Spanish, 16th century, male.
Born in Triana.
Painter, fresco artist. Religious subjects.
Antonio Arfián worked in Seville. He started out as a commercial artist and sold his works abroad, mainly to Spanish America. In 1550 he joined the studio of Vargas, who had recently returned from Italy, and worked hard at changing his style, taking advice from Vargas; his efforts were soon rewarded. Among his works is a panel for the high altar of Seville Cathedral (...
French, 20th century, female.
Born 19 November 1889, in Verdun; died 25 June 1972.
Painter, draughtswoman, humorist artist, watercolourist, illustrator, designer. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, genre scenes. Church decoration, furniture, frescoes, designs for tapestry, posters, costumes.
The third child of Edouard Branly, a doctor, Elisabeth Branly trained with Claire Chevalet, as well as with Jacques Cancaret at the Académie Julian until ...
German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 22 May 1869, in Wachbach bei Mergentheim; died 1926, in Dresden.
Painter, draughtsman. Religious subjects. Murals, designs (furniture, fabrics, carpets).
Jugendstil.
Otto Gussmann first attended classes at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart, then at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin under Max Koch. After this, he entered the academy in Berlin, where he was supervised by Josef Scheurenberg. In ...
German, 20th century, male.
Born 1 July 1873, in Leipzig; died 1957, in Heidelberg.
Painter, draughtsman, watercolourist, poster artist. Religious subjects, portraits. Murals, designs (glassware and furniture).
Paul Otto Rössler studied first at the Art Academy of Leipzig from 1893 to 1898 then at the Dresden Academy. He taught decorative painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule at Dresden ...
Israeli, 20th century, male.
Born 1895; died 1980, in Safed.
Painter (gouache), watercolourist. Scenes with figures, religious subjects.
Shalom-of-Safed was a watchmaker of Polish-Russian exraction who began painting at the age of 60 in order to illustrate the Bible to his grandchildren. His naive creations included graphic elements inspired by tribal art....
Russian, 20th century, female.
Active from 1905 in France.
Born 12 February 1884, in Smolensk; died 14 May 1957, in Nogent-sur-Marne, France.
Painter, sculptor, designer. Religious subjects, figures, portraits. Stage sets, furniture.
Maria Vassileva began her studies in medicine in St Petersburg from 1902, but switched to the fine art academy. Having received a travel grant, she arrived in Paris in 1905. She went back there in 1907 and finally settled there. A Russian news correspondent, she was a student of Matisse at the same time. She then got to know Max Jacob, among others. It was perhaps as a result of the article on Matisse that she published in the ...
Swiss, 18th century, male.
Born 14 November 1719, in Kaiserstuhl; died 25 August 1789, in Kaiserstuhl.
Sculptor (wood/stone). Religious subjects, figures. Low reliefs, ornaments, armorials, furniture, religious furnishings.
Franz Ludwig Wind devoted himself to sculpture on wood and stone, and interpreted the Baroque style in an original style that he used all his life. He specialised in ornamentation in churches and on stalls, figures of saints and coats of arms for town halls. In the town of Zurzach the central pillar of the bridge over the Rhine, depicting St John Nepomuk, is his work, as is the main gate of the castle of Schwarz-Wasserstelz, near Zurzach....
