bela Kadar and Robert Bérény, William Aba-Novak represented the Hungarian Neo-Realist trend.
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Hungarian, 20th century, male.
Died 1941.
Painter, draughtsman. Figure compositions. Murals.
Allazio de Abacco spent some time in Rome. Influenced by German Expressionism in 1910, he was very active in Hungary between the wars producing murals for public spaces to publicise social schemes.
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Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1933, in Turin.
Painter, engraver.
Surfata Group.
Abacuc was a member of the Surfata Group, founded in 1964, whose objectives involved using Surreal imagery. Using a meticulous and detailed technique he depicts masses of entrails out of which emerge human heads....
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Filipina, 20th–21st century, female.
Born 5 October 1946, in Basco, Batanes, the Philippines; died 7 December 2004, in Singapore.
Painter, draughtsman, collagist.
Born to a political family, Abad originally studied political science and law. As a student she organised protests against the fraudulent elections of 1969 that kept Ferdinand Marcos in office as president of the Philippines. As a result of her activism, Abad’s house was targeted, and she left the Philippines to continue her education in the USA. In 1973 she spent 12 months travelling through Asia, from Turkey to the Philippines. She later described how the clothing and adornments she observed on her travels would inspire her signature trapunto paintings. Returning home in 1974, Abad decided to become an artist.
Throughout her life Abad was an inveterate traveller. She was proud to say she had visited more than 100 countries. She lived or spent long periods in Washington, DC, New York, Boston, Bangladesh, Sudan, Bangkok, New Guinea, Indonesia, Singapore, and many other countries and regions. Her work was openly infused by what she saw and was detailed in the various books she made full of colourful drawings and collages. She believed that absorbing images and techniques from Korea, Indonesia, New Guinea, and other cultural settings would make her work globally comprehensible. Scuba diving also gave her immersive experiences which she sought to replicate in her work....
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Spanish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1862, in Gijón (Asturias); died 1920, in Madrid.
Painter, illustrator. History painting, portraits, landscapes, seascapes.
Juan Martínez Abades studied at the Escuela Especial de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado (school of painting, sculpture and engraving) in Madrid. While he was there he also took lessons from José Grajera. The award of a grant in ...
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Russian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in Moscow.
Born 1952, in Moscow.
Painter. Portraits.
Avietik Abadgian produces paintings in which restrained figures sketched with expansive brushstrokes emerge from a neutral background made up of different flat, wide areas. He has taken part in several national and international exhibitions....
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French, 20th – 21st century, female.
Born 31 May 1947, in the Haute-Garonne.
Painter (mixed media).
Abadie has lived and worked in Paris since 1985, after art and sculpture studies in Toulouse. She also studied fresco techniques in Venice. In Paris, she has exhibited at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture in ...
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French, 20th century, male.
Born 22 August 1896, in Paris; died 23 September 1972.
Painter, decorative designer. Genre scenes, seascapes.
Abadie-Landel was a pupil in the painting department of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1917. He featured in numerous annual Parisian salons, such as the Salon des Artistes Français, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and Salon des Indépendants, through which he received various awards between ...
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Polish, 20th century, female.
Born 1930, in Falenty.
Painter (mixed media), sculptor.
A student at the academy of fine art in Warsaw between 1950 and 1955, Magdalena Abakanowicz taught at the fine arts college in Poznan from 1965 onwards. Initially a painter, she later took up sculpture and also began working with textiles in ...
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Argentinian, 20th century, male.
Born 25 May 1922, in Mendoza.
Painter, draughtsman.
After studying at the academy of fine arts in Mendoza, Abal became a teacher of painting and drawing there. From 1948, he exhibited in the official salons of Mendoza and Argentina, where he obtained some distinctions. He lived in France ...
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French, 20th century, male.
Born 10 February 1944, in Rocroi (Ardennes).
Painter (including gouache), draughtsman, decorative designer. Stage costumes and sets.
Aballain graduated from the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1965.
He designed the stage sets and costumes for A Season in Hell...
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Argentinian, 20th century, male.
Born 27 November 1901, in Buenos Aires.
Painter, draughtsman.
Abalsamo was a student at the school of fine arts in Buenos Aires, then became a drawing teacher. He took part in various official salons - the national salon from 1935, the salon of the arts in Buenos Aires and the Eva Perón arts salon from ...
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Spanish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 22 May 1871, in Cádiz; died 1948.
Painter. Genre scenes.
Felipe Abarzuza y Rodríguez de Arias was a pupil of Joaquin Sorolla. He had some success at exhibitions in Madrid early in his career and became a teacher at the Cádiz academy. His genre scenes included picturesque scenes on the subjects of marriage, the theatre and the circus....
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French, 20th century, female.
Born in Perpignan.
Painter. Portraits, landscapes, still-lifes.
Lilian Abat was a pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, working in the studios of Humbert and Bergès. From 1926, she started to feature in Paris exhibitions, initially at the Salon des Artistes Français and then at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts....
