Giovanni Sottocornola | Divisionist / Genre painter

Giovanni Sottocornola (1855-1917) was an Italian painter🎨.

He was born in Milan of humble origins.

In 1875 he enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he attended the courses of Raffaele Casnedi and Giuseppe Bertini until 1880 and met his fellow students Gaetano Previati🎨, Emilio Longoni🎨 and Giovanni Segantini🎨.

While the portraits and still lifes presented at the Brera exhibitions of the following years enjoyed considerable success on the art market, he began to address social themes early in the new decade and experimented with the Divisionist technique in paintings like The Worker’s Dawn (1897, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan).

Giovanni Sottocornola | The worker's dawn / L'alba dell'operaio, 1897

Giovanni Sottocornola🎨 was an Milanese painter, best known for his charming genre scenes set in Italy’s Lombardy region.

Sottocornola was born in Milan, Italy, in 1855.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Sottocornola see:

• Giovanni Sottocornola | Divisionist / Genre painter🎨

Gaspar van Wittel | Baroque / Veduta painter

Caspar van Wittel or Gaspar van Wittel - born Jasper Adriaensz van Wittel; Italian name variations: Gaspare Vanvitelli, Gasparo degli Occhiali- (1652/1653, Amersfoort - September 13, 1736, Rome) was a Dutch painter and draughtsman who had a long career in Rome.

He played a pivotal role in the development of the genre of topographical painting known as veduta.

He is credited with turning topography into a painterly specialism in Italian art.

Angelo Morbelli | Divisionist / Genre painter

Angelo Morbelli (1853-1919) was an Italian painter of the Divisionist style.

A grant from the City Council of Alessandria enabled Morbelli to enrol at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, in 1867.

He was awarded the Fumagalli Prize at the Brera exhibition of 1883 for Last Days (Milan, Galleria d’Arte Moderna) as well as a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889.

Frida Kahlo to José Bartoli | Love letter, 1946

"My Bartoli-Jose-Guiseppe-my red one,

I don’t know how to write love letters.

But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you.

Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty.

I would like to give you the prettiest colors, I want to kiss you…

[I want] our dream worlds to be one.

I would like to see from your eyes, hear from your ears, feel with your skin, kiss with your mouth. In order to see you from below [I would like] to be the shadow that is born from the soles of your feet and that lengthens along the ground upon which you walk….

Frida Kahlo | Surrealist painter

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)🎨 was an Mexican painter who produced mostly small, highly personal self-portraits using elements of fantasy and a style inspired by native popular art.

Kahlo was born in Coyoacán, Mexico, near Mexico City.

While a student at Mexico City's National Preparatory School in 1925, she sustained severe injuries in a bus accident. During her recuperation, Kahlo taught herself to paint.

After three years she took some of her first paintings to the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera🎨, who encouraged her to continue her work.

Jacek Malczewski | Symbolist painter

Jacek Malczewski (15 July 1854 - 8 October 1929) is one of the most revered painters of Poland🎨, associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following the century of Partitions.

He is regarded as the father of Polish Symbolism🎨.

In his creative output, Malczewski combined the predominant style of his times, with historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the Romantic ideals of independence, Christian and Greek traditions, folk mythology, as well as his love of the natural environment.

Malczewski was born in Radom, part of Congress Poland controlled then by the Russian Empire.

Swedish Artists | Sitemap

Swedish art refers to the visual arts produced in Sweden or by Swedish artists.

Sweden has existed as country for over 1,000 years, and for times before this, as well as many subsequent periods, Swedish art is usually considered as part of the wider Nordic art of Scandinavia.

It has, especially since about 1100, been strongly influenced by wider trends in European art.

After World War II, the influence of the United States strengthened substantially. Due to generous art subsidies, contemporary Swedish art has a big production per capita.

Anders Zorn | Waking up, 1898 Watercolor on paper