Maggie Taylor is an American digital artist born in 1961 in Cleveland, Ohio. Maggie was interested in photography in her childhood, but only because she wanted to take photos of her pet hamsters. Maggie enrolled at Yale University to study philosophy, graduating with distinction in 1983. At Yale, the photography classes she took rekindled …
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Jean-Paul Surin is a French painter born in 1946 in Ardennes, France. Surin grew up in a neighborhood on the banks of the Meuse surrounded by large forests. Jean-Paul developed a passion for nature that reflects in his artworks. Jean-Paul started painting in 1958 when he was only twelve years old and decided to …
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Hector Caffieri was a British painter born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, in 1847 to French parents. Before leaving London in pursuit of art education, Hector spent a short while in the British Navy. He traveled to Paris to study art under Gustave Boulanger and furthered his education at the Academian Julian, studying under Léon Bonnat …
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Krsto Hegedušić was a Croatian painter born on 26 November 1901 in Petrinja, Croatia. After his father’s death, Krsto and his family moved to Hlebine in 1909. In 1920, he enrolled at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, where he created his first set of artworks – a set of paintings of the Drava …
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Walter Ernest was a British painter born in Manchester, England, on 17 November 1877. Walter showed artistic prowess as a child, winning a study scholarship at the Royal College of Art. In 1899, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, studying there for five years. During his course of study at the …
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Henri Manguin was a French painter born on 23 March 1874 in Paris, France. Henri decided to be a painter in 1889 when he left school at fifteen. Following a move to Montmartre in 1903, Henri Manguin enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he met and became friends with Henri Matisse and Charles Camoin …
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Gerrit Dou was a Dutch painter born on 7 April 1613 in Leiden, Netherlands. Gerrit got his first art lessons from his father, a glass engraver and manufacturer. In 1628, fourteen-year-old Gerrit was sent to study painting under Rembrandt van Rijn. During the three years Gerrit spent in Rembrandt’s studio, he carefully studied and adopted …
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Gottfried Helnwein is an Austrian visual artist born on 8 October 1948 in Vienna, Austria. Gottfried grew up in a Catholic home and was responsible for organizing plays and art exhibitions in his youthful days. When he got older, Gottfried enrolled at the Höhere Bundes-Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in 1965, a school for graphic and …
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Teodor Axentowicz was a Polish painter born on 13 May 1859 in Brasov, Romania. In 1878, Teodor enrolled at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Germany. After graduating in 1882, he furthered his studies in Carolus-Duran’s studio in Paris. While in Paris, Teodor illustrated for prominent magazines such as Figaro and Le Monde Illustré to …
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Oleg Trofimoff is a Russian painter born in Tsarevo, Moscow, in 1962. Oleg was a child prodigy, winning a prize in a children’s competition for his drawing of a plane bombing in Vietnam. Oleg Troofimoff enrolled in the Vasnetsov School of the Art and Industry, Moscow, in 1979 and graduated in 1984. Oleg furthered his …
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