Nicolai Fechin’s figurative works are so influential that one rarely considers his prowess in other genres. The landscape and still life paintings are masterpieces in their own right; his palette knife technique is both brutal and superb. His orchestration of color sets the stage with analogous surrounds highlighting the lead singer. His painting philosophy and […]
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The inspirational painters series deals with painters who had a major influence on their students. These are painters and mentors who prized individual expression over technique. We judge these painters not so much on their output but on the mastery of their proteges. Leon Joseph Florentin Bonnat was one such Master Mentor. Leon Bonnat was born […]
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Born in Ravenna in 1947, Paolo Roversi’s interest in photography was kindled as a teenager during a family vacation in Spain in 1964. Back home, he set up a darkroom in a convenient cellar with another keen amateur, the local postman Battista Minguzzi, and began developing and printing his own black & white work. The encounter […]
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Vania Zouravliov grew up in an artistic family. His mother was an art teacher and so he picked up painting from a very young age. His adolescent influences were both typical and unusual. The Bible, Dante’s Divine Comedy, early Disney animation, and North American Indians, included among them. Vania was soon labeled a prodigy. He […]
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Otto Was Born On 16Th December 1869 In Leipzig, Germany And Died On 24Th September 1916 In Munich. Greiner Was A Painter And Printmaker, He Started A Lithography Apprenticeship In Leipzig In 1884 And Also Took Drawing Lessons. Between 1888 And 1891 He Studied At The Akademie Der Bildenden Künste In Munich Under Sándor Liezen-Mayer. […]
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Alberto Abate_Italian_B. Rome, March 16, 1946_D. Rome, March 9, 2012 Alberto Abate was born in Rome on March 16, 1946, to a family of artists of Catania origin : his father, is the sculptor Carmelo Abate, his uncle, Alessandro Abate, is a painter, watercolourist and fresco painter. In the 1950s, Abbot attended the local Institute of Art in Catania: his masters were […]
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Albert von Keller_Swiss/German_B.27 April 1844_14 July 1920_Female figures are a prominent feature of his work. In 1865 Albert attended the Munich Academy of Fine Art for a short time. He made numerous study trips throughout Germany, France, Italy, and the Low Countries to study and copy Masterworks. From 1867 he apprenticed at several different studios […]
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Lovis Corinth_German_B. 21 July 1858_D. 17 July 1925 Corinth studied in Paris Munich, joined the Berlin Secession group, later succeeding Max Liebermann as the group’s president. His early work was naturalistic in approach. Corinth was initially antagonistic towards the expressionist movement, but after a stroke in 1911 his style loosened and took on many expressionistic qualities.
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Caspar Ritter _Swiss_B. February 7, 1861_Esslingen am Neckar_D. July 18, 1923_Ermatingen, Canton Thurgau. From 1882 he studied at the Academy in Munich with Alois Gabl, Ludwig von Herter, and Ludwig von Lofftz. History has overlooked a great many painters from the German Academies and part of our mission is to right the ship. Far to much focus has been […]
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Hans Hassenteufel _B. 27 January 1887, Hamburg_D. 15 August 1943, Munich. A German painter who specialized in female nudes. Hassenteufel took private lessons from Rudolf Jacob Zeller in Hamburg, followed by studies at a private painting and drawing school in Munich, operated by Walter Thor; then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where his primary professors were Peter Halm and Franz von […]
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