Jean-François Millet | The Barbizon school of painters

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), French painter, who came of a peasant family, was born on the 4th of October 1814 in the hamlet of Gruchy, near Greville (La Manche), in the wild and picturesque district called La Hague.

His boyhood was passed working in his father's fields, but the sight of the engravings in an old illustrated Bible set him drawing, and thenceforth, whilst the others slept, the daily hour of rest was spent by Millet in trying to render the familiar scenes around him.

Odile de Schwilgué, 1952 | Surrealist figurative painter

Born in Alsace, she spent the first sixteen years of her life in a small town near Strasbourg. "She did not become a painter by chance".

She owes her talent to her maternal great-grandmother. At a time when a woman did not fulfil herself in a professional capacity, the latter - despite a premature death - left a varied collection of her work behind, including some superb frescoes in the family home.

Odile has certainly inherited her passion. Everything was a pretext to draw and paint, to the detriment of classes at college which bored her.

Franz Marc | The Blue Rider Group

Franz Marc (Monaco di Baviera, 8 febbraio 1880 - Verdun, 4 marzo 1916) è stato un pittore Tedesco.

Nacque dal pittore Wilhelm Marc che gli impartì una severa formazione calvinista insieme a suo fratello Paul.

Per breve tempo coltivò l'idea di diventare pastore.

Nel 1899 iniziò gli studi nella facoltà di filosofia all’università Ludwig Maximilian di Monaco ma nel 1900 decise di iscriversi all’accademia delle Belle Arti di Monaco e di darsi alla pittura. Compì diversi viaggi.

Ugo Riva, 1951

Ugo Riva nasce a Bergamo nel 1951. Sin dall'inizio della sua carriera sperimenta diversi materiali, dal cemento alla pietra, dal marmo al egno, ma sarà con l'argilla che incontrerà la sua maggiore affinità. Questo materiale grazie alla sua malleabilità gli consentirà di rappresentare i segni, le vibrazioni e le passioni dei soggetti che ispirano le sue sculture. Ugo Riva ha tenuto, dal 1973 ad oggi, oltre trenta mostre personali in Italia e all'estero.

Anita Kreituse, 1954

Born in Riga, Latvia, Anita Kreituse graduated 1972 J. Rozentals Art School in Riga and admitted Latvian Academy of Arts in the same year.

Already since 1973 she participates in art exhibitions.

After Academy diploma 1980 she starts working as an art director in the "Zilite" magazine, where she is active until 1997.

Anita is member of the Latvian Artists Union since 1992 and has participated in numerous important art exhibitions in the country.

Siegfried Zademack, 1952 | Surrealist / Visionary painter

Siegfried Zademack, German painter, was born in Bremen, Germany. Freelance artist since 1980. Several artshows of his work in and outside his homecountry. Siegfried Zademack's surrealistic visionary paintings make recipients and reviewers wonder.

The arrangement of his pictorial thoughts immensely exceeds a realistic reproduction. His pictures allow us to slip in metaphysical dimensions, between humorous irony and the unfathomable deepness of our souls.

The semantic sources of this art are equally past and present.The quotation from art history stands alongside the Coca-Cola bottle. His true teachers were the masters of the earl and late Italien Renaissance up to the Mannerists.

Ilya Repin | Historical / Genre painter

Ilya Yefimovich Repin / Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин, (1844-1930), Russian painter of historical subjects known for the power and drama of his works.

Born to a poor family near Kharkov, Repin learned his trade from a painter of icons named Bunakov and in 1864 became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts at St. Petersburg.

Michail Kudinow, 1961

Michail Kudinow painter and graphic was born in 1961.
Education:
1977-1981 Lugansk Fine Art School, Faculty of Painting.
1986 -1993 Academy of Fine Arts Saint-Petersburg, Faculty of Painting.
Lives and works in Saint-Petersburg.