Description: James Hey Davies (1844-1930) was an English painter. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools in Manchester, then in Sweden and France. He exhibited his works from 1872. He lived in Manchester from 1889-1926. He was engaged in landscape painting and capturing scenes from the life of the peasantry. He painted views of France...
Description: Johan Frits Thaulow (1847-1906) studied at the Academy in Copenhagen and Karlsruhe. His creativity was greatly influenced by his visits to France, which encouraged him to establish the “Freilu-ftakademie” which was meant to fight against the academic painting traditions in Norway. He eventually moved to northern France and became a member of the Société...
Description: Michał Wywiórski (1861-1926) graduated from the Russian Polytechnic, then studied at the Munich Academy in the workshops of Karl Raupp, Nicolaos Gysis and Joseph Brandt and Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski. Over the years he has exhibited his works both in Poland and abroad. In his work he mainly dealt with landscape painting. He was a member...
Description: Kazimierz Sichulski (1879-1943) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In 1904, he traveled through Europe, getting acquainted with contemporary artistic trends. In 1905, he visited Huculszczyzna, which became an inspiration for his creativity. He traveled through the Carpathian meadows and willingly portrayed the local highlanders. This resulted, among other things, in...
Description: Stanisław Wyspiański (1869-1907) had a great influence on the formation of an original and recognizable style of art. His studies in Krakow with Jan Matejko, his travels, and his several-year stay in Paris with his friend Józef Mehoffer had a big hand in it. He was especially impressed by the works of Van Gogh,...
Description: Maurice Galbraith Cullen (1866-1934) studied sculpture at the National Monument in Montreal and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy and a lecturer at the Art Association school in Montreal. As a Canadian artist, he was fascinated by the winter landscape, which often appeared in...
Description: Fernand-Marie-Eugène Legout-Gérard (1856-1924) was a French painter. He studied graphics at the Académie Julian in Paris. However, he directed his creativity towards oil painting. He immortalized mainly ports, coasts and scenes from the lives of fishermen living in Brittany. He was a member of the Société des Artistes Français and the Société Nationale des...
Description: François-Joseph Guiguet (1860-1937) was a French painter, draftsman and lithographer. He studied under the landscape painter August Ravier, then with Michael Dumas at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, and later in Paris with Alexandre Cabanel, Puvis de Chavannes, Paul Gauguin and Edouard Degas, with whom he became friends. He exhibited at the Paris...
Description: Henri-Jean-Guillaume Martin (1860-1943) was a French painter. In 1879, after winning the Grand Prix École des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, he moved to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Fascinated by Veronese and other Venetian painters, in 1885 he took a trip to Italy, which influenced his artistic path. Upon his return, he...
Description: Charles Billon (mentioned in Paris from 1897-1910), a lesser-known Swiss artist born in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Mentioned in Paris from 1897-1910, where he exhibited at the Salon Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1897-1910. He mainly painted portraits, but his work also included genre scenes and landscapes. Description of the painting: A shapely head with elongated...
Description: Jack Malczewski (1854-1929) had a great love for art and romantic literature, particularly the poetry of Juliusz Słowacki, which he inherited from his family. He came from a szlachta family, albeit not wealthy. His father Julian supported him in his artistic career. The events of 1863, the January Uprising and subsequent repression, left a...
Description: Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942) came from a family of doctors, his parents and grandparents were well-known psychiatrists. At the age of 19 he decided to become a painter and although he did not finish any art school he was educated alongside Henri Gervex, who gave him private artistic advice. He introduced him to the circle...
