German, 20th century, male.
Born 26 August 1882, in Berlin; died 4 July 1939, in Berlin.
Draughtsman, illustrator, poster artist, caricaturist.
Symbolism, Jugendstil.
Hermann Abeking was still very much influenced by the Jugendstil, and particularly by Aubrey Beardsley and Jan Toorop. He worked on several German magazines, including the ...
American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active in Europe 1877-1881, and in Paris 1891-1901.
Born 7 October 1856, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania; died 31 May 1915, in New York.
Painter, muralist, illustrator. Portraits, figures, landscapes.
Symbolism, Art Nouveau.
John White Alexander worked as an office boy for ...
British, 20th century, male.
Born 14 November 1893, in Hastings; died 1973.
Painter (gouache), illustrator, designer. Figure compositions. Murals, film and stage sets.
Symbolism.
Unit One group.
John Armstrong studied at Cambridge University and St John's Wood School of Art. From 1933, the year he was appointed a member of the influential Unit One group, he was influenced by the repercussions of Surrealism. During World War II he served as an official war artist. At the beginning of the 1950s, he abandoned Surrealism, returning to his former attraction for the language of symbols, which for him meant working out a personal symbolic syntax, implemented in a series of ambitious compositions with titles that revealed their ideological content: ...
French, 20th century, male.
Active in Algeria, France and Canada.
Born 1923, in Douera (Algeria).
Painter, illustrator. Portraits.
Symbolism.
Maurice Assier's early artistic leanings were towards music. He then took classes at the École des Beaux-Arts in Algiers. After 1945 he illustrated books and exhibited at the Salon du Livre in Algiers in ...
Belgian, 20th century, male.
Active also active in England.
Born 25 July 1881 or en 1878, in Ukkel; died 1953.
Watercolourist, engraver, illustrator, draughtsman.
Symbolism.
Jean de Bosschère was a multi-faceted artist whose work constitutes a bridge between literature and the graphic arts. He divided his time between Belgium, France, Italy and especially England, where he lived for many years. From ...
British, 19th – 20th century, female.
Born 1825; died 1916.
Draughtswoman, illustrator.
Symbolism.
Boyle married Richard Boyle, the chaplain to Queen Victoria, in 1845. She illustrated chiefly childrens' books which appeared from time to time between 1853 and 1908. The illustration of Sarah Austin's book Story without an End...
Russian, 20th century, male.
Born 1886, in Tavria or Kershon; died 1917, in Thessalonica.
Painter, illustrator.
Symbolism, Futurism.
Groups: Golubaya Roza (Blue Rose), Bubnovy Valet (Jack of Diamonds), Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider).
Vladimir Davidovich Burlyuk was the brother of David Burlyuk. He studied in Odessa and married the sister of the painter Lentulov. Along with his brother, he collaborated on the most important projects of the Russian avant-garde, including with the group ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 4 December 1883, in Novara (Piedmont); died 1 March 1963, in Turin.
Painter, engraver, illustrator. Figure compositions, urban landscapes, landscapes with figures, figures, portraits, still-lifes.
Symbolism, Pittura Metafisica (Metaphysical Painting), Novecento Italiano, Magic Realism.
Felice Casorati was the son of an officer. Though he studied law at Padua, he also studied music and painting. He first painted by himself, before turning to the Paduan painter, Giovanni Vianello, for advice. His first exhibit was at the Venice Biennale in 1907. He was considered one of the protagonists, if not the leader, of the Italian Symbolist movement, which at that time included Alberto Martini, Carra, Romolo Romani and Russolo. The group was much influenced by the Viennese Secessionists, French Symbolism, and English artists such as Aubrey Beardsley. The wish to establish a modern Italian painting movement in tune with new trends abroad became apparent at the group's exhibit at the Ca' Pesaro in Venice in 1913. There, Casorati exhibited some 40 works. It is noteworthy that in 1913, the reference to the 'New Style' was somewhat outdated, given that Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, and the beginnings of Abstraction had already appeared elsewhere. Nevertheless, it was this dynamic imperative of the group that gave rise to Futurism, which itself would engender ( ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 16 August 1867, in Lunéville; died 28 October 1949, in Bourg-la-Reine.
Painter, engraver, illustrator.
Symbolism.
School of Pont-Aven (certain similarities).
Paul-Émile Colin was self-taught. He studied and practised medicine for a number of years before enrolling at the Académie Colarossi in ...
Polish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1866, in Lubaczów; died 1924, in Cracow.
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, decorative artist, ceramicist, sculptor, designer. Portraits, genre scenes, landscapes. Furniture.
Symbolism, Art Nouveau.
Debicki studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna from 1881 to 1884, then in Munich, Paris, Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) and Cracow. He first settled in Lemberg and began teaching in ...
Belgian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 19 January 1867, in Louvain; died 1953, in Brussels.
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, writer. Figure compositions, figures. Murals.
Symbolism.
Jean Delville was a pupil of Portaels at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He began exhibiting with the group Flight...
Dutch, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 20 December 1859, in 's Hertogenbosch; died 1935, in Amsterdam.
Painter, illustrator. Figure compositions. Wall decorations.
Symbolism.
Derkinderen was a pupil of Johannes Stracke at the art school in 's Hertogenbosch and at the fine arts academies in The Hague and Brussels. In ...
Belgian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1861, in Lille; died 1938, in Ghent.
Painter, engraver, illustrator, graphic designer. Figure compositions.
Symbolism.
Charles Doudelet studied music at the Ghent conservatory and sculpture at the Ghent school of industrial art and design. He lived abroad for many years, mostly in Italy. He was a member of the artistic group ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 14 August 1870, in Paris; died 1950.
Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, engraver. Religious subjects, figures, nudes, genre scenes, still-lifes. Murals.
Symbolism.
Groupe Libre Esthétique.
From the beginning of his career it was a constant concern of Georges d'Espagne to assert his originality. His studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, did not last very long, for he wanted immediate independence and decided to follow courses in the private academies of Montparnasse. In about 1900, he became acquainted with Maurice Denis, Bonnard and Vuillard, and his collaboration with Denis led to a renewal of religious art in France....
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 15 March 1891, in Rome; died 8 December 1978.
Painter (including gouache), copyist. Figure compositions, figures, portraits, animals, still-lifes. Murals.
Symbolism.
Ferruccio Ferrazzi was the son of Stanislas Ferrazzi, a sculptor renowned as an excellent copyist of works of antiquity who started teaching drawing and modelling to his son when he was still a child. Ferruccio took part in various group exhibitions, starting with the Venice Biennale in ...
Finnish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 26 or 29 May 1865, in Pori, 26 April according to some sources; died 7 March 1931, in Stockholm.
Painter, pastellist, fresco artist, engraver, illustrator. Genre scenes, portraits, landscapes.
Symbolism.
Akseli Gallen-Kallela began his studies at the Finnish fine arts school in Helsinki in ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 17 May 1924, in Paris.
Painter, illustrator. Figures, scenes with figures.
Symbolism.
Pierre Henry studied painting, engraving and fresco painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and entered the Prix de Rome. He won a state scholarship in 1956....
Dutch, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1868 or 1869, in Amsterdam; died 1938, in Amsterdam.
Painter, engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, fresco artist. Designs for stained glass, murals.
Symbolism, Constructivism.
Holst studied at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam from 1885 until 1890 and taught there ...
(b nr Termonde, Sept 12, 1858; d Brussels, Nov 12, 1921).
Belgian painter, illustrator, sculptor, designer, photographer and writer. He was one of the foremost Symbolist artists and active supporters of avant-garde art in late 19th-century Belgium. His wealthy family lived in Bruges from 1859 to 1864, moved to Brussels in 1865, where Khnopff remained until his death, and spent their summers at a country home in Fosset, in the Ardennes. Fosset inspired numerous landscapes that owe a strong debt to Barbizon-style realism (see 1979 cat. rais., p. 210), which dominated advanced Belgian painting in the late 1870s. Khnopff abandoned law school in 1875, and, turning to literature and art, he studied with Xavier Mellery at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. During visits to Paris (1877–80) he admired the work of Ingres and was especially attracted to the painterly art of Rubens, Rembrandt, the Venetian Renaissance and particularly Delacroix. At the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris he discovered Gustave Moreau and Edward Burne-Jones, both of whom indelibly influenced his art. He studied with ...
Swiss, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 9 February 1863, in Tägerwilen; died 12 August 1956, in Bern.
Painter, watercolourist, engraver, illustrator. Landscapes, flowers, animals.
Symbolism.
Die Walze group.
Kreidolf was a lithographer's apprentice in Constance from 1879 to 1883, and then studied under Gabriel von Hackl and Ludwig von Löfftz at the art academy in Munich. He settled in Switzerland during World War I in 1916. Later, he continued his training by studying nature in the Bavarian countryside for several years. In addition to landscape painting, he was a talented illustrator of children's books based on animals and flowers, collections of poetry, and literary and scientific works, including: ...
