15.01.1892–21.07.1950
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18.02.1959–?
Hallgrímur Helgason
Hallgrímur Helgason began as a landscape painter, lived in Boston, New York and Paris, and came to literature through newspaper columns and a radio programme, “Radio Manhattan”. His novel “101 Reykjavík” (1996) was filmed in 2000. Alongside it he kept painting and drawing, invented a cartoon alter ego, Grim, and held more than thirty solo exhibitions.03.03.1872–14.01.1945
Vilhelms Purvītis
The son of a miller from the Governorate of Livonia, Vilhelms Purvītis studied in St Petersburg under Arkhip Kuindzhi and became the leading Latvian landscape painter of the first half of the twentieth century. He painted spring thaws, snow and northern twilight. In 1919 he took charge of the city art museum and the new Latvian Academy of Art, serving as its rector until 1934. A large part of his work was lost in Jelgava in the summer of 1944.06.12.1645–18.03.1703
Maria de Dominici
Maria de Dominici (1645–1703) grew up in a Maltese goldsmith’s family in which two brothers also became painters. She studied with Mattia Preti and assisted him in St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, then moved to Rome and opened a studio there. Portable figures of saints and paintings by her survive in Malta, and in 2010 a crater on Mercury was named after her.20.10.1847–05.11.1906
Frits Thaulow
Frits Thaulow painted water: streams, millraces, small rivers in little French towns, snowy winter streets in Christiania. In 1880 he returned from Paris to Norway and helped found the Autumn Exhibition, and in 1892 he left again for France. His paintings are in the National Gallery of Norway, the Hermitage and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.01.11.1962–?
Magne Furuholmen
Magne Furuholmen wrote the synthesizer riff of “Take On Me” at fifteen and later became the keyboardist of a-ha. Alongside the band he has worked for many years as a visual artist, making paintings, prints, ceramics and glass. His sculpture park “Imprints” near Oslo, opened in 2016, is regarded as the largest ceramic sculpture park in Scandinavia.15.06.1914–12.05.1999
Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg (1914–1999) was born in Râmnicu Sărat, Romania, studied architecture in Milan and began publishing drawings in a Milan humour weekly. From 1941 his work appeared in The New Yorker, where he published about ninety covers and more than twelve hundred drawings. On the cover of 29 March 1976, “View of the World from 9th Avenue”, Manhattan fills almost the whole space. He called himself a writer who draws.12.01.1980–?
Adina Pintilie
Adina Pintilie was born in Bucharest in 1980, trained as a director and began with short films and documentaries. Her film about patients in a Romanian psychiatric hospital, “Don’t Get Me Wrong”, was shown at Locarno. Her first feature, “Touch Me Not”, won the Golden Bear at the 2018 Berlinale.20.03.1831–19.08.1891
Theodor Aman
Theodor Aman (1831–1891) studied in Bucharest and Paris and painted battle and history scenes on Romanian themes. In 1864, together with Gheorghe Tattarescu, he founded the school of fine arts in Bucharest and headed it until his death. The house with a studio built to his design in 1869 became a museum bearing his name in 1908.01.05.1980–?
Radoslav Rochallyi
Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980) builds poems and paintings on mathematics: in the collection “Golden Divine” the number of words per line follows the digits of the golden ratio, and in “Equation Poetry” formulas stand in place of words. Born in Bardejov, he writes in Slovak and English, and in 2023 he was a finalist at the Nanjing International Biennial.02.05.1983–?
Mon Laferte
Mon Laferte was born in Viña del Mar, won a school competition at nine and was given a guitar, and in 2007 moved from Chile to Mexico. Her breakthrough came with the album “Mon Laferte, Vol. 1” (2015) and then “La Trenza” (2017), whose duet “Amárrame” with Juanes won a Latin Grammy. She writes songs, directs videos and paints; in 2022 she received Mexican citizenship.10.12.1965–?
Michal Šanda
Michal Šanda has worked as an archivist at the Arts and Theatre Institute in Prague since 1991, and has been writing books since 1994: poetry, prose, plays and books for children. His short stories were nominated for the Magnesia Litera prize, and his children’s comic “Tibbles” won awards in the Czech Republic, in Bologna and in the United States.24.02.1957–?
Signe Kivi
Signe Kivi trained as a textile artist and then spent almost thirty years dividing her life between the studio, the lecture room and public office. She was Estonia's Minister of Culture (1999–2002), headed the Estonian Academy of Arts for ten years and then ran the Tartu Art Museum. Since 2019 she has been a member of the Riigikogu.08.10.1843–01.10.1914
Kitty Kielland
Kitty Kielland (1843–1914) began systematic study of painting only at thirty, with Hans Gude in Karlsruhe, and went on to become one of the first in Norway to paint the flat peat bogs of Jæren. She lived in Paris for ten years, showed her work at the Salon, and in 1884 was among the founders of the Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights.11.06.1860–19.10.1935
Oda Krohg
Oda Krohg (born Lasson) made her debut at the Autumn Exhibition in Kristiania in 1886 with “By the Oslofjord (Japanese Lantern)”, almost without formal art training. She studied with Erik Werenskiold and Christian Krohg, whom she married in 1888. She was a prominent figure of the Kristiania Bohemians, moved to Paris in 1897 and exhibited there from 1903 to 1909.11.02.1855–23.11.1938
Erik Werenskiold
Erik Werenskiold (1855–1938) grew up in Kongsvinger Fortress, where his father was commandant, and studied in Christiania, Munich and Paris. His drawings for the Asbjørnsen and Moe collection of Norwegian folktales and for Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla became the familiar image of fairy tale and saga in Norway. He also painted peasants in landscapes and portraits of Ibsen and Bjørnson.09.10.1920–09.05.1976
Jens Bjørneboe
Jens Bjørneboe (1920–1976) grew up in the family of a shipowner in Kristiansand, studied painting and showed his first pictures in 1946, but chose literature. The novel “Jonas” (1955) set off a debate about schooling in Norway, and “Without a Stitch” (1966) put its author in the dock. He wrote poems, novels, plays and essays, and in his later years was one of the country’s most visible anarchists.1989–present
Zehra Doğan
Zehra Doğan, a native of Diyarbakır, worked as an editor of the Kurdish women's news agency Jinha and drew what she saw in Nusaybin during the fighting of 2016. For her reporting and a drawing she posted online, she was sentenced in 2017 to two years, nine months and 22 days in prison. She was released in February 2019 and acquitted in 2024.1904–02.10.1992
Sabiha Bengütaş
Sabiha Ziya Bengütaş studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul, won a state scholarship to study in Rome in 1924, and in 1938 won two competitions for monuments to Atatürk and İsmet İnönü. The bronze İnönü and the marble Atatürk were completed in 1946; she is regarded as the first Turkish woman sculptor to create monumental statues.21.06.1965–?
Smiljan Radić Clarke
Smiljan Radić Clarke (born 1965) opened his studio in Santiago in 1995, and in 2014 built the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London: a translucent fibreglass shell resting on huge unworked stones. His work also includes the regional theatre in Concepción and NAVE in Santiago. In March 2026 he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize.18.07.1940–18.09.2021
Anna Chromy
Anna Chromy was born in Český Krumlov in 1940 and grew up in Austria, studied in Paris, lived in Monaco and worked in Tuscany. Her best-known sculpture is an empty cloak, the Cloak of Conscience, with versions in Salzburg Cathedral and in Athens. In 2008 she became the first woman to receive the Italian Michelangelo Prize.?–?
Master Theodoric
Master Theodoric is known from only a few documents: an entry in the Prague painters’ brotherhood, a house in Hradčany and a charter of Charles IV from 1367. His workshop decorated the Chapel of the Holy Cross at Karlštejn Castle with 129 panel paintings of half-length saints and prophets on a gold ground. He is the first Bohemian painter whose name can be linked to a whole body of work.20.03.1898–08.01.1954
Eduard Wiiralt
Eduard Wiiralt (1898–1954) was born near Tsarskoye Selo to a family of Estonian estate servants, and became famous for etchings made in Paris. His best-known work, “Hell” (1930–1932), is built from grotesque heads and figures. In 1937 he won a gold medal at an exhibition in Vienna, and after the war he lived in Paris until his death.22.10.1865–19.05.1943