27.09.1948–30.10.2013
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18.11.1881–10.11.1944
Juozas Zikaras
Juozas Zikaras grew up in a poor peasant family, herded livestock from the age of seven, then graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg and became one of the first professional sculptors in Lithuania. The coins of independent Lithuania, 1918–1940, were struck from his models. His best-known work, the Statue of Liberty in Kaunas, appears on the 20-litas banknote.1904–1995
Moi Ver
The photographer Moi Ver (Moses Vorobeichic, later Moshe Raviv) photographed the Jewish quarter of Vilna in 1929, and the series was published as a book in Zurich in 1931. That same year his book of photomontages, “Paris”, appeared in Paris with a preface by Fernand Léger. From 1934 he lived in Palestine, and from the early 1950s, in Safed, he worked mainly in graphic art and painting.1957–present
Yvette Gastauer-Claire
Yvette Gastauer-Claire, a sculptor and medallist from Esch-sur-Alzette, designed the images on all the denominations of Luxembourg's national side of the euro coins, from one cent to two euros. Since 2001 she has issued a bronze medal every year in the series “Art in the Hand”. Her sculptures stand in Dudelange, Luxembourg City, Ehnen and Steinfort.15.04.1874–22.06.1919
Dominique Lang
Dominique Lang (1874–1919) grew up in Dudelange in a family of well-off peasants. He began with church paintings in the Pre-Raphaelite manner, passed through Symbolism, and discovered Impressionism in Munich. His late landscapes of orchards and the banks of the Alzette, full of light, are considered the best Impressionist work produced in Luxembourg. He could not live by painting and taught drawing.29.01.1872–28.07.1941
Sosthène Weis
Sosthène Weis (1872–1941) studied civil engineering in Aachen and Munich, then designed for Luxembourg the main post office, a technical school and the headquarters of the steel company ARBED. Alongside this he painted more than five thousand watercolours: the Pétrusse and Alzette valleys, the mining towns of the south, trips to Turkey, Tunisia, Greece and Yugoslavia.17.11.1954–?
Max Kohn
The Luxembourgish artist Max Kohn studied in Namur and in Karlsruhe, where from 1975 to 1981 he worked in painting, drawing, etching, casting and sculpture in wood and stone. Since 1981 he has been a freelance artist in Luxembourg and France. He has had solo exhibitions since 1985 in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, France and Luxembourg, and his work is in the collections of Luxembourg ministries.22.09.1919–29.04.2014
Edgars Vinters
Edgars Vinters spent almost his whole life in Riga and painted Latvian landscapes, flowers and city views in oils, most often outdoors. At ten he met the pastellist Voldemārs Irbe, later studied at the Art Academy of Latvia, and after the war taught drawing at a school. He became widely known after 1991, when his work was shown in England, the United States and Germany.03.02.1869–19.12.1932
Johann Walter-Kurau
Johann Walter-Kurau, the son of a merchant in Mitau and a Baltic German mother, studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg and returned to Mitau, where he ran a private studio. In 1906 he left for Germany and began signing his work “Walter-Kurau”. In Dresden and Berlin his painting moved from realism to an Expressionist manner and, in late works, close to abstraction.1921–15.11.2020
Mahjoubi Aherdane
Mahjoubi Aherdane was born in Oulmès into a Berber family of the Atlas, studied at the military academy in Meknès and served in the French army. In 1953 he was removed as caid and took command of a unit of the Moroccan Liberation Army. In 1957 he founded the Popular Movement with Abdelkrim al-Khatib, and was later a minister for many years. He wrote poetry and prose and also painted.1958–present
Faouzi Laatiris
Faouzi Laatiris (born 1958 in Imilchil) founded the workshop “Volume and Installation” at the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tétouan in 1993 and helped train a whole generation of Moroccan artists. His own work sits between sculpture, installation, performance and public space; he has shown at the biennials in Dakar, Istanbul and Marrakech.06.11.1948–?
Neil Dawson
Neil Dawson (born 1948) climbed onto the school hall roof in the fourth form and painted “April Fool” on it in large white letters, and he regards this as the beginning of his career in public art. As an adult he made suspended sculptures of aluminium and stainless steel: “Ferns” in Wellington, “Chalice” and “Spires” in Christchurch, a globe for the Centre Pompidou.17.09.1919–09.12.2010
Alenka Gerlovič
Alenka Gerlovič (1919–2010) drew posters and leaflets as a partisan during the war and worked in the first Partisan puppet theatre. After the war she became a stage designer at the Slovene National Theatre, taught art history for many years at a Ljubljana grammar school and painted landscapes, mostly watercolours in her later years. Her book on teaching children to draw won the Levstik Award, and her painting won the Prešeren Foundation Award.29.01.1912–30.09.1996
Jozef Kostka
Jozef Kostka (1912–1996) began in the pottery workshop of a relative, studied in Prague and Paris, and in 1949 took part in founding the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. He made the Victory monument in Bratislava and the monument to the Slovak National Uprising in Partizánske, and won a silver medal at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels. Jozef Jankovič, Juraj Meliš and Marián Huba came out of his studio.01.09.1979–?
Monika Kompaníková
Monika Kompaníková studied graphic art and then painting in Bratislava, but became known as a writer. Her first book of stories came out in 2003 with the author’s own drawings, and her novel “Boat Number Five” (2010) won the Anasoft Litera Prize and was later made into a film. Her texts have been translated into more than ten languages.24.02.1956–?
Adam Szentpétery
Adam Szentpétery (born 1956) grew up in Rožňava, studied monumental painting in Bratislava and since 1999 has headed the Studio of Contemporary Image at the Faculty of Arts of the Technical University in Košice. He paints geometric abstraction built on line, colour and surface. His work has been shown in Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan; in 2007 he received the Mihály Munkácsy Prize in Budapest.22.10.1919–10.12.1997
Vincent Hložník
Vincent Hložník (1919–1997) grew up on the banks of the Váh as the eldest of five children, studied in Prague and held his first exhibition in Bratislava in 1942. His wartime graphic cycles, “Man”, “Uprising” and “Apocalypse”, made him one of the founders of modern Slovak printmaking. He illustrated hundreds of books, taught in Bratislava for twelve years and designed postage stamps.24.04.1936–22.12.1996
Mária Bartuszová
Mária Bartuszová (1936–1996) was born in Prague, studied in the ceramics and porcelain studio, and from 1963 lived and worked in Košice. Her characteristic material was white plaster, which she poured into rubber balloons and eggshells. In 1976 and 1983 she ran workshops for visually impaired and other disabled children. A major retrospective at Tate Modern in London opened twenty-six years after her death.15.02.1955–?
Chalermchai Kositpipat
Chalermchai Kositpipat began by painting cinema billboards, then decorated Wat Buddhapadipa in London, a job that took four years. Since 1997 he has been building the white temple of Wat Rong Khun in his native Chiang Rai, and construction is still going on. He received the Silpathorn Award (2004) and the title of National Artist of Thailand (2011).23.02.1920–28.10.2008
Kung Te-cheng
Kung Te-cheng was born in Qufu in February 1920, three months after his father's death, and in June of that year was named Duke Yansheng. He was the last holder of the title: in 1935 it was replaced by the post of Sacrificial Official to Confucius. Later, in Taiwan, he sat in the National Assembly, headed the Examination Yuan and taught at university for more than half a century.1975–present
Danh Võ
Danh Võ was born in Vietnam in 1975, and in 1979 his family fled in a homemade boat and was picked up by a Danish cargo ship. He builds installations from documents, photographs and other people’s belongings: a letter by an executed missionary copied out by his father, a copper Statue of Liberty in pieces, the collection of Martin Wong. Winner of the Hugo Boss Prize (2012), he lives in Berlin and Mexico City.1975–present
Ebtisam Abdulaziz
The Emirati artist Ebtisam Abdulaziz was born in Sharjah in 1975 and came to art from mathematics. For one performance she put on a black suit covered in bright green numbers and stood in the middle of a roundabout. She works with geometry and numbers, makes installations, photographs and video, and wrote about art for the magazine Al Tashkeel. She took part in the UAE pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale.21.06.1972–?
Boryana Rossa
Boryana Rossa (born in Sofia in 1972) works in performance, video and photography, often with Oleg Mavromatti under the name Ultrafuturo. She studied mural painting in Sofia and later earned a doctorate in digital art in the United States. Her performances have been shown in Berlin, New York, Amsterdam and Tallinn, and her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum and the Moscow Biennale.01.01.1932–19.09.2010