French singer/songwriter and sculptor, whose songs won a number of national awards. She was considered the leading star of French song in the 1950s and…
Italian Renaissance artist, sculptor, poet and architect, considered even today as the greatest figure in the history of art. Examples of his work include the…
“`html Jean Messagier: A Fusion of Art and Human Design Jean Messagier, born on July 13, 1920, in Paris Arrondissement 17, France, is celebrated as…
French sculptor of outsider art, known as Lucifugus. He died on 29 December 2002 in Le Villeret.
Dutch conductor of the Amsterdam Symphony and the London Symphonic Orchestra, the Concertgebouworkest. He was the 4th of fifteen children of the Dutch-German sculptor Friedrich…
Dutch symbolist sculptor and art teacher. His parents Moses Mendes da Costa (2 October 1835 7 AM, Amsterdam, 11 June 1891) and Esther Teixeira de…
American CIA technical operations officer who specialized in support of clandestine and covert CIA operations. Mendez was decorated, and is now widely known, for his…
French actor and sculptor who combined his talents with great success when playing Benvenuto Cellini, actually modelling a statue of Hebe before the very eyes…
El Salvadorian painter, sculptor and engraver. Deserving of numerous artistic awards both in El Salvador and abroad. He was awarded with the first National Prize…
William McMillan: The Sculptor and His Human Design William McMillan, an internationally recognized Scottish sculptor and medal-designer, was a towering figure in the art world…
Scottish artist, sculptor. He died on 18 September 1988. Link to Wikipedia biography
American painter, sculptor and muralist who was one of the leading members of the New York School of artists and writers. He lived and worked…
French sculptor who died on 3 February 1992 in Cachan. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
British sculptor, who served as head of the sculpture department of Saint Martin’s School of Art from 1952 to 1979. He brought young and forward-thinking…
Italian-French prose writer, novelist, poet, and dramatist, the ideological founder of Futurism, an early 20th-century literary, artistic, and political movement. Marinetti was educated in Egypt,…
Italian artist and sculptor, blending the elements of archaic Greek, Etruscan and Gothic sculpture into his works. Marini taught from 1929 to 1940 at the…
German artist, known primarily as a sculptor, but also known for his drawings, woodcuts, lithographs and ceramics. In 1949, he was awarded the Goethe Medal;…
Italian sculptor who revived the ancient tradition of creating sculptural bronze doors for ecclesiastical buildings in the mid-20th century. Ciacomo’s sober realism and extremely delicate…
Argentine sculptor, a representative of the artistic avant-garde of the first half of the twentieth century in his country. He died 14 November 1962 Link…
Dutch-French pianist, piano teacher, muse, model and spouse of the painter Édouard Manet. Suzanne grew up in the medieval city Zaltbommel. Her father, Carolus Antonius…
French artist, a painter, sculptor and book illustrator who did monumental studies of the nude female form. While his works are not widely known, they…
German sculptor, whose works before 1945 were all destroyed by the effects of the war, including, for example, a fountain he designed for the public…
Austrian sculptor, awarded the Grand Prix in Paris in 1937. As well as sculpting successfully in stone, Anna Mahler produced bronze heads of many of…
Guido Magnone: The Manifesting Generator of the Mountain Peaks Guido Magnone, an Italian-French mountaineer renowned for his exceptional climbing skills and artistic endeavors, exemplified the…
Scottish artist, sculptor.
Scottish artist who was the Sculptor-Royal for Scotland in 1921. He created several masterpieces, two of these being the statue of Robert Burns in bronze,…
Scottish sculptor and noted family, the second son of the famous architect, Sir Robert Lorimer. Hew first attended school at Loretto School in Musselburgh. He…
Audre Lorde: A Luminary Writer and Civil Rights Activist Audre Lorde, born February 18, 1934, in New York, New York, was an influential American writer…
Italian actress who made her debut in 1947 after winning a beauty contest. She was the sexy star of some 60 films that include The…
American sculptor, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium. He died on 22 august 2002. Link to Wikipedia biography
Brazilian sculptor who was part of the movement of Modern Art of Recife in the 1950s along with Abelardo da Hora, Reynaldo Fonseca, and Samico…
French sculptor and painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes and still life. He was also very active and influential as a teacher and writer on…
French sculptor who won the Prix de Rome in 1844 with a plaster bas-relief entitled “Pyrrhus tuant Priam.” He died in Paris on 3 June…
Rudi Lehmann: A Sculptor Guided by Human Design Rudi Lehmann, a German-born Israeli sculptor and wood-carving artist, is celebrated for his significant contributions to the…
German artist, etcher, lithographer, poet and sculptor. His early work was fairly conservative, but when he lived in Paris, 1910-1914, he developed a personalized expressionistic…
Dutch etcher, engraver, sculptor and art professor. He was born in ZaltBommel (Netherlands) as the son of the carillon player and music teacher Carolus Antonius…
German-born American sculptor, one of the United States’ foremost architectural sculptors, and a key figure in the American art scene preceding World War II. Over…
French contemporary sculptor. The Centre Pompidou in Paris writes: “Bertrand Lavier has built a work which, according to various “sites” opened but never closed, invites…
French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Laurens was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre…
French Art Nouveau sculptor whose work included several figures of Christ, but who may be better known for his numerous female figures, both nude and…
Italian artist and sculptor. He worked in abstract sculptor, avant-garde constructions of metal, plastics, aluminum, copper and steel. Ladera died in 1989 in Paris. Link…
American sculptor and performance artist whose art is heavily autobiographical and sociological. She earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Texas in the 1970s,…
Belgian sculptor. He studied at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, and was a pupil of Jean Geefs. His first work, War, was exhibited in…
French sculptor and actor, and the father of stage and film actor Albert Lambert fils (born 1865). He died on 15 August 1918 in Paris.
French stage and silent film actor whose three movies include L’Assassinat du duc de Guise (1907), Le Retour d’Ulysse (1908), and Le Baiser de Judas…
French sculptor, she and her husband François-Xavier Lalanne (1927–2008) formed the artist duo ‘Les Lalanne.’ Claude Lalanne died on 10 April 2019, aged 93, in…
French sculptor, who became known to the larger public in France in 1976 when the singer Serge Gainsbourg selected one of his works, the man…
Argentine sculptor and ceramist, a leading figure of academic realism. He was a virtuoso portraitist who produced excellent modeled in bronze. Trained in Paris and…
French sculptor who won the Prix de Rome in 1932. His work is displayed in many public spaces in France. His head of “Marianne” appeared…