Year of birth: May 14, 1727 Date of death: August 2, 1788 Country: England The artist’s work is located: Biography: Thomas Gainsborough was a famous English portrait painter of the 18th century. The artist was born in 1727 into an English family with many children. The boy’s talent for painting began to show in early … Read more
Year of birth: August 5, 1844 Date of death: September 29, 1930 Country: Russia Locations of the artist’s works: Russian Museum Tretyakov Gallery Biography: ?. ?. Repin was born in the town of Chuguev, located in Kharkov Province, in 1844. At that time, no one could even think that this ordinary boy from a poor … Read more
Year of birth: May 27, 1837 Date of death: March 24, 1887 Country: Russia Locations of the artist’s works: Russian Museum Hermitage Tretyakov Gallery Biography: Kramskoy Ivan Nikolaevich (years of life – 1837-1887) is known today as a talented portrait painter and historical painter. His hometown is Ostrogozhsk of Voronezh Province. It was there, in … Read more
Year of birth: March 7, 1878 Date of death: May 28, 1927 Country: Russia Locations of the artist’s works: Russian Museum Tretyakov Gallery Biography: The artistic talent of Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev, the world-renowned representative of Russian painting of the last century, gave us a nostalgic world, sunny and joyful, emphasizing with bright colors the feeling … Read more
Year of birth: April 19, 1834 Date of death: December 30, 1911 Country: Russia Locations of the artist’s works: Russian Museum Tretyakov Gallery Biography: Grigory Grigoryevich Myasoedov was born on April 7 (O.S. 19), 1834 in the village of Pankovo, Tula province (now Novoderevenkovsky district of Orel region), in the family of a petty nobleman. … Read more
Year of birth: July 10, 1888 Date of death: November 20, 1978 Country: Italy Locations of the artist’s works: Museum of Modern Art (New York) Biography: In Greece de Chirico receives a classical art education, in Munich he makes discoveries that help him develop his own style. De Chirico’s metaphysical painting has its origins in … Read more
Year of birth: July 10, 1830 Date of death: November 13, 1903 Country: France Locations of the artist’s works: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Museum d’Orsay Louvre National Gallery (London) Biography: Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was the oldest of the Impressionists. He was born into a family of a hardware dealer in a port town … Read more
Year of birth: July 19, 1834 Date of death: September 27, 1917 Country: France Locations of the artist’s works: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Pushkin Hermitage Museum d’Orsay National Gallery of Art (Washington) Biography: Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was perhaps the most classic of the Impressionists. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under one of … Read more
Year of birth: March 30, 1746 Date of death: April 16, 1828 Country: Spain Locations of the artist’s works: Prado Gallery Uffizi Hermitage Museum Louvre National Gallery of Art (Washington) Biography: The famous painter Francisco de Goya was born on March 30, 1746 in Fuendetodos, Spain. He began his explorations of art as a teenager … Read more
Glen Wolfgramm was born in Auckland in 1971. Of Tongan and Irish descent, he is self-taught, his paintings conveying echoes of both the Pacific, and some space-age, futuristic world existing now only in our imaginations, nurtured by the world of sci fi movies. Wolfgramm has been exhibiting since 1998, was a finalist in the Wallace Art Awards in 2000 … Read more
CHRISTINE WEBSTER, born in Pukekohe. 1982, 84, 88 QEII Arts Council Grant. 1989 Polaroid Small Projects Grant, Offenbach am Main, Germany. 1991 Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, UO, Dunedin. 1994 Acting HOD, ASA SoA, Auckland. 1995 part-time tutor, ASA SoA. Arts Council Toi Aotearoa Fellowship, Auckland. 1996-97 part-time tutor, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland. 1996 CNZ Professional … Read more
BEN WEBB (1976 – 2014)Ben Webb exhibited from the age of 19. A self-taught artist, he was the youngest NZ artist to have shown in a public gallery and to represent NZ in a biennale. He held the Goethe Institut residency in Berlin in 2002 and exhibited at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane and … Read more
Aitanga a Hauiti/New Zealand IrishBorn 1954 in Tolaga Bay. 1973-74 attended Ilam SoFA, CU. After his first solo exhibition held when he was almost 40 (his earlier works having been exhibited mainly around his home territory of Gisborne and the East Coast region of New Zealand), John Walsh quickly made a name for himself and now … Read more
PHILIP TRUSTTUM, born 1940, Raetihi.Graduated Diploma of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, 1964 Trusttum is one of New Zealand’s leading figurative, expressionist painters. He has always been driven to paint and his output has been prolific and dynamic, reflecting his personal energy and enthusiasm. His masterly sense of colour applied with … Read more
In 1996, New Zealand-born Lorene Taurerewa graduated BFA (Painting) from the Quay School of Fine Arts, Wanganui. Two years later she graduated with a Diploma of Teaching, (Secondary Fine Art) from Massey University, and in 2001 spent a year of study in an MA Programme at the Auckland University of Technology. She has received numerous … Read more
PETER SIDDELL, 1935 – 2011, AucklandOne of New Zealand’s most prominent realist painters, Peter Siddell is perhaps best-known for his unpopulated cityscapes which appear familiar, yet are not identifiable. He draws together different elements from a variety of sources to create timeless images of neighbourhoods that look uninhabited despite there being evidence of earlier human … Read more
Michael Shepherd was born in Hamilton in 1950 and graduated with a Diploma of Fine Arts (Honours) from Elam, the School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 1979. In 1982 he was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council travel grant, which he used to study 17th century Dutch painting materials and techniques at … Read more
DON PEEBLES (1922 Taneatua – 2010 Christchurch)Since his first exhibition in 1948, Peebles has continued to push the boundaries of his art practice, never accepting what he has already achieved, but striving for more. He has steadily produced a solid body of work as he has pursued a unique path in his art. Like most artists … Read more
J S PARKER, born 1944, Auckland; died 2017, Blenheim John S Parker painted full-time from the time he was awarded the prestigious Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, University of Otago, in 1975, until the year of his death. Apart from some early landscapes and portraits, he always painted abstract works. His paintings are a reflection of his life’s experiences … Read more
James Ormsby was born in 1957, of Ngati Maniapoto, Waikato, Te Arawa and Katimana (Scottish) descent. He graduated with a MFA from The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia, in 2001. He has participated in both local and international group exhibitions since 1998, and has been exhibiting in solo shows since 2001. Ormsby focuses on … Read more
RICHARD MCWHANNELL, born 1952 in AkaroaMcWhannell graduated Diploma of Fine Arts form the University of Canterbury in 1972 and has been exhibiting regularly, particularly in Auckland and Wellington, since 1974. Early landscapes ceded to cityscapes and portraits, and the occasional sculpture, after he moved to Auckland in 1978. Travelling through Europe in the mid-1980s, McWhannell … Read more
MARY MCINTYRE, born 1928, AucklandA self-taught painter, McIntyre has been a full-time artist since 1980, and is well-known for her realist works in which she creates ambiguous, often surreal, narratives. One of New Zealand’s foremost realist, figurative painters, she has a reputation for producing works that defy political correctness and usually contain barbed humour or … Read more
RICHARD LEWER, born in Hamilton in 1970 and currently living in Melbourne, graduated BFA from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University, in 1992 and MVA from Victoria College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2000. He has explored a diverse range of sometimes rather unexpected media, including canvas, stainless steel, aluminium, sheepskin, paper … Read more
GERDA LEENARDS, born 1946 Nijmegen, Holland Leenards emigrated to New Zealand in 1956. After a career as a draughtswoman and a graphic design assistant, she completed a Diploma of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, in 1970. She first exhibited in Wellington in 1981 and in 1985 she won the … Read more
