Hans Baluschek | The Berlin Secession

Hans Baluschek (1870-1935) was a German painter, graphic artist and writer. Baluschek was a prominent representative of German Critical Realism, and as such he sought to portray the life of the common people with vivid frankness.

His paintings centered on the working class of Berlin. He belonged to the Berlin Secession movement, a group of artists interested in modern developments in art. Yet during his lifetime he was most widely known for his fanciful illustrations of the popular children's book Little Peter's Journey to the Moon (German title: Peterchens Mondfahrt).

Hans Baluschek after 1920 was an active member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, which at the time still professed a Marxist view of history.

Francesco Vinea ~ Genre painter

Francesco Vinea (Forlì, August 10, 1845 - Florence, October 22, 1902) was an Italian painter, known for his period costume Genre subjects. He studied first at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, but had to discontinue his studies due to his poverty, and spent some time traveling without home. He worked for a photographer, also as a designer of illustrated magazines, but returned to Florence and studied under professor Enrico Pollastrini, but only for a year.

Charles Louis La Salle, 1938

Charles-Louis La Salle was born in Hanoi, Vietnam.

He spent his childhood in Indochina and adolescence in Africa.

La Salle studied at the School of Decorative Arts - Arts Déco- in Paris where he arrived at the age of 18.

Thereafter, he traveled throughout all of Europe seeking the sources of his inspiration and cultural identity.

He settled in Provence in 1966.

Fabiano Millani, 1981 | Hyperrealist painter

Fabiano Millani was born in São Paulo, Brasil.

He started his career in visual arts at the same time in which he first taught a course on drawings in the city of Santo Ângelo.

Millani began his early career in 1997, when he took a course in artistic drawings with Edegar Cavalheiro.

Such experience drove him forward his persistent search for realism.

Rachel Clearfield, 1946 ~ Magical realism / Visionary painter

Born in England on July 27, 1946, Rachel Clearfield was a self-taught child prodigy. As a young girl, she composed poetry and illustrated her poems with beautiful paintings. After completing high school she decided on a career in art and was educated at the Newcastle College of Art and also the Manchester College of Art.

Rimma Vyugova / Римма Вьюгова, 1962

Russian artist Vjugovey Rimma Nikolaevna /Вьюгова Римма Николаевна was born in Izhevsk. She graduated from Moscow Art-professional college, Painting faculty in 1982. Rimma is a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia and the International Federation of Artists. Her first and next personal art exhibitions were annually in France, then in Austria, and throughout Russia.

Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)

Paul Cezanne was a post-impressionist painter who created the bridge between Impressionism and Cubism, and is said to be the artistic father of both Matisse and Picasso.

Alessandro Zezzos | Genre painter

Alessandro Zèzzos (Venice, 1848 - Vittorio Veneto, 1914) was an Italian painter of genre scenes, costume scenes, portraits and vedute, in watercolors and oils.

He studied under Giacomo Favretto, Alessandro Milesi, and Luigi Nono at the Academy of Fine Arts in his native Venice. In 1873, he exhibited in Venice: Né sposo né figlio and Scena famigliare. In 1877 at Paris, Les saltimbanques and Les pingeons de Saint Marc. 

He was active as a painter in Venice. Among his watercolors are Le rondini, exhibited at 1880 at Turin; Una calle, exhibited at the 1891 Mostra Triennale of the Brera Academy.