American painter and illustrator Edwin Austin Abbey was born in Philadelphia in 1852. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Christian Schuessele. Abbey began as an illustrator...

Adrien Dauzats was born at Bordeaux (1804). He was among the first artists to paint the Orient with scrupulous exactitude and impartiality, but, although an initiator in this sense, his work never caught the...

Alexandre Gabriel Decamps was born in Paris (1803). In his youth he travelled in the East, and reproduced Oriental life and scenery with a bold fidelity to nature that puzzled conventional critics. He spent little over a year in the Near East...

Francis Bacon was born in Dublin (1909). Bacon's Surrealist-influenced paintings of the early 1930s already presaged a theme that would dominate his later oeuvre: that of the crucifixion. Inspired by a Picasso...

Jean Arp (Hans Arp) was born in Strasbourg (1866). In 1904, after leaving the École des Arts et Métiers in Strasbourg, he went to Paris where he published his poetry for the first time. He was trained in art in...

Karel Appel was born in Amsterdam, the Netherland (1921). From 1940 to 1943, Karel Appel studied at the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, or Royal Academy of Art, in Amsterdam. Together with Pierre...

French Painter, engraver and sculptor, Louise Abbema was born in Étampes on October 30, 1853 where her father, Viscount Abbema, was then station master. A unique and pampered girl, if not adored by her...

Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movement in decorative and visual arts, literature, theater, music and architecture, inspired by, classical art and classical ancient artwork. Neoclassicism was born in...

Jewish-Polish painter and printmaker Jankel Adler was born on 26th July, 1895 in Tuszyn. Jankel Adler moved to Germany from Poland prior to World War I. Before entering the Barmer School of Applied Art,...

Impressionism is an art movement born in France in the 19th century. It comes from the word ‘Impression’. The famous French painter Claude Monet called the impression of a painting showing the motion of the sun...

German mannerist painter Hans von Aachen was born in Cologne and took his name from his father’s birthplace. He first trained with a minor painter in his native Cologne, and he took his name from his father’s