Jakub SCHIKANEDER (Czech, 1855-1924) ✿

Jakub Schikaneder (February 27, 1855 in Prague – November 15, 1924 in Prague) was a Czech painter known for his soft cityscape paintings with very melancholic and lonely moods, often depicting lower class people.

LIN CHIN-HSIEN 林欽賢 ✿

LIN CHIN-HSIEN 林欽賢 is a Taiwanese artist born in 1968 in  Yilan and graduated from Taiwan Normal University Department of Fine Arts for graduate school in the Western painting group.  Currently, he is an associate professor at the National Taichung University of Education Fine Arts Department.  For numerous years, he has dedicated himself into studying art education and the creation of painting. 

Charles PERRON Art ✿

Charles Clément Perron (1893-1958) was a french painter was born in Plessé, in the Loire-Atlantique. He commenced his art studies in Nantes, before moving to Paris and joining the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts.

Huang ZHONG YANG ✿

Huang Zhong Yang (黄中羊) is a Chinese artist, was born in Guangzhou, China in 1949. From the age of four, Yang’s parents encouraged him to draw and paint. At the age of eight, Yang began formal training in traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. Yang’s instructors and peers were in awe of his talent even as a young boy. They believed that he would one day go on to become a great artist.

Martha WALTER (American, 1875-1976) ~ Still Life ✿

Martha Walter (1875 – 1976) was an American impressionist painter born in  Philadelphia. She studied art at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art from 1895–98 and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. She was taught by William Merritt Chase. She won the school's Toppan Prize (1902) and Cresson Traveling Scholarship (1908).

Doris ZINKEISEN (1898-1991) ~ Ballerina and Theatre ✿

Doris Clare Zinkeisen (31 July 1898 – 3 January 1991) was a Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, painter, commercial artist, and writer. She was best known for her work in theatrical design.

Charles PERRON (French, 1893-1958) ✿

Charles Clément Francis Perron, born August 22, 1893 at Plessé (Loire-Atlantique), died April 18, 1958 in Nantes, is a French painter of the twentieth century. After the death of his father in 1901, he lives with his mother in le Gâvre, he spent the patent Blain and receives training at the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (1909-1913), then the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1913-1914 and 1919-1921).

Frederick Carl FRIESEKE (1874-1939) ~ Woman with Parasol 2 ✿

Frederick Carl FRIESEKE (1874-1939) was born in Owosso, Michigan, and after brief study at the Art Institute of Chicago he moved to Paris in 1898, where he worked with several academic painters. After 1900 he adopted the light, colorful palette of the impressionists but never abjured the strong linear tradition of American art.

Frederick Carl FRIESEKE (1874-1939) ~ Woman with Parasol ✿

Frederick Carl FRIESEKE (1874-1939) was an American Impressionist painter whose early work was influenced by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and whose later work strongly reflected the explorations of the French Impressionists. His paintings of voluptuous full-bodied women, many painted at his country home in Giverny, France, recall the work of Pierre Auguste Renoir

Edouard François ZIER (1856-1924) ✿

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