Italian, 15th century, male.
Born 1418, in Florence; died before 1498, in Perugia.
Sculptor, architect. Religious subjects.
Florentine School, Perugian School.
The son of the weaver Antonio di Duccio, Agostino d'Antonio di Duccio produced works in marble and terracotta of the Della Robbia type. His earliest known works are four low reliefs in Modena Cathedral. While living in Florence in ...
French, 18th century, male.
Active in Parisc.1700.
Engraver, designer of ornamental architectural features.
Baptiste Anthéaume made a set of furniture for embroiderers and upholsterers.
French, 20th – 21st century, female.
Active also active in Italy.
Born 31 October 1957, in Bordeaux.
Architect, designer, draughtswoman. Furniture, rug design.
Martine Bedin was awarded a bursary to study architecture in Florence in 1978, and then graduated from the École d'Architecture in Paris. She began her formal research in ...
German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 14 April 1868, in Hamburg; died 27 February 1940, in Berlin.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, architect, designer, decorative artist, graphic designer. Posters, furniture, wallpaper, carpets, glassware, ceramics, table services, jewellery, silverwork, objets d'art, typefaces.
Jugendstil, functional school.
Die Sieben (Group of Seven), Deutscher Werkbund...
German, 20th century, male.
Active in the USA.
Born 15 March 1883, in Stuttgart; died 29 May 1972, in New York.
Painter, sculptor, graphic designer, poster artist, illustrator, architect, designer, decorative artist. Designs for carpets, advertising art, furniture, lamps, wallpaper.
Jugendstil.
Deutscher Werkbund.
Lucian Bernhard studied painting at the Kunstakademie in Munich, but taught himself design. He was active in Berlin. In ...
French, 19th century, male.
Born, 13 June 1812, near Besançon, France; died 31 December 1877, in Dornach, France.
Photographer, textile designer, entrepreneur.
Botanicals, landscapes, nature, architecture, figures, animals.
Adolphe Braun had a successful career creating designs for printed fabrics and wallpapers. In the early 1840s, he was admitted to the Société Industrielle de Mulhouse, and designs by his firm were gaining international recognition. To provide his designers with models for study, Braun photographed botanical arrangements using the wet collodion process, which was perfected in the early 1850s. His albumen silver prints of flowers, grasses and botanical materials are richly toned and expressive, in contrast to standard scientific botanical studies. Although Braun initially approached photography as a technical means to further the art of textile design, he quickly realized the artistic merit of his photographs and distributed them to a wider public in catalogues....
British, 19th century, female.
Born 1867, in Glasgow; died 1952.
Painter, embroiderer. Flowers.
Maggie Hamilton was the sister of Glasgow School painter James Whitelaw Hamilton. She married the artist and architect, Alexander Nisbet Paterson in 1897. Between 1891 and 1901 she exhibited her paintings of flowers and still-lifes in Germany....
Swedish, 18th century, male.
Active in Stockholm.
Painter. Genre scenes, architectural views.
For a long time Gustaf Hillerström was a weaver at the Gobelins factory. He favoured comic subjects.
Flemish School, 17th century, male.
Born 1636, in Mechelen; died 1682, in Mechelen.
Painter. Architectural views. Decorative schemes, designs for tapestries (?).
Daniel Janssens was a pupil of Jac van Hornes and was a master artist in Mechelen in 1660. His pupils included Gillis Vermeulen in Antwerp in ...
French, 19th century, male.
Born 26 December 1840, in Lyons; died 27 January 1867, in Lyons.
Painter, draughtsman. Portraits, landscapes.
Anthelme Jullien was the son of a weaver. While still quite young he went to work for an architect. He followed courses given by Vibert and Danguin at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyons from ...
Austrian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 22 December 1867, in Troppau (now Opava in the Czech Republic); died 8 August 1908, in Düsseldorf.
Painter, architect, draughtsman, lithographer, decorative designer. Designs (objets d'art, furniture, decorative motifs, fabrics, jewellery, ceramic).
Vienna Secession, Wiener Werkstätte, Die Sieben (Group of Seven), Deutscher Werkbund...
German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 20 June 1868, in Munich; died 15 April 1957, in Munich.
Painter, sculptor, decorative designer, designer, architect, interior designer. Genre scenes. Furniture, fabrics, ceramic, glassware, carpets, toys.
Richard Riemerschmid trained in painting at the Kunstakademie of Munich from 1888...
Belgian, 20th century, male.
Active in France from 1930.
Born 31 August 1910 , in Malmédy, in Cologne, according to official records; died 22 March 1985 , in Dieudonné (Oise), France.
Painter (including gouache), sculptor (including slate), engraver, mosaicist, lithographer, illustrator, draughtsman, photographer. Designs for stained glass, tapestries, postage stamps, architectural integration...
