Banchev Yakim
Yakim Kazandziev Banchev, born on 6th August 1884 in Lovech, Bulgaria. Well know Bulgarian military painter, who visited Macedonia with the Bulgarian army during Balkan Wars. Studied art before 1904 at the Fine Art Academy “Alberina” in Тorino, Italy, together with some leading Bulgarian painters like Nikola Ganushev and Maksim Tzankov. Winner of multiple medals […]
Balke Charles Theodor
Born on April 29, 1875, in Faulquemont in the Moselle region of France, Balke was a student of Bouveray and Suvand in Paris. He became an exhibiting member of the Paris Salons in 1920s and in 1929 exhibited at the Salon de la Nationale des Beaux-Arts under name Balke-Gry. Listed in Benezit. Theodor Charles Balke […]
Bain George
George Bain is referred as “the father of the modern Celtic design”. Born in Scrabster (Caithness), educated in Edinburg. In 1951 he wrote his most famous book “Celtic Art: The Methods of Creation”. In 1978, a retrospective exhibition of his work was held in Kirkcaldy. His collection is held by the Groam House Museum in […]
Augustinčić Antun
Born on 4th May 1900 in Klanjec, Croatia, died on 10 May 1979 in Zagreb, Croatia, Antun Augustinčić was a prominent Croatian sculptor and one of the leading Yugoslavian artists after the Second World War. His most notable sculptures include the Peace monument which stands in front of the United Nations building in New York […]
Arsenović Nikola
Born in Osijek, died in Belgrade. He was a 19th century Serbian tailor, anthropologist and illustrator. As a self-thought painter, he traveled for two decades around Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia, painting folk costumes. In 1868 tried to establish arts & crafts school in Zrenjanin, Ruma and Iriga. In 1873, he offers his vast […]
Armour Denholm George
Animal painter and cartoonist, born at Waterside, Lanarkshire 1864, died in Wiltshire in 1949. Studied at the St. Andrew University and at the School of Art in Edinburgh and at the RSA School. Student of Robert Alexander (1840-1923). In 1910 he studied military equestrian procedures at the Spanish riding school in Vienna. Armour visited Macedonia […]
Argyros Oumbertos
Born in Kavala in 1882, died in Athens in 1963. He was a major Greek impressionist. Argyros studied at the Art School of Athens in the class of Nikiphoros Lytras. During the World war 2, he was an official government war artist from the Greek-Italian front. His paintings can be found in the Military Museum […]
Andrejevič Djordje Kun
Born 31st March 1904 Breslau, Germany, died 17th January 1964 Belgrade, Yugoslavia, He was a Serbian painter of great renown. He is known as the designer of the Coat of Arms of the city of Belgrade and co-designer (together with Antun Augustincic, in 1946) of the Coat of Arm of the Republic of Macedonia. Born […]
Amiguet Marcel
Swiss painter, traveler, musician and theoretical researcher for music and art. Born on 24-07-1891 in Ollon and died on 10.08.1958in Ollon. After living for many years in Paris, Marcel Amiguet departs on a long journey from 1929 until 1932, travelling through Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Cyclades, Syria, Iraq, Persia, Baluchistan and Kasmir, up to Bombay. […]
Amable Benoist
Very little information can be found about this painting, who lived and worked in Toulouse, France in the period 1900-1940 and who was in the Macedonian front around 1917, where he created a set of watercolors of Kavadarci, Krivolak, Vardar Valley, Thessaloniki and the Greek Macedonian villages. The whole set of watercolors was unfortunately scattered […]
