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Valdemar Irminger | Romantic painter

Valdemar Heinrich Nicolas Irminger (1850-1938) was a Danish painter.
Born in Copenhagen, Irminger attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1867 and 1873.
He went to Italy on a scholarship from 1884 to 1887.
In 1888, he won the Academy's medal for Motiv fra Børnehospitalet ved Refsnæs (View from the Children's Hospital at Refsnæs) and the following year for Fra et Børnehospital (From a Children's Hospital).


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Albert Ludovici Jr. | Genre painter

Following the profession of his father Albert Johann Ludovici (1820-1894), Albert Ludovici Jr. R.B.A. (1852-1932) spent his life between Paris and London, painting scenes of society at leisure.
His genre paintings were the most popular, particularly his studies of the interaction of couples, whether in public places or of private moments in their homes and lives - these paintings have universal appeal.
But he also painted landscapes and interior scenes in both watercolour and gouache as well as in oils.


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Giuseppe Barison | Genre painter

Giuseppe Barison (1853-1931) was a Triestiner painter and engraver, active in Venice.
He was born in Trieste, Austrian Empire to a family of modest means.
His father was a tailor. Barison found a patron in the aristocratic Anna De Rin, who placed him in apprenticeship with the painter Carl Haase (1820-1876) in Trieste, and then enrolled him in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.


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Willy Brandes | Genre painter

Willy Brandes (1876-1946) was a German painter.
Willy Brandes was born in Bornstädt near Potsdam.
At a young age he began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter.
He studied under Albert Hertel (1843-1912) and Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (1842-1915) at the Berlin Academy and later was a master student of Eugen Bracht (1842-1921).


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Janet Knight | Figurative painter

Janet Knight is an professional award winning Melbourne artist.
With painting experience of over 25 years, Janet graduated from Ballarat University majoring in graphic design.
Janet’s current works are an indication of her dedication to her passion and her field.
With her connection to nature and the environment Janet’s unique personal skills and interpretation she always manages to finish a piece with a unique style all of her own.


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Józef Chełmoński | Genre painter

Józef Marian Chełmoński (1849-1914) was a Polish painter of the realist school with roots in the historical and social context of the late Romantic period in partitioned Poland.
He is famous for monumental paintings now at the Sukiennice National Art Gallery in Kraków and at the MNW in Warsaw.
Chełmoński was born in the village of Boczki near Łowicz in central Congress Poland under the Russian military control.
His first drawing teacher was his father Józef Adam (a small leaseholder and administrator of Boczki village). His mother was Izabela née Łoskowska.


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Louis Guglielmi | Magic Realist painter

Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) was an American painter.
He was well known in New York, but soon forgotten after his death, as abstract expressionism came to overshadow artists like him.
There are elements of precisionism, surrealism, geometric abstraction, regionalism and social realism in his work.
His paintings often commented on poverty and other social and political themes; bleakness and death appear regularly in his pre-war works. With Walter Quirt and James Guy, he was a prominent exponent of "social surrealism".


After the war, his painting became more planar and abstract, with elements of cubism, and he disavowed the personal sadness in his earlier works in favor of expressing the "exuberance and organic means of life itself".
The New York Times also attributed his decline to his being "a relentless borrower, an irrepressible eclectic who seemed to prey voraciously on the styles of others".
Born in Cairo, Egypt, as a child he lived in Milan and Geneva while his Italian father, a professional violinist, toured the world.
In 1914 his parents brought him to the United States, where they lived in Italian Harlem, New York.


He was interested in sculpture at a young age and worked at a casting factory.
He attended the National Academy of Design in the evening beginning in 1920, while also attending high school, and attended full-time from 1923 to 1926.
The next year he became a naturalized citizen.

The Great Depression brought financial hardship, but the difficult times inspired his artwork.
From 1935 to 1939, he worked with the Federal Art Project, which supported artists during the Depression.


In the 1930s he spent many summers at the MacDowell Colony for artists in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Guglielmi had his first one-man show in 1938, exhibiting his new work Mental Geography.
Inspired by the Spanish Civil War-depicting a bombed-out Brooklyn Bridge -it was a warning that European fascism might spread.

Guglielmi was part of the 1943 "American Realists and Magic Realists" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
He was with the Army Corps of Engineers in the war between 1943 and 1945, and did not paint.


In the 1950s, he held positions at Louisiana State University, first as a visiting artist and then as an associate professor.
He died in 1956 of a heart attack in Amagansett, New York.
Guglielmi's work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. | Source: © Wikipedia








Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi (1906-1956) è stato un pittore Americano.
Era molto conosciuto a New York, ma presto dimenticato dopo la sua morte, poiché l'espressionismo astratto arrivò a mettere in ombra artisti come lui.
Ci sono elementi di precisione, surrealismo, astrazione geometrica, regionalismo e realismo sociale nel suo lavoro.
I suoi dipinti spesso commentavano la povertà ed altri temi sociali e politici; desolazione e morte appaiono regolarmente nelle sue opere prebelliche.
Con Walter Quirt e James Guy fu un esponente di spicco del "surrealismo sociale".


Dopo la guerra, la sua pittura divenne più planare e astratta, con elementi di cubismo, e rinnegò la tristezza personale nelle sue opere precedenti in favore dell'espressione "dell'esuberanza e dei mezzi organici della vita stessa".
Anche il New York Times attribuì il suo declino al suo essere "un mutuatario implacabile, un eclettico irrefrenabile che sembrava predare voracemente lo stile degli altri".
Nato al Cairo, in Egitto, da bambino ha vissuto a Milano e Ginevra, mentre suo padre italiano, violinista professionista, girava il mondo.
Nel 1914 i suoi genitori lo portarono negli Stati Uniti, dove vissero ad Italian Harlem, New York.
Si interessò alla scultura in giovane età e lavorò in una fabbrica di fusione.


Frequentò serale l'Accademia Nazionale di Design a partire dal 1920, frequentando contemporaneamente anche il liceo, che frequentò a tempo pieno dal 1923 al 1926.
L'anno successivo divenne cittadino naturalizzato.
La Grande Depressione portò difficoltà finanziarie, ma i tempi difficili ispirarono le sue opere d'arte.

Dal 1935 al 1939 lavorò con il Federal Art Project, che sostenne gli artisti durante la Depressione.
Negli anni '30 trascorse molte estati alla MacDowell Colony per artisti a Peterborough, nel New Hampshire.
Guglielmi tenne la sua prima mostra personale nel 1938, esponendo la sua nuova opera Geografia mentale.


Ispirato alla guerra civile spagnola, raffigurante un ponte di Brooklyn bombardato, era un avvertimento che il fascismo europeo avrebbe potuto diffondersi.
Guglielmi fece parte della mostra "American Realists and Magic Realists" del 1943 al Museum of Modern Art.
Era con il Corpo degli Ingegneri dell'Esercito nella guerra tra il 1943 e il 1945 e non dipingeva.
Negli anni '50 ricoprì incarichi presso la Louisiana State University, prima come artista in visita e poi come professore associato.


Morì nel 1956 per un attacco di cuore ad Amagansett, New York.
Il lavoro di Guglielmi è nella collezione dell'Art Institute of Chicago, del Detroit Institute of Arts, del Metropolitan Museum of Art, del Museum of Modern Art, del San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, lo Smithsonian American Art Museum ed il Whitney Museum of American Art.


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Léon Frédéric | Symbolist painter

Léon-Henri-Marie Frédéric (1856-1940) was a Belgian Symbolist painter.
His earliest paintings joined Christian mysticism with pantheistic themes, while his later works increasingly reflected social concerns.
Much of his work also shows the influence of fifteenth and sixteenth century Flemish art and Renaissance painting styles.