French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 16 January 1834, in Mirabeau, Provence; died 28 December 1912, in Brignoles, Provence.
Painter, writer. Religious subjects.
Jules Marie Béguin was ordained in 1857, and became a canon in 1902. That same year, he published a book on St Mary Magdalene. He left a corpus of over 400 paintings in a number of churches in Provence including Cuers, Camps-la-Source, Puget-sur-Argens....
(b Vienna, Oct 22, 1878; d Hamburg, July 30, 1960).
Austrian printmaker, painter, decorative artist and writer. He studied painting with Christian Griepenkerl (1839–1916) at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna (1894–9). From 1899 to 1900 he renovated the Patronatskirche of Emperor Francis Joseph in Radmer an dem Hasel, decorating it with frescoes. At the same time he received his first illustration commissions from the publishers Gerlach & Wiedling in Vienna. From 1900 he was a member of the Vienna Secession (see Secession, §3). In 1902 he became an assistant tutor in draughtsmanship at the Kunstgewerbeschule (now Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst) in Vienna, and in 1905 he took over a class in painting and draughtsmanship, being one of Oskar Kokoschka’s first teachers.
In Autumn 1905 Czeschka joined the Wiener Werkstätte. Under their auspices he produced jewellery, fabrics, wallpaper, enamelled pictures and furniture, and repoussé work and glass windows for the Palais Stoclet, Brussels (...
[Edhem, Osman HamdiHamdi Bey]
(b Istanbul, Dec 30, 1842; d Eskihisar, Gebze, nr Istanbul, Feb 24, 1910).
Turkish painter, museum director and archaeologist. In 1857 he was sent to Paris, where he stayed for 11 years, training as a painter under Gustave Boulanger and Jean-Léon Gérôme. On returning to Turkey he served in various official positions, including two years in Baghdad as chargé d’affaires, while at the same time continuing to paint. In 1873 he worked on a catalogue of costumes of the Ottoman empire, with photographic illustrations, for the Weltausstellung in Vienna. In 1881 he was appointed director of the Archaeological Museum at the Çinili Köşk, Topkapı Palace, in Istanbul. He persuaded Sultan Abdülhamid II (reg 1876–1909) to issue an order against the traffic in antiquities, which was put into effect in 1883, and he began to direct excavations within the Ottoman empire. As a result he brought together Classical and Islamic objects for the museum in Istanbul, including the Sarcophagus of Alexander, unearthed in Sidon in ...
Spanish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1865, in Barcelona; died 1915.
Painter, art critic. Religious subjects, genre scenes, landscapes.
Sebastián Junyent Sans studied at the academy of fine arts in Barcelona. As well as a painter, he was art critic of the review Youth ( ...
Croat, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 22 April 1845, in Našice; died 3 February 1927, in Agram (now Zagreb).
Painter, art critic.
Isidor Krsniavi studied in Vienna and specialised in historical and religious painting. He produced works for Slavonic churches, and also taught history of art at the University of Agram (now Zagreb)....
Spanish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1859, in Cordova; died 1922.
Painter, writer. Religious subjects, genre scenes, portraits, urban landscapes, fruit.
Rafael Ramírez exhibited in Cordova in 1874, Jaén in 1878 and at the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes in Madrid in 1895. He painted scenes of daily life, picturesque views of Spanish towns, portraits, still-lifes, flowers and fruit. Noted works include ...
(b Modum, March 12, 1854; d Eggedal, Jan 19, 1924).
Norwegian painter and writer. After a year at Johan Fredrik Eckersberg’s painting school and the Royal School of Drawing and Art in Christiania (now Oslo), Skredsvig studied in Copenhagen (1870–74), first as a pupil of Vilhelm Kyhn and later at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Besides landscapes, his main interest was animal painting. In 1874–5 he studied in Paris, in museums and with Léon Bonnat. From 1875 to 1879 he worked in Munich, where among others he was influenced by Arnold Böcklin. Skredsvig painted landscapes based on sketches made in Norway but using German models, as in Evening in the Mountains (1878, priv. col.; replica, 1882, Bergen, Billedgal.), a typical studio work in its smooth finish and use of local colour.
Returning to Paris in 1879 Skredsvig again studied briefly under Bonnat and others. Works from this period such as Unloading Snow by the Seine (...
Polish, 20th century, male.
Born 24 February 1885, in Warsaw; died 17 September 1939, in Jeziory (Polesia), committed suicide.
Painter, photographer, art theorist, writer. Religious subjects, portraits, genre scenes.
Symbolism, Magic Realism.
Formisci (Formist) Group.
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, son of the painter Stanislaw Witkiewicz, played an important role in a movement that revolutionised Polish art between the wars. He was a precursor of modern theatre, an art theoretician and philosopher. His spirit and his talent developed in the intellectual setting of the 'Young Poland' movement. He travelled to St Petersburg, Munich, London and particularly France on many occasions, and also took part in an anthropological expedition to Australia organised by Bronislaw Malinowski (...
