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Alphonse Mucha | Art Nouveau painter


Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860-1939) is most often remembered for the prominent role he played in shaping the aesthetics of French Art Nouveau at the turn of the century.
He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, and designs, which became among the best-known images of the period.

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Hans Thoma | Glade meadow, 1876


German symbolist painter Hans Thoma was born on 2 October 1839 in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany.
He was the son of a miller and was trained in the basics of painting by a painter of clock faces.
He entered the Karlsruhe academy in 1859, where he studied under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Ludwig des Coudres – the latter of which had a major influence on his career.

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Adolf Heinrich-Hansen | Architectural painter

Adolf Heinrich Claus Hansen (1859-1925), known as Adolf Heinrich-Hansen, was a Danish architectural painter.
His father, Heinrich Hansen, was also an architectural painter. Late in his life, he turned to animal painting.
Adolf Heinrich-Hansen was born in Copenhagen, the son of architectural painter and later professor Heinrich Hansen and Margrethe Elisabeth Burmeister.


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Dutch Art History and Sitemap


Dutch art describes the history of visual arts in the Netherlands, after the United Provinces separated from Flanders.
Earlier painting in the area is covered in Early Netherlandish painting and Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting.
The history of Dutch art is dominated by the Dutch Golden Age painting, mostly of about 1620-1680, when a very distinct style and new types of painting were developed, though still keeping close links with Flemish Baroque painting.

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Peter McGowan | Romantic garden


Peter McGowan is an British painter🎨. He was born and raised in Yorkshire, England and still makes his home there. McGowan paints from his studio in the County that has inspired many great artists, including Henry Moore and David Hockney.
Light and its effects fascinate McGowan.
He works in several media, including oils, acrylics, watercolors and pastels, to translate this interest to paper and canvas.