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Paul Delvaux (23. September 1897 - 20. Juli 1994) war ein belgischer Maler, bekannt für seine surrealistischen Gemälde mit weiblichen Akten. Delvaux war in Antheit in der belgischen Provinz Lüttich, der Sohn eines Anwalts geboren. Der junge Delvaux nahm Musikstunden, Griechisch und Latein studiert und absorbiert die Fiktion von Jules Verne und die ...... |
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Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (* 10. Juli 1830 in Charlotte Amalie, Dänisch-Westindien &dagger 12. November 1903 in Paris) war einer der bedeutendsten und produktivsten Maler des Impressionismus. Leben Elternhaus, Kindheit und Jugend Zwei schwatzende Frauen am Meer, 1856 L'Hermitage à Pontoise, 1867 Straße von Louveciennes, 1872 Die Eisenbahnbrü...... |
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Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt's primary subject was the female body and his works are marked by a frank eroticism-nowhere is this more apparent ...... |
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (Russian: May 31 1862, Ufa - 18 October 1942, Moscow) was a leading representative of religious Symbolism in Russian art. He studied under Pavel Tchistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts, but later allied himself with the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki. His canvas The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew (1890...... |
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Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Púbol (* 11. Mai 1904 in Figueres, Girona, Katalonien &dagger 23. Januar 1989 ebenda) war ein spanischer Maler, Grafiker, Schriftsteller, Bildhauer und Bühnenbildner. Als einer der Hauptvertreter des Surrealismus zählt er zu den bekanntesten Malern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Um das Jahr 1929 hatte Da...... |
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Dmitry Levitzky (Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky) (Russian: May 1735 - April 17, 1822) was a Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter. Biography Dmitry was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in a family of clergyman and engraver Grigory Levitzky. His father was his first art teacher. Later be became a pupil of Aleksey Antropov who came to Kiev to paint the Cathedral of...... |
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Albrecht Dürer der Jüngere, auch Duerer, (* 21. Mai 1471 in Nürnberg &dagger 6. April 1528 in Nürnberg) war ein deutscher Maler, Grafiker, Mathematiker und Kunsttheoretiker von europäischem Rang. Er war ein bedeutender Künstler zur Zeit des Humanismus und der Reformation. Name Dürerwappen, gemalt von einem unbekannten GlasmalerDer Name Dürer leit...... |
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Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 - 1556) was a Northern Italian painter draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits. While he was active during the High Renaissance, he already constitutes, through his nervous and eccentric posings and distortions, a transitional st...... |
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Victor Mu satov was born in Saratov, Russia (he added the last name Borisov later). His father was a minor railway official who had been born as a serf. In his childhood he suffered a spinal injury, which made him humpbacked for the rest of his life. In 1884 he entered Saratov real school, where his talents as an artist were discovered by his teach...... |
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Vincent Willem van Gogh (* 30. März 1853 in Groot-Zundert (heute: Zundert) bei Breda, Niederlande &dagger (Suizid) 29. Juli 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise, Frankreich) gilt als einer der Begründer der modernen Malerei. Er hinterließ (nach gegenwärtigem Wissensstand) 864 Gemälde und über 1.000 Zeichnungen, die allesamt in den letzten zehn Jahren seines L...... |
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Hieronymus Bosch (English pronunciation: born Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken c. 1450 - August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The artist's work is well-known for the use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives. Life Hieronymus Bosch was born Hieronymus (or Je...... |
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Leonardo da Vinci (* 15. April 1452 in Anchiano bei Vinci &dagger 2. Mai 1519 auf Schloss Clos Lucé, Amboise, eigentlich: Leonardo di ser Piero, toskanisch auch Lionardo) war Maler, Bildhauer, Architekt, Anatom, Mechaniker, Ingenieur und Naturphilosoph. Sein Namenszusatz &bdquo da Vinci“ ist kein Familienname, sondern bedeutet aus Vinci. Der Gebu...... |
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Victor Vasarely (ungarisch: Vásárhelyi Gyozo * 9. April 1906 in Pécs &dagger 15. März 1997 in Paris) war ein französischer Maler und Grafiker ungarischer Abstammung. Er lebte seit 1930 in Paris. Vasarely prägte die künstlerische Richtung Op Art und gilt als berühmtester Vertreter dieser Richtung in der Welt. Sein erstes großes Werk Zebra gilt he...... |
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Giorgio de Chirico (Italian pronunciation: July 10, 1888 - November 20, 1978) was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Greek-Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement. His surname is traditionally written De Chirico (capitalized De) when it stands alone. Life and...... |
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The Flemish baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens , b. June 28, 1577, d. May 30, 1640 was the most renowned northern European artist of his day, and is now widely recognized as one of the foremost painters in Western art history. By completing the fusion of the realistic tradition of Flemish painting with the imaginative freedom and classical themes of...... |
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Italian in full RAFFAELLO SANZIO (b. April 6, 1483, Urbino, Duchy of Urbino --d. April 6, 1520, Rome, Papal States ), master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition a...... |
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Fra Angelico (* zwischen 1386 und 1400 in Vicchio bei Florenz &dagger 18. Februar 1455 in Rom) - geboren als Guido di Pietro - war ein Maler der italienischen Frührenaissance. Vasari bezeichnet ihn in seinen Vite als mit einem raren und ausgezeichneten Talent ausgestattet. Er ist auch als il Beato Angelico, (etwa: der gesegnete Engelsgleiche), be...... |
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Amedeo Modigliani (* 12. Juli 1884 in Livorno &dagger 24. Januar 1920 in Paris) war ein italienischer Zeichner, Maler und Bildhauer. Die heutige Bekanntheit beruht vor allem auf seinen Aktgemälden, die zu seiner Zeit als skandalös empfunden wurden und erst später Akzeptanz fanden. Seine Jugend verbrachte Modigliani in Italien, wo er die Kunst der...... |
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Gerard David (c. 1460 - August 13, 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Life He was born in Oudewater, now located in Utrecht. He spent his mature career in Bruges, where he was a member of the painters' guild. Upon the death of Hans Memling in 1494, David became Bruges' leading p...... |
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Roy Fox Lichtenstein (* 27. Oktober 1923 in Manhattan &dagger 29. September 1997 in Manhattan) war ein US-amerikanischer Lehrer und Maler der Pop-Art. Neben Andy Warhol war er der wohl bekannteste Vertreter dieser Kunstrichtung. Der Durchbruch gelang ihm 1961 mit dem Bild Look Mickey (dt. Schau mal Micky), sein Stil wurde der industrielle Stil de...... |
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Donatello, eigentlich Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (* um 1386 in Florenz &dagger am 13. Dezember 1466 in Florenz) war ein italienischer Bildhauer. Der Name Donatello ist die Verkleinerungsform seines Vornamens Donato. Leben Donatello wurde in Florenz als Sohn des Wollkämmers Niccolò di Betto Bardi geboren. Sein Name wird 1401 zum ersten Mal a...... |
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Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of s...... |
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Francisco de Goya (* 30. März 1746 in Fuendetodos, Aragón (Spanien) &dagger 16. April 1828 in Bordeaux vollständiger Name Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes) war ein spanischer Maler und Grafiker. Leben und Werk Die Familie Karls IV, 1800-01, Museo del PradoFrancisco de Goya war der Sohn des angesehenen Vergolders José de Goya (&dagger 1781) un...... |
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Paul Klee (German pronunciation: 18 December 1879 - 29 June 1940) was a Swiss painter of German nationality. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color t...... |
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Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 - 27 March 1972), usually referred to as M.C. Escher (English pronunciation: /'???r/, Dutch: ( listen)), was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessel...... |
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Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 - 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna . He is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it towards a more sensuous and colour...... |
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Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 - July 6, 1916) was a French Symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist. Life Odilon Redon (pronounced o dee lawn r'dawn) was born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine to a prosperous family. The young Bertrand-Jean Redon acquired the nickname "Odilon" from his mother, Odile. Redon ...... |
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Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1460 - 1525/1526) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school, who studied under Gentile Bellini. He is best known for a cycle of nine paintings, The Legend of Saint Ursula. His style was somewhat conservative, showing little influence from the Humanist trends that transformed Italian Renaissance painting during his lifetime...... |
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Gentile da Fabriano (c. 1370 - c. 1427) was an Italian painter known for his participation in the International Gothic style. Gentile was born in or near Fabriano, in the Marche. His mother died some time before 1380 and his father, Niccolò di Giovanni Massi, retired to a monastery in the same year, where he died in 1385. Gentile worked in various ...... |
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Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality and struggled with alcoholism all of his life. In 1...... |
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau (November 30, 1825 - August 19, 1905) was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau (pronounced vill-yam boo-guh-roe) was a staunch traditionalist whose realistic genre paintings and mythological themes were modern interpretations of Classical subjects with a heavy emphasis on the female human body. Although he create...... |
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Isaac Ilyich Levitan (Russian: August 30, 1860 - August 4 1900) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the mood landscape. Life and work Youth Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Kybartai, Kaunas region, Lithuania, into a poor but educated Jewish family. His father Elyashiv Levitan was the son of a rabbi, completed a ...... |
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Masaccio (21. Dezember 1401 - Herbst 1428), geboren Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, war die erste große Maler des Quattrocento Zeit der italienischen Renaissance. Nach Vasari war Masaccio die besten Maler seiner Generation wegen seiner Geschicklichkeit bei Neuerstellung lebensechte Figuren und Bewegungen sowie ein überzeugendes Gefühl von Dreidi...... |
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Paul Signac (November 11, 1863 - August 15, 1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. Biography Breakfast, 1886-1887, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The NetherlandsPaul Victor Jules Signac was born in Paris on November 11, 1863. He followed a course of training in architect...... |
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Sandro Botticelli (* 1. März 1445 in Florenz &dagger 17. Mai 1510 ebenda eigentlich Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) war ein italienischer Maler und Zeichner der frühen Renaissance. Im Geist der Frührenaissance und des Humanismus malte Botticelli, beeinflusst von Filippo Lippi, Masaccio und Antonio Pollaiuolo, religiöse Bilder, Altarbilder sowie ...... |
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Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 - 2 October 1968 French pronunciation: ) was a French/American artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereb...... |
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Francis Picabia (* 22. Januar 1879 in Paris &dagger 30. November 1953 ebenda), eigentlich Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia, war ein französischer Schriftsteller, Maler und Grafiker. Leben Ausbildung Francis Picabia war der Sohn eines kubanischen Botschaftsangestellten adliger Herkunft und einer französischen Mutter. Sie starb an Tuberkulose, als er...... |
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (December 31, 1617 (baptized) - April 3, 1682) , was a Spanish painter, one of the most important figures in Baroque painting in Spain. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children. These lively, realist portraits of flower gi...... |
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Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 - December 25, 1983 Catalan pronunciation: ) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramist born in Barcelona. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous in...... |
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Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 - 29 December 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened feeling chiming w...... |
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Francis Bacon is a contemporary painter who was born in Ireland in the early 20th century but gre up in Britain. Most of his paintings feature figures abstracted and isolated. It wasn’t until he was middle aged that Bacon’s painting career really took off. Despite being an existentialist, something that he often showed through his paintings, Bacon had a large group of friends and often went out and socialized, only becoming more introspective and spending time alone later in life after the suicide of his lover.... |
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Duccio di Buoninsegna (* um 1255 vermutlich in Siena &dagger 1319 in Siena) war ein italienischer Maler. Duccio malte in byzantinischer Tradition und verlieh dieser den menschlichen Ausdruck, welcher zu jener Zeit von den Ordensbrüdern der Sienesischen Schule verbreitet wurde. Er galt als tiefgründiger Innovator und die Ausprägung seiner Charakte...... |
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Franz Stuck (February 24, 1863 - August 30, 1928) was a German Symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect. Life and career Stuck was born at Tettenweis, in Bavaria. From an early age he displayed an affinity for drawing and caricature. To begin his artistic education in 1878 he went to Munich, where he would settle for life. F...... |
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This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2007) Self-portrait, 1880sValentin Alexandrovich Serov (January 19, 1865 - December 5, 1911) was a Russian painter, and one of the premier portrait artists of his ...... |
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Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891) was a French painter and draftsman. His large work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886), his most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting. Life Seurat was born into a wealt...... |
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René François Ghislain Magritte (* 21. November 1898 in Lessines in der wallonischen Provinz Hennegau, Belgien &dagger 15. August 1967 in Brüssel) war ein belgischer Maler des Surrealismus. René Magritte hatte zwei Brüder, Raymond, 1900 geboren, und Paul, 1902 geboren. 1910 zog die Familie Magrittes nach Châtelet, wo René Magritte im Alter von zw...... |
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Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky spent his early childhood in Odessa. His parents played the piano and the zither and Kandinsky himself learned the piano and cello at an early age. The influence of music in his paintings cannot be overstated, down to the names of his paintings Improvisations, Impressions, and Compositions. In 1886, he enrolled at ...... |
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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 - October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age. Having achieved youthful succes...... |
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Édouard Manet (* 23. Januar 1832 in Paris &dagger 30. April 1883 ebenda) war ein französischer Maler. Er gilt als einer der Wegbereiter der modernen Malerei. Leben Kindheit Bildnis der Eltern, 1860 Musée d’Orsay, ParisÉdouard Manet kam 1832 im Haus Nummer 5 in der Rue des Petits-Augustins (heute Rue Bonaparte) im Pariser Stadtviertel Saint-Germai...... |
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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky July 29, 1817 - May 5, 1900) was a painter of Armenian descent living and working Crimea, most famous for his seascapes, which constitute more than half of his paintings. Life Aivazovsky was born in the town of Feodosiya, Crimea (Russian Empire) to a poor Armenian family. His parents family name was Aivazian. Some of...... |
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Antonio Canova (* 1. November 1757 in Possagno bei Bassano del Grappa &dagger 13. Oktober 1822 in Venedig) war ein italienischer Bildhauer und einer der Hauptvertreter des italienischen Klassizismus. Leben Nach seiner Lehre bei Giuseppe Bernardi, genannt Torretti, machte Canova sich im Jahre 1775 selbständig. Seine Werke, wie z.B. Orpheus und Eur...... |
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Maurice Denis (* 25. November 1870 in Granville (Manche) &dagger 13. November 1943 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye) war ein französischer Maler des Symbolismus und Mitbegründer der Künstlergruppe Les Nabis. Leben und Werk Denis wurde als Sohn eines Eisenbahnbeamten geboren. 1871 zog die Familie nach Saint-Germain-en-Laye bei Paris, in dem er sein ganzes...... |
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Claude Monet (* 14. November 1840 in Paris &dagger 5. Dezember 1926 in Giverny, auch Oscar-Claude Monet oder Claude Oscar Monet) war ein französischer Maler, dessen mittlere Schaffensperiode der Stilrichtung des Impressionismus zugeordnet wird. Das Frühwerk bis zur Mitte der 1860er-Jahre umfasste realistische Bilder, von denen Monet einige im Par...... |
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571-18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His intensely emotional realism and dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting. Trained in Milan under a master who had himself trained under Titian, Cara...... |
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Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 - 23 February 1792) was an important and influential 18th century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealisation of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy. George III appreciated his merits...... |
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Giotto di Bondone (c.?1267 - January 8, 1337), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. Giotto's contemporary Giovanni Villani wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master ...... |
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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (or Arkhip Kuinji , Russian: (January 27, 1842 (?) - July 24, 1910) - Russian landscape painter. Arkhip Kuindzhi was born in January 1841 in Mariupol (present-day Ukraine), but he spent his youth in the city of Taganrog. He grew up in a poor family, and his father was a Greek shoemaker Ivan Khristoforovich Kuindzhi (someti...... |
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Paul Cézanne (* 19. Januar 1839 in Aix-en-Provence &dagger 22. Oktober 1906 ebenda) war ein französischer Maler. Cézannes Werk wird unterschiedlichen Stilrichtungen zugeordnet: Während seine frühen Arbeiten noch von Romantik - wie die Wandbilder im Landhaus Jas de Bouffan - und Realismus geprägt sind, gelangte er durch intensive Auseinandersetzun...... |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841-December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau". Biography Youth P...... |
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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 - 8 May 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. His bold experimentation with colouring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the re...... |
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the t...... |
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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (getauft 6. Juni 1599 in Sevilla &dagger 6. August 1660 in Madrid), meistens als Diego Velázquez bezeichnet, war ein spanischer Maler des Barock, der zu den wichtigsten Porträtmalern seiner Zeit gehörte. Als Maler am Hof des spanischen Königs Philipp IV. porträtierte er zahlreiche Mitglieder der königlichen Fa...... |
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Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (Lop'jal near Vyatka, May 15 (N.S.), 1848 - Moscow, June 23, 1926) was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered a key figure of the revivalist movement in Russian art. Biography Childhood (1848-1858) A Knight at the CrossroadsViktor Vasnetsov was born in a remote villag...... |
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Pietro Perugino (1446-1524) was the leading painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Biography Early years He was born Pietro Vannucci in Città della Pieve, Umbria, the son of Cristoforo Vannucci his nickname characterizes him as from Perugia, the chief city of Umbria...... |
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Fernand Léger (* 4. Februar 1881 in Argentan in der Normandie &dagger 17. August 1955 in Gif-sur-Yvette bei Paris) war ein französischer Maler, Grafiker, Keramiker und Filmregisseur. Er gehörte unter anderem zu den Kubisten Leben Nachdem er mehrere Jahre (1897-1899 Architekturlehre in Caen) als Architekturzeichner gearbeitet hatte, ging Fernand L...... |
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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (pronounced /'ælm? 'tæd?m?/), OM, RA (8 January 1836 Dronrijp, the Netherlands - 25 June 1912, Wiesbaden, Germany) was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth-century Britain. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the res...... |
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Edgar Degas, eigentlich Hilaire Germain de Gas (* 19. Juli 1834 in Paris &dagger 27. September 1917 ebenda), war ein französischer Maler und Bildhauer. Leben Hilaire Germain de Gas wurde als ältester Sohn des Pariser Bankiers Pierre Auguste Hyazinthe de Gas und seiner kreolischen Frau in Paris geboren. Die Familie stammt aus einem Adelsgeschlecht...... |
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Ilya Yefimovich Repin (Russian: (5 August 1844, Chuguyev, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire - September 29, 1930, Kuokkala, Viipuri Province, Finland) was a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic school. An important part of his work is dedicated to his native country, Ukraine. His realistic works often expressed great...... |
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Turner, referred to as William Turner and also J. M. W. Turner, was a great English painter at the very beginning of the 19th century. Turner was a landscape painter and one of the best known of English painters. His style was very different from that of any one of contemporaries such as Constable, another famous English landscape painter. Turner wasn’t interested in techniques such as rendering the world in realistic tones, or at least trying to portray the land in a naturalistic sense, even if it did include fantastic elements. Instead we have a forerunner to the Impressionists.... |
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Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) was a profoundly influential French artist, painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Although he died young, he became one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. Early life The Charging Chasseur, 1812.Born in Rouen, France, Géricault was educated in t...... |
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Benito Rebolledo Correa, chilenischer Maler, war in Curico am 2. August 1880 geboren und starb in Santiago am 29. Juni 1964. Von bescheidenen Anfängen, begann er seine Karriere mit fünfzehn Jahren nach dem Umzug nach Santiago und interessieren sich für das Erlernen der Techniken von Plakaten und dekorative Malerei. Zu dieser Zeit war Teil der Kolon...... |
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Edward Hopper (* 22. Juli 1882 in Nyack, N Y &dagger 15. Mai 1967 in New York City, N Y) war ein amerikanischer Maler des Amerikanischen Realismus. Hoppers in kühler Farbgebung gehaltene realistische Bilder weisen auf die Einsamkeit des modernen Menschen hin. Er gilt als Chronist der amerikanischen Zivilisation. Biographie Edward Hopper wurde 188...... |
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Alexandre Cabanel (* 28. September 1823 in Montpellier &dagger 23. Januar 1889) war ein akademischer französischer Historienmaler, Mitglied des Instituts und Professor an der École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris. Cabanel steht durch seinen Lehrer François-Édouard Picot mit der klassischen Schule Jacques-Louis Davids in Verbindung un...... |
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was a Venetian painter and printmaker. He was prolific, and worked not only in the region of Veneto or Venetia, one of Italy's twenty regions, but also in Germany and Spain. Biography Early life (1696-1726) Born in Venice, Tiepolo was the...... |
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Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819-31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement (characterized by the paintings of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix), with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists. Courbet occupies an important ...... |
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Matthias Grünewald or "Mathis" (as first name), "Gothart" or "Neithardt" (as surname), (c. 1470 - August 31, 1528), was an important German Renaissance painter of religious works, who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the expressive and intense style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century. Only ten paintings-several co...... |
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Hippolyte Delaroche (17. Juli 1797 - 4. November 1856), allgemein bekannt als Paul Delaroche bekannt, war ein Maler Französisch in Paris geboren. Delaroche wurde in einer wohlhabenden Familie geboren und wurde von Antoine-Jean Baron Gros, die dann bemalt lebensgroße Geschichten und hatte viele Schüler ausgebildet. Das erste Bild Delaroche ausgestel...... |
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James Jacques Joseph Tissot (15. Oktober 1836 - 8. August 1902) war ein Französisch Maler, der einen Großteil seiner Karriere in England verbracht. Tissot wurde in Nantes geboren. Er studierte an der École des Beaux-Arts in Paris unter Ingres, Flandrin und Lamothe und zeigte im Pariser Salon zum ersten Mal im Alter von 23. Im Jahr 1861 zeigte er di...... |
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Hiroshige (* 1797 in Edo (heute: Tokio) &dagger 12. Oktober 1858), auch Andō Hiroshige (jap. 安藤 広重), Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重) und Ichiyūsai Hiroshige (一幽斎 廣重) war ein berühmter japanischer Holzschnittkünstler des Ukiyo-e und der jüngere Konkurrent von Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Als sein bekanntestes Werk gilt die Farbholzschnittsammlung 53 ...... |
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Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-between 7 and 29 November 1543) was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire and Reformation propaganda, and made a significant contribution to the history of book desig...... |
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Hans Makart (28. Mai 1840 - 3. Oktober 1884) war ein 19. Jahrhundert österreichischen akademischen Geschichte Maler, Designer und Dekorateur, die meisten auch für seinen Einfluss auf Gustav Klimt und anderen österreichischen Künstlern bekannt, aber in seiner eigenen Zeit als wichtiger Künstler sich und wurde eine Berühmtheit Figur in der Hochkultur...... |
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Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1547 - 7. Januar 1619) war ein englischer Goldschmied und limner am besten für seine Porträtminiaturen der Mitglieder der Gerichte von Elisabeth I. und Jakob I. von England bekannt. Er malte meist kleine ovale Miniaturen, aber auch einige größere Gehäuse Miniaturen, bis zu etwa zehn Zentimeter hoch, und mindestens zwei berühmt...... |
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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (2 November 1699 - 6 December 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life. Life Chardin was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left the city. He lived on the Left Bank near Saint-Sulpice until 1757, when Louis XV granted him a studio and living quarters in the Louv...... |
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Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (baptized on 31 October 1632 as Johannis, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on 16 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have bee...... |
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Henri Fantin-Latour (14. Januar 1836 - 25. August 1904) war ein Maler und Lithograph Französisch am besten für seine Blumenbilder und Portraits der Gruppe Pariser Künstler und Schriftsteller bekannt. Er war Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour in Grenoble, Isère geboren. Als Jugendlicher erhielt er Zeichenunterricht von seinem Vater, der ein Kü...... |
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Henri Matisse (* 31. Dezember 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord, Frankreich &dagger 3. November 1954 in Cimiez, heute ein Vorort von Nizza) , vollständig Henri Émile Benoît Matisse, war ein französischer Maler, Grafiker, Zeichner und Bildhauer. Er zählt mit Pablo Picasso zu den bedeutendsten Künstlern der Moderne. Neben André Derain gilt er als W...... |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (* 12. Mai 1828 in London &dagger 9. April 1882 in Birchington-on-Sea, Kent) war als Poet und Maler gleichermaßen begabt. Er war wegen seiner dominierenden und charismatischen Persönlichkeit die treibende Kraft der Präraffaeliten, die die Reform der britischen Kunst als Ziel hatten. Er hielt wenig von Konventionen, und so v...... |
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Francisco Gutierrez Cossio (Pinar del Rio, Kuba, 20. Oktober 1898 - Alicante, 16. Januar 1970), auch als Pancho Cossio, zeitgenössische spanische Maler bekannt. Ihre Eltern auch in Spanisch, Genaro Gutierrez, Ladenbesitzer von Schnupftabak, die vor dem Gesetz zur Abschaffung der Sklaverei in seinem Besitz war, und Casimira Cossio. Pancho kurz nach ...... |
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Tamara de Lempicka (* 16. Mai 1898 in Warschau oder Moskau als Tamara Gorska &dagger 18. März 1980 in Cuernavaca, Mexiko) war eine polnische Malerin des Art Déco. Biografie Prägend für Lempickas spätere künstlerische Entwicklung war der Kontakt mit der Malerei der Renaissance auf einer Reise nach Italien im Jahr 1911. Nach der Scheidung ihrer Elt...... |
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Bernardo Bellotto , genannt Canaletto, (* 20. Mai 1722, nach anderen Quellen 30. Januar 1721 in Venedig &dagger 17. Oktober 1780 in Warschau) war ein venezianischer Maler, der für seine realistischen Veduten europäischer Städte, insbesondere Dresden, Wien, Turin und Warschau bekannt ist. Bernardo Francesco Paolo Ernesto Bellotto wurde am 20. Mai ...... |
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William Blake (28 November 1757-12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of...... |
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George Frederic Watts (* 23. Februar 1817 in London &dagger 1. Juni 1904 in Compton, Surrey) war ein bedeutender Maler und Bildhauer im viktorianischen England. Sein malerisches Werk umfasst große Fresken und Historiengemälde sowie allegorische und mythologische Darstellungen bedeutender war Watts als Porträtist prominenter Zeitgenossen. Als Bil...... |
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Aureliano de Beruete und Moret (n.Madrid, 1845 - ibidem 1912). Spanisch Rechtsanwalt, der Teil in das politische Leben seines Landes nahm, immer einen Stellvertreter in den Parlamenten von 1871 und 1872, aber bald aufgegeben diese Interessen um sich der Malerei zu widmen. Als Künstler an der Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, wo er...... |
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Alfons Maria Mucha ( Aussprache?/i, * 24. Juli 1860 Ivančice in Mähren &dagger 14. Juli 1939 in Prag) war ein tschechischer Plakatkünstler, Grafiker, Illustrator, Maler und Kunstgewerbler, der als einer der herausragenden Repräsentanten des Jugendstils gilt. Er begann seine Laufbahn als Autodidakt. Da er von der Prager Akademie abgelehnt wurde, b...... |
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Benjamin Constant, eigentlich Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (* 25. Oktober 1767 in Lausanne &dagger 8. Dezember 1830 in Paris) war ein französisch-schweizerischer Schriftsteller, Politiker und Staatstheoretiker. Der wie so viele frankophone Autoren zwischen Literatur und Politik pendelnde Benjamin Constant (so sein Name in der Literatur- un...... |
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Bernardo Strozz i (* 1581 in Genua &dagger 2. August 1644 in Venedig), genannt il Prete Genovese und il Cappuccino, war ein italienischer Maler des Barock. Ab 1598 war er Kapuzinermönch, ab 1610 Weltgeistlicher, ab 1630 in Venedig. Nach dem Auftrag, Claudio Monteverdi zu porträtieren, wuchs seine Bekanntheit und er machte sich einen Namen als il ...... |
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Thomas Gainsborough (getauft 14. Mai 1727 - 2. August 1788) war ein englischer Porträt-und Landschaftsmaler. Suffolk Thomas Gainsborough war in Sudbury, Suffolk geboren. Er war der jüngste Sohn von John Gainsborough, ein Weber und Hersteller von Wollwaren. Im Alter von dreizehn beeindruckte er seinen Vater mit seiner penciling Fähigkeiten, so dass ...... |
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Francisco de Zurbarán (November 7, 1598 - August 27, 1664) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio, owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled. Early life He was born at Fuente d...... |
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Arnold Böcklin (* 16. Oktober 1827 in Basel &dagger 16. Januar 1901 in San Domenico bei Fiesole, Provinz Florenz) war ein Schweizer Maler, Zeichner, Graphiker und Bildhauer des Symbolismus. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten bildenden Künstler des 19. Jahrhunderts in Europa. Leben Böcklin war der Sohn eines Kaufmanns. Er erhielt in Basel Zeichen...... |
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