Austrian, 20th century, male.
Born 10 March 1871, in Waidhofen-am-Ybbs; died 19 May 1956, in Vienna.
Painter, sculptor, engraver, illustrator. Genre scenes. Toys.
Art Nouveau.
Secession group.
Andri studied under Julius Berger and Edouard Lichtenfels at the Venice Academy, then, from 1892, under Claus Meyer at Karlsruhe Academy, before returning to settle in Venice. In ...
Swiss, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 31 July 1863, in Rolle (Vaud); died 1948, in Lausanne.
Painter, engraver, decorative artist. Figure compositions, figures, portraits. Murals, designs for stained glass, furniture.
Art Nouveau.
Ernest Bieler was the uncle of André Charles Bieler. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger. He divided his time between the mountainous regions of the Valais and the shores of Lake Geneva; his body of work evokes the everyday life of the peasant communities in the Valais and the Canton of Vaud at the beginning of the twentieth century. Bieler was commissioned to paint compositions for the ceiling of the Victoria hall in Geneva; decorative panels and windows for the federal government building in Bern; stained glass windows for the Vevey church of St-Martin; and decorations for the vintners' festival. Additionally, he exhibited woodcut engravings and designed furniture....
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active also active in Japan.
Born 1860, in Paris; died 1927.
Painter, engraver (etching), illustrator, poster artist.
Japonisme, Art Nouveau.
At a very young age, Georges Ferdinand Bigot trained under Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) and Carolus-Durand (1837-1917) at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He learnt etching with Félix Buhot and collaborated on the journal ...
Italian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active in Casale Monferrato.
Born 14 March 1859, in Casale Monferrato (Piedmont); died 2 September 1933, in Turin.
Sculptor, engraver. Figures. Groups, monuments.
Symbolism, Art Nouveau.
Piedmont-born artist who is perhaps more properly regarded as being from the Lombard School, insofar as he trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. Bistolfi's sculpture has a distinct pictorial edge. His earliest work comprised various groups (for example ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 15 October 1886, in Paris; died 1972.
Painter, engraver, illustrator. Nudes, landscapes, still-lifes, flowers.
Art Deco.
Bonfils exhibited his work in Paris at the Salon des Tuileries and especially at the Salon d'Automne until 1938. He is considered to be a typical Art Deco style artist and took part in an exhibition at the Pavillon de Marsan: ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1925, in Paris.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, engraver, sculptor, designer of ornamental architectural features. Figures, landscapes. Statues.
Art Deco.
François Brochet was the son of the painter and playwright Henri Brochet, and was taught dance, theatre and puppeteering at home. In ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1943.
Painter, engraver. Scenes with figures.
Hissard lives and works in Paris. His paintings deride the most striking points of 'modernity' in the form of diptychs, triptychs and polyptychs, in which he virulently caricatures various well-known avant-garde, historic or contemporary works....
Dutch, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 26 November 1876, in Utrecht; died 1958, in Blaricum-Amsterdam.
Painter, potter, lithographer. Murals, designs for stained glass.
Groups: De Stijl, Abstraction-Création.
Bart van der Leck started out working for various glassmakers in his native Utrecht before going on to attend the college of industrial arts (where he studied under A.J. van der Kinderen) and then the royal academy of fine arts in Amsterdam. He lived in Amersfoort ...
South African, 20th century, male.
Born 8 May 1903, in Plungian, Lithuania; died 25 October 1980, in Kiryat Tivon, Israel.
Sculptor in diverse materials, draughtsman, printmaker.
In 1908, Isreal-Isaac Lipshitz emigrated to South Africa where he remained, apart from trips abroad, until his retirement to Israel in ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 9 December 1882, in Paris; died in the spring of 1948, in Paris.
Painter, engraver, illustrator, lithographer.
Art Deco.
Luc Albert Moreau came from a middle-class family who intended him to go into law. However he soon abandoned his legal studies, which did not interest him, and entered the Académie de la Palette, where he received lessons from Charles Guérin, Desvallières and Laprade. This was a period of numerous artistic, literary and sporting gatherings at the home of the designer and great Art Nouveau patron Poiret. It may perhaps have been in order to convince his family to take him seriously that he also followed courses at the School of Oriental Languages, which he did with sufficient enthusiasm to be able to translate La Fontaine's ...
Danish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 9 July 1872, in Copenhagen; died 1956.
Painter, engraver. Figures, portraits, genre scenes, landscapes.
Symbolism, Art Nouveau.
Einar Nielsen lived and worked in Gjern, a small town in Jutland, between 1894 and 1900. He participated in the Parisian exhibitions, especially the ...
Hungarian, 20th century, male.
Born 23 January 1898, in Budapest.
Print artist, graphic artist, draughtsman.
Aladár Richter produced print albums of views of Budapest and Belgrade, and designed Art Deco posters.
Swiss, 19th century, male.
Born 11 May 1850, in Basel; died 1 June 1901, in Riehen.
Painter, watercolourist, lithographer. Genre scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures.
Art Nouveau.
Hans Sandreuter spent three years in Basel completing his apprenticeship in lithography. It would seem that he continued his studies in Würzburg and Verona. He was a pupil of Franz Xaver (?) Barth at the academy of fine arts in Munich and of Arnold Böcklin, whom he accompanied to Florence in ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 24 October 1883, in New York; died 18 November 1945, in Brandenburg.
Painter, engraver, draughtsman, decorative designer. Figures. Designs for ceramics, stage sets.
Jugendstil, Art Deco.
Paul Scheurich studied at the arts academy in Berlin from 1902 to 1904. In ...
Russian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 7 January 1865, in St Petersburg; died 22 November 1911, in Moscow.
Painter, illustrator, designer. Mythological subjects, genre scenes, portraits, landscapes. Stage sets.
Art Nouveau, Symbolism.
Peredvizhniki (Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions), Abramtsevo Artists’ Colony.
The son of the composer Alexander Serov and the musician Valentina Bergman, ...
Peruvian, 20th century, male.
Born 1941, in Lima.
Painter, engraver.
Art Nouveau group.
In 1960, José Tang enrolled at the school of fine arts in Lima remaining there for three years. He also studied engraving in Rio de Janeiro. On his return to Lima in ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 25 December 1882, in Paris; died 26 November 1957, in St-Germain-en-Laye.
Painter, watercolourist, engraver (wood), illustrator, designer, ceramicist. Murals, designs for tapestries.
Art Deco.
Paul Bernard Véra was a pupil of Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier at the Atelier d'Art Sacré....
