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Found: 1775
09.06.1967–06.11.2002
Michel Majerus
Michel Majerus (1967–2002) studied at the Stuttgart academy, lived in Berlin from 1993 and painted pictures that mixed art history, computer games and logos. In 1999, at the invitation of Harald Szeemann, he painted the façade of a pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and in 2000 he covered a skateboard ramp with an image. He was killed in a plane crash in 2002.15.05.1892–27.03.1975
Frantz Heldenstein
François "Frantz" Heldenstein was a sculptor and architect from Luxembourg, born on May 15, 1892, in Colmar-Berg. He won a silver medal in the 1924 Olympic art competitions for his work 'Vers l'olympiade'. He died on March 27, 1975, in Luxembourg.18.09.1894–29.12.1930
Nico Klopp
Nico Klopp grew up in the wine-growing canton of Remich on the Moselle and spent his short life painting the river, above all the bridge at Remich. In 1927, together with Joseph Kutter and others, he left the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg and became one of the founders of the Salon de la Sécession. He also made woodcuts and linocuts, and earned his living working for the local commune.05.11.1897–14.02.1963
Hilda Vīka
Hilda Vīka (1897–1963) worked in Riga offices and a bank until she was thirty-seven, and learned to paint in the evenings in private studios. She made watercolours and oils in an Art Deco manner, mostly with women as their subjects, and published several books of poetry and prose with her own illustrations. In 1950 she was expelled from the Artists’ Union of the Latvian SSR and readmitted in 1957.25.08.1877–28.08.1962
Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš
Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš was born on a farm near Nereta, the son of a farmhand, graduated from an agricultural school, then from Blum’s school in Riga, and became both a writer and a painter. In 1919 he was among the founders of the Association of Independent Artists and became its chairman. He illustrated books, his own among them, wrote about Čiurlionis, left for Germany in 1944 and died in Körbecke.28.04.1896–14.07.1944
Romans Suta
Romans Suta worked on interiors, porcelain and crystal as readily as on canvases: in 1925 in Paris he received a gold medal for his ideas of a national constructivism. In 1924 he founded Baltars, a porcelain-painting workshop in Riga. Evacuated to Georgia in 1941, he was arrested in Tbilisi in 1943 and shot in 1944.05.01.1839–13.06.1926
Gottfried Lindauer
Bohumír Lindauer, the son of a gardener from Plzeň, entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1855, and in 1874, to escape conscription into the Austrian army, sailed to New Zealand. There he painted life-size portraits of Māori chiefs, recording their tattoos, clothing and weapons with great care. A series of his portraits was shown at the 1886 exhibition in London.02.10.1917–05.12.1979
Rosaleen Norton
Rosaleen Norton (1917–1979) was born in New Zealand, grew up in Sydney and became known for paintings of demons and pagan gods. The police removed her works from exhibitions, and her book “The Art of Rosaleen Norton” (1952) was banned in New South Wales. She lived in Kings Cross and considered herself a witch who worshipped Pan; the tabloids called her the “Witch of Kings Cross”.27.07.1940–16.05.2012
Ernie Chan
Ernie Chan (Ernesto Chan), born in the Philippines, entered American comics in 1972 and became one of the regular artists on “Conan the Barbarian” at Marvel. In the mid-1970s he drew covers for DC Comics, later worked on Batman for many years, and in the 1990s designed characters for Sega video games. He received an Inkpot Award in 1980.1953–present
Marjetica Potrč
In 2003 Marjetica Potrč spent six months in Caracas, and that stay produced the project “Dry Toilet”: a waterless toilet for the La Vega district, which had no connection to the city water supply. Since then she has built projects with local residents and shown “architectural case studies” in galleries. Born in Ljubljana in 1953, she won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2000.21.07.1961–?
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Rirkrit Tiravanija was born in Buenos Aires to a Thai family and grew up in Thailand, Ethiopia and Canada. He is known for turning a gallery into a kitchen or a living room: he cooks Thai dishes and feeds visitors for free. He won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2004 and, in Thailand, co-founded an agricultural project with a fellow artist, The Land Foundation.13.10.1929–17.05.2010
Walasse Ting
Walasse Ting (Chinese name Ding Xiongquan) grew up in a family of Chinese factory owners, studied briefly in Shanghai and in the 1950s found himself in Paris among the members of the CoBrA group. From 1957 he lived in New York, painting bright acrylic pictures of female figures, cats and parrots, and in 1964 he published the lithograph portfolio “One Cent Life”, with work by Warhol and Lichtenstein.1938–22.04.2023
Ju Ming
Ju Ming (1938–2023) began as a woodcarver in a temple workshop in the town of Tunghsiao and by forty had become the most prominent sculptor in Taiwan. He created the Taichi and Living World series, showed them in Tokyo, New York, London and Place Vendôme in Paris, and in 1999 opened a museum of his own near Taipei.25.07.1906–07.07.1963
Nhất Linh
In 1932 Nhất Linh (real name Nguyễn Tường Tam) bought the satirical weekly Phong Hóa in Hanoi and soon gathered a literary group around it, the Tự Lực Văn Đoàn. In the 1930s he published novels and essays, and in 1946 he briefly served as foreign minister in Ho Chi Minh’s government. He also drew and painted on silk.01.09.1920–24.06.1988
Bùi Xuân Phái
Bùi Xuân Phái (1920–1988) painted hundreds of views of Hanoi’s Old Quarter, and viewers began calling the genre “Phai streets” in his lifetime. After taking part in the Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm movement he lost his teaching post, and his only solo exhibition came in 1984. He painted in oil on canvas, on cardboard and on newsprint.14.06.1933–26.05.2018
Svetlin Rusev
Svetlin Rusev studied under Dechko Uzunov, painted “The Oath” and “Before the Execution. 1923”, and in 1985 gave his native Pleven a collection that became the basis of a permanent gallery of more than four hundred works. He headed the Union of Bulgarian Artists, directed the National Art Gallery, painted the church at Rupite, and in 2003 became a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.01.04.1938–04.04.2022
Radi Nedelchev
Radi Nedelchev (1938–2022) was born in the village of Ezerche and from 1954 lived and worked in Ruse. Bulgarian critics regarded him as an unquestionable naïve painter: landscapes, village life, festivals, compositions and portraits. In 1971 he won second prize at the world exhibition of naïve art in Morges, and his works entered the Paris museum of Henri Rousseau.22.02.1899–26.04.1986
Dechko Uzunov
Dechko Uzunov (1899–1986) studied in Sofia and Munich, painted murals in a church in his native Kazanlak and in the foyer of a local hotel, designed productions for the National Theatre and illustrated books. He taught for many years at the art academy in Sofia, chaired the Union of Bulgarian Artists for four years, and in the 1980s was an honorary member of foreign academies.24.07.1919–17.06.2004
Todor Dinov
Todor Dinov (1919–2004) directed “Marko the Hero” in 1954–1955, the first professional Bulgarian hand-drawn film, and set up the first animation studio in the country, in Sofia. His best-known work abroad is “The Daisy” (1965), in which a little man tries to destroy a flower. Dinov also made live-action features, and at the Theatre and Film Arts Institute he founded the department of animation direction.05.10.1977–?
Hugleikur Dagsson
Hugleikur Dagsson (b. 1977) began as a film critic on Icelandic radio and became known for black-humour comics, published as books and in The Reykjavik Grapevine. He wrote three stage plays, won “playwright of the year” for the first, and Penguin Books issued collections of his cartoons between 2006 and 2008.15.05.1931–21.04.1989
Jón Gunnar Árnason
Jón Gunnar Árnason’s sculpture “Sólfar” (“Sun Voyager”) stands on the Reykjavík seafront, at the end of Frakkastígur street, and has long been one of the city’s landmarks. He trained first as an engineer and came back to the fine arts after the age of thirty. In 1972 he helped found the Icelandic Sculptors Society together with his colleagues.1981–present
Ato Malinda
Ato Malinda, born in Kenya in 1981, works in performance, video, drawing and installation. In “Mshoga Mpya” (2014), viewers entered a cramped booth one at a time, where the artist retold the stories of LGBT people in Kenya that she had collected in Nairobi. In 2016 she was one of the awardees at the inaugural African Art Awards of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art.24.12.1929–05.01.2021