Nikoletta Kiraly, 1978 | Palette knife painter

Nikoletta Király was born in Debrecen, Hungary. Her drawing talent was recognised at a very early age.

She moved near Lake Balaton with her family in her elementary school years and finished her high school education in Keszthely.

During these years she became the student of the painter Eörs Dókus, who started her on the rocky journey of oil painting.

Joseph Caraud | Genre painter

Early in his career Joseph Caraud (1821-1905) was inspired, like many other artists, by Italy and Algeria, basing his early Salon entries on his experience in these countries.

But as his career progressed he became more interested in anecdotal, genre scenes in which elegant women in their luxurious clothing with sumptuous patterning recalled the eighteenth-century style and rendering of details found in paintings by Fragonard, Greuze, and Watteau.

Joseph Caraud was born on January 5th, 1821 in Cluny, in the Saône-et-Loire region of France.

Carl Kronberger | Genre painter

Carl Kronberger (or Karl Kronberger; March 7, 1841 – October 27, 1921) was an Austrian painter.

Carl Kronberger was born in Freistadt, Upper Austria, on March 7, 1841.

He was the son of a landlord.

In 1869 he went to Munich and received his formal training with Hermann Dyck, Hermann Anschütz and Johann Georg Hiltensperger at the Academy of Munich.

Edgar Maxence | Symbolist painter

Edgard Maxence (1871-1954) was a French Symbolist painter.

He was taught by Elie Delaunay and Gustave Moreau at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

He is a contemporary of Henri Evenepoel, Jules Flandrin, Albert Marquet, Henri Matisse, Léon Printemps, Georges Rouault and other notable alumni from this famous school.

He exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Français from 1894 until 1939, and was active on the salon's committees and juries.

Victor Dargaud | Paris painting

Victor Dargaud | The Statue of Liberty in Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi's Studio, Paris

Paul-Joseph-Victor Dargaud (1850-1921), a specialist in topographically accurate views of the fashionable boulevards of Paris, is little known today, although he exhibited at the Salon from 1873 until his death.

This painting, one of his best-known works, represents the fabrication of the Statue of Liberty.

Its sculptor, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, aspired to rival the sublime effect of such monuments as the Pyramids and the Sphinx.

Because of its scale, Bartholdi had to construct Liberty in sections, as shown in this painting of the statue’s left arm.

Although the right arm of the statue was shipped to the United States in 1876 in time for the centennial, the entire statue was not completed until 1883.

Pierre Outin | Genre painter

Pierre Outin (1840-1899) was a French 19th Century painter.

Pierre Outin's father is a wealthy trader that does not approve his son's taste for art and drawing.

Outin's inclination for art begins at the Moulins high school where he learns drawing. His father wants him "back on track" and send him working in England.

He is still under 18 at his return in Paris and is soon hired in a silk trade, to his father's satisfaction.

Outin gets emancipated in 1861 and decides to quit his job.

Émile Pierre Metzmacher | Genre painter

Émile Pierre Metzmacher (1815-1890) was a Parisian painter specialising in genre and portraiture.

A student of Boulanger, Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre and Florent Joseph Marie Willems, Metzmacher debuted at the Salon in 1863.

He obtained honourable mentions for his work in the years 1879 and 1889.

August von Kaulbach | Portrait / History painter

Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850-1920) was a German portraitist and historical painter.

He was born to a family that included several well known artists and began his studies with his father, Friedrich Kaulbach.

He then attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, where he studied with August von Kreling and Karl Raupp.

Ibrahim Kodra | Post-cubist painter

Ibrahim Likmetaj Kodra (22 April 1918 - 7 February 2006) was an Albanian painter.

Kodra was born in Ishëm (Ishmi), Albania, son of Murat and Xhixhe.

His mother died when he was young, and he did not receive adequate treatment from his stepmother.

His father was working in the Commercial Marine.

Ibrahim took art classes from Odhise Paskali during 1929, focusing on sport as well.

Livio Možina, 1941 | Realist painter

Livio Možina is an Italian painter, born in Trieste. He started painting at the age of 28 as an autodidact, and in 1971 he held his first solo exhibition.

He concentrated in particular on still life and landscapes.

His experience is very personal and has its roots in hyperrealism.