Sanford Robinson Gifford | Hudson River School

Sanford Robinson Gifford was born in Greenfield, New York, in 1823. He attended Brown University from 1842-1844 and moved to New York City in 1845 where he studied drawing, perspective and anatomy under the direction of the British watercolorist and drawing-master, John R. Smith. He also studied the human figure in anatomy classes at the Crosby Street Medical college and took drawing classes at the National Academy of Design. In 1846 he visited the Berkshire Hills and the Catskill Mountains, sketching from nature.

Fabio Hurtado, 1960

Fabio Hurtado is a Spanish-Italian painter and photographer, with an unmistakable style.

His paintings recreate scenes in an almost cinematographic context which are set within the 1920's and 1930's.

His exquisite drawing skills and harmonious use of color are complementary to the overall sense of mystery surrounding his stylish and elegant characters and the roles they play in his paintings.

Franz Richard Unterberger | Romantic landscape painter

Austrian painter Franz Richard Unterberger [1838-1902], a Romantic style painter of waterscapes, landscapes, architecture and Genre, was born in Innsbruck, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on 15th August 1838, one of eleven children of a wealthy bourgeois family. He decided to pursue a career as an artist at a relatively young age and enrolled in the Academy in Munich. Here he studied with Albert Zimmerman [1808-1888] a professor and landscape painter at the Academy and with Julius Lange [1817-1878]. It was as a painter of Alpine landscapes that Unterberger first drew recognition, views particularly set in his native Tyrol. In 1860 Unterberger continued his studies in Düsseldorf; in what was to be a particularly significant period he was much taken by the work of Oswald Aschenbach [1827-1905] a landscape painter and his brother Andreas [1815-1910] also a landscape painter who worked extensively in Scandinavia before moving to Italy in the 1870’s.

Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | Quotes /Aforismi

'Prendo in prestito dei corpi e degli oggetti, li dipingo per ricordare a me stesso la magia dell'equilibrio che regola l'universo tutto. In questa magia l'anima mia risuona dell'Unico Suono che mi riporta a Dio'.

Andre Dluhos, 1940

Quasi 70 anni di esperienza artistica professionale, Andre Dluhos presenta uno stile audace, a spatola, con una trama pesante e una versione decisamente moderna dello stile impressionista.

Andre Dluhos è nato nella Cecoslovacchia orientale, l'attuale Slovacchia. Andre ha iniziato a dipingere all'età di otto anni.

A quattordici anni vinse il suo primo concorso artistico tra i 400 iscritti della regione.