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24.07.1901–23.01.1958
Ilia Beshkov
Ilia Beshkov gave up law studies in his youth for painting, and became famous for his pen-and-ink drawing. From the mid-1920s he published caricatures in Bulgarian magazines, in 1936 he created the cycle “Spanish Chronicle”, and in 1940 he was among the founders of the weekly Sturshel. From 1945 he taught drawing and illustration at the art academy in Sofia. He illustrated more than fifty books, many of them for children.14.12.1951–?
Vezhdi Rashidov
Vezhdi Rashidov, born in Dimitrovgrad in 1951, grew up in an orphanage, failed his first attempt to enter art school, and became one of Bulgaria's best-known sculptors. He made portraits, small animal figures and the compositions “Light” and “Bird”, then turned to politics: he ran the Ministry of Culture from 2009 to 2017 and in 2022 became Speaker of the National Assembly.23.05.1859–09.05.1915
Jaroslav Věšín
Czech by origin, Jaroslav Věšín moved to Bulgaria in 1897 and stayed there for the rest of his life. For seven years he taught at the newly opened state school of painting in Sofia, then became a military painter attached to the Ministry of War. He is known for pictures of Bulgarian village life and markets and for battle scenes of the Balkan War of 1912–1913.19.02.1897–25.01.1927
Ivan Milev
Ivan Milev, the son of a shepherd from Kazanlak, managed in a few years of work to produce watercolours and tempera paintings in which Art Nouveau merged with folk ornament and icon painting. He designed sets for the National Theatre, painted murals in private houses and drew cartoons for the newspaper “Cherven smyah”. He died at twenty-nine; his portrait appears on the Bulgarian 5-leva banknote.22.06.1890–23.12.1970
Aleksander Warma
Aleksander Warma (1890–1970) grew up in a fishing village on the coast of the Governorate of Estonia, rose from stoker to officer in the Baltic Fleet and won the Cross of St George. In independent Estonia he became a lawyer and diplomat, and from 1963 until his death he headed the Estonian government-in-exile as prime minister in the duties of the president. He also painted in oil and exhibited in Munich, Hamburg and Stockholm.27.03.1921–18.12.2008
Ivan Rabuzin
Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) was a carpenter and later the director of a furniture factory, and first exhibited his paintings in 1956, at the age of thirty-five. Seven years later the Galerie Mona Lisa in Paris showed his work, and then came hundreds of exhibitions, porcelain decoration for Rosenthal and years in the Croatian parliament. His hills, flowers and clouds are woven into a dense pattern of pastel colours.04.05.1921–02.01.2005
Edo Murtić
Edo Murtić (1921–2005) spent time in the United States and Canada in 1951, where he saw Abstract Expressionism, and in 1956 became one of the founders of the group “March” in Zagreb. In 1958 his work was shown at the Venice Biennale, the Carnegie Prize in Pittsburgh and Documenta in Kassel. He painted in oil and gouache and made murals, mosaics, ceramics and theatre sets.08.06.1886–28.03.1972
Vera Nikolić Podrinska
Vera Nikolić Podrinska, daughter of a Croatian deputy ban, studied painting first at home with private teachers, then in Zagreb and Paris, including with André Lhote. She held her first solo exhibition in 1917 and gave the entire proceeds to children orphaned by the war. In 1955–1957 she wrote a travel book, “From Zagreb to Bangkok”.08.04.1816–16.03.1900
Frederic William Burton
Frederic William Burton (1816–1900) became best known for the watercolour “The Meeting on the Turret Stairs” (1864), which the Irish public voted their favourite painting in 2012. He grew up in County Clare, studied in Dublin and travelled widely in Europe to study the Old Masters. From 1874 he directed the National Gallery in London for twenty years, and more than 500 works entered its collection in that time.01.05.1854–24.01.1920
Percy French
Percy French (1854–1920) trained as an engineer at Trinity College Dublin, worked as an inspector of drains in County Cavan, and painted watercolours there that he showed at the Royal Hibernian Academy. He then turned to journalism and later to the stage, writing and singing comic songs, among them “Are Ye Right There Michael”, about a railway in County Clare.03.12.1802–23.02.1887
Michael Seymour
Michael Seymour (1802–1887) entered the navy at eleven, was wrecked off the coast of Chile in the survey ship HMS Challenger and rose to admiral. He commanded the British fleet in the Far East in the Second Opium War and sat in Parliament for four years. In 1846 he made sixteen drawings in Canada, some of which are held by a museum in Quebec.08.10.1959–?
Gavin Friday
Gavin Friday, born Fionán Martin Hanvey, founded the Dublin post-punk group The Virgin Prunes at seventeen. After the band broke up he turned to painting for a while and showed his pictures at the Hendricks Gallery in Dublin. Since 1987 he has recorded solo albums, worked for many years with the pianist Maurice Seezer and written music for Jim Sheridan’s films. He appeared in “Breakfast on Pluto”.16.11.1793–09.02.1861
Francis Danby
Francis Danby was born in Ireland, one of twins. In 1813 he set out for London with two companions, almost penniless, but settled in Bristol and became the centre of a local circle of artists. In 1828 his “The Opening of the Sixth Seal” won a prize of 200 guineas. He spent ten years by Lake Geneva, returned to England in 1840 and exhibited the huge “The Deluge”.16.03.1913–18.06.1968
Nína Tryggvadóttir
Nína Tryggvadóttir (1913–1968) trained in Reykjavík and Copenhagen, lived in Paris and New York, and studied there with Hans Hofmann. She painted abstract compositions, often drawing on the Icelandic landscape, and also made collages, stained glass and mosaics; her altar mosaic is in the cathedral at Skálholt. In 1949 she was not allowed to return to the United States.11.05.1874–18.10.1954
Einar Jónsson
Einar Jónsson left an Icelandic farming family for Copenhagen, where he studied and worked, and became the first Icelandic sculptor to gain an international reputation. His statue of Thorfinn Karlsefni stands in Philadelphia, and he bequeathed nearly all his other work to his country: a museum and a sculpture garden were built for it in Reykjavík. He worked mostly in plaster, often on single pieces for years.18.09.1899–18.08.1982
Carlos Botelho
Carlos Botelho (1899–1982) began as a children's comics artist and humorist: his weekly page “Echoes of the Week” ran for more than twenty-two years and filled about 1,200 pages. He turned to painting after a trip to Paris in 1929. His main subject became his native Lisbon, from the Expressionist views of the 1930s to the near-abstract cityscapes of the 1950s.08.05.1929–05.08.2015
Ana Hatherly
Ana Hatherly began with poetry: her first collection appeared in 1958, and in the 1960s she started making “writing-image” work, in which calligraphy and signs become the picture itself. She belonged to the Grupo Experimentalista Português, made experimental films after studying in London, taught at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and studied Portuguese Baroque literature. In 1992 the Gulbenkian Foundation showed a retrospective of her visual work.22.10.1896–29.06.1967
José Leitão de Barros
José Leitão de Barros (1896–1967) made the first Portuguese films in 1918, while still a teacher of drawing and mathematics, and in 1931 released “A Severa”, the country’s first sound film. His “Maria do Mar” (1930) is built on the life of the fishing village of Nazaré, and “Ala-Arriba!” (1942) won an award at the Venice Biennale. He also painted, wrote plays, edited magazines and organised city festivals.1934–present
Uthman Taha
Uthman Taha was born in 1934 in the countryside near Aleppo and trained as a calligrapher under teachers in Aleppo and Damascus. He wrote his first Quran in 1970 for the Syrian Ministry of Awqaf, and from 1988 worked in Medina, at the King Fahd Complex. His hand became the basis of the Medina Quran, which has been printed in more than 200 million copies.15.09.1892–14.05.1962
Silpa Bhirasri
The Florentine Corrado Feroci came to Bangkok as a sculptor on contract and stayed for good: in 1944 he took Thai citizenship and the name Silpa Bhirasri. He modelled the monument to Rama I at Phra Phutta Yodfa Bridge, the Victory Monument and the Democracy Monument. In 1943 his school became Silpakorn University, and he remained its first dean of painting and sculpture.02.02.1895–25.03.1947
Chen Cheng-po
In 1926 Chen Cheng-po became the first Taiwanese artist to have an oil painting shown at the Imperial Art Exhibition in Japan: “Street of Chiayi” was accepted for the seventh Teiten. He studied at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, taught in Shanghai for several years, returned to Taiwan and in 1946 became a member of the Chiayi city council. In March 1947 he was shot at Chiayi railway station.22.10.1903–1976
Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
Zlatyu Boyadzhiev (1903–1976) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia in 1932 and painted village scenes and landscapes of Brezovo and Plovdiv. After the break of 1951 his painting changed: calm compositions gave way to grotesque imagery and many-figure canvases in harsh colour. He was named People’s Artist and Hero of Socialist Labour, and a museum bearing his name operates in Plovdiv.21.05.1897–15.06.1945