Jouanneau dit Irriera Roger
French Orientalist, painter, illustrator and cartoonist. Born in Bordeaux 1884, but he considered himself as a Parisian. Traveled through the Orient and served the French army in the world wars, for which he gained many military awards. He has created more than 300 works of art illustrating the scenes where the French army fought. His […]
Ionchev Christo
Born on 20-03-1879 in Samokov, died on 07-05-1950 in Sofia. Studied fine art at the Industrial Art school in Sofia in the class of prof. Ivan Angelov and prof. Ivan Mrkvicka. Visited and worked also in Munich. Lived mainly in Samokov. He painted mainly landscapes, developing his own landscape style, emphasizing the beauty of the […]
Huter Anton
Born 23 August 1905 in Crkvenica, died on 7 March 1961 in Belgrade. Studied in 1927 at the Fine Art Academy in Belgrade, pupil of Lj. Ivanovic and M. Milovanovic. He made study trips to Paris in 1928, where he exhibited with the other Yugoslav painters. Member of “Oblik” and “Independent” art groups. His style […]
Huber Ernst
Born 15. July 1896 in Vienna, died on 26. Sept. 1960 in Vienna. His paintings were represented 1919 at the art association. From 1920 he was a member of the Viennese “Sonderbund” and from 1930 a member of the Viennese Secession. He traveled to Dalmatia, Orient / Palestine, Tunisia, South America, Peru, Chile, Columbia and […]
Houston Robert
Robert Houston was born in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire on 5th June 1891. He studied at Glasgow School of Art, where he was a contemporary of Gordon Thomas. He was a painter in oils and watercolors of mainly coastal scenery анд landscapes of the Britain’s west coast and western isles and Scottish lakes and figurative subjects. He […]
Hine Wickes Lewis
Probably one of the best American photographers of the early 20th century, Lewis Wickes Hine was more of a sociologist who used his camera as a tool for social reforms. His photographs of the construction of Empire State Building in the 1930 as well as his photographs of the immigrants arriving at the Ellis Island […]
Hielscher Kurt
Kurt Hielscher was one of the most famous German art photographers of his time. He was born in Striegau, Schlesien (Silesia, Poland) and died in Lichtenstein in Sachsen. He was a German language teacher in Spain during the first world war, where he made thousands of artistic photographs of Spanish landscapes. In the 1920s he […]
Hesshaimer Ludwig
А very well-known Austrian painter and graphic artist of the late 19th – early 20th century. At first an officer, he soon started painting and served during the World War I as military painter in Serbia, Macedonia and Russia. Тhe First World War had a major impression on him. He created a recognizable style of […]
Hempfing Wilhelm
Born on 15.7. 1886 in Schönau/Heidelberg, died on 6. 6. 1948 in Karlsruhe, Wilhelm Hempfing swas a German painter and printmaker who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe (just like his colleague student Emil Nolde) with Professor Friedrich Fehr. He was also an important and excellent etcher trained by Walter Conz at […]
Heckendorf Franz
Born in Berlin on 5th November 1888, died in Munich on 17th August 1962. He studied at the Academy of Decorative Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts and had his first exhibitions in the Berlin Secession as early as in 1909. His first paintings were focused on impressionism and mainly showed motives he had […]