Direk Kingnok, 1976 | Watercolor Cityscape painter

Direk was born in a small town in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

He grew up among natural surroundings and interested in art since childhood.

At age 9 he won a gold medal from the International Children’s Art Competition Japan and several times later, That must be the starting point for his art more seriously.

Wilhelm von Schadow | Romantic painter

Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow (7 September 1789 - 19 March 1862) was a German Romantic painter.

Biography

He was born in Berlin, the second son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, who gave him his first lessons in drawing. He then turned to painting, and was instructed by Weitsch.

In 1806-1807 Schadow served as a soldier. In 1810 he traveled with his elder brother Rudolph to Rome where he became one of the leading painters of the Nazarene movement.

Giuseppe Cominetti | Divisionist painter

Giuseppe Cominetti (Salasco, Province of Vercelli, 1882 - Rome, 1930) was an Italian painte.

His brother Gian Maria Cominetti (1884-1961) was a notable writer and screenwriter. He studied till 1898 in the Lyceum Massimo D'Azeglio in Turin.

He received his first training was at the Albertina Academy of Turin, but moved in 1902 to Genoa where he came into contact with Plinio Nomellini and the work of Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen.

Giuseppe Cominetti - I conquistatori del sole

John Singer Sargent | Gassed, 1919

Gassed is a very large oil painting completed in March 1919 by American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).

It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World War, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a dressing station.

Sargent was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to document the war and visited the Western Front in July 1918 spending time with the Guards Division near Arras, and then with the American Expeditionary Forces near Ypres.

Helena Nelson-Reed | Visionary painter

Helena Nelson-Reed is an American Visionary painter specializing in fine art watercolor, pencil drawings, illustration, private/commercial commissions and portraits.

Born in Seattle, Washington, she was raised in Marin County and Napa Valley, California and today lives in Illinois.

A largely self taught artist whose educational emphasis and degree is in psychology, Nelson-Reed’s primary focus is exploring the collective consciousness and the portrayal of archetypal imagery in the tradition of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell.

Herman Richir | Academic painter

Painter of allegorical and mythological scenes, decorative panels but also lithographer under the pseudonym "Hamner", Herman Jean Joseph Richir (1866-1942) was first and foremost a portrait painter appreciated by the high society of the time and to whom we owe in particular several portraits of the Belgian royal family.

Herman Richir was born on November 4th in the Belgian city of Elsene.

First he studied at the Academy of Sint-Joost-ten-Node ltaught by Gustave Biot and Charles Hermans, then he went to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels under the direction of Jean-François Portaels.

Marie Egner | Impressionist painter

Marie Egner (25 August 1850, Bad Radkersburg - 31 March 1940, Vienna) was an Austrian painter**.

She took her first drawing lessons in Graz with Hermann von Königsbrunn, then went to Düsseldorf from 1872-1875, where she studied with Carl Jungheim (1830-1886).

In 1882, she went to Vienna to live with her mother, but spent her summers at the art colony in Plankenberg Castle, near Neulengbach, where she took lessons with Emil Jakob Schindler until 1887.

Gregor Erhart | La Belle Allemande, 1515-1520

This unusual figure represents saint Mary Magdalene as a mystic ascetic. According to legend, the repentant sinner lived a secluded life in the cave of Sainte-Baume, clothed only by her hair.

Every day she was raised up in the sky by angels to hear the heavenly chorus. The statue appeared on the German art market in the 19th century and was purchased by the Louvre in 1902.