Dino Valls is a Spanish painter born in 1959 in Zaragoza, Spain. As a child, Valls was passionate about painting and art. At 23, he started to teach himself to paint but temporarily stopped to study medicine. In 1982, after earning a degree in Medicine & Surgery, Valls began to pursue the art career …
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Alfredo Serri was an Italian painter born in Florence, Italy, in 1898. Before focusing on painting, Serri was a music professor who gave violin, guitar, and piano lessons. Serri also played the violin and performed with the orchestra of the Teatro Della Pergola. However, he gradually began to turn toward painting after his …
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Farago Geza was born on 25 June I877 in Budapest, Hungary. Fargo was a painter and graphic designer. Farago worked at a textile factory in Hungary before moving to Pais, where he began his studies at the Colarossi Academy and later at the Atelier Artistique Delaye. Farago got a scholarship in 1900 that helped …
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Albert Anker was a Swiss painter born on 1 April 1831 in Ins, Switzerland. Anker decided to pursue an art career after he attended an exhibition in 1842. Anker’s art education started at a school in Neuchatel, where he studied under Louis Wallinger from 1845 to 1848. His education continued at the Gymnasium Kirkchenfield …
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Luigi Lucioni was an Italian-American painter born November 4, 1900, in Malnate, Italy. Luigi’s artistic tendencies were first noticed in early geometry classes when he was six, and his teacher encouraged him to pursue a career in drawing and etching. The Lucioni family moved to America in 1911 and settled in Union City, …
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Luis Chan was born in Panama in 1905 and moved to Hong Kong in 1910. He worked as a typist at a law firm and designed boats for a ferry company early on. Luis is a self-taught artist who used watercolors to bring paintings to life. Chan started painting as a hobby in 1920; however, …
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Johan Kroutchen was a Swedish Painter and photographer born on 2 November 1858 in Linkoping, Sweden. Johan was born to Conrad and his wife, Hilda. The Kroutchen family had earned a living as pewterers for generations. When Johen was 14, he left school to be an apprentice under Svante Leonard Rydholm, where he picked up …
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Oswald Achenbach was a German Painter born on the 2nd of February, 1827. Oswald was the fifth of ten children born to Herman and Christine Achenbach in Dusseldorf, Germany. Oswald and his brother, Andreas, also a renowned painter of this era, were tagged “the A and O of Landscapes,” an appraisal of their initials, also …
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Liu Ye was a Chinese painter born in Beijing, China, in 1964. Liu’s father wrote children’s books, which contained illustrations. Influenced by his father’s profession, Liu demonstrated a talent for drawing at an early age. In 1974, Liu’s father enrolled him in lessons with Tan Quanshu, with whom he developed his art techniques despite being …
Odon Marrfy was a Hungarian painter born on 30 November 1878 in Budapest, Hungary. After showing interest and ability in art early on, Marrfy enrolled at the Academie Julian through a study grant he received. At the academy, he studied under Jean-Paul Laurens but had to abandon his study due to financial difficulty. Marrfy transferred …
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