Javad Soleimanpour, 1965 | Still Life painting

The pastel painter Javad Soleimanpour is an Iranian painter born in 1965, Tebriz.

Javad Soleimanpour burst upon the pastel scene in April 2009 when he won first place in the Landscape and Interior category in that year’s Pastel 100.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Soleimanpour see Javad Soleimanpour, 1965 | Portrait and Plein Air painting.

Javad Soleimanpour, 1965 | Portrait and Plein Air painting

Iranian painter Javad Solimanpour was born in , Tebriz. His first exhibition was in 1978 at a time when he was working on reproductions of the famous paintings in Saadabat Palace Museum. Since 1998 the Seven Art Gallery organizes his personal exhibitions in İstanbul, where Soleimanpour continues both painting and teaching at the same time.

Javad Soleimanpour burst upon the pastel scene in April 2009 when he won first place in the Landscape and Interior category in that year’s Pastel 100.

Lane Timothy, 1974 | Vintage Figurative painter

Lane Timothy is a Montana Native, who at a very young age discovered his love for art. He began working with watercolor, acrylics and pastels at the age of 7 and began selling his art at the age of 11 after discovering his passion for oil painting.

In 1993 at the age of 17 Lane was awarded the Charlie Russell National Art Scholarship, which he used to attend the University of Montana Art School and to excel in a career as a graphic designer. In 1997, after a few years at a large firm in Salt Lake City, Utah; Lane realized his true love for painting and returned to his studio to paint full time. | Waterhouse Gallery

Hans-Joachim Staude | Figurative Expressionist painter

Hans-Joachim Staude (1904-1973) is one of the most interesting (and in some ways most “eccentric”) German painters of his generation.

Yet his oeuvre is still not sufficiently known, especially in Italy where he lived and worked almost his entire life in the city of Florence.

What is lacking is a more detailed critical analysis of his close relation with Italian Novecento painting, from Ardengo Soffici to Felice Carena, in the context of modern classicism in European art between the wars.

A connection that makes the artist one of the “most Italian” of 20th-century German painters.

Antonio Fontanesi | Aprile (Sulle rive del lago del Bourget, in Savoia), 1864

Antonio Fontanesi (1818-1882) is considered one of the most important Italian painters of the XIX century. His landscapes influenced several Italian painters of the symbolist generation as well as the 20C Futurist Carlo Carrà.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Fontanesi see Antonio Fontanesi | Barbizon School painter.