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Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay or...
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Claude Monet
Claude Monet (French pronunciation: [klod mɔnɛ]) also known as Oscar Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the...
- x Artworks:
- Le Parlement,
- Water Lilies,
- Impression, Sunrise,
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- Water Lilies,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Impressionism
Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (English pronunciation: /ˌhaɪəˈrɒnəməs bɒʃ/, Dutch: [ɦieːˈɾoːniməs ˈbɔs]; born Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken [jəˈrun ɑnˈtoːnɪsoːn vɑn ˈaːkə(n)]; c. 1450 – August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and...
- x Artworks:
- The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things,
- Ship of Fools,
- The Extraction of the Stone of Madness,
- more ▼
- Ship of Fools,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Renaissance
John Atkinson Grimshaw
John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was a Victorian-era artist, a "remarkable and imaginative painter" known for his city scenes and landscapes.
His early paintings were signed "JAG," "J. A. Grimshaw," or "John Atkinson...
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- x Associated periods or movements:
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a...
- x Art Forms:
- Painting,
- Printmaking
Alessandro Allori
Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (3 May 1535 - 22 September 1607) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.
Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained...
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Aristide Maillol
Aristide Maillol or Aristides Maillol (December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944) was a French Catalan sculptor and painter.
Maillol was born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon. He decided at an early age to become a painter, and moved to Paris in 1881 to...
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer (German pronunciation: [ˈalbʀɛçt ˈdyʀɐ]) (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been...
- x Art Forms:
- Painting,
- Printmaking
- x Artworks:
- The Four Apostles,
- Dürer's Rhinoceros,
- St. Jerome in His Study,
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- Dürer's Rhinoceros,
- x Associated periods or movements:
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Alberto Giacometti was born in October 1901 in Italian-speaking Switzerland and came from an artistic background - his father,...
- x Artworks:
- Monumental Head,
- Portrait of Peter Watson,
- Lampe avec deux figures (Lamp with Two Figures),
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- Portrait of Peter Watson,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Surrealism,
- Cubism,
- Expressionism
- Cubism,
Albrecht Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 near Regensburg – 12 February 1538 in Regensburg) was a German painter, printmaker and architect of the Renaissance era, the leader of the Danube School in southern Germany, and a near-contemporary of Albrecht Dürer. He...
- x Artworks:
- The Battle of Alexander at Issus
- x Associated periods or movements:
Ambrosius Bosschaert
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (Antwerp, January 18, 1573–The Hague, 1621) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.
He started his career in Antwerp, but spent most of it in Middelburg (1593–1613), where he became dean of the painters'...
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Baroque,
- Dutch Golden Age
Agostino Carracci
Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (August 16, 1557 – March 22, 1602) was an Italian painter and printmaker. He was the brother of the more famous Annibale and cousin of Lodovico Carracci.
He posited the ideal in nature, and was the founder of the...
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Aelbert Cuyp
Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (October 20, 1620 – November 15, 1691) was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594–1651...
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Dutch Golden Age,
- Baroque
Brion Gysin
Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 – July 13, 1986) was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire.
He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique used by William S. Burroughs. With Ian Somerville...
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- x Associated periods or movements:
Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Undervalued for over a century, possibly because she was a woman, she is now considered among the...
- x Artworks:
- Young Woman in a Garden,
- Woman at Her Toilette,
- Fort de Compigne,
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- Woman at Her Toilette,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Impressionism
Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically...
- x Artworks:
- Wanderer above the Sea of Fog,
- Moonrise Over the Sea,
- Self-Portrait as a Young Man,
- more ▼
- Moonrise Over the Sea,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- German Romanticism,
- Romanticism
Cecilia Beaux
Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942) was an American society portraitist, in the nature of John Singer Sargent. She was a near contemporary of better-known American artist Mary Cassatt and also received her training in Philadelphia and...
- x Artworks:
- Dorothea and Francesca
- x Associated periods or movements:
Charles Alston
Charles Henry Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977), born in Charlotte, North Carolina, was an American artist, muralist, and teacher. Alston graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City, then attended Columbia College and...
- x Artworks:
- x Associated periods or movements:
Cimabue
Cenni di Pepo (Giovanni) Cimabue (c. 1240 — c. 1302) also known as Bencivieni di Pepo or in modern Italian, Benvenuto di Giuseppe, was an Italian painter and creator of mosaics from Florence. He is also well known for his student Giotto, considered...
- x Artworks:
- The Madonna in Majesty (Maestà)
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Italian Renaissance
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571–18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His intensely emotional realism and dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on the...
- x Artworks:
- Salome with the Head of John the Baptist,
- Martha and Mary Magdalene,
- The Entombment of Christ,
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- Martha and Mary Magdalene,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Baroque,
- Renaissance
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (2 November 1699 - 6 December 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life.
Chardin was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left the city. He lived on the Left Bank...
- x Artworks:
- Soap Bubbles,
- Soap Bubbles,
- Soap Bubbles,
- more ▼
- Soap Bubbles,
Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues,...
- x Artworks:
- Young Peasant Woman Drinking Her Caf au Lait,
- The Place du Havre, Paris,
- Woman Sewing,
- more ▼
- The Place du Havre, Paris,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Neo-impressionism,
- Impressionism
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), and Mulholland Drive (2001). He also...
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- x Associated periods or movements:
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in...
- x Artworks:
- Oath of the Horatii,
- The Death of Marat,
- The Death of Socrates,
- more ▼
- The Death of Marat,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Neoclassicism
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (French pronunciation: [edwaʁ manɛ]), 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883, was a French painter. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to...
- x Artworks:
- The Luncheon on the Grass,
- Olympia,
- A Bar at the Folies-Bergère,
- more ▼
- Olympia,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Impressionism,
- Realism
Emanuel Leutze
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868) was a German American history painter best-known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.
Leutze was born to a Jewish family in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg (Germany), was brought to...
- x Artworks:
- Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way,
- Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth,
- Columbus before the Council of Salamanca,
- more ▼
- Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Romanticism
Edwin Austin Abbey
Edwin Austin Abbey (April 1, 1852 – August 1, 1911) was an American artist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of...
- x Artworks:
- x Associated periods or movements:
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈmʉŋk], 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionistic art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The...
- x Art Forms:
- Drawing,
- Sculpture,
- Printmaking,
- more ▼
- Sculpture,
- x Artworks:
- The Sick Child,
- Ashes,
- The Scream,
- more ▼
- Ashes,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Symbolism,
- Expressionism
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (16 April 1755 - 30 March 1842) was a French painter, and is recognized as the most famous woman painter of the eighteenth century. Her style is generally considered Rococo and shows interest in the subject of...
- x Artworks:
- Self-portrait in a Straw Hat,
- Portrait of Marie Antoinette,
- Self-Portrait in a Turban with Julie,
- more ▼
- Portrait of Marie Antoinette,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Neoclassicism,
- Rococo
Edward Mitchell Bannister
Edward Mitchell Bannister (ca. 1828 – January 9, 1901) was an African American painter whose tonalism and predominantly pastoral subject matter owed much to his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School.
Bannister was born in St Andrews,...
- x Artworks:
- x Associated periods or movements:
Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of...
- x Art Forms:
- Painting,
- Printmaking
- x Artworks:
- The Third of May 1808,
- La Maja Desnuda,
- Saturn Devouring His Son,
- more ▼
- La Maja Desnuda,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Romanticism
Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico (c. 1395 – February 18, 1455), born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter, referred to in Vasari's Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent".
Known in Italy as il Beato Angelico, he was known to his...
- x Artworks:
- Deposition of Christ,
- The Prayer of St. Stephen,
- St. Lawrence Receiving the Treasures of the Church,
- more ▼
- The Prayer of St. Stephen,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Italian Renaissance
Fra Bartolommeo
Fra Bartolomeo or Fra Bartolommeo (di Pagholo) (March 28, 1472 – October 6, 1517), also known as Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects.
He was born in Savignano di Prato, Tuscany. He received the nickname of...
- x Artworks:
- x Associated periods or movements:
Frédéric Bazille
Jean Frédéric Bazille (December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter whose major works often foreground the figure within a landscape painted en plein air.
Frédéric Bazille was born in Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc...
- x Artworks:
- Landscape at Chailly,
- Self-portrait
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Impressionism
Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style.
Brown was born in Calais and studied art in...
- x Artworks:
- Work,
- Cromwell, Protector of the Vaudois,
- Cromwell on his Farm,
- more ▼
- Cromwell, Protector of the Vaudois,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,
- Realism
Georges Braque
Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as Cubism.
Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise. He grew up in Le Havre...
- x Artworks:
- Le Gueridon (The Gueridon),
- Vase, palette et mandoline (Vase, Palette, and Mandolin),
- Nature Morte,
- more ▼
- Vase, palette et mandoline (Vase, Palette, and Mandolin),
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Analytic cubism,
- Fauvism,
- Cubism
- Fauvism,
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects, many of which are...
- x Artworks:
- The Kiss,
- Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I,
- Hope, II,
- more ▼
- Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Symbolism,
- Art Nouveau,
- Vienna Secession
- Art Nouveau,
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (also spelled Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 — 28 November 1680) was an Italian artist who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sculptor of his age and also a prominent architect. In addition he...
Gerard David
Gerard David (c. 1460 – August 13, 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color.
He was born in Oudewater, now located in Utrecht. He spent his mature career in Bruges, where he was a...
- x Artworks:
- The Lamentation over the Body of Christ
- x Associated periods or movements:
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛʀman ˈhɛsə]) (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The...
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- x Associated periods or movements:
H. R. Giger
Hans Rudolf 'Ruedi' Giger (pronounced /ˈɡiːɡər/, born in Chur, Grisons Canton, Switzerland, February 5, 1940) is a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer, who won an Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects for his design...
- x Artworks:
- x Associated periods or movements:
Hendrick Avercamp
Hendrick Avercamp (bapt. January 27, 1585, Amsterdam - buried May 15, 1634, Kampen (Overijssel)) was a Dutch painter.
Avercamp studied in Amsterdam with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569-1625), and perhaps also with David...
- x Artworks:
- Winter Landscape with Skaters,
- A Scene on the Ice
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Baroque,
- Dutch Golden Age
Hans Baldung
Hans Baldung, known as Hans Baldung Grien/Grün (c. 1480 - 1545) was a German Renaissance artist in painting and printmaking in woodcut. He was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer.
The son of a lawyer, he was born Hans Baldung at...
- x Artworks:
- x Associated periods or movements:
Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an important and influential 18th century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealisation of the imperfect....
- x Artworks:
- The Duchess of Devonshire and her Child,
- Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers,
- Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond,
- more ▼
- Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers,
- x Associated periods or movements:
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist and the first African-American painter to become an international art star. He gained popularity first as a graffiti artist in New York City, and then as a successful...
- x Artworks:
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Contemporary art
Joseph Severn
Joseph Severn (7 December 1793 – 3 August 1879) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet John Keats. He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects and a selection of his...
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- x Associated periods or movements:
Juan Gris
José Victoriano González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His works are closely connected to the emergence of an innovative artistic...
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Cubism,
- Synthetic cubism,
- Analytic cubism
- Synthetic cubism,
Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an African American painter; he was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much...
- x Artworks:
- The Wedding,
- And the migrants kept coming,
- In the North the Negro had better educational facilities,
- more ▼
- And the migrants kept coming,
- x Associated periods or movements:
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a...
- x Artworks:
- Guardians of the Secret,
- Untitled,
- The Key,
- more ▼
- Untitled,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Abstract expressionism
Jacopo Amigoni
Jacopo Amigoni (also named Giacomo Amiconi, 1682 – 1752) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand....
- x Artworks:
Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the naturalism and...
- x Artworks:
- The Angelus,
- Femme nue couchée,
- Le Vanneur,
- more ▼
- Femme nue couchée,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Realism,
- Barbizon school
John James Audubon
John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America in a form far superior to what had gone before. In his...
- x Artworks:
- x Associated periods or movements:
Jacques Maroger
Jacques Maroger [pron. ma - ro - ZHAY](1884–1962) was a painter and the technical director of the Louvre Museum's laboratory in Paris, France. He devoted his life to understanding the oil-based media of the Old Masters.
In 1907, Maroger began to...
- x Artworks:
- x Associated periods or movements:
Jan van Goyen
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (13 January 1596, Leiden – 27 April 1656, The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter. Van Goyen was an extremely prolific artist; approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings by him are known....
- x Artworks:
- River Scene,
- Dune Landscape,
- View of the Haarlemmermeer,
- more ▼
- Dune Landscape,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Dutch Golden Age,
- Baroque
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 - 8 January 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.
Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting,...
- x Artworks:
- x Associated periods or movements:
Kenneth Noland
Kenneth Noland (born April 10, 1924) is an American abstract painter. He is identified today as one of the best-known contemporary American Color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early...
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Washington Color School,
- Color Field,
- Post-painterly Abstraction,
- more ▼
- Color Field,
Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (Russian: Казимир Северинович Малевич, Polish: Kazimierz Malewicz, Ukrainian: Казимир Северинович Малевич [kazɪˈmɪr sɛʋɛˈrɪnoʋɪtʃ mɑˈlɛʋɪtʃ], German: Kasimir Malewitsch, Belarusian: Казіме́р Мале́віч), (February 23,...
- x Artworks:
- Suprematist Drawing,
- Dynamic Suprematism,
- Painterly Realism. Boy with Knapsack - Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension,
- more ▼
- Dynamic Suprematism,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Suprematism,
- Cubism
Leone Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (February 18, 1404 – April 20, 1472) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath. Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's...
- x Artworks:
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Italian Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo...
- x Artworks:
- Mona Lisa,
- Ginevra de' Benci,
- The Last Supper,
- more ▼
- Ginevra de' Benci,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Italian Renaissance,
- High Renaissance,
- Renaissance
- High Renaissance,
Lamorna Birch
Samuel John "Lamorna" Birch, RA, RWS (June 7, 1869 – January 7, 1955) was an artist in oils and watercolours. At the suggestion of fellow artist Stanhope Forbes, Birch adopted the soubriquet "Lamorna" to distinguish himself from Lionel Birch, an...
- x Artworks:
- x Associated periods or movements:
Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter and caricaturist.
Lyonel Feininger was born to parents of German American descent and grew up in New York City. He moved to Berlin in 1887 to study at the...
- x Artworks:
- Gelmeroda,
- Manhattan, the Tower,
- A Group of Houses and Figures,
- more ▼
- Manhattan, the Tower,
- x Associated periods or movements:
- Cubism,
- Der Blaue Reiter,
- German Expressionism
- Der Blaue Reiter,
