18.04.1858–18.02.1923
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01.03.1933–01.06.2010
Roger Manderscheid
Roger Manderscheid (1933–2010) wrote poems, radio plays, stage plays and novels in Luxembourgish and German. He is best known for a trilogy about the war and the postwar years, whose first volume, “Schacko Klak”, was made into a film in 1989. For many years he headed the Luxembourg Writers’ Union, and in 1990 and 1992 he won the Batty Weber and Servais prizes.31.12.1892–23.10.1980
Auguste Trémont
The Luxembourger Auguste Trémont studied in Paris, could not get back there during the First World War, and worked as a draughtsman at a steelworks in Dudelange. He found his subject in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris and from 1924 modelled big cats. His two lions stand at the entrance to Luxembourg City Hall, and a steelworker from his drawing decorated the 1 and 2 franc coins.19.12.1942–?
Bettina Scholl-Sabbatini
Bettina Scholl-Sabbatini was born in 1942 in Esch-sur-Alzette into a sculptor’s family and studied in Florence and Paris. She works in bronze, stone and clay and made furnishings for churches and chapels in Luxembourg. Through the charitable organisation Soroptimist International she became connected with Rwanda, where she took part in projects after the Tutsi genocide; in 2010 Rwanda showed her works at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.25.01.1879–10.08.1947
Antonio Sciortino
Antonio Sciortino lived in Rome for more than thirty years and from there received commissions for monuments in Malta, Russia and Latin America. His “Les Gavroches” of 1904, after Hugo, is regarded as his first success, and his monument to the Great Siege of 1565 has stood in Valletta since 1927. In 1936 he returned home and worked in the museum until his death.11.04.1958–01.12.2006
Ali Khan Samsudin
The Malaysian Ali Khan Samsudin earned the nickname “Snake King” through a feat in the early 1990s: he lived in a small room with four hundred cobras for twelve hours a day over forty days. He was later called the “Scorpion King” as well, after spending 21 days in a glass enclosure with six thousand scorpions, a feat that entered the Guinness Book of World Records. He died in Kuala Lumpur in 2006.05.05.1869–14.12.1937
Fabián de la Rosa
Fabián de la Rosa (1869–1937) grew up in a Manila family of artists and could draw before he could write. In 1904 his “Transplanting Rice” won a gold award at the exposition in St. Louis, and “The Death of General Lawton” a bronze one there. From 1927 he directed the School of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines; his nephew and pupil was Fernando Amorsolo.26.01.1930–16.02.2018
Napoleon Abueva
Napoleon Abueva (1930–2018), a native of the island of Bohol, worked in hardwood, marble, bronze, cement and coral, and became the youngest person ever named National Artist of the Philippines: he was forty-six in 1976. He made the gateway of the University of the Philippines and the Sandugo shrine in Tagbilaran, and in 1980 he was the first Filipino artist to hold a solo show in New York.26.03.1947–?
Manuel Baldemor
Manuel Baldemor was born in 1947 in the town of Paete in the Philippines and has painted it all his life: its people, festivals and everyday tasks, simplified into geometric forms with a touch of folk art. He has produced hundreds of works in many media, a glass mosaic in the Basilica of St. Thérèse in Lisieux, and more than a hundred exhibitions. UNICEF issues greeting cards with his pictures.10.04.1942–?
Benedicto Cabrera
Benedicto Cabrera, who signs his work “BenCab” (born 1942), grew up in Malabon as the youngest of nine children and studied fine arts at the University of the Philippines. For more than ten years he worked in London, where he took up etching and created the Larawan and Sabel series. He has lived in Baguio since the 1980s, and in 2006 he was named a National Artist of the Philippines.22.01.1910–22.08.1981
Vicente Manansala
Vicente Manansala (1910–1981) grew up in the province of Pampanga, sold newspapers and shined shoes as a boy, and later became one of the “Thirteen Moderns” and a National Artist of the Philippines. He developed what is called transparent cubism, in which figures and setting are laid over one another in light layers. His best-known works are “Madonna of the Slums” and “Jeepneys”.1970–present
Shadia Alem
Shadia Alem was born in Mecca, spent her childhood in Taif and graduated from King Abdulaziz University in art and English literature. In 2011, with her sister, the writer Raja Alem, she showed the installation “The Black Arch” in Saudi Arabia’s first pavilion at the Venice Biennale. She lives and works between Paris and Jeddah.1987–present
Dana Awartani
Dana Awartani was born in Jeddah in 1987 and trained in London in the traditional arts: stained glass, miniature painting, gilding and, later, manuscript illumination. She works with geometric pattern, tile-work and parquetry, painting, video and sand. Her work is in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington and the British Museum.15.01.1953–?
Fahda bint Saud Al Saud
Fahda bint Saud, a daughter of King Saud, studied political science in Beirut and London, then art in Paris under the Iraqi artist Issam Al Said, a specialist in Islamic geometric patterns. She painted watercolours and took part in exhibitions on the position of women in the Islamic world; in 2008 one of her works was shown in Melbourne. She heads the Al Faisaliyya Women's Welfare Society in Jeddah and the King Saud Library.06.09.1933–15.07.2016
Janez Bernik
Janez Bernik studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana under Maksim Sedej, then took up printmaking with Božidar Jakac and Riko Debenjak. From 1970 he taught at the same academy and headed its painting department. He worked in painting, printmaking, illustration and woven wall hangings, and wrote poetry. In 1981 he received the Prešeren Award, the main Slovenian prize in the arts.17.12.1927–17.06.2022
Marlenka Stupica
Marlenka Stupica (née Muck) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1950 and almost at once devoted herself to illustration. She illustrated more than a hundred children's books, from fairy tales by Andersen and the Brothers Grimm to Astrid Lindgren, and worked with the publishing house Mladinska knjiga and the magazine Ciciban. She won the Levstik Award six times and in 2013 received the Prešeren Award.22.12.1947–11.01.2025
Zora Palová
Zora Palová worked with glass as a sculptural material: she modelled in clay, made a mould from the model and melted glass into it, getting now massive blocks, now thin, fragile details. Her eight-metre sculpture “Guardian” stands in The Hague, and from 1996 to 2003 she taught at the University of Sunderland. In 2008 she received the Rakow Commission from the Corning Museum of Glass.05.08.1966–?
Roman Ondak
Roman Ondak (born 1966) grew up in Žilina, studied in Bratislava and became known for installations in which the viewer becomes a participant: in “Measuring the Universe” visitors to the exhibition marked their height on a wall. His work has been shown at the Venice Biennale and at documenta 13, and is held by Tate, the Centre Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2018 he received the Lovis Corinth Prize.1956–present
Pavol Demeš
Pavol Demeš (born 1956) began as a biomedical researcher and in 1991–1992 became Minister of International Relations of the Slovak Republic. He then headed civic and policy organisations, and since the mid-1990s he has photographed extensively: his exhibitions have been shown in Bratislava, Tokyo, Prague, Rome and other cities.23.10.1933–25.09.2025
Juraj Bartusz
Juraj Bartusz (1933–2025) made time-space sculptures of bent and cast aluminium from the mid-1960s, and in 1972 began working with computer-generated curves together with a programmer. In the 1980s he threw bricks into setting plaster. He lived and worked in Košice, and his works are in the Albertina, the Slovak National Gallery and museums in Budapest.26.07.1957–?
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
The Thai artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook read poems and sang over the bodies of the dead in hospital morgues, and then made a series of videos about it. She studied printmaking in Bangkok and sculpture in Braunschweig, and teaches in Chiang Mai. She represented Thailand at the 2005 Venice Biennale and took part in dOCUMENTA (13).27.09.1939–03.09.2014
Thawan Duchanee
Thawan Duchanee (1939–2014), a native of Chiang Rai, studied in Bangkok among the last students of Silpa Bhirasri, and then in Amsterdam. He painted black-and-white Buddhist subjects, including a Ramayana series, and built the Black House in his home region, where he lived and kept a collection of folk art. In 2001 he was named a National Artist of Thailand.05.05.1984–?
Aditayadorn Kitikhun
Princess Aditayadorn Kitikhun, the younger daughter of Princess Chulabhorn, completed a design degree in Bangkok and wrote her thesis on redesigning the packaging of agricultural products from the royal Chitralada project. She designs brochures and posters, creates patterns for shirts and bags sold to raise money for temple restoration, and runs a model farming project in Surin province.30.03.1939–?