29.05.1924–10.08.2009
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Found: 1775
1939–present
Chike Aniakor
Chike Aniakor was born in 1939 in Abatete, in eastern Nigeria, into a family where his mother practised the traditional Uli painting of the Igbo. He studied painting at Zaria, art history at Indiana University, and taught for many years at Nsukka. He is the author of “Igbo Arts: Community and Cosmos” (1984) and a member of the Nsukka group.
03.11.1860–09.08.1935
Alfredo Andersen
Alfredo Andersen (in Norwegian, Alfred) was born in Kristiansand, studied in Christiania and Copenhagen, and in 1893 stayed on in Paranaguá, where he arrived almost by accident. From 1902 he lived in Curitiba, opened a private school of drawing and painting there, and the state of Paraná still calls him the father of its painting. His house and studio became a museum bearing his name.
04.12.1891–27.03.1971
Manuel Rodríguez Lozano
Manuel Rodríguez Lozano (1891–1971) refused to work on the state murals commissioned by José Vasconcelos and showed a Mexico that was melancholy, not festive. In 1940 he became director of the National School of Plastic Arts, lost the post after being accused of stealing engravings, and in Lecumberri prison painted the mural “Piedad en el desierto”. It began his “white stage”.
21.06.1921–27.11.2009
Peter Kravchenko
Peter Kravchenko was born in the Podil district of Kyiv, graduated from the Shevchenko art school, found himself in Germany after the war and lived in Sydney from 1949. He made props at the ABC television studio for twenty years and for forty years served as secretary of the Ukrainian Artists Society of Australia. In 1997 the Museum of History of Kyiv held his exhibition “Burden of Ukraine through the Ages”.
15.05.1838–21.07.1907
Nicolae Grigorescu
At fourteen Nicolae Grigorescu was painting icons for the church at Băicoi, and at thirty he showed “Young Gypsy Girl” at the Paris Salon. He studied in France, worked alongside the Barbizon painters, accompanied the Romanian army as an artist in 1877, and from 1890 lived in Câmpina, painting peasant women and country roads.22.02.1898–10.07.1977
Atul Bose
Atul Bose (1898–1977) was born in Mymensingh and studied in Calcutta and in London, at the Royal Academy Schools. He painted portraits, landscapes and village scenes in oil, watercolour and pastel, and in 1943 made a series of drawings about the famine in Bengal. Later he headed the Government College of Art & Craft in Calcutta.1956–06.02.2025
Owusu-Ankomah
Owusu-Ankomah (1956–2025) was born in Sekondi and from 1986 lived in Bremen. On large canvases he painted nude male figures covered in adinkra signs, the symbols of the Akan people. He exhibited in Germany, Britain, the US and South Africa, and had solo shows at October Gallery in London in 2011 and 2014. He worked with Giorgio Armani on a clothing line for the Red Campaign.29.09.1931–24.12.2017
Carlos Stohr
Carlos Stohr was born in Prague, ended up in Venezuela at sixteen, trained there as a surveying engineer and then became a draughtsman of Margarita Island. He left more than 5,200 drawings and paintings, a series of portraits of about 330 islanders and illustrations for the books of the chronicler Salazar Franco. In 1999 he was sworn in as the only Graphic Chronicler in the country.25.05.1944–17.08.2025
Humberto Calzada
Humberto Calzada (1944–2025) was born in Havana, left for Miami with his family at sixteen, graduated from university as an engineer and decided to paint professionally only in 1976. The main subject of his painting is the colonial and neoclassical architecture of Cuba: houses in ruins, flooded rooms, night and dusk views of Havana.15.06.1903–12.03.1966
Victor Brauner
Victor Brauner painted “Self-portrait with Enucleated Eye” in 1931, and in 1938 in Paris he really did lose his left eye in a quarrel. In the 1930s he belonged to the Surrealist group, during the Occupation he lived under supervision in the south of France, and after the war he worked with motifs from the indigenous peoples of the Americas and with the “Bestiary”. He died in Paris in 1966.
1754–1822
Kim Tŭksin
Kim Tŭksin was born in 1754 into a family of court painters and himself became a member of the Dohwaseo, the office of court painters of the Joseon dynasty. He is known for genre scenes of everyday life, and is usually placed alongside Kim Hong-do. He held an official post on the island of Chodo. In Europe his paintings were shown at an exhibition in 1961–1962.11.10.1958–2021
Mike Omoighe
The Nigerian painter, curator and critic Mike Omoighe taught painting and drawing at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos from 1986, where he later headed the Department of Fine Art and served as a dean. A pupil of Bruce Onobrakpeya, he held solo exhibitions from 1980 in Lagos, Kano and Auchi. He led the Nigerian branch of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
20.08.1869–26.08.1945
Pío Collivadino
Pío Collivadino studied drawing at an Italian cultural society in Buenos Aires, then spent seven years in Rome, where he worked on frescoes under Cesare Mariani. In 1908 he became director of the Academy of Fine Arts in his native city and held the post until 1935. He is known for “Workday Break”, which won a gold medal in Venice, and for “Power Plants” (1914).1913–28.06.1993
Olga Costa
Olga Costa was born in Leipzig to a musician's family from Odesa and found herself in Mexico at the age of twelve. She spent only a few months at the Academy of San Carlos and began painting on her own in 1936. Her best-known picture is “The Fruit Vendor” (1951). Together with her husband, the painter José Chávez Morado, she founded several museums in the state of Guanajuato.17.07.1940–present
Marina Karella
Marina Karella (born 1940) studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and in Paris, and showed her first exhibition in 1966 at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto. In the 1970s she exhibited her White Paintings at Iolas’s gallery, then turned to sculpture, while also designing sets and costumes for theatre, opera and film. Her retrospective was held in 2005 at the Benaki Museum in Athens.
26.04.1604–13.12.1674
10th Karmapa, Chöying Dorje
The 10th Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu school, drew and modelled figures from childhood; his earliest known works are dated to the age of nine. In 1648 he left central Tibet and for twenty years and more wandered through Bhutan, Yunnan, Burma and Nepal, founding monasteries. In exile he wrote books, composed songs and made a great many paintings and sculptures.?–?
Bright Tetteh Ackwerh
Bright Tetteh Ackwerh, from Accra, is a Ghanaian satirical artist. He began by posting his work on social media and painting murals on the streets of his home city, and in 2016 he won the Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Ghanaian Art. He has taken part in exhibitions in Lagos, Kumasi, Accra, Paris, Johannesburg and Los Angeles.01.12.1899–17.11.1991
Eileen Agar
Eileen Agar (1899–1991) was born in Buenos Aires to a Scottish father and an American mother, and studied in London and Paris. In 1936 she showed three paintings and five objects at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London, though all her life she refused to be called a Surrealist. Her best-known work, “The Angel of Anarchy”, is in the Tate collection.11.06.1891–25.08.1964
Adolfo Best Maugard
Adolfo Best Maugard (1891–1964) drew finds from excavations in the Valley of Mexico for Franz Boas, and from 1921 to 1924 headed art education at Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education. His drawing manual, built on seven simple elements of ornament, reached hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren in the 1920s. In 1931 he assisted Sergei Eisenstein on ¡Que viva México! and later made films of his own.03.11.1953–present
Salvatore Garau
Salvatore Garau was born in Sardinia in 1953, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and in the late 1970s played drums in the band Stormy Six. From 1984 he exhibited as a visual artist: he painted dark “liquid” landscapes with dams and columns, covered building scaffolding with paintings and filled three Sardinian churches with water. He became widely known for the “invisible sculpture” “I Am” (2021).
26.06.1898–1945
Pablo Amorsolo
Pablo Amorsolo (1898–1945) studied under his uncle Fabián de la Rosa, graduated from the School of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines and taught painting there until the war. In the 1930s he drew for Manila magazines and painted portraits and pictures on themes from Philippine history, among them “Magellan and the Natives”. Most of his work was lost in a fire in 1945.06.1943–present
Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede
Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede (born 1943) studied sculpture under masters in Ekiti and Lagos, and from 1963 lived and worked in London, where in 1970 he opened a studio with a foundry. His work appeared on the covers of Buchi Emecheta’s novels and represented Britain at Festac ’77 in Lagos. He also writes poetry and children’s stories.
26.05.1933–09.04.2025