Edvard Grieg: "Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights.."

• "Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted… to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home".

• "Artisti come Bach e Beethoven eressero cattedrali e templi sulle vette. Io ho voluto, come dice Ibsen in un suo dramma, "costruire dimore per gli uomini, dimore in cui essi possano sentirsi felici ed a proprio agio". In altre parole, ho trascritto la musica folcloristica della mia patria, ho cercato di ricavare un'arte nazionale da queste manifestazioni sinora non sfruttate dell'anima norvegese".

Auguste Rodin | Les Mains enlacees | Musée Rodin

Władysław Ślewiński | Post-impressionist painter

Władysław Ślewiński (1856, in Nowy Białynin - 1918, in Paris) was a Polish painter.

He was one of Gauguin's students and a leading artist of the Young Poland movement (a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918. It was a result of strong aesthetic opposition to the earlier ideas of Positivism. Young Poland promoted trends of decadence, neo-romanticism, symbolism, impressionism and art nouveau).

Biography

He was born to a landowning family and his mother died in childbirth.

His cousin, the painter Józef Chełmoński, noticed his artistic talent and advised his father to enroll him at the drawing school operated by Wojciech Gerson.

His father resisted at first, but finally agreed.

Aleksander Gierymski | Impressionist painter

Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski (1850, Warsaw - 1901, Rome) was a Polish painter of the late 19th century, the younger brother of Maksymilian Gierymski.

He was a representative of Realism as well as an important precursor of Impressionism in Poland.

Aleksander Gierymski completed Secondary State School nr III in Warsaw in 1867, and in the same year commenced drawing studies in Warsaw.

Between 1868-1872 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and graduated with a gold medal.

He received a commendation for his diploma work The Merchant of Venice.

Władysław Podkowiński | Impressionist painter

Władysław Podkowiński (1866-1895) was a Polish master painter and illustrator associated with the Young Poland movement during the Partition period (The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 123 years.)

Podkowiński was born in Warsaw and began his artistic training at Wojciech Gerson's drawing school.

He then transferred to the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts where he studied between 1880 and 1884.

After graduating, Podkowinski began to contribute to many of the leading art journals in Warsaw at the time.

Ksenia Stekolshchikova, 1991 | Figurative painter

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Ксения Стекольщикова was born in Moscow in the artist’s family.

2001 - Entered the Moscow Academic Art Lyceum of the Russian Academy of Arts (MAHL RAH).

2005 - Took 1st place in the competition of the Royal Danish Embassy, dedicated to the 200th anniversary of H.H. Anderson (Awarded with a diploma).

Since 2007 - Participant of Russian and Moscow exhibitions (more than 20 exhibitions).

Léo Gausson | Neo-impressionist painter

Léo Gausson (1860-1944) was a French landscape painter in the Neo-impressionist and Synthetic styles.

He was also a printmaker and sculptor.

He was born in Lagny-sur-Marne.

He began his art education by taking evening classes, mostly devoted to sculpture, at the "National School of Decorative Arts".

When he first turned to painting, he found his inspiration in the Barbizon School, to which he was introduced by a local artist, originally from Spain, named Antonio Cortès (1827-1908), who had studied with Constant Troyon.

Finnish Art History and Sitemap

Hugo Simberg | The Wounded Angel, 1903 | The Finnish National Gallery

Finnish art started to form its individual characteristics in the 19th century, when romantic nationalism began to rise in the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland.

Prehistoric art

Marks of human activity in Finland has found in Susiluola, Kristinestad.

Some excavation has been considered as a man-made over 100,000 years ago.

After the Ice Age, area of Finland was resettled at around 9,000 years ago and first known sculpture Elk's Head of Huittinen (picture in stamp) has been dated about 5-7000 BCE.

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff | Expressionist painter

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker.

He was one of the four founders of the artist group Die Brücke.

Life and work

Schmidt-Rottluff was born in Rottluff, nowadays a district of Chemnitz, on 1 December 1884.

He attended the humanistische gymnasium (classics-oriented secondary school) in Chemnitz, where he befriended Erich Heckel.

He enrolled in architecture at the Sächsische Technische Hochschule in Dresden in 1905, following in Heckel's footsteps, but gave up after one term.