Francisco Goya
Born Mar 30 1746 in Fuendetodos, Spain, Goya was a romantic painter/printmaker. Considered to be the most important Spanish artist of the C18th and 19th, his works reflected contemporary historical upheavals.
Vincent Van Gogh
Mar 30 1853 in Zundert, NL. What needs to be said? In the top three artists of all time, and I don’t know who the others are. Here’s the lesser known: Sea at Scheveningen. Also check out a video I made of the VG Alive show.
Art and Dine September 4th 2022
Come and join us at the Halbinsel Au, Wädenswil on Sunday September 4th for Sunday lunch and personal presentations from some of our Connecting Artists
Artinars: Webinars on Art
Come and join us for lively discussions on all sorts of topics affecting art, artists, buyers and the whole art world, with expert opinion from artists, art professionals, collectors and those in the know.
Augmented Reality
Use your mobile phone to be able to see how our artists works would look in your home or office
Ferdinand Hodler
Born (not #OTD, but 10 days ago) Mar 14 1853 in Bern. Perhaps THE most influential Swiss painter and I missed it while on the #UkraineMission. Best known for Mountains, landscapes and symmetry, here’s his: Thunersee. We will revisit.
Juan Gris
Born23 Mar 1887 in Madrid, was one of the great Cubists (even if I only discovered him on a trip to Madrid). He lived in France for most of his career, and while maybe not quite up with Picasso, whose portrait this is, he’s pretty damn close.
Sampaguita Martyr, 2020, Marius Black
This work shows the Sampaguita Martyr, a father who services his children who sells “Sampaguitas” (Jasmine flowers). He drives his pedicab, a small pedal-operated vehicle, to make their way to the nearby church where they sell their Sampaguitas. In mostly Roman Catholic Philippines, it is tradition to buy these flowers
Robt Williams
Mar 2 1943. in Albuquerque. After a troubled youth, he moved to LA to be an illustrator, later working with Robert Crumb, before creating his Super Cartoon works using Old Master techniques.
Oskar Kokoschka
Born: Mar 1, 1886 in Pöchlarn, Austria. Oskar was skilled at intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. His theories on vision also highly influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement.
Joaquin Sorolla
Born on 27 Feb 1863 in Valencia. Sorolla was orphaned at two years old. Brought up by an aunt/uncle, he studied in Madrid and Paris, later becoming known mainly for portraits. Here’s his home “Playa”.
Second CA Test to Instagram
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Born: Feb 25, 1841 in Limoges, Renoir was one of the big guns of Impressionism. Is there much else to say? This is La Grenouillere, painted in 1869 #frog #unpronouncable
Winslow Homer
Born: Feb 24, 1836, in Boston, MA, Homer was an exceptional landscape painter, mainly known for his marine work. Considered one of the foremost painters in C19 America, he was largely self-taught, This is Salt Kettle, Bermuda
Thomas Wesselmann
Born Feb 23, 1931 in Cincinnati, he was to be associated with the Pop Art movement. Initially working as a cartoonist, he found durng a landscape painting trip in 1958, that he could make painting his career,
Art & Afternoon Tea Workshop
Amongst my art workshops this is the most popular one. In this course you will spend an afternoon in my atelier and you will get a very personal insights into the life of an artist. Most of all you will get creative yourself. I will teach you some techniques of
Igshaan Adams – Kicking Dust
Fresh from the Hayward Gallery, the Kunsthalle in Zürich has an exhibition featuring Igshaan Adams. It’s Ighsaan’s first major solo exhibition in continental Europe. Entitled Kicking Dust, the exhibition is akin to a park, a landscape that absorbs and surrounds us with the everyday – desire, narrative and countless contrasts.
Ivan Albright
Born in Illinois, Feb 20, 1897, seen as a Magic Realist, Albright was known as the “master of the macabre” because of his dark subject matter (surprisingly, mainly self-portraits). This is: Dorian Gray #oneForTheAttic
Gabriele Münter
Born in Berlin, 19 Feb 1877, Gabriele was a German expressionist painter. She studied and lived with Kandinsky and was a founding member of the Blaue Reiter group.
Max Klinger
Born 18 Feb1857 in Leipzig to a wealthy family so was able to pursue his passion for art, focusing on prints and etchings. Most famous for his wonderfully-titled series Paraphrase on the finding of a glove, here’s: Action.
Raphael Peale
Born Feb 17, 1774 in Annapolis, Peale was the first professional American still-life painter. Must have been an artistic family, his siblings were called Titian, Rubens and Rembrandt!
Armand Guillaumin
A friend of Van Gogh, Guillaumin was born in Orly, 16 Feb 1841. Sadly he’s not the best remembered of French Impressionists. His Landscape at Crozant is in the @artinstitutechi
Alfred Thomas Agate
Born Feb 14, 1812 in Sparta NY, Agate was considered to be a pioneer of camera lucida usage, enabling him to trace the outline of landscapes. Especially good at botanical illustrations, he served on the US Exploring Expedition of 1838–42. This painting is entitled: Sacramento.
Ary Scheffer
Born Feb 10, 1795 in Dordrecht, NL: Known for his works based on literature (think Dante, Goethe, Byron) and religious subjects, here’s: Temptation of Christ #oldSchool
KINGS & QUEENS – My Art Theme 2022
Today is Epiphany and I hope that you have already fished a king or a queen out of your Three King Cake. In Switzerland we buy a cake made out of a sweet brioche dough. It has one big Brioche in the middle and small ones around it. In every
Coming Soon – Mondrian
One to put in your diary. The Beyeler will be marking the 150th anniversary of Piet Mondrian’s birth with an exhibion starting on the 5th June. We all know his recilinear, primary colour work, but he was also influenced not only by late 19th century Dutch landscape painting but also
Happy New Year
The year is slowly coming to an end. And what a year it was! I was able to realize exciting projects, many of my works have found new homes and I was fortunate to welcome wonderful customer and visitors in my atelier. What was thought to be a Mother’s Day
Gazes out of Time
Self portraits across time is the theme of this exhibition in St Gallen. Whether it’s Switzerland’s perennial favourite artist Hodler, looking at a mirror, or a 16th Century Lucretia, self portraits and faces always have a story to tell. According to the Kunstmuseum: “The exhibition Gazes Out of Time brings
Art of the 80s
Think of the 80s and first reflections are of Duran Duran, Synth Pop and shoulder pads, at least in this house. But as the new exhibition at the Albertina Modern shows, the 80s was a vital decade in the history of art. No one style dominated the decade; kitsch was