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 ...
British, 20th century, male.
Born 1910, in London; died 1996, in Firle (East Sussex).
Painter, potter, writer, art historian.
Bloomsbury Group.
Quentin Bell was the son of the painter Vanessa Bell and the art critic Clive Bell. An author, biographer and art historian, he is also well known as an artist. Bell studied at Peterborough Lodge in Swiss Cottage, London, and Leighton Park School in Reading before dropping out at age seventeen to pursue his career as a painter. In ...
Swiss, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active in Germany.
Born 31 December 1849, in St Gall; died 1921, in Planegg.
Architect, painter, decorative designer, theorist. Designs (furniture/fabrics/metal objects/ceramics).
Jugendstil.
From 1868 to 1871 Hans Eduard von Berlepsch-Valendas was a student of architecture with Gottfried Sempers in Zurich. After graduating he abandoned architecture while he was living in Frankfurt, to go and train as a painter in Munich (...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 21 May 1887, in Fossombrone (Urbino and Pesaro); died November 1955, in Monza.
Painter, engraver, draughtsman, watercolourist, ceramicist, writer. Mythological subjects, figures, port scenes, urban landscapes, landscapes.
Novecento Italiano.
Anselmo Bucci was a student at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, where he became friends with the painter Dudreville. He went to Paris in 1906, and was soon part of the young artists' set in Montmartre. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he left Paris and joined the ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1855, in Tours; died 1929, in Tours.
Potter, writer, archaeologist.
School of Tours.
Auguste-Alexandre Chauvigné trained with his father Auguste-François, and worked in the same studio. A journalist, novelist, playwright, historian and archeologist, he was a member of the Académie Française and of the Académie d'Agriculture. In ...
Swiss, 20th century, male.
Active from 1953 also active in France.
Born 21 February 1909, in Lucerne; died 21 March 2015.
Painter, engraver, lithographer, ceramicist, sculptor, illustrator, decorative designer, writer. Murals, designs for mosaics.
Groups: Die Allianz, Abstraction-Creation.
The son of a mechanic, at the outset Hans Erni was a technical draughstman in an architect's studio. He attended the school of arts and crafts in Lucerne between 1927 and 1928, and the Académie Julian in Paris from 1928 to 1929. Between 1929 and 1930 he was at the Vereinigte Staatschule für Freie und Angewandte Kunst (school of applied arts) in Berlin. During his numerous stays in Paris he was in contact with Arp, Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Wassily Kandinsky and Henry Moore among others. He was also strongly influenced by the work of Picasso and Braque. He joined the group...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1909, in Baltimore; died 1993.
Painter, draughtsman, print artist, illustrator, art historian, writer. Figures, portraits, genre scenes, scenes with figures, landscapes. Comic strips.
Elton Clay Fax studied at Clafin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, and Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. He was taught by Augusta Savage....
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 3 October 1904, in Revello; died 9 February 1936, in Turin.
Painter, photomontage artist, writer, illustrator. Murals, ceramics.
Futurism.
Luigi Enrico Colombo took the pseudonym Fillia, which was his mother's maiden name. Although he died at the age of only 32, he was one of the most far-sighted thinkers to influence the evolution of artistic expression between the two World Wars. In fact, in the course of the many journeys he made right up to his death in Paris, he was in contact with the pioneers of abstract art, which was at that time ignored by everyone, and this was how he came to be linked with the leaders of the ...
Mozambican, 20th century, male.
Born 6 June 1936, in Matalana.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, potter, sculptor, poet. Murals.
Valente Ngwenya Malangatana is a major figure in 20th century Mozambican culture. He was initiated into traditional healing practices when he was a young man, beginning to draw in ...
German, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 12 October 1742, in Lintorf; died 13 June 1825, in Nymphenburg.
Sculptor, modeller, art critic, porcelain painter.
Johann Peter Melchior was the father of Heinrich Anton and Georg Wilhelm. In 1762, he went to France, and then returned to Koblenz, establishing himself first in the Palatinate and later in Nymphenburg. He was one of the most famous modellers and porcelain painters of his time....
German, 18th century, male.
Born 1761, in Annaberg; died, in Kamsdorf, near Iena.
Painter, engraver (burin), art writer. History painting, landscapes.
Karl Gottlob Rüger worked for the porcelain factories in Gera and Volkstedt.
Czech, 20th century, male.
Born 12 July 1923, in Prague.
Sculptor, painter, ceramicist, writer.
Zbynek Sekal was arrested in 1941 and deported to Mauthausen. After World War II, in 1945, he became a drawing and painting student of E. Filla and F. Tichy at the institute for decorative arts in Prague. He only began to sculpt in ...
Danish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active also active in France.
Born 7 September 1863, in Copenhagen; died 1958, in Cannes, France.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, sculptor, potter, architect, pastellist, art writer. Figures, portraits, landscapes, landscapes with figures.
Jens Ferdinand Willumsen studied under Kroyer at the Kunstakademi in Copenhagen. He visited France (Paris, 1889-1889) and Spain, where he was influenced by El Greco. He returned to Paris and lived there from 1890 to 1894. A visit to Pont Aven and Le Pouldu in 1890 saw him forge a friendship with Gauguin and Sérusier and, on his return to his native Copenhagen, he and a number of other Danish painters and sculptors launched the ...
American, 20th century, female.
Born 3 March 1893, in San Francisco; died 12 March 1998, in Ojai (California).
Draughtswoman, watercolourist, illustrator, ceramicist, sculptor, writer. Figures, nudes.
Dadaism.
Beatrice Wood studied in Paris before the World War I, at the Académie Julian and the Comédie Française. She moved to Italy with Gordon Craig before returning to New York in ...
