Helena Nelson-Reed | Visionary painter

Helena Nelson-Reed is an American Visionary painter specializing in fine art watercolor, pencil drawings, illustration, private/commercial commissions and portraits.

Born in Seattle, Washington, she was raised in Marin County and Napa Valley, California and today lives in Illinois.

A largely self taught artist whose educational emphasis and degree is in psychology, Nelson-Reed’s primary focus is exploring the collective consciousness and the portrayal of archetypal imagery in the tradition of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell.

Herman Richir | Academic painter

Painter of allegorical and mythological scenes, decorative panels but also lithographer under the pseudonym "Hamner", Herman Jean Joseph Richir (1866-1942) was first and foremost a portrait painter appreciated by the high society of the time and to whom we owe in particular several portraits of the Belgian royal family.

Herman Richir was born on November 4th in the Belgian city of Elsene.

First he studied at the Academy of Sint-Joost-ten-Node ltaught by Gustave Biot and Charles Hermans, then he went to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels under the direction of Jean-François Portaels.

Marie Egner | Impressionist painter

Marie Egner (25 August 1850, Bad Radkersburg - 31 March 1940, Vienna) was an Austrian painter**.

She took her first drawing lessons in Graz with Hermann von Königsbrunn, then went to Düsseldorf from 1872-1875, where she studied with Carl Jungheim (1830-1886).

In 1882, she went to Vienna to live with her mother, but spent her summers at the art colony in Plankenberg Castle, near Neulengbach, where she took lessons with Emil Jakob Schindler until 1887.

Gregor Erhart | La Belle Allemande, 1515-1520

This unusual figure represents saint Mary Magdalene as a mystic ascetic. According to legend, the repentant sinner lived a secluded life in the cave of Sainte-Baume, clothed only by her hair.

Every day she was raised up in the sky by angels to hear the heavenly chorus. The statue appeared on the German art market in the 19th century and was purchased by the Louvre in 1902.

Lionello Balestrieri | Beethoven, 1900

In 1899, Lionello Balestrieri** (12 September 1872 - October 24, 1958) painted a canvas depicting Beethoven** (Kreutzer Sonata), which after winning an award** at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris and in 1901 in Venice, brought him fame.

The painting depicts a dimly lit garret-like apartment with a strand of listeners along the left wall, each in their own mood, while a violinist plays between them and a furnace.