John Ottis Adams | Impressionist painter

The Landscape painter John Ottis Adams [1851-1927] was born in Amity, Indiana, a small town south of Indianapolis. He attended Wabash College in 1871, but left a year later for the South Kensington Art School in London to study under John Parker. Adams returned to Indiana in 1876, eventually settling in Muncie.
In 1880 Adams returned to Europe, traveling to the Royal Academy in Munich to study with Gyula Benczúr. In Munich, Adams met two other painters from Indiana, Theodore Clement (T. C.) Steele and William Forsyth. After seven years in Munich, Adams returned to Muncie and opened an art school there with Forsyth. Adams also taught classes in Union City and Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Gustave Moreau | Symbolist painter

Gustave Moreau, (Paris, 1826-1898), French Symbolist painter known for his erotic paintings of mythological and religious subjects.

The only influence that really affected Moreau’s development was that of his master, Théodore Chassériau (1819-56), an eclectic painter whose depictions of enigmatic sea goddesses deeply impressed his student.

In the Salon of 1853 he exhibited Scene from the Song of Songs and the Death of Darius, both conspicuously under the influence of Chassériau.

Albert Marquet | Fauve painter

Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 - 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement.

He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse.

Marquet subsequently painted in a more Naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910-1914, several female paintings.

Zbigniew Kopania, 1949 | Still Life/Landscape painter

Zbigniew Kopania Henry was born in Lodz, Poland. Having graduated from secondary schools in 1969, he became a student at the state theatrical, television, and film college, the Faculty of Camera-Works. Included among its distinguished alumni is Roman Polanski.
Together with film and photographic activities, he cultivated paintings in the department of Art. The early stage of his painting was under the guidance of Dr. K. Zwolinska and J. Mierzejewski, a renowned painter in Poland and abroad.

Domenico Morelli | Symbolist painter

Domenico Morelli (1823-1901) was an Italian painter, who mainly produced historical and religious works.

Morelli was immensely influential in the arts of the second half of the 19th century, both as director of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples, but also because of his rebelliousness against institutions: traits that flourished into the passionate, often patriotic, Romantic and later Symbolist subjects of his canvases.