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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Pedro Américo
Pedro Américo
Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo (Areia, Paraíba, Brazil, 29 April 1843 – Florence, Italy, 7 October 1905) was one of the most important academic painters of Brazil. He was also a writer and a teacher.
Pedro Américo Art
Pedro Américo Biography
Returning to Brazil, he produced a great series of masterpieces, including one of the most well known works of art in Brazil: Independence or Death!, depicting the moment when Prince Peter declared the country independent from Portugal, a work that has illustrated History books for elementary schools in Brazil for decades. Living mostly in Florence, Italy but traveling extensively back and forth from Rio de Janeiro, Pedro Américo managed to work also as a lecturer and an art historian.
He married Carlota de Araújo Porto-alegre (1844–1918), daughter of painter and diplomat Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre, and they had children. Knighted by the German Crown he was also Great Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. With the proclamation of the Republic in Brazil in 1889, he was elected a deputy of the National Assembly.
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Christoph Amberger
Christoph Amberger
Christoph Amberger (c. 1505 – 1562) was a painter of Nürnberg in the 16th century, a disciple of Hans Holbein, his principal work being the history of Joseph in twelve pictures.
Amberger used to visit Ausburg every year as some powerful men gathered there then. There the artist painted portraits of such men as Fugger, Peutinger, Frundsberg and Caesar Carl V.
Amberger travelled to Northern Italy and Venice between 1525 and 1527. He died in Augsburg.
Christoph Amberger Art Gallery
- Portrait of a Woman
- Portrait: Christoph Fugger
- Portrait: Felicitas Welser
- Portrait: Kaiser Karl V
- Portrait: Sebastian Münster
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Theodor Aman
Theodor Aman
Theodor Aman (20 March 1831-19 August 1891) was a Romanian painter of Armenian descent. His style is often considered to be a predecessor of Impressionism.
He is buried in Bellu cemetery.
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Work of Art of Nathan Altman.
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Nathan Altman
Nathan Altman
Nathan Isaevich Altman (December 22, 1889 – December 12, 1970) was a Jewish, Russian and Soviet avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator who was born, grew up and began his art studies in Ukraine, Russian Empire.
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- Composition with Material Objects
- Jug and Tomatoes
- Lady with a Dog. Portrait of Esther Schwartzmann.
- Portrait of Anna Akhmatova
- Square in a Provincial Town
- Still Life Colored Bottles and Planes
- Still Life Mixed technique on paper
- Still Life with a White Jug
Nathan Altman Biography
From 1902 to 1907 he studied painting and sculpture at the Art College in Odessa (now independent Ukraine). In 1906 he had his first exhibition in Odessa.
In 1910 he went to Paris, where he stayed for one year. He studied at the Free Russian Academy in Paris, working in the studio of Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, and had contact with Marc Chagall, Alexander Archipenko, and David Shterenberg. In 1910 he became a member of the group Soyuz Molodyozhi (Union of Youth).
In 1912 Altman moved to Saint Petersburg. His famous Portrait of Anna Akhmatova, conceived in Cubist style, was painted in 1914. From 1915 to 1917 Nathan Altman was the teacher at Mikhail Bernstein's private art school. After 1916 he started to work as a stage designer.
In 1918 he was the member of the Board for Artistic Matters within the Department of Fine Arts of the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment together with Malevich, Baranoff-Rossine and Shevchenko. In the same year he had an exhibition with the group Jewish Society for the Furthering of the Arts in Moscow, together with Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, El Lissitzky and the others. In this same year he installed a temporary work of architectural sculpture in Palace Square to commemorate the 1st anniversary of the October Revolution. The canvas was subsequently cut up and used for soldiers' foot bindings.
In 1920 he became a member of the Institute for Artistic Culture (INKHUK), together with Kasimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin and the others. In the same year, he participated in the exhibition From Impressionism to Cubism in the Museum of Painterly Culture in Petrograd.(now Saint Petersburg). In 1921 he moved to Moscow. From 1921 to 1922 he was director of the Museum of Painterly Culture in Petrograd.
From 1920 to 1928 he worked on stage designs for the Habimah Theatre and the Jewish State Theatre in Moscow. In 1923 a volume of his Jewish graphic art, Evrejskaja grafika Natana Al'tmana: Tekst Maksa Osborna [Max Osborn], was published in Berlin.
In 1925 he participated in Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Moderns (Art Deco) in Paris together with Aleksandra Ekster, Vadim Meller, Rudolf Frentz, Sonia Delaunay-Terk and David Shterenberg. His first solo exhibition in Leningrad was in 1926.
Altman moved to Paris in 1928. In 1936 he returned to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). He worked mainly for the theatre, as a book illustrator and an author of essays about art.
Nathan Altman died in Leningrad aged 81.
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Albrecht Altdorfer Online Art Gallery.
Here is the work of art of the German painter, Albrecht Altdorfer.
- Alexander's Victory (The Battle at the Issus)
- Allegory
- Ascension of Christ
- Landscape with Path
- Landscape with Satyr Family
- Large Fir
- Lovers
- Mary with the Child
- Portrait of a Young Woman
- St-George
- Susanna at Her Bath and The Stoning of the Old Men
- The Agony in the Garden
- The Arrest of Christ
- The Departure of St-Florian
- The Martyrdom of St-Florian
- The Nativity
- The Penitence of St-Jerome
- The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
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