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Aricò, Gianni  

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....

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Bernea, Horia  

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 ...

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Bin, Antonio  

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.

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Dierickx, Joseph Henry or Jose  

Belgian, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 14 October 1865, in Brussels; died 1959.

Painter, decorative designer, sculptor, architect. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes.

Dierickx was a pupil of Jean Portaels and Joseph Stallaert. In 1887 he won the Godecharle Prize, which enabled him to travel in Italy. He regularly participated in the activities of the ...

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Erdély, Miklós  

Annamaria Szőke

(b Budapest, July 4, 1928; d Budapest, May 22, 1986).

Hungarian architect, sculptor, conceptual and performance artist, teacher, theorist and film maker. He came from a Jewish–Christian family, many of whom were killed during World War II. In 1947 he began training as a sculptor at the College of Fine Arts in Budapest, but he left and continued his studies in the studio of Dezső Birman Bokros (1889–1965), before training as an architect from 1947 to 1951 at the Technical University in Budapest. During the 1950s and early 1960s he worked as an architect and began experimenting with painting and graphic art, as well as writing poems and short stories. During this period he became acquainted with such artists as Dezső Korniss, László Latner and, most importantly, Béla Kondor and Sándor Altorjai (1933–79), with whom he began a lifelong friendship. In 1959 and 1963 he also enrolled at the Budapest College of Theatre and Film Arts but was advised to leave both times....

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Fleri, Joseph C.  

American, 20th century, male.

Born 20 May 1889, in Brooklyn (New York City).

Sculptor. Religious subjects.

Joseph C. Fleri was a member of the National Society of Sculpture and the New York Architectural League. He carved religious works for Philadelphia and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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Parker, Harry Hanley  

American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 29 November 1869, in Philadelphia; died 16 March 1917.

Painter, sculptor, architect. Church decoration.

Harry Hanley Parker was also an architect. He decorated the Calvary Methodist Church, Philadelphia.

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Pircher, Roman  

Austrian, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 27 February 1863, in Imst (Tyrol); died 29 March 1928, in Innsbruck.

Sculptor, architect. Religious subjects, figures.

Pircher produced numerous sculptures for Tyrolean churches.

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Prell, Hermann  

German, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 29 April 1854, in Leipzig; died 18 May 1922, in Dresden-Loschwitz.

Painter, sculptor. Religious subjects, mythological subjects, historical subjects, portraits, landscapes, architectural views.

Herman Prell was Walter Prell's brother and studied under Franz Theodor Grosse at the Dresden college of art, where he also taught. He took part in exhibitions in Berlin, where he gained honourable mentions in ...

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Rulot, Joseph Louis  

Belgian, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 29 January 1853, in Liège; died 16 February 1919, in Herstal.

Sculptor, medallist, draughtsman, designer of ornamental architectural features. Religious subjects, historical subjects, allegorical subjects, portraits. Statues, monuments, funerary monuments.

Joseph Louis Rulot studied at the royal academy of fine arts in Liège and subsequently taught there. He authored ...

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Sabatte, Fernand  

French, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 14 May 1874, in Aiguillon; died 1940.

Painter, sculptor. Portraits, landscapes, architectural views, church interiors, architectural interiors.

Fernand Sabatte, a pupil of Gustave Moreau, taught at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. He exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he was a member and where he was awarded an honourable mention in ...

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Steiner, Ermann, or Hermann, Later Ermanno  

Austrian, 20th century, male.

Born 30 January 1878, in Meran (now Merano, Italy); died 24 June 1963, in Meran.

Sculptor, designer of ornamental architectural features. Religious subjects, allegorical subjects, figures.

Hermann Steiner was the son of the sculptor Sebastian Steiner and husband of the painter Adèle Steiner-Perlemutter. He produced very intense sculptures and high-reliefs in wood, inspired by Late German Gothic, which are a mixture of the sacred and the profane. He portrayed women, satyrs and grimacing fauns in compositions full of figures and movement. He also carved religious subjects, and was best known for his cherubs and cupids. In addition, he decorated many pieces of furniture with carvings of fruit, scrolls, nymphs and masks. He took part in group exhibitions, including the ...

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Utinger, Gebhard  

Swiss, 19th – 20th century, male.

Born 3 April 1874, in Baar.

Painter, sculptor. Religious subjects.

Utinger was a student at the academy in Dresden and was also an architect. He worked mainly in Silesia, where he did altar paintings and war memorials.

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Wiwulski, Antoni  

Polish, 20th century, male.

Born 1877; died 10 January 1919, in Vilnius.

Sculptor. Religious subjects.

Antoni Wiwulski was also an architect. He sculpted several monuments and crucifixes in Cracow and Vilnius.