French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 24 March 1859, in Angers; died 1941, in Angers.
Painter, decorative artist, lithographer. Religious subjects, mythological subjects, genre scenes. Designs for stained glass.
He was a pupil of Ernest Hebert and Luc-Olivier Merson at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between ...
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 19 February 1946, in Washington DC.
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, engraver, photographer, video artist, glassmaker, decorative designer. Theatre design.
AfriCobra Group.
Akili Ron Anderson attended the Corcoran School of Art and Howard University in Washington DC where he lives and works. He is a member of AfriCobra (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) founded in ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 25 July 1869, in Valence; died 2 February 1948, in Nice.
Painter, watercolourist, pastellist, draughtsman, engraver (including etching). Genre scenes, portraits, landscapes. Wall decorations, frescoes, designs for mosaics, stained glass windows, ornaments.
Having attended classes at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyons in ...
German, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 14 April 1868, in Hamburg; died 27 February 1940, in Berlin.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, architect, designer, decorative artist, graphic designer. Posters, furniture, wallpaper, carpets, glassware, ceramics, table services, jewellery, silverwork, objets d'art, typefaces.
Jugendstil, functional school.
Die Sieben (Group of Seven), Deutscher Werkbund...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 26 June 1909, in Dijon; died 6 December 1996, in Paris.
Painter, collage artist, engraver, draughtsman. Wall decorations, designs for mosaics, stained glass windows, tapestries, stage costumes and sets.
A pupil at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyons in 1930, Bertholle studied in Paris from 1932-1934, and subsequently attended classes run by the painter Roger Bissière at the Académie Ranson, where he met his friends and associates Manessier, Etienne-Martin, Le Moal and Véra Pagava. He was artistic director of the Gien porcelain factory from 1943-1957, and taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1965-1980. He was a member of the Institut de France, a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur and a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Initially an admirer of Puvis de Chavannes, whose work he had encountered at the city museum in Lyons, Bertholle later discovered Manet (at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1932), and through the latter, Van Gogh and Renoir. Following his early, highly-coloured Expressionist period, Bertholle was greatly influenced by the Flemish fantasies of Breughel and Heironymus Bosch, and ultimately by the Surrealists - as may be seen in his painting of the ...
Swiss, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 31 July 1863, in Rolle (Vaud); died 1948, in Lausanne.
Painter, engraver, decorative artist. Figure compositions, figures, portraits. Murals, designs for stained glass, furniture.
Art Nouveau.
Ernest Bieler was the uncle of André Charles Bieler. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger. He divided his time between the mountainous regions of the Valais and the shores of Lake Geneva; his body of work evokes the everyday life of the peasant communities in the Valais and the Canton of Vaud at the beginning of the twentieth century. Bieler was commissioned to paint compositions for the ceiling of the Victoria hall in Geneva; decorative panels and windows for the federal government building in Bern; stained glass windows for the Vevey church of St-Martin; and decorations for the vintners' festival. Additionally, he exhibited woodcut engravings and designed furniture....
German, 20th century, male.
Born 1889, in Krefeld; died 1957, in Amsterdam.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, pastellist, engraver (wood), decorative designer. Figure compositions, figures, nudes, rustic scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures, architectural views, still-lifes, animals. Stage sets, designs for stained glass, glass painting, designs for fabrics...
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 ...
Israeli, 20th century, male.
Active from 1948 active in Israel.
Born 16 December 1908, in Bucharest.
Painter, engraver, poster artist, graphic designer, decorative designer. Designs for tapestries, and stained glass windows.
He was an architecture student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he later studied painting at the Scandinavian Academy and at the Académie Julian ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 7 March 1912, in St-Étienne; died 5 December 1995, in Paris.
Painter, watercolourist, engraver, lithographer, illustrator, medallist. Wall decorations, designs for tapestries, designs for mosaics, designs for stained glass, frescoes, ceramics.
Jacques Despierre entered the studio of Lucien Simon at the École Nationale Superieur des Beaux-Arts in Paris in ...
Swiss, 20th century, male.
Born 7 July 1901, in Basel; died 1987.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, illustrator, decorative artist. Figures, portraits, landscapes, urban landscapes. Designs for stained glass.
Fred Fay acquired some technical knowledge of painting from his father, who was a picture restorer. While still a student, he exhibited as early as ...
Japanese, 20th century, male.
Active in Paris from 1913, naturalised in 1955.
Born 27 November 1886, in Edogama, near Tokyo, baptised in 1959; died 29 January 1968, in Zurich.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman (including ink/wash), fresco artist, print artist (including lithography/etching/aquatint), illustrator, decorative artist...
Swedish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 14 November 1872, in Stockholm; died 1959.
Painter, watercolourist, engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, poster artist. Figures, portraits, landscapes with figures, still-lifes (including flowers/fruit). Wall decorations, designs for stained glass.
Gustav Olof Hjortzberg studied at the Stockholm academy from 1892 to 1896. He spent seven years travelling in France, Italy, Spain, Greece and Asia. After returning to Stockholm, he was professor of drawing at the academy from 1911 to 1917, and later its director from 1920 to 1941. Between 1921 and 1938, he instituted a school of decorative arts at the academy. He took part in group exhibitions, including the ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 29 September 1935, in Philippeville, Algeria.
Painter, draughtsman, watercolourist, engraver, medallist, illustrator. Figures, landscapes. Wall decorations, designs for stained glass, postage stamps.
Irolla's figurative painting is traditional, depicting the skies of Champagne, its valleys, vineyards, village churches and streets. He executed stained glass windows (Châlons-sur-Marne), mural decorations (Vitry-le-François, St-Memmie, Châlons-sur-Marne) and numerous postage stamps. He also illustrated several books, notably ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 2 November 1876, in Paris; died 31 December 1958.
Painter, designer, engraver. Genre scenes, nudes, landscapes, gardens, still-lifes. Designs (wallpapers/fabrics), designs for stained glass, theatre decoration.
Art Deco.
Francis Jourdain was the son of the writer, art critic and architect Franz Jourdain. He studied painting and colour engraving under Henri C. Guérard, and worked in the evenings at the studio of Eugène Carrière. He also studied under Albert Besnard and collaborated with him for three months on the decoration of the chapel of the Berck hospice. He took part in exhibitions of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and was made an associate member of the Society. With his father - for many years the president - he was one of the founder members of the Salon d'Automne. He collaborated on the magazine ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 10 December 1903, in Paris; died 19 April 1995.
Painter, engraver, enameller. Portraits, nudes, flowers. Frescoes, designs for stained glass, medals.
Daniel Octobre was a son of the sculptor Aimé, and a pupil of Ernest Laurent. He lived and worked in Paris, where he exhibited at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and at the Salon des Tuileries, of which he became a member. He won the first Prix de Rome in ...
French, 20th century, male.
Born 20 April 1920, in Paris; died 2000.
Painter, watercolourist, lithographer, illustrator. Figures, nudes, portraits, interiors, landscapes, landscapes with figures, urban landscapes, gardens, waterscapes, seascapes, still-lifes, flowers. Decorative panels, designs for stained glass.
Maurice Robert Savary was a pupil of Nicolas Untersteller and Maurice Brianchon at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1940 to 1949. He spent time in Madrid from 1948 to 1949, then went to Italy, returning with the Prix de Rome. He was then appointed a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, Rouen. From 1957 he lived in Paris and passed most of his summers in Collioure. He won a number of awards, including: 1950, the First Grand Prix de Rome; 1948, the Casa Velázquez prize, Madrid; 1957, the international prize at the Menton Biennale; 1975, gold medal at the Salon des artistes Français, Paris; 1982, medal at the Academie des Beaux-Arts Institut de France; 1985, silver medal at the Salon de la Marine, Paris, and a gold medal two years later....
Spanish, 20th century, male.
Born 1879, in Barcelona; died 1950, in Barcelona.
Painter, engraver, draughtsman, decorative artist. Figure compositions, religious subjects, landscapes with figures. Murals, designs for stained glass.
Symbolism.
Darío Vilas Fernández was a pupil of Ramón Martí Alsina at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Barcelona, where he exhibited work in ...
Polish, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 15 January 1869, in Cracow; died 28 November 1907, in Cracow.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, pastellist, illustrator, designer, poet, writer. Portraits, figures, figure compositions, landscapes. Designs for stained glass, stage sets, furniture.
Neo-Romanticism, Symbolism, Japonisme.
Stanislaw Wyspianski was the son of the sculptor Franc Wyspianski and he studied at academy in Cracow with Jan Matejko ...
