Marquet Albert

Born on 27-March -1875 in Bordeaux, died on 14-June-1947 in Paris. He is considered as one of the most important French painters from the “Fauvist” movement (“The wild ones”). He started is art career working and living with Henri Matisse and later in 1892 working with Gustave Moreau at the Paris School of Fine Arts. […]

Marjanović Rista

Rista-Marjanovic-1885-1969-Serbian-Horse-unit-entering-Skopje-Oct.1912

Born in Šabac on 01.03.1885, died in Belgrade on 07.04.1969. He was the first Serbian photojournalist. His photographs from the Balkan wars and the First World War have priceless documentary value. During the first Balkan war in 1912, he worked as an editor of the American newspaper New York Herald for Europe. He went to […]

Markau Franz

Franz Markau (1881 –1961) Ushkub (Skopje) small mosque, 1919 oil tempera on canvas

Born on 01.11.1881 in Berlin, died on 25.01.1968 in Weimar. He was German painter and sculptor. His art studies begun in 1896 at the Handwork School in Berlin, later at the State Art School between 1901 and 1903 and finally at the Royal Art Academy in Berlin, in the class of prof. Bruno Paul and […]

Marc Franc

Franz Marc is one of the most popular German Expressionists. He was born on 08.02.1880, in Munich, Germany, died on 04.03.1916 in Braquis on the French World War One front. He studied at the Munich Art Academy in 1900, after he stopped his studies of theology and philosophy. In 1903 he traveled to Paris several […]

Maly Frantisek

Frantisek-Maly-1900-–1980-Village-Nerezi-near-Skopje-1935-oil-on-canvas

Born in 10.03.1900 in Litomysl, died on 22.06.1980 in Brno. Studied art at the Fine Arts Academy in Prague between 1917-1921 in the class of Prof Benesh Kysela. He was well known Czechoslovakian art professor, lecturing art staring between 1934 and 1938 at the academy in Bratislava. He exhibited regularly since 1921, including an exhibition […]

Maleas Constantinos

Constantinos-Maleas-1879-–1928-Landscape-in-Northern-Greece-possibly-Khalkidhiki-1914

Born and grew up in Constantinople. He studied at the Phanar Greek Orthodox College and then left for Paris in 1901 to study initially architecture. In Paris he eventually decided to study painting until 1908 near Henri Martin. In 1913 he returned to Greece, initially in Thessaloniki and then based in Athens. In 1917 he […]

Makenzie Sebright Mary Georgina

Georgina-Mary-Mackenzie-1833-–1874-Cathedral-in-Ohrid-1867

Also know and lady Georgina Muir Mackenzie, British traveler and illustrator, traveled through the Balkans together with Adelaide Paulina Irby (1831-1911), always accompanied with Turkish armed escorts. Their extensive visit to Macedonia is described and illustrated in her book “The Turks, The Greeks, The Slavons, Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe (1867)”. She wrote […]

Makedonski Vasil

Vasil-Makedonski-1900-–1980-Bitola-1943-oil-on-panel

Bulgarian painter. His paintings appear on several art galleries (for example artprice.bg and Victoria auction house). He visited Bitola, Macedonia in 1943. An oil painting produced during this visit is in the collection of the author.  

Macke Helmuth

Helmuth Macke (1891 – 1936) Macedonian Landscape near Dojran Lake 1918, watercolor

Born in Krefeld on 27.1.1891, died in Hemmenhofen am Bodensee on 8.9.1936. Cousin of the famous German painter August Macke. Studied art with the Dutch artist Jan Thorn-Prikker (1868-1932) at the Krefeld School of Arts and Crafts. In 1910/11 he got in touch with the very progressive group of German artists that identified themselves under […]

Macdonald R.A.

Lieutenant Colonel R.A. Macdonald, illustrator, visited Macedonia in 1917 where he produced several drawings from the Dojran front in 1917. These drawings are together in the collection of Imperial War Museum, London.