Edward Cucuel (1875-1954)

Edward Cucuel was born as the son of a newspaper publisher in San Francisco. Already at the age of 14 he attended the local academy of arts. Still a teenager he was employed as an illustrator by the newspaper "The Examiner".

When the 17-year-old Cucuel was sent to Paris, he entered the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi. Then he went to Jean-Léon Gérôme🎨 at the Académie des Beaux Arts.

In 1896 Edward Cucuel returned to the USA and settled in New York.

Arthur Streeton | Impressionist painter

Sir Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) was one of the foremost Australian Impressionist painters, and his paintings continue to count among the most iconic images of Australian art.

Streeton’s artistic training began aged 15, with night classes in design at Melbourne’s National Gallery School, while he worked as an office clerk and, later, as an apprentice lithographer.

He read amateur art manuals imported from Europe and America that encouraged painting en plein air.

John Meyer, 1942 | Narrative painter

John Meyer was born in Bloemfontein South Africa. He has exhibited extensively in South African and abroad specialising in landscapes and portraits (including portraits of Nobel laureates Nelson Mandela🎨 and FW De Klerk and concert pianist Vladimir Horowitz) in a photo-realist style.

Alfons Walde | Expressionist painter

Alfons Walde (1891-1958) was an Austrian artist and architect.

Walde is known best for his winter landscapes and farming images, especially skiing and sporting scenes, painted in tempera or impastoed oil paint.

Many of his paintings can be seen in the Museum gallery in Kitzbühel.

Oleg Supereco, 1974 | Symbolist / Renaissance style painter

Russian painter🎨 Oleg Supereco was born in Moscow. After finishing art school, Oleg enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Moscow.

It was there that he met a pivotal figure in his artistic life; Ilya Glazunov, present rector of the Academy and one of the most important contemporary Russian painters🎨.