Louis Marie De Schryver | Romantic painter

Louis-Marie de Schryver (1862-1942) was born in Paris, the son of a well-known journalist.

Precociously talented, he exhibited his first works at the Salon, two flower paintings, in 1876 at the age of thirteen. 

The following year he studied briefly with the still life and genre painter Philippe Rousseau.

In 1880 he won a bronze medal at the Sydney World Fair with Lilas.

Wladyslaw Czachórski | Academic / Genre painter

Władysław Maurycy Czachórski (22 September 1850 in Lublin - 13 January 1911 in Munich) was a Polish painter in the Academic style.

In 1866 Czachorski attended the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw and had Rafał Hadziewicz as a teacher. He then spent one year at the Dresden Academy, and from there went to the Munich Academy (1869-1873) others who studied there at the same time included: Hermann Anschütz, Karl von Piloty, and Alexander Wagner.

Alda Merini / Marc Chagall | I do not need money / Io non ho bisogno di denaro..

I do not need money.

I have need of feelings

of words, words chosen wisely

of flowers called thoughts,

of roses called presences

of dreams inhabiting the trees,

of songs that make statues dance,

of stars that murmur to the ear of lovers.

I need poetry

this spell which burns the weight of words

that arouses emotions and gives new colors.

Alda Merini* (Milan, 21 March 1931 – Milan, 1 November 2009) Italian* writer and poet.

Robert Auer | Art Nouveau painter

Schooled at the academy in Vienna and Munich at the time when the Art Nouveau🎨 wave swept across Europe and greatly influenced the European cultural centres, Robert Auer [1873-1952]🎨 is often tied to this particular artistic style.

He gained popularity as a portraitist of the upper city class, having painted more than 150 portraits, and just as many figures and symbolic compositions.

Andrey Shishkin, 1960 | Academic painter

Russian artist Andrey Shishkin / Андрей Алексеевич Шишкин was born in Moscow and hasn’t received any art education but he was self-taught.

Here he lives and works in his own studio to this day.

Andrey has been an Artist for more than 15 years.

Andrey Shishkin works in the genre of a realistic academic painting and creates psychological portraits, that amaze by their magnificence.