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 ...
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...
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 ...
German, 15th century, male.
Born c. 1435; died 1504.
Painter, miniaturist, illuminator, writer, printer. Religious subjects.
School of Alsace.
Hans Baemler's name appears for the first time in 1453. He established himself in Augsburg as a printer. His name appears on two miniatures, a Crucifixion...
Belgian, 20th century, male.
Born 1879 or 1889, in Brussels; died 1954, in Paris.
Painter, illustrator, writer. History painting, nudes, portraits, landscapes, still-lifes.
Baes was a student of J. Stallaert at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels; he also studied under Cabanel and Bonnat in Paris. Work by him was shown at the Salon de Bruxelles (1903-1904), at the Salon d'Automne in Paris (from 1928 to 1933), at the Salon des Artistes Français (between 1929 and 1938) and at the Salon des Tuileries (from 1933 to 1939)....
French, 15th century, male.
Active in Troyes from 1480 to 1486.
Writer, miniaturist, binder.
American, 20th century, male.
Born 2 September 1911, in Charlotte (North Carolina); died 12 March 1988, in New York.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, lithographer, screen printer, engraver, collage artist, newspaper cartoonist, illustrator, art theorist. Religious subjects, figure compositions, local figures. Humorous cartoons, frontispieces, stage sets...
British, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1952, in London.
Painter, illustrator, art critic. Landscapes, cityscapes, interiors with figures, portraits.
Julian Bell is the grandson of the painter Vanessa Bell. He studied English Literature at Magdalen College in Oxford before attending the City and Guilds Art School in London. He taught at Goldsmiths College ...
Russian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active also active in France.
Born 1870, in St Petersburg; died 1960, in Paris.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator, decorative designer, writer.
Mir Iskusstva (World of Art) group.
Aleksander was the brother of Albert Nikolaevich Benois. He studied law, and then painting, in St Petersburg, before going on to Paris for further arts studies. In St Petersburg in 1909, he exhibited a series of paintings entitled, ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 5 February 1902, in Mestry (Calvados); died 23 April 1982, in Rochefort-en-Yvelines.
Painter (gouache), sculptor, draughtsman, engraver, newspaper cartoonist, humorist artist, poster artist, illustrator, writer. Landscapes with figures, landscapes, village views. Advertising art.
Georges Pierre Beuville studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts and then at the École des Arts Décoratifs....
British, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 28 November 1757, in London, United Kingdom; died 12 August 1827, in London.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator, poet. Religious subjects, figure compositions.
William Blake was the son of a draper. He showed a strong artistic tendency from an early age and, at the age of 10, started to study drawing at Henry Par’s Academy in the Strand. He learnt engraving under Ryland and was then apprenticed to James Basire. During his seven years with Basire (1772–1779), Blake was made to copy the sculptures of Westminster Abbey and of London’s old churches, thus stimulating his fascination with Gothic art. He studied briefly at the Royal Academy in 1779, where he made friends with Barry, Fuseli, Mortimer, Flaxman, and Stodhart. While there, his studies concentrated on Michelangelo....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 9 November 1932, in Chalon-sur-Saône; died 9 August 1992, in Paris.
Painter, sculptor, engraver, illustrator, poet.
Alexandre Bonnier studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Aubusson. He became a teacher and then a director, first of the École des Beaux-Arts in Moulins, and then of the École des Beaux-Arts in Lille. He was a driving force behind the administration of art education in France. In his first period, Alexandre Bonnier used traditional materials in his paintings, in a style somewhere between two apparently opposite poles: surreal eroticism and informal abstraction. Pieyre de Mandiargues, justifiably comparing him with Gustave Moreau and Fautrier, notes that Bonnier 'is driven to seek and to find pictorial equivalents to sensations of sound, taste and touch'. These kinds of nudes, which evoke touch or sound, were the subject of his ...
Palestinian, 20th century, male.
Active in the USA and in France.
Born 1942, in Jerusalem.
Painter, watercolourist, pastellist, draughtsman, writer. Artists’ books.
Kamal Boullata received a diploma from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, then studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC ...
British, 19th century, female.
Born 1791, in Colchester; died 1856, in Erith.
Watercolourist, illustrator, author. Fish.
Sarah Bowdich was married to the African explorer T.E. Bowdich and many of her early works appear under the name Mrs T.E. Bowdich. She was one of the earliest European women to travel to tropical Western Africa where she recorded and classified plants and wildlife. She produced a great many paintings of tropical fish using mixed media, including gold and silver filaments, to attain the realistic sheen of fish scales. In ...
American, 19th century, male.
Born 1 August 1866, in Oberlin (Ohio); died 1946.
Stage designer, architect, author, illustrator.
Claude Fayette Bragdon is above all remembered as an architect. He first worked as a stage designer in 1919 on Walter Hampden's travelling production of Hamlet. He designed fourteen other productions for Hampden between ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 20 February 1878, in Hartford (Connecticut); died 16 April 1936, in Hartford.
Painter, illustrator, engraver, art critic. Landscapes, portraits.
James Britton trained in the studio of Charles Noel Flagg and at the Art Students' League in New York. He was a founding member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, but spent much of his career in New York. He also contributed articles to the weekly ...
Australian, 20th century, male.
Active also active in the USA.
Born 30 January 1885, in Kew (Melbourne); died 11 February 1969, in London.
Painter, draughtsman, stage set designer, engraver (etching, linocut), illustrator, writer, critic. Scenes with figures, portraits.
London Group.
Horace Brodzky was born in Australia but ultimately settled in Britain. In ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1908.
Draughtsman, illustrator, writer.
Between the two world wars, Jean Bruller worked prolifically as a draughtsman, publishing albums on themes of black humour, such as Twenty-one Practical Recipes for Violent Death ( Vingt-et-une Recettes Pratiques de Mort Violente) (...
