1905–31.05.1938
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08.02.1925–02.10.2001
Oldřich Lajsek
Oldřich Lajsek (1925–2001) grew up near Kutná Hora, worked in a design office before qualifying as a teacher, and later earned an engineering title as well. He painted landscapes of central Bohemia, Prague, Greece and Yugoslavia, turned to abstraction in the 1960s, and made glass walls and interior schemes. In 1960 he was one of the founders of the Group of Eight Artists.27.02.1902–21.04.1980
Ľudovít Fulla
Ľudovít Fulla (1902–1980) won the Grand Prix at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris for his work “Songs and Labour”. He studied in Prague, taught in Bratislava for ten years and, together with Mikuláš Galanda, wrote the manifesto of the Slovak modernists. His paintings combine folk iconography, bright colour and the methods of European modernism.24.09.1914–11.08.2002
Jiří Kolář
Jiří Kolář began as a cabinet-maker's apprentice and a poet, and in the 1960s moved from words to collage, inventing dozens of techniques of his own: rollage, froissage, chiasmage. His work was shown in Kassel, New York and Madrid. For the second half of his life he also kept other people's art afloat, buying pictures by young Czech artists and paying for samizdat publishing.22.10.1865–22.11.1930
Paul Raud
Paul Raud (1865–1930) grew up in a peasant family in Virumaa, studied in Düsseldorf under Eduard von Gebhardt and became one of the first Estonian artists to return home to work after training abroad. He painted portraits for the Baltic German nobility, pictures of Muhu and Pakri, and compositions on themes from the epic “Kalevipoeg”. He taught in Tallinn from 1914.18.08.1902–02.12.1968
Adamson-Eric
Adamson-Eric (Erich Carl Hugo Adamson) studied in Berlin and Paris and painted still lifes, portraits and landscapes. In the 1930s he also won recognition as an applied artist: his carpets, porcelain and leatherwork earned awards at exhibitions in Paris and Berlin. In 1950 he was expelled from the Artists’ Union, and after a stroke he painted with his left hand. His museum operates in Tallinn.27.01.1958–01.01.2023
Kadri Mälk
Kadri Mälk (1958–2023) was from 1996 professor of jewellery design at the Estonian Academy of Arts and was regarded as one of the founders of the Estonian school of art jewellery. Her work is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Hermitage and the Swiss National Museum. In 2016 her exhibition “Testament” was shown at St Nicholas’ Church in Tallinn.24.10.1936–16.10.2022
Jüri Arrak
Jüri Arrak finished a mining technical school, served in the army, worked as a taxi driver in Leningrad and only at twenty-five entered the art institute. He trained as a metalworker, but it was painting and graphic art that made his name: contrasting colours, deformed figures and a recurring masked character. His work is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tretyakov Gallery, and in 1988 he was named a People’s Artist of the Estonian SSR.24.03.1917–08.10.2007
Constantine Andreou
Constantine Andreou (1917–2007) was born in São Paulo to Greek parents, found himself in Greece at the age of eight, and from 1945 worked in France. In 1947 he began welding sculptures from sheets of brass, and in those same years he worked alongside Le Corbusier. In 1988 he received the Antoine Pevsner prize, and in 2000 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour.25.01.1806–25.04.1870
Daniel Maclise
Daniel Maclise (1806–1870) began with a pencil sketch of Walter Scott in a Cork bookshop and ended with two wall paintings in the House of Lords in London. He painted historical and literary subjects and portraits of friends, Dickens among them, and under a pseudonym published portrait caricatures of celebrities in Fraser’s Magazine.20.03.1856–10.01.1941
John Lavery
John Lavery (1856–1941) grew up an orphan between Ireland and Scotland, and made his name in 1888, when he was commissioned to paint Queen Victoria's visit to the exhibition in Glasgow. He later became a London portrait painter, painted ships and aeroplanes in the First World War, and in 1923, on commission from the Irish Free State, designed a female figure for banknotes. He died in County Kilkenny.02.05.1930–08.06.2013
Yoram Kaniuk
Yoram Kaniuk (1930–2013) joined the Palmach at seventeen, was wounded in the fighting for Mount Zion, then studied painting at Bezalel and in Paris and spent about ten years in the United States. Back in Israel he became a novelist: his first collection appeared in 1963, and his novel “1948” won the Sapir Prize in 2011. That same year he obtained a court ruling that changed the entry “Jewish” in his documents to “no religion”.21.07.1994–?
Zainab Fasiki
Zainab Fasiki (b. 1994) trained as an engineer but is known for comics about the body, shame and street harassment in Morocco. Her graphic novel “Hshouma” came out in 2019 in French and Arabic and was later translated into other languages. In 2019 Time magazine named her a “Next Generation Leader”.1934–25.09.2018
Helena Almeida
Helena Almeida (1934–2018) began exhibiting in 1967 with “paintings” that broke out of the canvas, and from 1969 made her own body her principal material. She combined photography, drawing and painting, stretched horsehair so that a line would lift off the paper, and twice represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale. Solo exhibitions were held at Serralves, Chicago and Tate Modern.04.02.1872–03.04.1944
Octav Băncilă
Octav Băncilă was orphaned young and grew up in Iași in the house of his elder sister, where the left-wing journal “Contemporanul” was published. He studied in Iași and Munich and painted peasants, workers, poor Jews, conscript soldiers and nomadic Roma. After the suppression of the peasant revolt of 1907 he travelled the country and made a series of twelve paintings. From 1916 to 1937 he taught at the Fine Arts School in Iași.1973–present
Manal Al Dowayan
Manal Al Dowayan (born 1973) was born in Dhahran, worked for many years in the oil industry and only later turned to art full time. Her best-known piece, “Suspended Together”, is 200 white doves, each carrying a reproduced travel permit signed by a male guardian. In 2024 she represented Saudi Arabia at the 60th Venice Biennale.1857–1939
Halil Pasha
Halil Pasha trained as a military man in Istanbul but insisted on going to Paris, where he spent eight years in the studio of Jean-Léon Gérôme. In 1889 he won a medal at an exhibition in Paris, then taught drawing, in 1917–1918 directed the School of Fine Arts in Istanbul and painted the shores of the Bosphorus. Among his pupils was Müfide Kadri.01.02.1882–29.09.1960
Vladimir Dimitrov
Vladimir Dimitrov (1882–1960) was nicknamed Maystora, “the Master”, while still a student at the drawing school in Sofia, where he arrived on money collected by the townspeople of Kyustendil: before that he had copied court records and secretly sketched defendants. He was a war artist in two wars and from 1924 to 1951 lived in the village of Shishkovtsi, painting reapers, young women and the landscape of the Kyustendil region.08.10.1810–14.06.1853
Zahari Zograf
Zahari Zograf (1810–1853) of Samokov painted churches in the Rila, Troyan, Bachkovo and Transfiguration monasteries and spent seventeen months working on Mount Athos. In several of his fresco cycles he put in his own portrait, which was unusual in the church painting of his day. For this reason he is regarded as the founder of secular painting in Bulgaria.28.07.1928–06.02.2023
Květa Pacovská
Květa Pacovská (1928–2023) studied monumental painting under Emil Filla but became known as the author and illustrator of children’s books built on geometric forms and colour contrast, above all red. In 1992 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, and in 1993 the Golden Letter for “Papier Paradise”, a book dedicated to Kurt Schwitters. She taught in Berlin and London.17.08.1928–06.05.2025
Lola Liivat
In 1957 Lola Liivat heard American artists lecture on abstract painting at the Moscow youth festival, and it set the course of her later work. She taught at the Tartu art school for almost thirty years while painting abstract canvases, among the first in Estonia. In 2018 the Tartu Art Museum opened the largest retrospective of her work.21.10.1907–31.10.1985
Nikos Engonopoulos
Nikos Engonopoulos (1907–1985) drew city plans by day at the Ministry of Public Works and wrote poems and painted in his spare time. His first book of poems, “Do Not Distract the Driver”, appeared in 1938, and the poem “Bolivar” in 1944. In 1954 he showed 72 works at the Venice Biennale, and for many years he taught at the Athens Polytechnic.20.10.1933–13.03.2023
Marija Ujević-Galetović
The Croatian sculptor Marija Ujević-Galetović graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb under Frano Kršinić, then studied in London. She made monuments to Miroslav Krleža, August Šenoa, Jakov Gotovac and Sterija Popović, as well as the statue “Runner” on the Sava embankment. She taught at the Zagreb Academy from 1987 and from 1998 was a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.16.02.1923–19.02.2016