Daniel F. Gerhartz, 1965 | Ladies and flowers

The Daniel F. Gerhartz’s skillful and technically adept work celebrates the created world, the human form, personal relationships with a connection to landscapes and environments of special importance.

Many of his figures are dressed in dramatic clothing which he often invents for its aesthetic appeal and lyrical quality so as to achieve a sense of other worldliness..

His subjects evoke a timelessness and idealism, yet for the most part Dan has drawn upon his home and community, including family and friends, for subject matter.

Gustave Jean Jacquet | A pupil of Bouguereau

Gustave Jean Jacquet was French painter of portraits, genre and watercolours.

Born in Paris on 25 May 1846 Jacquet lived and worked in Paris. Jacquet was a pupil of Bouguereau and so admiring was he of his tutor that he never sought any other.

Consequently, Jacquet's early work was influenced by that of Bouguereau.

In 1865, Jacquet made his debut at the Salon with an allegory entitled La Rêverie. The following year he submitted paintings detailing life in the 16th, 17th and 18th Century which were small in dimension.

At the same time he began to paint portraits and he sometimes put his subjects in the period costume of the 16th Century as a caprice. Jacquet also painted portraits of children and genre scenes.

In 1875 Jacquet was awarded a medal of excellence and was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1879.

Jacquet's artistic career was very successful and he produced many fine paintings which won him his acclaim.

Daniel F. Gerhartz, 1965

Daniel F. Gerhartz was born in Wisconsin where he now lives with his wife Jennifer and their three young children.

His interest in art piqued at an early age when a teenage friend suggested they spend one dreary afternoon drawing.

It was at that moment that he discovered his lifework.

Daniel began his art education at the American Academy of Art in Chicago where he studied in the classical tradition and immersed himself in applications of technique and design.

Juan Gonzalez Alacreu, 1937 | Impressionist /Genre painter

Juan Gonzales Alacreu* is a Spanish painter*, known for working in the Figurative style.

Juan González Alacreu was born in Burriana, Castellón, Spain.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Juan Gonzales Alacreu see:

• Juan Gonzalez Alacreu, 1937 | Impressionist painter ➻

Louis Marie De Schryver | Romantic painter

Louis-Marie de Schryver (1862-1942) was born in Paris, the son of a well-known journalist.

Precociously talented, he exhibited his first works at the Salon, two flower paintings, in 1876 at the age of thirteen. 

The following year he studied briefly with the still life and genre painter Philippe Rousseau.

In 1880 he won a bronze medal at the Sydney World Fair with Lilas.

Wladyslaw Czachórski | Academic / Genre painter

Władysław Maurycy Czachórski (22 September 1850 in Lublin - 13 January 1911 in Munich) was a Polish painter in the Academic style.

In 1866 Czachorski attended the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw and had Rafał Hadziewicz as a teacher. He then spent one year at the Dresden Academy, and from there went to the Munich Academy (1869-1873) others who studied there at the same time included: Hermann Anschütz, Karl von Piloty, and Alexander Wagner.

Alda Merini / Marc Chagall | I do not need money / Io non ho bisogno di denaro..

I do not need money.

I have need of feelings

of words, words chosen wisely

of flowers called thoughts,

of roses called presences

of dreams inhabiting the trees,

of songs that make statues dance,

of stars that murmur to the ear of lovers.

I need poetry

this spell which burns the weight of words

that arouses emotions and gives new colors.

Alda Merini* (Milan, 21 March 1931 – Milan, 1 November 2009) Italian* writer and poet.

Robert Auer | Art Nouveau painter

Schooled at the academy in Vienna and Munich at the time when the Art Nouveau🎨 wave swept across Europe and greatly influenced the European cultural centres, Robert Auer [1873-1952]🎨 is often tied to this particular artistic style.

He gained popularity as a portraitist of the upper city class, having painted more than 150 portraits, and just as many figures and symbolic compositions.