Giovanni GIACOMETTI ✿

Giovanni Giacometti (1868-1933) was a Swiss post-impressionist painter. Together with Cuno Amiet he was one of the first Swiss artists that adapted and further explored Post-impressionism, Symbolism and Fauvism introducing novelty aspects of Modernism.

Cuno AMIET ✿

Cuno Amiet (1868-1961) was a Swiss painter, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor. Cuno Amiet is often called the “master of colour” and is seen as a pioneer of modernism in Swiss art; he ranks as one of the most versatile and significant artists of Switzerland.

Peter ILSTED ✿

Peter Wilhelm Ilsted (1861-1933) was a Danish printmaker and painter. He was most associated with domestic interior scenes. He was born at Sakskøbing in Guldborgsund, Denmark. He was the son of merchant Jens Peter Ilsted and Johanne Sophie Lund. He was the brother-in-law of painter Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916). He married Ingeborg Lovisa Petersen (1869–1945) in 1891.

Joseph DECAMP ✿

Joseph DECAMP (1858-1923) was an American Impressionist painter and educator. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he studied with Frank Duveneck.

Moses SOYER ✿

Moses Soyer (1899-1974) was an American social realist painter. He was born as Moses Schoar and both he and his identical twin brother, Raphael, were born in Borisoglebsk, Tambov, a southern province of Russia.

Alessio ISSUPOFF ✿

Alessio Issupoff/Aleksej Vladimirovic Isupov (Vjatka, 1889-Roma, 1957) was a russian painter and trained at the Moscow Academy from 1900 to 1913. Here he studied with the portrait painters Seroff, Wasnetzoff and Korovine, masters who brought him into contact with the styles of French Impressionism.

Berthe BURGKAN ✿

Berthe Burgkan (1855-1936) was a French painter, born in Paris. She was known for her genre and flower paintings. She produced works of symbolist inspiration.

Felix VALLOTTON ~ Still Life ✿

Félix Vallotton (1865 -1925) was a Swiss painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. He painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and other subjects in an unemotional, realistic style.

Jean MANNHEIM ~ Still Life ✿

Jean Mannheim (1863-1945) was an american impressionist painter, born in Germany, trained in Paris, and touched by the American Midwest, Jean Mannheim settled in Pasadena in 1908 and quickly became a major figure in California’s art community.

Charles GLEYRE (Swiss, 1806-1874) ✿

Charles Gleyre (1806-1874), was a Swiss artist who was a resident in France from an early age. He took over the studio of Paul Delaroche in 1843 and taught a number of younger artists who became prominent, including Henry-Lionel Brioux, George du Maurier, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Louis-Frederic Schützenberger, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Toulmouche, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

Jean LEON GEROME ~ Orientalist ✿

Jean-Léon Gérôme (Vesoul, 1824-Paris, 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects, bringing the academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period. He was also a teacher with a long list of students.

Rene GERIN (1862-1895) ✿

L'Été (”Summer”), 1888 oil on canvas.
René Gérin was a French painter, born in 1862 and appears to have been most active during the 1880s and 1890s. A protegé of writer, translator, and French poet Judith Gautier that she was madly attracted to him  che era follemente attratta da lui (the first female member of the Académie Goncourt), whose portrait he painted at least twice, Gérin died young—1895, according to the list of deceased, life-time members of L’Association des Artistes annually published in their yearbooks. “Poor boy,” Gautier is quoted commenting sadly, praising his blossoming talent.

Torsten WASASTJERNA ✿

Torsten Wasastjerna (1863-1924) was a Finnish painter, born in Helsinki. Wasastjerna is best known for the Impressionist landscape paintings he painted in the 1890s. He later also painted fantasy subjects and symbolist paintings. He also wrote poetry and drama.

Edmond Louis DUPAIN (1847-1933) ✿

Edmond Louis Dupain (Bordeaux, 1847 - Paris, 1933) was a French painter. Edmond Louis Dupain was born in Bordeaux into a wealthy family. Given his evident inclination for painting, after his primary studies he was sent to Paris to follow the courses of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. He then entered as a pupil in the ateliers of Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Marie Oscar Gué.

Mosè BIANCHI (1840-1904) ✿

Mosè Bianchi (Monza, 1840 – Monza, 1904) è stato un pittore italiano. Detto talvolta Mosè Bianchi di Monza. Figlio del pittore Giosuè e di Luigia Meani, fratello del pittore Gerardo Bianchi. Nel 1856 frequenta l'Accademia di Brera di Milano dove è allievo di Schmidt, Bisi, Zimmermann, Sogni e del direttore Giuseppe Bertini, avendo per compagni di corso Federico Faruffini, Tranquillo Cremona, Daniele Ranzoni e Filippo Carcano, con i quali dividerà per qualche anno lo studio milanese in via San Primo.

Raymond CHARLOT ✿

Raymond CHARLOT (1879 - ?) Belgian artist, student at the Academy of Louvain and Antwerp. Nominated twice for the Prix de Rome in 1904 and 1907. Preferred for landscapes, portraits, but he is mainly known for his female figures and "Art Deco".

Giovanni COSTA (1826-1903) ✿

Giovanni Costa, known as Nino (Rome, 1826 - Marina di Pisa, 1903), was an Italian painter, soldier and politician. A leading exponent of 19th-century Roman painting, he contributed to the dissemination of naturalistic ideas even among the members of the Macchiaioli pictorial movement. He is also remembered for having actively participated in Garibaldi's campaigns of 1848-49 and 1859.

Isidor KAUFMANN ✿

Isidor Kaufmann (1853-1921) was an Austro-Hungarian painter best known for his realistic genre scenes of Jewish themes. Having devoted his career to genre painting, he traveled throughout Eastern Europe in search of scenes of Jewish, often Hasidic life.

Charles LEROY SAINT AUBERT (1856-1907) ✿

Charles LEROY SAINT AUBERT (1856-1907) was a French painter born in Lille (France) in French Flanders. Leroy Saint Aubert is known for Landscape paintings.

- Au dessus du Boulevard de Sébastopol, Paris - oil on canvas -

Raymond THIBESART ✿

Raymond Thibesart (1874-1968) was a French Post-Impressionist whose subjects often included the landscapes of Italy, Switzerland, and the rest of mainland Europe. Thibesart was especially enamored with the river Seine, a subject that repeated itself again and again in his work. He was able to produce work into his old age, giving Thibesart a breadth and depth to his catalog that few other artists of his era can match.

Xing JIANJIAN ~ Ballet ✿

Xing Jianjian 邢健健 è un pittore figurativo cinese nato nel 1959. È professore e master dell'Accademia di Belle Arti dell'Università delle Arti di Nanjing, membro dell'Associazione degli artisti cinesi e direttore dell'Associazione di pittura a olio di Jiangsu.

Xing JIANJIAN (邢健健) ✿

Xing Jianjian 邢健健 is a Chinese painter born in 1959. He is a professor and master tutor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Nanjing University of the Arts, a member of the Chinese Artists Association, and a director of the Jiangsu Oil Painting Association.