Luca Carlevarijs | Baroque Era / Veduta painter

Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris (1663-1730) was an Italian painter and engraver working mainly in Venice.

He pioneered the genre of the cityscapes (vedute) of Venice, a genre that was later widely followed by artists such as Canaletto and Francesco Guardi.

Carlevarijs was born in Udine.

He was also known as 'Luca Casanobrio' or 'Luca di ca Zenobrio', for his patronage by the latter family.

Rainer Maria Rilke: "Un’opera d’arte è buona se nasce da necessità!"

Lettera ad un Giovane Poeta / Letter to a Young Poet, 1903

"Le Lettere ad un giovane poeta" - dieci lettere scritte da Rainer Maria Rilke (Scrittore, poeta e drammaturgo austriaco di origine boema, 1875-1926) al giovane Franz Xaver Kappus (Scrittore e giornalista Austriaco, 1883-1966), sono un manifesto della creazione artistica.

Studente ventenne della Accademia militare di Wiener Neustadt, Franz Kappus si dilettava a scrivere poesie, e sognava di condurre una vita diversa - non dedita ai servizi militari.

Scoprendo che la stessa Accademia, anni prima, era stata frequentata dal noto poeta Rilke, inizia a leggerlo nelle pause tra le lezioni ed un giorno decide di scrivergli.

Caspar David Friedrich | Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818

William Strang (1859-1921)

From National Galleries of Scotland:

During his lifetime, Dumbarton-born William Strang built up an international reputation as a highly skilled and imaginative printmaker, portraitist and painter.

His diverse subjects ranged from the fantastic to the very real, including uncompromising depictions of contemporary life and the effects of poverty and social injustice, landscapes, subjects from the bible, bewildering allegories, and narrative illustrations.

He was also a prolific and highly successful portraitist.

Harriette Bowdoin | Impressionist painter

Harriette Bowdoin (1880-1947) è stata una pittrice ed illustratrice impressionista nata a South Hadley Falls, nel Massachusetts.

Bowdoin si trasferì a New York in giovane età per studiare con Henry Snell - un importante impressionista, ed Elliott Dangerfield - un paesaggista.

Bowdoin ha viaggiato e si è formata in Europa, dove ha stretto amicizia con l'artista americana Jane Peterson mentre entrambe studiavano con Frank Brangwyn a Londra.

Greta Gerell (1898-1982)

Anna Margareta Ulrika (Greta) Gerell (1898, Stockholm - 1982, Stockholm) was a Swedish painter and graphic artist.

Gerell was the daughter of Consul General Carl Peter Gerell and Anna, born Sellman. After evening and summer courses at Althin's painting school 1913-1915, she attended the Academy of Art 1915-1920 and Axel Tallberg's etching school.

In 1920 she came to the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and in 1921 to André Lhote in Paris.

Gerell first appeared with landscape and animal motifs. After study trips to France and the Netherlands, she devoted herself primarily to interior, portrait and figure painting.

Motivationally, her visual world can be reminiscent of contemporary art movements as well as older painters like Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin or Dutch masters from the 17th century.