Petrus van Schendel | Genre / Romantic painter
Serguei Zlenko, 1960 | Realist / Surrealist painter
Born in Georgia, Сергей Зленко is a classically trained artist whose works represent the school of traditional Russian painting.
His works include, amongst other things, topographical landscapes, classic ballet dancer motifs and figurative portraits of people, animals and events. Zlenko is inspired by a vast array of topics, which can be seen in his multidimensional artworks.
In his portraits, Zlenko succeeds in capturing a natural and spontaneous moment which makes his paintings almost photolike.
Alush Shima, 1942
Small Territories of Freedom under communism
Alush Shima was born in Tirana, Albania. He painted in secret under Albania’s communist regime for almost two decades, being a former Parliament member.
Alush Shima’s most perilous moment was in 1973, when the Sigurimi secret police seized his closest friend, fellow artist Ali Oseku, for letting slip praise of such bourgeois painters as Picasso and Matisse.
He worked as a set painter in Albania’s only film studio, Kinostudio.
Isabel Miramontes, 1962 | Abstract surrealist sculptor
Born in in Santiago de Compostella (Spain) and influenced by the Celtic Origins of her village, the bronze works of Isabel Miramontes have both a primitive and essential quality to them.
Her recognizable androgynous figures express a narrative of quiet certitude and the inevitable struggle of everyday man, his obstacles and triumphs.
Ferdinand Heilbuth | Academic painter
He was born in Hamburg in 1826, and died in Paris in 1889, having become a French citizen in 1876.
The son of a rabbi, Ferdinand Heilbuth lived and studied in Antwerp, Munich, Düsseldorf and Rome before settling in Paris.
He entered the studio of Paul Delaroche*, remaining there after it was taken over by Charles Gleyre. He made his debut at the Salon in 1853, and his early work consisted of genre pictures and historical paintings, the latter often depicting episodes from the lives of earlier artists.
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