Peter Hartwig, 1963 | Abstract painter

Peter Hartwig is a Dutch painter.

Hartwig studied at the Academie Minerva in Groningen, Netherlands.

He mainly works with oil-on-canvas in a figurative style with impressionistic paint strokes.

His work is based on direct observations, memories and elements from the fantasy world.

Kenny Harris, 1974 | Naturalist painter

Kenny has been a fixture in the Los Angeles art scene since arriving in Venice Beach in 2001.

He has made a career out of describing his environment both at home and abroad.

He has traveled around the world depicting subject matter both grand and mundane.

Drawn to quiet subjects, his muted palette and spare spaces evoke a calming energy.

Judy Nimtz, 1973 | Figurative painter

Judy Nimtz was born in Taiwan and raised on the island of O'ahu in Hawaii.

After completion of her MFA in 2008 from Laguna College of Art and Design, Judy made Southern California her home.

Nimtz has exhibited her work in several solo and group exhibitions in the Los Angeles area including a joint survey exhibition with Kenny Harris at The Santa Monica College Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (2012) and multiple Artist-In-Residencies in Siena and Tuscany, Italy (2011-2015).

Anish Kapoor, 1954 | Sky Mirror | Steel sculptures

Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, CBE, RA is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art.

Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the UK to begin his art training at Hornsey College of Art and, later, Chelsea School of Art and Design.

His notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate (2006, also known as "The Bean") in Chicago's Millennium Park; Sky Mirror, exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York City in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in London in 2010; Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough; Leviathan, at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011; and ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park and completed in 2012.

Igor Medvedev / Медведев Игорь, 1961

Игорь Медведев was born in Novopskov, Ukraine.

In 1985 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronics Techniques, physio-chemical faculty.

His first personal exhibition took place in the Youth Dramatic Theatre in 1990.

Thereafter he was regularly exhibited by the leading galleries in Vilnuce, Kaunas: Juste, Contemporary Art Center, Russian House and others.

Berthold Woltze | Genre painter

Berthold Woltze (born 24 August 1829 in Havelberg; died 29 November 1896 in Weimar) was a German genre painter, portrait painter, and illustrator.

Berthold Woltze was a professor at Weimar Saxon Grand Ducal Art School.

In the period from 1871 to 1878 he published numerous of his works in the Gartenlaube newspaper.

One of his most famous works is Der lästige Kavalier (The Annoying Gentleman).

He was the father of the architectural painter Peter Woltze (1860-1925).

Samuel Palmer | Romantic / Visionary painter

Samuel Palmer RWS Hon.RE (Hon. Fellow of the Society of Painter-Etchers) (1805-1881) was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker.

He was also a prolific writer.

Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.

Palmer painted churches from around age twelve, and first exhibited Turner-inspired works at the Royal Academy at the age of fourteen.

He had little formal training, and little formal schooling, although he was educated briefly at Merchant Taylors' School.

Giuseppe de Sanctis | Genre painter

Giuseppe De Sanctis (1858-1924) was an Italian painter, primarily of portraits and cityscapes.

He was born in Naples. His father, Cesare, was a businessman who loved music, art and the theater.

He was, in fact, a close friend of Verdi, who attended Giuseppe's baptism.

As a result, contrary to the experience of many other aspiring artists, his family encouraged his desire to become a painter.