Paul Cézanne, biography and paintings

Year of birth: January 19, 1839 Date of death: October 22, 1906 Country: France Locations of the artist’s works: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Metropolitan Museum Hermitage Museum d’Orsay Museum of Modern Art (New York) Biography: Paul Cézanne was born on January 19, 1839 in the ancient French town of Aix-en-Provence. The only son … Read more

Biography and Paintings of Edouard Manet

Year of birth: January 23, 1832 Date of death: April 30, 1883 Country: France Locations of the artist’s works: Museum d’Orsay Pinakothek, Munich Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Metropolitan Museum of Art (Washington) Biography: One of the most outstanding painters of France, Edouard Manet was born in 1832. The artist’s father held a rather … Read more

Jean Auguste Dominique Engres – biography and paintings

Year of birth: August 29, 1780 Date of death: January 14, 1867 Country: France Locations of the artist’s works: Louvre Hermitage Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Metropolitan Museum d’Orsay Biography: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was born on August 29, 1780 in Montauban near Toulouse. His father, as a sculptor and painter, instilled in the … Read more

Kramskoy Ivan Nikolaevich – biography and paintings

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

Artist Kustodiev – biography and description of paintings

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

Grigory Grigorievich Myasoedov – biography and paintings

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

Edgar Degas – biography and paintings of the artist

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

Glen Wolfgramm

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

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

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

John Walsh

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

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

Lorene Taurerewa

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

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

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

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