Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1900, in Marciana Marina (Livorno); died 1971, in Milan.
Painter, ceramicist, illustrator, scenographer, writer. Stage costumes.
Futurism.
Giovanni Acquaviva studied philosophy and law at the University of Pisa, while devoting himself to illustration at the same time. He founded the Futurist group ...
French, 19th century, male.
Born 28 April 1845, in Rouen; died September 1909, in Rouen.
Engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, architect, art writer.
Jules Adeline was a first-time exhibitor at the Paris Salon in 1873, when, as a young architect, he initially contributed sketches and architectural projects. From ...
British, 19th century, male.
Active in Londonc.1880.
Born 4 November 1826, in Paris; died 13 December 1906, in London.
Painter, poet, novelist, dramatist, musician. Landscapes.
Charles Hamilton Aidé is above all remembered as an accomplished dramatist and musician. He travelled extensively and made sketches on his travels. He submitted three canvases to the Grafton Gallery in ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 12 March 1876, in Bordeaux; died 15 October 1955, in Bordeaux.
Watercolourist, architect, writer. Landscapes.
Jean-Paul Alaux was the great grandson of the painter of the same name, known as Gentil, the nephew of Guillaume Alaux, also a painter, and the brother of François Alaux. He was involved in the founding of the Écoles d'Art Américaine in Fontainebleau in ...
Italian, 17th century, male.
Active in Rome.
Born 1593, in Borgo San Sepolcro.
Painter, sculptor, engraver, art theorist. Religious subjects. Frescoes.
Served as Secretary to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome (founded by Zuccharo). In 1585, he published in Rome a benchmark Treatise on the Noble Art of Painting...
Spanish, 17th century, male.
Born 1640, in Cordova; died 1680, in Madrid.
Painter, engraver, poet, writer.
Alfaro studied with Antonio de Castillo and later served an apprenticeship with Velázquez in Madrid, copying the works of Titian, Rubens and Van Dyck. His Incarnation in the church of the Discalced Carmelites in Cordova and ...
French, 19th century, male.
Born 1808, in Moulins (Allier); died 3 April 1836, in Bourbon-l'Archambault (Allier).
Engraver (etching), lithographer, writer. Landscapes.
Perhaps Achille Allier's greatest merit is that he was and remained an essentially local artist, having made a determined effort to remain outside the artistic mainstream. After completing a number of engravings in ...
Italian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 17 July 1947, in Milan.
Painter, sculptor, theorist.
Arte Povera, Conceptual Art.
Adriano Altamira put forward his first critical observations on the phenomena of vision in 1967. Next he began to use minimalist structures, plaits and interlacings, like some of the methods used in France by the ...
Brazilian, 19th century, male.
Born 1843, in Areias (Pernambuco); died 1905.
Painter, writer. History painting.
Americo studied painting in Paris with Ingres. The German emperor owned one of his early works, Woman from Rio de Janeiro. He produced many paintings that celebrated Brazilian independence. He was also interested in literature, the natural sciences and politics. He spent a long period working in Florence, where he produced and successfully exhibited one of his large pictures, ...
Danish, 19th century, male.
Born 2 April 1805, in Odense; died 4 August 1875, in Copenhagen.
Writer, graphic artist, creator of silhouettes and collages.
The author of the Fairytales and the Picture Book Without Pictures proved, on occasion, to be a gifted engraver. He left delicate silhouettes of girls, cupids and swans beneath the trees. He also decorated screens with collages....
Italian, 15th century, male.
Activec.1456.
Painter, writer.
Antonello di Nicola da Teramo painted a Last Judgement at S Giovanni in Teramo.
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1912, in Ferrara.
Film maker, painter, writer. Landscapes.
An intuitive painter, Michelangelo Antonioni uses watercolour, oil and sometimes unexpected materials. He then makes photographic enlargements of his paintings and exhibits the enlargements. On several occasions he has taken his painter's brush to his films, colouring in natural settings artificially, notably in ...
British, 20th century, male.
Born 13 November 1914, in Fulham, London; died 12 June 2000, in Aberdeen.
Painter, lithographer, wood engraver, poet. Still-lifes, landscapes, portraits.
Leonard Appelbee studied under Clive Gardiner at Goldsmiths College from 1931 to 1934, and under Barnett Freedman at the Royal College of Art ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Draughtsman, watercolourist, illustrator, novelist.
Marcel Arnac illustrated François Villon's Works (1928) with miniature watercolours, and illustrated his own work, 83 Centimetres of Adventures (Les éditions Georges-Anquetil, 1925), with drawings. He also wrote and illustrated Le Brelan de Joie...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 16 September 1886, in Strasbourg; died 7 June 1966, in Basel.
Collage artist, engraver, sculptor, draughtsman, illustrator, poet.
Dadaism.
Der Moderne Bund, Dadaist groups in Zurich and Cologne, Artistes Radicaux, Das Neue Leben, Paris Surrealist Group, Abstraction-Création.
Hans Arp joined the École des Arts et Métiers in Strasbourg in 1902, at the age of 16. In 1903 he began painting and contributed to a local magazine. In 1904 he made his first trip to Paris. From 1905 to 1907 he studied under Ludwig von Hoffmann at the fine arts academy in Weimar, where he attended modern art exhibitions. He returned to Strasbourg, which his family then left for Weggis, on the edge of the Lac des Quatre Cantons in Switzerland. Between 1908 and 1910 he made a second trip to Paris and worked for a time at the Académie Julian. In Weggis he completed his first Abstract compositions and learned the art of modelling. In 1911 he co-founded the group...
French, 19th century, male.
Born 20 February 1835, in Angers; died 24 May 1907, in Paris.
Sculptor, painter, watercolourist, poet, art critic.
Zacharie Astruc initially exhibited as a sculptor at the 1871 Salon des Artistes Français. As a painter, he participated in the first Impressionist Exhibition at Nadar's in ...
Swiss, 19th century, male.
Born 2 October 1793, in Geneva; died 12 March 1857, in Geneva.
Miniaturist, enameller, art writer. Portraits.
An artist who was also a connoisseur and writer and the possessor of a renowned collection of paintings. His wrote a treatise on painting on enamel....
American, 20th–21st century, female.
Active in Los Angeles.
Born 1967, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Photographer, textile artist (knit), zine writer, publisher. Sociopolitical themes.
Lisa Anne Auerbach graduated with a BFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York in 1990 and went on to receive her MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 1994.
Upon completing her studies and losing access to a darkroom, Auerbach began knitting as an inexpensive and expressive medium. After attending a Cheap Trick concert she became envious of guitarist Rick Nielsen’s custom statement sweaters and decided she needed to make her own. This launched Auerbach’s career as a textile artist and she began making sweater-skirt combinations with sociopolitical statements across the front and back such as ‘When there is nothing left to burn / Set yourself on fire,’ ‘What’s all this talk of dying for revolution? / You have to live for it,’ and ‘My Jewish grandma is voting for Obama, is yours? / Chosen People Choose Obama.’...
British, 20th century, male.
Born 20 February 1921, in London, in Hoyland (Yorkshire) according to some sources; died 17 November 1975.
Painter, sculptor (bronze), illustrator, stage set designer, art critic, designer. Figures, landscapes, portraits, mythological subjects.
The son of the art critic and poet Gerald Gould and the feminist Labour Party activist Barbara Ayrton, Michael Ayrton travelled widely in his youth to Vienna, Paris and Italy. He received his artistic education at Heatherley's and St John's Wood art schools in London. In ...
Italian, 19th century, male.
Born 24 October 1798, in Turin; died 15 January 1866, in Turin.
Painter, draughtsman, caricaturist, lithographer, writer. Historical subjects, battles, figures, landscapes with figures, landscapes, waterscapes, seascapes, architectural views.
Massimo Azeglio was the son of Marquis Cesare Taparelli d'Azeglio who was made minister plenipotentiary to the Holy See by King Victor Emmanuel in ...
