Milenkov Alexander
Born on 19.01.1882 in Samokov, died on 03.01.1971 in Sofia. In 1901 completed the general course of the School of Arts in Sofia, the class of Petko Klisurov and Ivan Angelov. Within the period 1901–1906 he specialized mural painting and theatre decoration in Munich. Milenkov is the first Bulgarian professional theatre artist, and an author […]
Miklos Gustave
Born in Budapest 1888, died in Oyonnax 1967. He studied at the Decorative Arts School in Budapest. In 1909 Miklos settled in Paris. He became a naturalized French citizen and made acquaintances with renown Hungarian/French sculptor Josephy Csaky. In Paris, he frequented the Cubist exhibitions. He designed beautiful jewelry enamels, silver and carpets and soon […]
Mihaylov Boris
Born on 21.09.1868 in Kazanluk, died on 14.06.1921 in Sofia. He graduated from the Art Academy in Florence in 1892. Professor of drawing in Sliven and Sofia. Professor of decorative art and study of styles (1901 – 1921) and principal (1918 – 1920) of the Industrial School of Arts in Sofia. His works are in […]
Mihajlović Nikola
Born on 06.05.1885 in Novi Sad, died in 1942 in a police raid. Student of Rista Vukanović in Belgrade and later student of the Art School in Budapest and Fine Arts Academy in Munich between 1908-12. He was an art teacher in Prizren and Skopje until 1932. He was an official Serbian Army painter during […]
Michailov Nikola
Born in Shumen on 31.01.1876. died in Hamburg in 20.05.1960. Nikola Michailov (Michaliow, Michailoff) is one of the most important Bulgarian painters. He studied at the Academy of Fine arts in Munich, Germany in the period between 1896-1899 in the class of Otto Seitz and later took private lessons in Munich between 1900 and 1902 […]
Mengels ‘Ber’ Mengels
Born on 06.05.1921 in Heerlen, died on 19.06.1995 in The Hague. He was a self-thought painter. He worked as a coal miner working in the coal mines in Heerlen until the Second World War. He attended some drawing lessons at the art school in Heerlen. In 1943 he went hiding in order to avoid the […]
Maud T. William
English military painter and journalist. Graduated from the Royal Art Academy in London, worked as a painter, illustrator and journalist for the journal “The Graphic”, London and was war correspondent and illustrator for the wars in Armenia, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Italy and South Africa. Died on 10th May 1903 in Aden, then a British colony, […]
Matthews Percy
Percy Matthews trained at the Ramsgate School of Art. During World War I Percy served on the Western Front as a Private in the Kentish Buffs, and later in Salonika as a Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment. It was in Salonika that he produced his remarkable sketches of scenes and characters from military and civilian […]
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
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 […]
