04.08.1926–22.04.2014
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08.08.1926–07.04.2017
Arturo García Bustos
Arturo García Bustos (1926–2017) entered the National School of Plastic Arts in Mexico City at fifteen and later became one of the four students who studied with Frida Kahlo at her home in Coyoacán. He is known above all for his prints and worked at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (the People’s Graphic Workshop), but he also painted walls, from the National Museum of Anthropology to the Oaxaca state government building. He taught a great deal.
10.02.1810–12.02.1898
Miklós Barabás
Miklós Barabás (1810–1898) grew up in Transylvania, studied in Vienna, learned lithography in Cluj and painted portraits in Bucharest, and went on to become the leading portraitist of the Hungarian Reform Age. His sitters included Franz Liszt, Lajos Kossuth, Sándor Petőfi and János Arany. In 1859 he became one of the founders of the Art Society in Pest and headed it from 1862 until his death.1876–13.11.1971
Celal Esat Arseven
Celal Esat Arseven, the son of a grand vizier, graduated from the military academy but resigned in 1908 and devoted himself to art. He published a satirical magazine, made a film in Munich, taught the history of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts, worked in Ankara with the city planner Hermann Jansen and compiled the five-volume “Art Encyclopedia”.
20.05.1808–1876
George Henry Ford
George Henry Ford drew for zoologists: as a child he ended up in Cape Town with a broken hip, and a decade and a half later he was working at the British Museum. He made the plates for Andrew Smith’s “Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa”, and in the 1860s he produced the colour lithographs for George Viner Ellis’s anatomical atlas.
04.02.1885–29.08.1962
Georgina de Albuquerque
Georgina de Albuquerque (born Moura Andrade) studied in Taubaté, Rio de Janeiro and Paris, and in 1922 exhibited “Session of the Council of State”, a painting of the events on the eve of Brazilian independence with a woman at the centre of the composition. From 1927 she taught at the National School of Fine Arts in Rio, and in 1952–1954 she directed it. In 1940 she founded a museum named after her husband, the painter Lucílio de Albuquerque.18.08.1931–24.09.2018
Myrna Báez
Myrna Báez (1931–2018) abandoned medicine for painting, studied at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, and then with the graphic artist Lorenzo Homar in San Juan. She worked in oil and acrylic, made prints and collotypes, and for a quarter of a century taught in Puerto Rican schools. New York museums collect her work, and in 1997 she received the National Medal of Culture.
08.02.1862–18.03.1917
Károly Ferenczy
Károly Ferenczy (1862–1917) took a university degree in law and economics and came to painting as an adult: Italy, the Académie Julian in Paris, the Munich circle of Simon Hollósy. In 1896 he returned to Hungary and, with István Réti and János Thorma, founded the artists’ colony at Nagybánya. From 1906 he taught in Budapest, still returning to the colony each summer.?–?
Aqā Rizā Haravi
Aqa Riza, an artist from Iran, worked at the Mughal court and headed the workshop of Prince Salim, the future emperor Jahangir, at Allahabad. His signed pages survive from 1592 to 1605, among them miniatures for the manuscript of the “Anvar-i Suhayli” in the British Library. His son was the court painter Abu’l Hasan.
31.01.1885–17.07.1942
Tinus de Jongh
Tinus de Jongh (1885–1942) was self-taught: his parents forbade him to become an artist, and he began as a decorator in Amsterdam. One of his early canvases was bought by the Stedelijk Museum, and in 1921 he moved to South Africa and settled in Cape Town. There his sober Dutch palette grew brighter, and his landscapes with farmhouses and his etchings sold in the hundreds.
1547–1616
Matteo Pérez
Matteo Pérez (Matteo Pérez de Alesio, 1547 – no later than 1628) painted the halls of the Grandmaster’s Palace in Valletta: thirteen frescoes of the Great Siege of Malta in 1565. Before that he worked in Rome, in Seville he painted a huge Saint Christopher, and from the end of the 1580s he lived in Lima. There he ran a workshop with pupils; sources disagree on the year of his death.
24.10.1892–15.02.1965
Rafał Malczewski
Rafał Malczewski, son of the Kraków Symbolist Jacek Malczewski, lived in Zakopane from 1915 to 1939: he climbed in the Tatras, served in the TOPR mountain rescue team, and painted mountain landscapes and wrote books about Zakopane. The war took him through Paris and Brazil to Canada, where he exhibited in Montreal and died in 1965.
0500–0460
Apollodorus
Apollodorus of Athens was nicknamed Skiagraphos, “the shadow-painter”: he is credited with being the first to render transitions of light and shade in painting. His pictures have not survived, and we know of them from Greek and Roman authors. Two of them, “Praying Priest” and “Ajax Struck by Lightning”, were still seen at Pergamon in Roman times.
1811–1888
Nam Kyeu
Nam Kyeu (1811–1888), a Korean painter of the late Joseon period and a government officer by profession, became known for his pictures of butterflies and flowers. This skill earned him the nickname “Butterfly Nam”. Surviving works include paired scrolls of flowers and butterflies, “A Swarm of Butterflies” and “Butterflies and a Cat among Flowers”, as well as two collections of poems.
16.12.1903–29.06.1938
Wolf Kibel
Wolf Kibel (1903–1938) grew up in a small town near Warsaw in a cantor’s family, walked as far as Vienna, spent four years in Palestine and in 1929 came to Cape Town to join his brother. South African audiences met his exhibitions of 1931 and 1935 with hostility. He was the first to show monotypes in South Africa in any number, including at the 1936 Empire Exhibition in Johannesburg.
20.01.1928–07.06.2010
Omar Rayo
Omar Rayo (1928–2010) began at fifteen to seventeen as a caricaturist for newspapers in Bogotá and Cali, and became known for geometric drawings and prints in black, white, red and yellow. He lived in New York for ten years and in 1970 won the Salón de Artistas Colombianos. In 1981 he founded a museum of Latin American drawing and printmaking in his hometown, Roldanillo.
16.06.1866–28.11.1935
Joaquín Clausell
Joaquín Clausell (1866–1935) studied law, wrote for opposition newspapers and was twice jailed in Belém Prison; he took up the brush only after returning from exile in Paris. He painted Mexican landscapes and seascapes in an Impressionist manner, and he left his works unsigned and almost undated. About thirteen hundred drawings and paintings also survive on the walls of his studio above a city mansion in Mexico City.?–?
Master MS
Master MS is known for a single altarpiece of 1506 from the mining town of Selmecbánya in Upper Hungary (now Banská Štiavnica). Of its eight painted panels seven survive, scattered among museums in Budapest, Esztergom and Lille. The artist’s name is unknown; he is called after the monogram “M + S”, and historians still dispute who stood behind it.
1764–1820
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai worked in Edo around the turn of the nineteenth century and is known above all for surimono, small privately commissioned prints made for poetry circles, with still lifes, landscapes and beauties. A pupil of Tawaraya Sōri and Hokusai, he made views of Edo and the “Eight Views of Ōmi” with European-style shading and perspective. The dates of his life are not firmly established.
21.11.1910–09.08.1943
Graham Bell
Graham Bell (1910–1943) worked in a bank and on a farm in Durban, moved to Britain in 1931 and six years later became one of the founders of the Euston Road School in London. For three years he wrote for the New Statesman and was its arts editor. He was killed in 1943 during a training flight in a bomber.18.12.1920–01.04.2004
Enrique Grau
Enrique Grau (1920–2004) grew up in Cartagena, studied under George Grosz in New York and in 1957 won first prize at the National Salon for his painting “Elements Under an Eclipse”. His best-known canvases set white, Black and Indigenous figures beside masks, eggs, fruit and cages. He gave about 1,300 works to Cartagena for its Museum of Modern Art.24.06.1913–20.12.1999
Mario Carreño Morales
Mario Carreño was born in Havana, studied in Madrid and Paris, worked in New York and in 1958 settled permanently in Chile. There he taught, and in 1959, together with Nemesio Antúnez, he founded the art school of the Catholic University. In 1982 he received Chile’s National Prize of Art.
15.03.1894–29.09.1941
Vilmos Aba-Novák
Until 1912 Vilmos Aba-Novák appeared in documents as Vilmos Novák. He painted frescoes for churches and state clients, among them the Heroes' Gate in Szeged and the Mausoleum of Saint Stephen in Székesfehérvár, while in easel paintings he kept returning to village fairs and the circus. He won the jury's Grand Prize at the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 and at the Venice Biennale in 1940.
1707–1769