Adam Styka | Under the African Sun

Polish-born French painter Adam Styka (1890-1959) completed his education at the French Academy of Fine Arts, Academie des Beaux-Arts, and painted closely under the tutelage of his father, Jan Styka.

Each year Adam exhibited his paintings in the Paris' most prestigious galleries such as Salon de Paris, Champs Des Elysees and others in Europe and countries of both Americas, where he constantly was awarded highest accolades.

Edna St. Vincent Millay / Edward Steichen | Night is my sister / La notte è mia sorella

Edward Steichen (American🎨 photographer, painter, and curator, 1879-1973)| Greta Garbo

Night is my sister, and how deep in love,

How drowned in love and weedily washed ashore,

There to be fretted by the drag and shove

At the tide's edge, I lie - these things and more:

Whose arm alone between me and the sand,

Whose voice alone, whose pitiful breath brought near,

Could thaw these nostrils and unlock this hand,

She could advise you, should you care to hear.

André Martins De Barros, 1942 | Fantastic Realism painter

André Martins de Barros: "The conflict of man fighting his fellow man, the role of nature, and the struggle for existence are all constant themes in my imaginative paintings: from simple joys and beauty to troubling scenes of apocalyptic proportions.

Yet, in each piece, a sense of optimism and even whimsy is readily apparent".

André Martins de Barros was born in Pau, a small town in the foothills of the Pyrenees near the Spanish border.

He started to paint from the age of 15 and just after completing his military service decided to devote all his time to passion- Painting.

George Hitchcock | Genre painter

George Hitchcock (1850-1913) was born in Providence, Rhode Island. George Hitchcock attended Brown University and then Harvard Law School.

He became disenchanted with the practice of law, however, and at age 29 left for Paris to study at the Académie Julian.

One of a generation of American expatriate painters, Hitchcock travelled extensively throughout Europe, studying in London, The Hague, and Munich.

He finally settled permanently in Holland during the 1880s.

Gyuri Lohmuller, 1962 | Surrealist painter

Gyuri Lohmuller was born in Gataia, Romania.

Self-educated painter, having exhibitions in Austria, Germany, France and Hungary, is willing to share his inner world.

His paintings reflect his deepest emotions.

"The emotion", he says, "Is Art".

He prefers the surrealist themes.