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21.07.1891–02.08.1957
Lasar Segall
Lasar Segall (1891–1957), the son of a Torah scribe from Vilna, studied in Berlin and Dresden, exhibited with the German Expressionists and in 1923 settled in Brazil for good. He painted and engraved emigrants, the women of the Mangue quarter, banana plantations and favelas. His house in São Paulo became a museum.26.03.1891–09.09.1936
Jean Jacoby
Jean Jacoby won gold in the Olympic art competitions twice, in Paris in 1924 and in Amsterdam in 1928, both times for sporting subjects. Before that he studied in Strasbourg and worked in Wiesbaden, and from 1926 he was in charge of illustrations at the Ullstein publishing house in Berlin. He spent the last two years of his life in Mulhouse.12.01.1887–07.12.1951
Edward Leedskalnin
Edward Leedskalnin (Edvards Liedskalniņš) was born into a Latvian peasant family, had four years of schooling and learned stonecutting. In Florida he spent almost twenty years building the Coral Castle alone out of oolite limestone: more than 1,100 tons of stone, worked, by his own account, at night. The site is on the US National Register of Historic Places. He also published pamphlets on magnetism.31.12.1959–?
Ronnie del Carmen
After school Ronnie del Carmen painted sets on the Philippine shoot of “Apocalypse Now”, and in 1989 he moved to the United States, starting out on storyboards for the Batman animated series. He later worked at DreamWorks and Pixar, where he co-directed “Inside Out” (2015) and received an Oscar nomination for its screenplay. He also drew and wrote comics.12.12.1902–12.01.2003
Koloman Sokol
Koloman Sokol (1902–2003) grew up in Liptovský Mikuláš, studied in Košice, Bratislava and Prague, and in 1937 went to Mexico City to teach graphic art. His prints and drawings deal with miners, poverty, emigration and human pain. From 1948 he lived in the United States, spending his last decades in Arizona; he lived to be a hundred.23.01.1909–07.08.2005
Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková
Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková studied in Paris with Aleksandra Ekster and at the Académie Julian, and in 1931 she was already exhibiting in Prague. Her “Chess Composition” and “Grey Still Life” are in the Slovak National Gallery. From the 1950s she lived in Liptovský Mikuláš, made collages of gardens and still lifes, and in 1966 was named a Merited Artist.27.01.1865–25.03.1955
Huang Binhong
Huang Binhong was born in Jinhua in 1865, and his best work came after he turned sixty: landscapes in which ink is laid on in dense layers. For more than twenty years he edited and published books on art in Shanghai, then taught in Beijing and Hangzhou. He collected ancient seals and wrote on the history of Chinese painting.28.02.1939–01.04.2001
Trịnh Công Sơn
In the late 1960s Trịnh Công Sơn sang his songs with Khánh Ly in a café on waste ground behind the Faculty of Letters in Saigon. The authorities of the South banned his anti-war collections “Songs of the Yellow Skin” and “Vietnamese Prayers”, and after 1975 he himself was sent to work in a “new economic zone”. He wrote more than 600 songs and also drew.11.12.1900–03.05.1993
Hermína Týrlová
Hermína Týrlová (1900–1993) grew up an orphan in a mining family near Příbram and became one of the founders of Czech puppet animation. From the mid-1920s she worked with Karel Dodal on animated advertising, and from the 1940s she lived and made films in Zlín. Her “Ferda the Ant” (1944) became known abroad, and “Revolt of the Toys” combined puppets with live actors. In all she made about sixty short films.23.09.1922–16.01.2016
Joannis Avramidis
Joannis Avramidis (1922–2016) was born in Batumi to a family of Pontic Greeks, was brought to Vienna in 1943 as a forced labourer and stayed there for the rest of his life. He studied painting at the academy and became a sculptor at thirty-one, when Fritz Wotruba noticed his work. He made faceless, columnar figures and heads, represented Austria at the 1962 Venice Biennale, and from 1968 to 1992 headed the sculpture class at the Vienna academy.15.08.1891–12.07.1961
Iva Despić-Simonović
Iva Despić-Simonović was born into the family of an Austro-Hungarian general, studied in Zagreb, Munich and Paris, and from 1920 lived in Sarajevo. In the 1920s and 1930s she modelled portraits of the Yugoslav royal family and other high-ranking people in Belgrade, as well as small figures of children. In the interwar period she was the only sculptor in Bosnia and Herzegovina.21.12.1914–27.11.1992
Ivan Generalić
Ivan Generalić (1914–1992) grew up in a poor peasant family in the Podravina village of Hlebine and at fifteen came under the guidance of the academically trained painter Krsto Hegedušić. From 1931 his work was shown in Zagreb, and a solo exhibition in Paris in 1953 introduced him to a European public. He painted mostly in oil on glass: village festivals, harvests, roosters.29.07.1941–?
Goenawan Mohamad
Goenawan Mohamad was born in 1941 in Batang, Central Java, has written poetry since the age of seventeen, and in 1971 became one of the founders of the weekly magazine Tempo. The magazine was shut down more than once for criticising the authorities, and his column “Sidelines” was published in book form. He is the author of the collections Parikesit, Interlude and Asmaradana, of opera libretti and of texts for shadow theatre.1843–2000
Joanna Hiffernan
Joanna Hiffernan, an Irishwoman from Limerick, lived for about six years with James Whistler and posed for his three “Symphonies in White”. In 1865–1866 Gustave Courbet painted her in “La Belle Irlandaise” and “Le Sommeil”. When Whistler went to Chile, she handled his affairs and sold his work. Little is known of her after 1880, and the sources give different years for her death.18.02.1895–30.11.1920
Jēkabs Kazaks
Jēkabs Kazaks was born into the family of a Riga yard-keeper, studied under Vilhelms Purvītis and in 1915 was evacuated to Penza together with his school. His 1917 subjects of refugees became his best-known works. In 1919 he joined the Expressionists’ Group and then became the first chairman of the Riga Artists’ Group. He died at twenty-five; about forty of his oil paintings survive.03.04.1965–?
Rachid El Ouali
Rachid El Ouali began on the stage in Rabat but soon moved into film: in 1995 he won a prize at the National Film Festival in Tangier for a supporting role in “The Dreams Thief”. He has appeared in Moroccan and foreign films and series, directed his first feature, “Yemma” (2013), and hosted television programmes, among them “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”.02.12.1816–27.09.1882
Amedeo Preziosi
The Maltese artist Amedeo Preziosi (1816–1882) left Valletta for Istanbul and for almost forty years drew the city for European travellers. The Prince of Wales took an interest in his watercolours, and his album “Costumes of Constantinople” is in the British Museum. At the invitation of Prince Carol I he travelled twice to Romania, and his Bucharest sketches survive.27.10.1939–?
Albert Wendt
Albert Wendt was born in Apia in 1939, went to school in New Zealand at thirteen and became one of the leading authors of English-language writing from Oceania. His novel “Sons for the Return Home” (1973) is regarded as the first novel by a Samoan author. He taught in Samoa, Fiji, Hawaii and Auckland, edited anthologies of Polynesian poetry and often illustrated his own books.28.04.1869–13.05.1947
Frances Hodgkins
Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947) left Dunedin for Europe in 1901 and returned to New Zealand only for short visits. In Paris she taught watercolour at the Académie Colarossi, the first woman on its staff, then lived in Cornwall, worked briefly as a textile designer in Manchester and from 1929 exhibited with the Seven and Five Society. Her work did not reach the 1940 Venice Biennale because of the war.1958–present
Ngila Dickson
Ngila Dickson, a native of Dunedin, came to film from a magazine editor's desk and the fashion world: her first credit as a costume designer was a 1989 television film. She dressed the characters of “Xena” and “Hercules”, and from 1999 worked on “The Lord of the Rings” with Richard Taylor. She won an Academy Award for “The Return of the King”.22.05.1980–?
Satine Phoenix
Satine Phoenix was born in 1980 in the Philippines and grew up in the United States. She illustrated comics and co-created the graphic novel New Praetorians, then moved into tabletop role-playing games: she hosted shows about Dungeons & Dragons and founded the charity project CelebrityChariD20 and the streaming network Maze Arcana. Her collection of drawings, Burning Quill, appeared in 2010.10.01.1926–22.05.2018
Júlio Pomar
In 1946 Júlio Pomar began painting a mural on the wall of the Batalha cinema in Porto, and in 1948 it was destroyed on the government's orders. He moved from neo-realism, tied to the underground Communist Party, to free figurative painting, lived in Paris from 1963 and later returned to his Lisbon studio. In 2013 the Atelier-Museum Júlio Pomar opened in Lisbon.13.06.1866–26.05.1922