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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Polish, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1732 (1730 ?), in Warsaw; died 23 August 1817, in Warsaw.
Painter, draughtsman, decorative artist. Historical subjects, portraits. Church decoration, murals, stage sets.
Jan Plersch studied in Augsburg with Goetz and then went to Vienna where he worked at the academy of fine arts. Plersch is known for his portraits of Polish kings and he also decorated Lazienki Palace in Warsaw with pilasters and painted three of its ceilings. He is known for his painting of ...
(b Trento, Nov 30, 1642; d Vienna, Aug 31, 1709).
Italian painter, architect and stage designer. He was a brilliant quadratura painter, whose most celebrated works, such as the decoration of the church of S Ignazio in Rome, unite painting, architecture and sculpture in effects of overwhelming illusionism and are among the high-points of Baroque church art. He was a Jesuit lay brother and produced his most significant work for the Society of Jesus. This affiliation was fundamental to his conception of art and to his heightened awareness of the artist’s role as instrumental in proclaiming the faith and stimulating religious fervour. The methods he used were those of Counter-Reformation rhetoric, as represented in Ignatius Loyola’s Spirited Exercises (1548). His architectural works are eclectic, and his unconventional combination of varied sources led to bold experiments with both space and structure. His ideas were spread by his highly successful two-volume treatise, Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum (1693–1700).
He received his first artistic training in Trento, with a painter who appears to have worked in the studio of Palma Giovane. He then studied with an unidentifiable pupil of, among others, Andrea Sacchi, who would have been the first to instruct Pozzo in the art of the Roman High Baroque, and he followed this painter to Como and Milan. In Milan Pozzo joined the Society of Jesus on ...
French, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 27 May 1871, in Paris, France; died 13 February 1958, in Paris.
Painter (gouache), watercolourist, engraver, potter. Religious subjects, figures, landscapes. Stage sets, designs for stained glass, designs for tapestries.
Georges Rouault completed his primary education in 1885 and was apprenticed to stained-glass artists – first the Tamonis, then Hirsch. He received a direct offer from Albert Besnard for stained-glass windows for the School of Pharmacy to be made from his design sketches, but he refused out of loyalty to his employer. He was encouraged to consider painting as a career, having been introduced to the appreciation of art by his grandfather, Alexandre Champdavoine, who, modest white-collar worker though he was, knew and admired Honoré Daumier, Gustave Courbet, and Édouard Manet. Rouault achieved entry to the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1891, first in Elie Delaunay’s studio, then in Gustave Moreau’s (where he met Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, Rudolf Lehmann, Henri Evenepoel, and others). Though he failed twice at the Prix de Rome, he won the Prix Chenavard in 1894 and, by 1900, he had obtained a mention and a bronze medal. In 1903, as Gustave Moreau’s executor, he became the curator of the Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris....
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1912, in Madisonville (Kentucky); died 1985.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, illustrator. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, still-lifes. Stage costumes and sets.
Charles Sebree studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1936 to 1939, he worked in Illinois for the Federal Art Project (the federal government programme set up to help artists during the Depression). He lived on the South Side of Chicago before retiring to Washington DC....
Romanian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in France.
Born 5 June 1946, in Bucharest.
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, illustrator. Religious subjects, figures, portraits, scenes with figures, landscapes, still-lifes, flowers. Icons, frescoes, stage costumes and sets, designs for stained glass.
Michel Stoenesco de Pontbriant is the son of Grégoire and the great-nephew of Eustache Grégoire. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Romania and taught Byzantine art at Helsinki between ...
French, 20th century, female.
Born 6 February 1923, in Paris; died 31 August 1981, in Amiens.
Painter, designer, scenographer. Figures. Murals, church decoration, stage costumes and sets, designs for stained glass, designs for mosaics.
Watteau Group.
Florence Tournon-Branly studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris between ...
Spanish, 20th century, male.
Born 20 May 1904, in Paris; died 24 February 1993.
Painter (gouache). Religious subjects, genre scenes, interior scenes, portraits, landscapes, seascapes, still-lifes. Stage costumes and sets.
Viñes was the son of an engineer father, of Catalan origin, and his mother, Maria Soto, was from Guatemala, daughter of the former president of Honduras. His family settled in Madrid in ...
Romanian, 20th century, female.
Active from 1957 in France.
Born 6 November 1909, in Bucharest.
Painter (including gouache), designer, scenographer. Religious subjects. Stage costumes and sets, icons.
Cella Voinescu-Siegfried studied philosophy and humanities at the University of Bucharest. She then went to Paris in 1935...
