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 ...
Uruguayan, 20th century, male.
Active in Spain.
Born 5 February 1898, in Montevideo; died 12 February 1929, in Montevideo.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator, scenographer. Religious subjects, genre scenes, scenes with figures, landscapes, urban landscapes. Stage sets, comic cartoons.
The son of Spanish emigrants, Rafaél Pérez Barradas spent most of his artistic life in Spain, where he was soon contributing illustrations to the press. In 1913, he traveled in Italy and France, then settled in Condal. In 1928, he decided to return to Uruguay. He died prematurely of an illness. He is considered to have formed part of the Spanish artistic avant-garde at the beginning of the 1920s. Starting in a Post-Impressionist style that was soon influenced by Gauguin, he rapidly lightened his palette and became interested in the Cubist vision of reality while breaking out of the unitary vision of form. His canvases, with grey and ochre colours, represent landscapes and burlesque scenes from daily life. ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 3 September 1921, in La Baule.
Painter, lithographer, illustrator. Scenes with figures, portraits, nudes, landscapes, still-lifes. Stage sets, stage costumes, church decoration.
Jean Bruneau was a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nantes from 1938 to 1945 and won the Prix de la Ville de Nantes in his final year. In ...
British, 20th century, male.
Born 1 January 1912.
Painter. Religious subjects. Stage sets.
Geoffrey Burnand studied under Walter Russell and Walter T. Monnington and received the Prix de Rome in 1935. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists and the New English Art Club in London. A number of his baptistery panels were purchased by churches....
Spanish, 20th century, male.
Born 1915 or 1916, in Huelva; died 1991.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, collage artist, illustrator, scenographer. Religious subjects, figures, genre scenes, horse racing scenes, still-lifes. Murals, stage sets.
Caballero gave up engineering studies to enter the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 2 February 1823, in Paris; died 1907, in Paris.
Painter, watercolourist, designer. Church interiors, landscapes, urban landscapes, architectural views. Stage sets.
Philippe Chaperon was set designer at the Opéra in Paris, producing most of the sets for French subsidised theatres, as well as the main theatres in France and abroad and the Expositions Universelles. He painted watercolours based on nature. He was the father of Eugène and Émile Chaperon, who took over from him....
Swiss, 20th century, female.
Active from 1923 active in France.
Born 8 August 1904, in Basel; died 12 January 1977, in Mulhouse, France.
Painter, draughtswoman, illustrator. Religious subjects, rustic scenes, popular scenes. Stage sets.
Véronique Filozof arrived in Paris in 1923, but did not begin her career as a painter until the age of 44. She started her apprenticeship with traditional painting, attempting to portray a resemblance of the subject. However, allergic to any artifice such as perspective, and on the advice of the critic Georges Besson, she began to draw in other ways with only a pen and a bottle of Indian ink. Her main subject was, she stressed: 'Man: his life, his work, his joys, his sorrows'. She worked extensively in series, sometimes assembling drawings in volumes. The first of them was ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1 October 1913, in Paris; died 10 September 1998.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, engraver, designer. Figure compositions, figures, harbour views, still-lifes, flowers. Designs for mosaics, stage sets, church decoration, wall decorations.
Nouvelle Figuration.
André Fougeron came from a family of peasant labourers originally from the Creuse area. In his biography he describes his working life: after completing his basic education he began working as an apprentice draughtsman and then as a metalworker at one of the Renault plants before being made unemployed; he also married and had three children. As an artist he was largely self taught and attended evening classes. In ...
Russian, 20th century, male.
Active in France, from 1946 in Brazil.
Born 30 April 1904, in Petrograd (now St Petersburg).
Painter. Portraits, figures, landscapes, winter landscapes. Murals, stage sets, designs for fabrics, church decoration.
Vladimir Krivutz studied at the School of Fine Art in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) under Sergei Sudeikin and Leon Bakst, and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He worked in Paris until the mid 1940s. As a painter, his preferred subjects were rainy and snowy scenes, and destitution and needy children....
Polish, 20th century, female.
Active in France.
Born 1886 or 1887, in Warsaw.
Painter. Religious subjects, portraits. Stage sets.
Stephanie Lazarska spent most of her professional life in Paris, where she studied under Humbert at the École des Beaux-Arts, and Maurice Denis at the Académie Ranson. She produced portraits, religious paintings and stage sets....
Lebanese, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 18 May 1949, in Biblos or Beirut.
Painter, illustrator, scenographer. Religious subjects. Stage sets, murals.
He obtained his degree at the Beirut school of fine arts, where he taught from 1980 to 1983 in the architecture, decorative arts and graphics departments....
French, 20th century, male.
Born 19 September 1913, in Paris.
Painter, engraver, illustrator. Figures, portraits, landscapes, flowers. Church decoration, stage sets.
Symbolism.
The son of Roger Maillart, the painter, and grandson of Diogène Maillart, Jean Denis studied under Devandez and Orthon Friez. He was awarded the Médaille de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris in ...
British, 20th century, male.
Born 19 December 1905, in London; died 20 October 1994.
Painter, draughtsman, stage set designer. Figure compositions, interiors with figures, landscapes, stiff-lifes, religious subjects.
London Group.
Robert Medley grew up in Hampstead, London, where his neighbours included Stanley Spencer, Richard Carline and Mark Gertler. He studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art ...
Polish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 19 April 1869, in Ropczyce; died 1946, in Wadowice.
Painter, engraver. Allegorical subjects, portraits, interiors, still-lifes, landscapes. Stage sets, church decoration, designs for stained glass.
Symbolism, Art Nouveau.
Józef Mehoffer studied at the Cracow academy from 1887 to 1889...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 24 May 1910, in Épernay; died 2001, in Toulouse.
Painter, designer, scenographer. Religious subjects, scenes with figures, interiors, figures, portraits, group portraits, nudes, landscapes. Murals, church decoration, stage costumes and sets, designs for tapestries.
Mélat studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rheims, then in ...
Spanish, 20th century, male.
Born 1898, in Manresa (Catalonia); died 17 September 1990.
Painter, watercolourist, scenographer. Scenes with figures, church interiors, landscapes. Stage sets.
José Mestres Cabanes studied at the school of arts and crafts in his native town and studied decorative painting in 1911...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1931, in Nice; died 3 June 2005.
Draughtsman, painter (gouache), sculptor, engraver, poster artist, illustrator, designer. Religious subjects, figures, portraits. Postage stamps.
Raymond Moretti lived and worked in Courbevoie. After producing strictly figurative painting he undertook, around 1970, an enormous construction which he showed mainly in Paris in ...
Polish, 20th century, male.
Born 1923, in Cracow.
Painter. Figures, nudes, portraits, landscapes, architectural views, still-lifes. Murals, church decoration, stage sets.
Cracow Group.
From 1942 to 1947 Jerzy Nowosielski studied at the institute of fine arts and at the academy of fine arts in Cracow. From ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 9 April 1932, in Caen.
Painter, watercolourist, engraver, lithographer, illustrator, sculptor. Scenes with figures, landscapes. Murals, church decoration, stage costumes and sets.
Jacques Pasquier built up an entomological collection from 1946 to 1956, while also drawing comic strips. He started oil painting in ...
German, 20th century, male.
Born 12 April 1875, in Leipzig.
Painter, watercolourist, engraver. Religious subjects, figures, scenes with figures, genre scenes. Stage sets.
Popp studied in Dresden, Berlin and Rome.
Berlin (Nationalgal.): 16 watercolours
Görlitz (Städtische Kunstsammlungen): Tragedy in a Factory Entrance Hall
Hildesheim: Adoration of the Shepherds...
