100 Notable alumni of
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
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The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich is 255th in the world, 89th in Europe, and 16th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Wassily Kandinsky
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- art theoristsculptorteacherdraftspersonscenographer
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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated from Odessa Art School. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession, he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia). Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.
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Edvard Munch
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- draftspersongraphic artistprintmakerarchitectural draftspersonpainter
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Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of Western art's most acclaimed images.
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Paul Klee
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- graphic artistpainterdraftspersonprintmakeruniversity teacher
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Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting was for the Renaissance. He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture in Germany. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
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Alphonse Mucha
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
- Studied in 1884-1887
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- lithographergraphic designerteacherjewelry designergraphic artist
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Alfons Maria Mucha, known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, he was widely known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, as well as designs, which became among the best-known images of the period.
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Giorgio de Chirico
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- draftspersonscenographerjewelry designerwriterpainter
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Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His best-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective. His imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and of Friedrich Nietzsche, and for the mythology of his birthplace.
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Franz Marc
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- graphic artistvisual artistprintmakerpainterillustrator
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Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.
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Jan Matejko
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- 1838-1893 (aged 55)
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Jan Alojzy Matejko was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings such as Stańczyk (1862), Rejtan (1866), Union of Lublin (1869), Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873), or Battle of Grunwald (1878). He was the author of numerous portraits, a gallery of Polish monarchs in book form, and murals in St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków. He is considered by many as the most celebrated Polish painter, and sometimes as the "national painter" of Poland.
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Josef Albers
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- photographerglass artistsculptorpainterprintmaker
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Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States. Born in 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, into a Roman Catholic family with a background in craftsmanship, Albers received practical training in diverse skills like engraving glass, plumbing, and wiring during his childhood. He later worked as a schoolteacher from 1908 to 1913 and received his first public commission in 1918 and moved to Munich in 1919.
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Gottfried Keller
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- poetnovelistpainterwriterchancery manager
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Gottfried Keller was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel Green Henry (German: Der grüne Heinrich) and his cycle of novellas called Seldwyla Folks (Die Leute von Seldwyla), he became one of the most popular narrators of literary realism in the late 19th century.
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Theodor Kittelsen
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- cartoonistpainterillustrator
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Theodor Severin Kittelsen was a Norwegian artist. He is one of the most popular artists in Norway. Kittelsen became famous for his nature paintings, as well as for his illustrations of fairy tales and legends, especially of trolls.
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Alfred Kubin
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- photographeretcherpainterdraftspersonwriter
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Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin was an Austrian artist, printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism.
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Lovis Corinth
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- draftspersonscenic designeruniversity teacherpainterlithographer
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Lovis Corinth was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.
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Mihály Munkácsy
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- painter
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Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.
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Franz Stuck
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- graphic artistpainterarchitectuniversity teachersculptor
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Franz Ritter von Stuck, born Franz Stuck, was a German painter, sculptor, printmaker, and architect. Stuck was best known for his paintings of ancient mythology, receiving substantial critical acclaim with The Sin in 1892. In 1906, Stuck was awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and was henceforth known as Ritter von Stuck.
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Albert Chmielowski
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- painterreligious
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Albert Chmielowski - born Adam Hilary Bernard Chmielowski - was a Polish Franciscan tertiary, painter, and disabled veteran of the Uprising of 1863. He was founder of both the Albertine Brothers and Albertine Sisters who are servants of the homeless and destitute.
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Otl Aicher
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- graphic artistgraphic designersculptordesigneruniversity teacher
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Otto "Otl" Aicher was a German graphic designer and typographer. Aicher co-founded and taught at the influential Ulm School of Design. He is known for having led the design team of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, and for overseeing the creation of its prominently used system of pictograms. Aicher also developed the Rotis typeface.
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John Collier
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- writerpainterscreenwriter
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John Maler Collier OBE ROI RP was a British painter and writer. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both of his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was educated at Eton College, and he studied painting in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and at the Munich Academy starting in 1875.
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Wojciech Kossak
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- graphic artistpaintertypographer
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Wojciech Horacy Kossak was a Polish painter and member of the celebrated Kossak family of artists and writers. He was the son of painter Juliusz Kossak, and twin brother of freedom fighter Tadeusz Kossak, and the father of two highly talented literary daughters, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska and Magdalena Samozwaniec and of a painter son, Jerzy Kossak.
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Jörg Immendorff
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- graphic artistpainterlithographerdraftspersonuniversity teacher
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Jörg Immendorff was a German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor. He was a member of the art movement Neue Wilde.
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Zofia Stryjeńska
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- graphic artistpaintergraphic designerscenographervisual artist
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Zofia Stryjeńska was a Polish painter, graphic designer, illustrator, stage designer, and a representative of art deco. Along with Olga Boznańska and Tamara de Lempicka, she was one of the best-known Polish women artists of the interwar period. In the 1930s she was nominated for the prestigious Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature, but declined the offer.
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Elmyr de Hory
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- art forgerpainter
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Elmyr de Hory was a famed Hungarian-born painter and art forger. It is claimed he was responsible for producing over a thousand forgeries that were sold to reputable art galleries all over the world. His activities garnered celebrity from a Clifford Irving book, Fake (1969), and a documentary essay film by Orson Welles, F for Fake (1974).
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Józef Chełmoński
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- painter
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Józef Marian Chełmoński was a Polish painter of the realist school with roots in the historical and social context of the late Romantic period in partitioned Poland. He is famous for monumental paintings now at the Sukiennice National Art Gallery in Kraków and at the MNW in Warsaw.
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Otto Mueller
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- graphic artistpainterlithographeruniversity teacherteacher
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Otto Müller was a German painter and printmaker of the Die Brücke expressionist movement.
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Leonid Pasternak
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- printmakerpaintervisual artist
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Leonid Osipovich Pasternak was a Russian painter. He was the father of the poet and novelist Boris Pasternak.
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Ștefan Luchian
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- watercoloristpainterpastellist
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Ștefan Luchian was a Romanian painter, famous for his landscapes and still life works.
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William Merritt Chase
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- photographerpainter
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William Merritt Chase was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later became the Parsons School of Design.
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Aleksander Gierymski
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- painter
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Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski was a Polish painter of the late 19th century, the younger brother of Maksymilian Gierymski. He was a representative of Realism as well as an important precursor of Impressionism in Poland.
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Stanisław Witkiewicz
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- architectwriterpainterart critic
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Stanisław Witkiewicz was a Polish painter, art theoretician, and amateur architect, known for his creation of "Zakopane Style".
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Max Slevogt
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- draftspersongraphic artistteacherpainterillustrator
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Max Slevogt was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator, best known for his landscapes. He was, together with Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann, one of the foremost representatives in Germany of the plein air style.
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Franz von Lenbach
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- photographeruniversity teacherpainter
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Franz Seraph Lenbach, after 1882, Ritter von Lenbach, was a German painter known primarily for his portraits of prominent personalities from the nobility, the arts, and industry. Because of his standing in society, he was often referred to as the "Malerfürst" (Painter Prince).
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Nikolaos Gyzis
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- visual artistuniversity teacherteacherpainterart educator
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Nikolaos Gyzis is considered one of Greece's most important 19th century painters. He was most famous for his work Eros and the Painter, his first genre painting. It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928. He was the major representative of the Munich School, the major 19th-century Greek art movement.
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Christian Schad
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- artistgraphic artistphotographerpaintercollagist
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Christian Schad was a German painter and photographer. He was associated with the Dada and the New Objectivity movements. Considered as a group, Schad's portraits form an extraordinary record of life in Vienna and Berlin in the years following World War I.
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Pál Szinyei Merse
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
- Studied in 1869
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- painterpolitician
- Biography
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Pál Szinyei Merse was a Hungarian painter and art educator.
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
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- painter
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach was a German painter and social reformer.
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Franz Roubaud
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- watercoloristuniversity teacherpainter
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Franz Roubaud was a Russian painter of French origin who created some of the largest and best known panoramic paintings. He created circular paintings, exposed on a cylindrical surface and viewed from the inside at a lookout point. His paintings were often believed to reproduce the original scene with high fidelity.
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Yannoulis Chalepas
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- sculptor
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Yannoulis Chalepas was a Greek sculptor and a significant figure of Modern Greek art.
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Julian Fałat
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- watercoloristlandscape paintertravelerteacherpainter
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Julian Fałat was one of the most prolific Polish watercolorists, one of the country's foremost landscapists, and a leading impressionist.
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Mykhaylo Boychuk
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- painter
- Biography
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Mykhailo Lvovych Boychuk was a Ukrainian monumentalist and modernist painter. He is considered a representative of the generation of the Executed Renaissance.
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Józef Brandt
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- painter
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Józef Brandt was a Polish painter best known for his paintings of battles in Polish history.
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Nicolae Tonitza
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- graphic artistjournalistpaintercaricaturistlithographer
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Nicolae Tonitza was a Romanian painter, engraver, lithographer, journalist and art critic. Drawing inspiration from Post-Impressionism and Expressionism, he had a major role in introducing modernist guidelines to local art.
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Ludwig Emil Grimm
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- university teacherpainterprintmakerillustrator
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Ludwig Emil Grimm was a German painter, art professor, etcher and copper engraver.
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Wilhelm Leibl
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- graphic artistpainterdraftsperson
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Wilhelm Maria Hubertus Leibl was a German realist painter of portraits and scenes of peasant life.
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Cuno Amiet
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- paintergraphic designersculptorprintmaker
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Cuno Amiet was a Swiss painter, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor. As the first Swiss painter to give precedence to colour in composition, he was a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland.
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Karl Amadeus Hartmann
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- composer
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Karl Amadeus Hartmann was a German composer. A major figure of the musical life of post-war Germany, he has been described as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century.
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Solomon Joseph Solomon
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- visual artistpainterengineerillustrator
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Solomon Joseph Solomon RA RBA was a British painter, a founding member of the New English Art Club and member of the Royal Academy.
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Gabriel von Max
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- university teacherpainterteacherpedagogue
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Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max was a Prague-born Austrian painter, and professor of history painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He was also a collector of anthropological artifacts.
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Vardges Sureniants
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- graphic artistlinguistart theoristtranslatorpainter
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Vardges Sureniants was an Armenian painter, sculptor, illustrator, translator, art critic, and theater artist. He is considered the founder of Armenian historical painting. His paintings feature scenes from Armenian fairy-tales and various historical events. Although Sureniants had only one exhibition dedicated to his works in his lifetime, he was admired by many of his contemporaries who include many well-known figures in Armenian and Russian society such as Martiros Saryan, Ilya Repin, and Vladimir Stasov.
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
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- painter
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim was a German painter who is often regarded as the first Jewish painter of the modern era. His work was influenced by his cultural and religious roots at a time when many of his German Jewish contemporaries chose to convert to Christianity. Oppenheim is considered by the scholar Ismar Schorsch to be in sympathy with the ideals of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement, because he remained "fair to the present" without denying his past.
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Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov
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- paintersculptor
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Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov was a Soviet sculptor-monumentalist of Greek-Armenian descent. He was a People's Artist of the USSR in visual arts, an academic at the Soviet Academy of Arts, and director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts from 1944 to 1949. Merkurov was considered the greatest Soviet master of post-mortem masks. He was the sculptor of the three biggest monuments of Joseph Stalin in the USSR.
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Thomas Demand
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- photographersculptor
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Thomas Cyrill Demand is a German sculptor and photographer. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, and teaches at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg. He makes photographs of three-dimensional models that look like real images of rooms and other spaces, often sites loaded with social and political meanings. Demand thus describes himself not as a photographer, but as a conceptual artist for whom photography is an intrinsic part of his creative process.
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Franz Hanfstaengl
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- photographervisual artistpainterlithographer
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Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl was a Bavarian painter, lithographer, and photographer.
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Teodor Axentowicz
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- graphic artistpainter
- Biography
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Teodor Axentowicz was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor. He was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. As an artist, Axentowicz was famous for his portraits and scenes of Hutsul life, set in the Carpathians.
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László Mednyánszky
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
- Studied in 1873
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- graphic designerpainter
- Biography
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Baron László Mednyánszky, also known by his Latinized name Ladislaus Josephus Balthasar Eustachius Mednyánszky, was a Slovak–Hungarian painter and philosopher, considered one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of Hungarian art. Despite an aristocratic background, he spent most of his life moving around Europe working as an artist. Mednyánszky spent considerable periods in seclusion but mingled with people across society – in the aristocracy, art world, peasantry and army – many of whom became the subjects of his paintings. His most important works depict scenes of nature and poor, working people, particularly from his home region in the Kingdom of Hungary. He is also known as a painter of scenes from Upper Hungarian/Slovak folklore.
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Karl von Piloty
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- university teacherpainterlithographerteacher
- Biography
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Karl Theodor von Piloty was a German painter, noted for his historical subjects, and recognised as the foremost representative of the realistic school in Germany.
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Franz Defregger
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- professorpainterteacher
- Biography
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Franz Defregger was an Austrian artist known for producing genre art and history paintings set in his native county of Tyrol.
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Fernando Fader
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- painter
- Biography
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Fernando Fader was a French-born Argentine painter of the Post-Impressionist school.
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Fritz von Uhde
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- painteruniversity teacherhistory paintermilitary personnelgenre painter
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Fritz von Uhde was a German painter of genre and religious subjects. His style lay in-between Realism and Impressionism, he was once known as "Germany's outstanding impressionist" and he became one of the first painters to introduce plein-air painting in his country.
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Elisabet Ney
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- artistsculptor
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Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Ney was a German-American sculptor who spent the first half of her life and career in Europe, producing portraits of famous leaders such as Otto von Bismarck, Giuseppe Garibaldi and King George V of Hanover. At age 39, she immigrated to Texas with her husband, Edmund Montgomery, and became a pioneer in the development of art there. Among her most famous works during her Texas period were life-size marble figures of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin, commissions for the Texas State Capitol. A large group of her works are housed in the Elisabet Ney Museum, located in her home and studio in Austin. Other works can be found in the United States Capitol, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and numerous collections in Germany.
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Eduard von Grützner
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- teacherpainter
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Eduard Theodor Ritter von Grützner was a German painter and professor of art. He was especially noted for his genre paintings of monks. He also repeatedly depicted Falstaff.
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Gyula Benczúr
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
- Studied in 1861-1865
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- draftspersongraphic artistuniversity teacherpainterartist
- Biography
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Gyula Benczúr was a Hungarian painter and art teacher. An "outstanding exponent of academicism", he specialized in portraits and historical scenes. He is "considered one of the greatest Hungarian masters of historicism".
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Eugeniusz Kazimirowski
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- paintericonographer
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Eugeniusz Marcin Kazimirowski was a Polish painter, and member of the realism movement. He is best known for the first depiction of the Divine Mercy image in 1934, based on a request from Faustyna Kowalska and her confessor Michael Sopoćko.
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Nikiforos Lytras
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- painterfaculty member
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Nikiforos Lytras was a Greek painter. He was born in Tinos and trained in Athens at the School of Arts. In 1860, he won a scholarship to Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. After completing these studies, he became a professor at the School of Arts in 1866, a position he held for the rest of his life. He remained faithful to the precepts and principles of the Munich School, while paying greatest attention both to ethnographic themes and portraiture. His most famous portrait was of the royal couple, Otto and Amalia, and his most well-known landscape a depiction of the region of Lavrio.
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Ulrike Ottinger
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- video artistscreenwriterphotographerfilmmakerfilm director
- Biography
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Ulrike Ottinger is a German filmmaker and photographer.
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Günther Förg
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- draftspersonprintmakeruniversity teacherillustratorwatercolorist
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Günther Förg was a German painter, graphic designer, sculptor and photographer. His style was influenced by American abstract painting.
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Lucian Bernhard
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- photographerpaintergraphic designerlithographerartist
- Biography
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Lucian Bernhard was a German graphic designer, type designer, professor, interior designer, and artist during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Georgios Jakobides
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- university teachercuratorpaintermedalist
- Biography
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Georgios Jakobides was a Greek painter and medallist, one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens.
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Maksymilian Gierymski
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- painterlandscape painter
- Biography
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Maksymilian Dionizy Gierymski was a Polish painter, specializing mainly in watercolours. He was the older brother of painter Aleksander Gierymski.
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Bruno Paul
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- photographerdraftspersongraphic designercaricaturistillustrator
- Biography
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Bruno Paul was a German architect, illustrator, interior designer, and furniture designer.
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Walter Trier
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- humoristpaintercaricaturistdraftspersonwriter
- Biography
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Walter Trier was a Czech-German illustrator, best known for his work for the children's books of Erich Kästner and the covers of the magazine Lilliput.
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Anton Ažbe
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- painterart educator
- Biography
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Anton Ažbe was a Slovene realist painter and teacher of painting. Ažbe, crippled since birth and orphaned at the age of eight, learned painting as an apprentice to Janez Wolf and at the Academies in Vienna and Munich. At the age of 30, Ažbe founded his own school of painting in Munich that became a popular attraction for Eastern European students. Ažbe trained the "big four" Slovenian impressionists (Rihard Jakopič, Ivan Grohar, Matej Sternen, Matija Jama), a whole generation of Russian painters (Ivan Bilibin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Igor Grabar, Wassily Kandinsky, Dmitry Kardovsky and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, to name a few), Serbian painters Nadežda Petrović, Beta Vukanović, Ljubomir Ivanović, Borivoje Stevanović, Kosta Miličević, and Milan Milovanović or a Czech painter Ludvik Kuba.
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Thomas Theodor Heine
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- graphic designergraphic artistcaricaturistwriterpainter
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Thomas Theodor Heine was a German painter, illustrator and cartoonist. Born in Leipzig, Heine established himself as a gifted caricaturist at an early age, which led to him studying art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and, briefly, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
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Benjamin Heisenberg
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
- 1995-1999 graduated with Diplom in sculpture
- Occupations
- visual artistscreenwriternovelistfilm directoreditor
- Biography
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Benjamin Heisenberg is a German film director and screenwriter. He has directed sixteen films since 1995. His film Schläfer was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film, The Robber, was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Nicolae Teclu
- Occupations
- university teacherchemistarchitect
- Biography
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Nicolae Teclu; (11 October 1839, Kronstadt, Austrian Empire (today Brașov, Romania) – 13 July 1916, Vienna, Austria-Hungary) was a Romanian chemist, who gave his name to the worldwide-used "Teclu burner". He studied engineering and architecture, and then chemistry, continuing his career by becoming professor for general and analytical chemistry in Vienna. He also contributed substantially to the worldwide development of chemistry.
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Ivan Mrkvička
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- painterpoetteacher
- Biography
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Ivan Mrkvička was an Austrian Empire-born painter and an active contributor to the artistic life of newly independent Bulgaria in the late 19th and early 20th century. He is regarded as one of the founders of the modern Bulgarian fine art tradition.
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Friedrich von Gärtner
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- general contractoruniversity teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Friedrich von Gärtner was a German architect.
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Theodor Pallady
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- painter
- Biography
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Theodor Pallady was a Romanian painter.
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Octav Băncilă
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- painteractivist
- Biography
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Octav Băncilă was a Romanian realist painter and left-wing activist. He was the brother of Sofia Nădejde, a feminist journalist, and the brother-in-law of Ioan Nădejde (an atheist and socialist thinker, editor of the magazine Contemporanul).
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John Henry Twachtman
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- graphic artistpainter
- Biography
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John Henry Twachtman was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American Impressionism to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation. He was a member of "The Ten," a loosely-allied group of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who banded together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a stylistically unified group.
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Stefan Szczesny
- Occupations
- photographerceramicistpaintersculptor
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Stefan Szczesny is a German painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is best known for co-founding the Neue Wilde movement in the early 1980s.
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Hallgrímur Helgason
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- screenwriterpainterwritercaricaturistplaywright
- Biography
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Hallgrímur Helgason is an Icelandic painter, novelist, translator, and columnist.
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Richard Lindner
- Occupations
- graphic artistpainteruniversity teacherdesignerillustrator
- Biography
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Richard Lindner was a German-American painter.
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Frank Duveneck
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- painteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Frank Duveneck was an American figure and portrait painter.
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Paul Flora
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- graphic artistauthorcomics artistwriterpostage stamp designer
- Biography
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Paul Flora was an Austrian caricaturist, graphic artist, and illustrator, known for his black ink line drawings. "Flora was one of Europe's most profiled illustrators since the 1960s. He worked for British newspapers The Times and The Observer as well as for Germany's Die Zeit".
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Wilhelm Trübner
- Occupations
- university teacherlandscape painterpaintergenre painterhistory painter
- Biography
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Wilhelm Trübner was a German realist painter of the circle of Wilhelm Leibl.
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Viktor Oliva
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- portraitistpainterediting stafftypographervisual artist
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Viktor Oliva was a Czech painter and illustrator.
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Peter von Hess
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- graphic artistpainterbattle painter
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Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess was a German painter, known for historic paintings, especially of the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence.
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Konstantinos Volanakis
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- teacherpainter
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Konstantinos Volanakis was a Greek painter. He is known as one of the greatest Greek seascape painters.
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Eilif Peterssen
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- painterdraftsperson
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Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter. He is most commonly associated with his landscapes and portraits. He gained early recognition for the history painting Christian II signing the Death Warrant of Torben Oxe and established himself as one of Norway's foremost portrait painters, with portraits of, among others, Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Grieg. He also became known for his landscape paintings, and became part of the artist circle known as the Skagen Painters. He also became known for his design in 1905 of Norway's national coat of arms with the Norwegian lion, which was used by the government and the royal house. The design is still used in the royal coat of arms and the royal flag.
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Simon Hollósy
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- painter
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Simon Hollósy was a Hungarian painter. He was considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th-century Naturalism and Realism.
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Hans am Ende
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- graphic artistsculptorpainter
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Hans am Ende was a German Impressionist painter.
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Joža Uprka
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- folkloristgraphic artistvisual artistpaintergraphic designer
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Joža Uprka was a Czech painter and graphic artist whose work combines elements of Impressionism and Art Nouveau to document the folklife of Southern Moravia.
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Osip Braz
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- paintervisual artistdraftsperson
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Osip Emmanuilovich Braz was a Ukrainian-Jewish realist painter.
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Katarina Ivanović
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- painter
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Katarina Ivanović was a Serbian painter from the Austrian Empire. She is regarded as the first Serbian female painter in modern art history.
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Władysław Czachórski
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- painter
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Władysław Czachórski was a Polish painter in the Academic style.
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Alberto da Veiga Guignard
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- painterdraftsperson
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Alberto da Veiga Guignard also known as Alberto Guignard or Guignard was a Brazilian painter who became renowned for his depictions of the landscapes of Minas Gerais.
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Otto Ubbelohde
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- landscape painterpainterillustrator
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Otto Ubbelohde was a German painter, etcher and illustrator.
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Gabriel von Seidl
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- architect
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Gabriel von Seidl was a German architect and a representative of the historicist style of architecture.
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Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski
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- painter
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Alfred Jan Maksymilian Kowalski was a Polish painter and representative of the Munich School.
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Anna Stainer-Knittel
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
- Studied in 1859-1863
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- painter
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Anna Stainer-Knittel was an Austrian portrait and flower painter. An incident from her life served as the basis for the novel Die Geier-Wally by Wilhelmine von Hillern; an early example of feminist literature.
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Edward Henry Potthast
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- artistpainterillustrator
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Edward Henry Potthast was an American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England.
