German sculptor whose work focused on large animal subjects formed in wood, stone and bronze. His works are located in Mainz, Mannheim, Berlin, Hamburg, Dusseldorf…
Australian entertainer, author, artist and musician. In 1959 his hit song “Tie Me Kangeroo Down, Sport” hit the charts. The son of Welsh immigrants, Harris…
American artist and sculptor, he is known for his realistic life-sized sculptures of ordinary people in real-life situations: in accidents, at work, doing chores, resting…
American abstract expressionist artist who was represented by the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York City (1948–1953). His mural studies for the Baltimore Hebrew Congregational…
Norwegian ceramist, sculptor, illustrator, poet, and playwright who held a number of solo exhibitions in Norway and other countries. Hald died on 17 October 2010…
French astrologer calling himself Hadès, pseudonym of Alain Yaouanc. Not to be confused with the French painter and sculptor Alain Le Yaouanc, born 18 May…
German sculptor who made busts of famous people including Wilhelm Furtwängler, Rabindranath Tagore, Albert Schweitzer, Erich Schlesinger, Kathe Miethe, Jo Jastram, and her husband, the…
Norwegian graphic artist and sculptor who was professor of drawing at SHKS 1998–2004. Among her well-known works are ‘Christian IV’s glove’ at Christiania torv, ‘Water…
Norwegian visual artist and sculptor who in particular works with three-dimensional forms and with great variations in the use of materials. He can for instance…
Norwegian sculptor. He designed several war memorials, and made stage decorations for Nationaltheatret. He chaired the Norwegian Sculptors’ Association from 1974 to 1978. Grimeland died…
American historical scholar, an authority on the history of Virginia. He contributed to the Southern Literary Messenger, and wrote numerous historical discourses, including one on…
French caricaturist, best known for his caricature silhouettes of Parisian women. He founded the Musée Grévin waxworks museum, inspired by London Museum “Madame Tussauds”, with…
French sculptor, painter, lithographer and writer, who died on 14 December 1872. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
German sculptor whose 1935 bronze bust of Adolf Hitler was featured at the 1936 Stuttgart Nazi exhibition “Contemporary Swabian Artworks”. In 1937 Graevenitz was appointed…
Scottish Liberal politician, sculptor and writer, well known in the homosexual community of the time. Oscar Wilde’s story The Portrait of Mr. W. H. has been interpreted as a…
French sculptor, Breton nationalist and war-time collaborationist with Nazi Germany who headed the Breton Bagadou Stourm militia. He later took Irish citizenship and became professor…
American sculptor, best known for his abstract-expressionist welded steel sculptures. Goto’s sculptures range from table-top size to monumental outdoor works. He learned welding in the…
English poet, author, translator, librarian and critic. Gosse started his career as assistant librarian at the British Museum from 1867. An early book of poetry…
Costa Rican sculptor, lawyer, farmer and bank manager. He was one of the most important sculptors of the sixties in Costa Rica. He devoted himself…
Costa Rican painter and writer, known for his paintings of abstract art, one of the first artists to introduce contemporary art in their country. He…
French sculptor, painter and art teacher. Gili taught at the Beaux-Arts school in Bourges, then at the Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1981. In his teaching,…
British artist, a notable sculptor and engraver, also an author and an advocate of “free love.” Gill died 11/17/1940; Harefield Hospital, Uxbridge, England Link to…
Avant garde Scottish-born painter and sculptor. Link to Wikipedia
H.R. Giger: The Surrealist Visionary and Human Design Projector H.R. Giger, born Hans Ruedi Giger on February 5, 1940, in Chur, Switzerland, was a renowned…
Dutch master sculptor, woodcarver, artist with murals and paneling who left the finest craft of his age on English buildings, cathedrals and palaces. Employed by…
Swiss sculptor and painter, known for his unique interpretations of proportion and space. A giant of twentieth century art, he stands alongside Picasso and Matisse…
Dutch classicist, poet in the post-symbolist tradition and translator of Latin and Hebrew poetry. Ida Gerhardt was the second of the three surviving children of…
French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other…
German stage and screen actor, and the son of actor couple Berta Drews and Heinrich George. His arguably best-known role is that of Duisburg detective…
French artist, painter, sculptor and ceramist. Considered one of the best Post-Impressionist painters to come out of France, Gauguin was best known for his brilliantly…
French sculptor with a brilliant five-year career before he was killed in action in the French Army 6/05/1915, Neuville St. Vaast, France. He began sculpting…
French mezzo-soprano most famous for creating the title role in Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen (1875). She also created the title role for the opera Fantasio…
American artist, sculptor, pop artist who specializes in life-size figures of epoxy-type materials.
Guatemalan sculptor. He was director of the National School of Plastic Arts Rafael Rodriguez Padilla. He made ??several sculptures in the National Palace in Guatemala,…
French craftsman, a sculptor of Rackham miniature goblin figurines.
Austrian painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, singer and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. Link to…
Erasmo Fuentes: Sculpting Life Through Art and Human Design Erasmo Fuentes, born on January 13, 1943, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, is a revered Mexican-born…
Peruvian writer, sculptor of political satire and historical genre, journalist, lawyer and professor of legal medicine. He was known for his hurtful pseudonym of ”…
German sculptor, who lived and worked in Charlottenburg, and exhibited his portrait busts and small bronzes, such as those of German Empress Auguste Victoria and…
American sculptor perhaps best known for his sculpture of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (1922). Among his other magnificent works of…
German sculptor who created numerous stone and bronze works in Stuttgart, including monumental busts, reliefs and larger-than-life figures. He attended the Stuttgart art school, where…
Swiss-American photographer and film director, whose most notable work, the influential 1959 book, The Americans (first published in 1958 in France as Les Américains), earned…
French priest and sculptor mostly known for the sculpting of the rocks in Rothéneuf. His works belong to the ‘art brut’ movement meaning raw art…
American artist; sculptor who studied art history but was self educated as an artist. His style is central to Minimalist with a geometric preoccupation with…
American artis and sculptor. Link to Wikipedia biography (German)
American artist and sculptor. Link to Wikipedia biography (German)
American artist, the creator of pop sculpture that shows in Tempe museum and in private collections. An artist all of her life, she began sculpture…
Argentine sculptor, painter, draftsman, archaeologist, writer and teacher. He died in Mar del Plata, the city where he lived most of his life, on 14…
French sculptor, creator of ‘sans titre’ exhibited at the Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air in Paris. Féraud used recuperated materials from cars and…
German painter and sculptor of Jewish heritage who lived and worked in Britain from 1933 until his death. He is best known for his murals,…