Albert Birkle | Magic realism painter

Albert Birkle (1900-1986) was a German painter and draftsman.

Albert Birkle was born in Charlottenburg, then an independent city and since 1920 part of Berlin.

His grandfather on his mother's side, Gustav Bregenzer, and his father, Carl Birkle, both were painters, originally from Swabia.

Albert Birkle was trained as a decorative painter in his father's firm.

From 1918 to 1924, he studied at the Hochschule für die bildenden Künste/College of Fine Arts, a predecessor of today's Universität der Künste Berlin.

Gregorio Sciltian | Magic Realism painter

"The only true and supreme purpose of the art of painting has been and will always be that of obtaining the illusion of reality" - Gregorio Sciltian.

Gregorio Sciltian / Գրիգոր Շիլտյան (Nakhicevan, Armenia 1900 - Rome 1985) was an Italian-Armenian painter, designer, and medallist.

Sciltian is well known for his portraiture and trompe-l'œil compositions.

Giuseppe Verdi: "Torniamo all'antico e sarà un progresso"

• Gli artisti veramente superiori giudicano senza pregiudizi di scuole, di nazionalità, di tempo. Se gli artisti del Nord e del Sud hanno tendenze diverse, è bene siano diverse.

• Really superior artists judge without being prejudiced by school, nationality or period. If the artists of north and south exhibit different tendencies, it is good that they are different!

Giovanni Boldini | Ritratto di Giuseppe Verdi

Richard Wagner: "L'uomo si distingue dall'animale in virtù della compassione verso l'animale stesso"

• Joy is not in things; it is in us.

• La gioia non è nelle cose; è in noi.

• The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

• L'organo più antico, più vero, più bello della musica, l'origine alla quale solo la nostra musica deve il suo essere, è la voce umana.

• Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

• La musica è il discorso inarticolato del cuore, che non può essere compresso in parole, perché è infinito.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Portrait of Richard Wagner, 1882 | Musée d'Orsay

Damiano Taurino, 1949 | Figurative sculptor

Italian sculptor Damiano Taurino was born in Galugnano, in the municipality of San Donato di Lecce, the beautiful land of Salento, rich in historical traditions dating back thousands of years to the ancient Greek civilization and messapica (1000 BC).

This land, with its historical and cultural heritage, is able to inculcate in the young Damiano, the secret desire of the model, the ability to extract, from a piece of clay, images and figures lovely.

At age 16 he emigrated to Switzerland, he settled in Horgen-Zurich and spent a period devoted to education and training.