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Belgian, 20th century, male.

Born 1929, in Ostend.

Sculptor, painter. Religious subjects, nudes.

D'Anneel studied at the Brussels Academy. He became a teacher at the college of fine arts in the district of Uccle in Brussels.

French, 20th century, male.

Born 1926, in Frémery (Moselle).

Painter, sculptor, decorative designer. Figure compositions, religious subjects, landscapes. Murals, church decoration, designs for mosaics and stained-glass windows, stage sets, stage costumes.

Arcabas studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and also had a degree. He was a friend of the painter Dimitri Varbanesco. He exhibited in numerous towns in France and abroad. From ...

Italian, 20th century, male.

Born 1941, in Aricò.

Sculptor, painter, glassmaker. Religious subjects, figures, animals.

Gianni Aricò received a diploma in architecture from Venice University in 1971. In 1974 he set up his sculpture studio in the de-consecrated church of S Andrea della Zirada in Venice....

French, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born January 1851, in Paris; died 1938.

Painter, sculptor, illustrator. Religious subjects, portraits, genre scenes.

Orientalism.

Albert Aublet was a pupil of Claudius Jacquand and Gérôme. Very early on, he was drawn to the East, first visiting Constantinople (now Istanbul) in ...

Austrian, 20th century, male.

Born 20 October 1871, in Bruneck.

Sculptor (wood), painter. Religious subjects.

Joseph Bachlechner studied initially in Austria, and was active in Bosen (now Bolzano), Brixen (now Bressanone) and Hall. He developed his skills further during a visit to Rome before completing his studies at the academy in Munich in Eberle's studio....

Italian, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 1853, in Milan; died 1937, in Milan.

Painter, draughtsman, watercolourist, sculptor. Nudes, portraits, church interiors, interiors, genre scenes, local scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures, seascapes, still-lifes.

Leonardo Bazzaro was the brother of the sculptor Ernesto Bazzaro, and a pupil of Giuseppe Bertini at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. He started out making architectural drawings. He won the Fumagalli Prize and the Giotto Institute Prize in 1878. He also won medals in Paris in 1889, and in Milan, Palermo, Antwerp and St Louis....

British, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 14 April 1863, in London; died 27 November 1933, in London.

Painter, sculptor, engraver, illustrator. Figure compositions, religious subjects, mythological subjects, landscapes.

Robert Anning Bell was the pupil of Aimé Morot in Paris and of Sir George Frampton in London. He taught at University College, Liverpool (...

Italian, 20th century, male.

Born 1928, in Colognola ai Colli, near Verona.

Painter, engraver, graphic designer, fresco artist, sculptor. Religious subjects. Designs for stained glass.

Bellomi studied initially at the Cignaroli Academy in Verona. After World War II, he worked as a coal miner in St-Étienne in France. However, he spent most of his life in Verona where, ...

French, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 28 April 1868, in Lille; died 16 April 1941, in Paris.

Painter (gouache), watercolourist, sculptor, engraver, draughtsman, illustrator. Religious subjects, mythological subjects, nudes, portraits, genre scenes, still-lifes, landscapes, urban landscapes. Designs for tapestries.

Symbolism.

School of Pont-Aven.

Émile Bernard plays a singular role in the history of painting in the late-19th century. As demonstrated by the important retrospective of his work mounted by the Fondation Mona Bismarck in Paris in 1991, he was the often-overlooked originator of a number of highly innovative movements (Cloisonnism, Synthetism, even Symbolism), whose paternity he claimed with vehemence in his writings, before he turned his back on them all with equal forcefulness later in life. He moved to the western Paris suburb of Asnières with his family in 1881, and showed an early interest in painting, studying at the Atelier Cormon from the age of 16. Here he met his mentor, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and subsequently Van Gogh. Expelled from the studio in 1886 for insubordination and lack of discipline, he travelled to Normandy and Brittany, where he encountered Gauguin and his followers from the Pont-Aven School. In the same year, he painted the ...

Romanian, 20th century, male.

Born 14 September 1938, in Bucharest; died 4 December 2000, in Paris.

Painter, draughtsman, sculptor. Church interiors, landscapes, architectural views, still-lifes.

Conceptual Art.

Horia Bernea studied mathematics and physics at the University of Bucharest from 1955 to 1958, then followed courses at the city's school of architecture ...

Italian, 20th century, male.

Born 1896, in Gemona del Friuli; died 1987.

Painter, sculptor, designer of ornamental architectural features. Religious subjects, figures.

Bin exhibited busts at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1928.

Belgian, 20th century, male.

Born 1921, in Brussels.

Sculptor, painter. Religious subjects, figures.

Paul Blavier studied at the academy of fine arts in Brussels; he worked exclusively as a painter between 1970 and 1973, then devoted himself entirely to sculpture. As a sculptor, his principal preoccupation was with dynamic movement, which he sought to capture by juxtaposing lines, solids and spaces and by employing permutations of steel, brass, copper and synthetic resins. He polished the surfaces of his work to increase its luminosity and mounted his sculptures on rough stone pediments....

Italian, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 12 February 1821, in Rome; died 20 January 1908, in Rome.

Painter, sculptor. Religious subjects, mythological subjects, portraits.

Roberto Bompiani studied at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and was later appointed principal of that institution. He sculpted only a small number of statues, among them ...

(b St. Ann, 1917; d 2003).

Jamaican painter and sculptor. A self-taught mystic and visionary, unknown until the late 1960s, he drew his artistic inspiration from a very personal interpretation of two Afro-Christian Jamaican cults, Rastafarianism, and Revivalism. His imagery developed through meditation and techniques similar to the automatism of the Surrealists. The curious limestone formations found in Jamaica frequently served as a source of inspiration, as in Bush Have Ears (1976; Kingston, N.G.). He also made ritual objects, such as carved wooden staffs and decorated musical instruments. During the 1970s he worked in close collaboration with his son Clinton Brown (b 1954), who also received substantial critical acclaim.

Swiss, 20th century, male.

Born 13 January 1878, in Lindau (Zurich); died 1923, in Ligornetto (Ticino).

Sculptor, painter, engraver. Religious subjects, mythological subjects, local scenes. Statues, busts.

Carl Burckhardt was educated from 1896 to 1898 at the painter Erwin Knirr's private art academy in Munich. He spent some time in Basel and travelled to Rome in ...

Italian, 20th century, male.

Born 6 October 1886, in Milan; died 27 March 1973, in Milan.

Painter, draughtsman, pastellist, sculptor. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, genre scenes, scenes with figures, animals. Designs for stained glass.

Aldo Carpi was a pupil of Stefano Bersani. He entered the Accademia di Brera in ...

Italian, 19th – 20th century, male.

Active in Turin.

Born 1861, in Turin; died 1947.

Painter, sculptor. Religious subjects.

Milan, 11 Dec 1986: The Virgin and Child with St John (oil on panel, 19¾ × 9 ins/50 × 22 cm) ITL 2,000,000

Turin, 10 Dec 2002...

real name: Mark Zakharovich Chagal

Russian, 20th century, male.

Active naturalised in France from 1937.

Born 7 July 1887, in Vitebsk; died 28 March 1985, in St-Paul-de-Vence, France.

Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, sculptor, ceramicist, engraver, decorative artist, illustrator.

Religious subjects, portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures. Murals, designs for stained glass, designs for mosaics, low reliefs.

Poetic Reality.

Marc Chagall came from a Jewish family. His father was a clerk in a herring factory so they were not well off, one might even say poor. He first learned how to draw by copying book illustrations. In 1906, he studied with Jehudo Pen in Vitebsk. The following year he managed to leave for St Petersburg where he enrolled at the School for the Encouragement of the Arts. Not altogether satisfied with the teaching he was receiving there, he arranged to have himself admitted to the Zvanseva School in 1908, where his teacher, Leon Bakst, introduced him to the work of Cézanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh. In 1910, thanks to a bursary, he was able to achieve his dream and move to Paris, where he set up home in ‘La Ruche’, in those days a haven for struggling artists. There he met Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Blaise Cendrars, and later Amedeo Modigliani, Delaunay, and La Fresnaye. In 1911, he took part for the first time in the Salon des Artistes Indépendants in Paris, and in 1914 exhibited for the first time at the Der Sturm Gallery in Berlin. That same year he returned to Russia and married Bella Rosenfeld in 1915. Their daughter Ida was born a year later. During its early years, Chagall supported the Russian Revolution and in 1917 he was appointed Commissar for Fine Arts in Vitebsk and founded an academy at which El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, and Ivan Puni taught. In 1919, he participated in the first official exhibition of revolutionary art in Petrograd (now St Petersburg). But before long he clashed with the Suprematists, particularly Malevich who, with the support of his friends, took advantage of Chagall’s absence to seize control of the academy. Chagall resigned and left for Moscow in 1920, where his art took on a new direction with the commission he was given by Granovsky, the director of the Theatre of Jewish Art in Moscow and for which Chagall not only designed stage sets and costumes, but also painted murals and created stage curtains. Chagall completed six large-scale panels within just a few months. Stalin’s anti-Semitic policy, however, led to the theatre’s closure in 1949. The Tretiakov Gallery kept the canvases in its vaults for more than 40 years and in 1973 Chagall, back home in Russia, was able to see them again and sign them. In 1920, he started writing his autobiography ...

French, 20th century, male.

Born in Paris.

Painter, sculptor, designer. Religious subjects.

Charles Charlier was a member of the Salon d'Automne in Paris and also exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants in 1922 and 1923.

He produced an enormous number of religious artworks, such as stained glass windows, fresco paintings, sculptures and ritual embroidery. The best known of his sculptures is a ...

American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 1834, in Malden (Massachusetts); died 1919, in Newton Upper Falls (Massachusetts).

Painter, sculptor. Historical subjects, religious subjects, figures, portraits, landscapes.

Darius Cobb was the twin brother of Cyrus Cobb. The works for which he is known include portraits of ...