Born #onthisday1898 Tamara de Lempicka Polish-born #painter Best known for her signature polished #ArtDeco portraits of wealthy patrons aristocrats & for her supremely stylized paintings of nudes 1st award was 1st prize at Exposition Internationale des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux
Born #onthisday1882 George Braque major 20th-century French #painter collagist, #draughtsman #printmaker & #sculptor contributed to art history with #fauvism from 1906 co-founded #cubism & serene meditative still lifes with low-key colour harmonies & use colour line & texture
Born #onthisday1880 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German #Expressionist #painter & #printmaker Driving force behind of Die Brücke The Bridge key group laying foundation of #Expressionism Human figure central to Kirchner's art & used flat areas of unbroken unmixed color & simplified forms
Born #onthisday1642 Jan Peeters Flemish #Baroque #painter & #draughtsman Best known for masterful #seascapes frequently depicting atmospheric stormy seas & catastrophic shipwrecks + his topographical drawings Also painted #cityscapes architectural #landscapes & some #portraits
Signature works inc Rome From Mount Aventine (1835) The Burning of the Houses of Lords & Commons (1835) Dido Building Carthage (1815) The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed (1818) Typhon coming on (1840) The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up (1839)
Born #onthisday1452 Leonardo da Vinci #artoftheday genius #painter #sculptor #architect inventor military engineer #draughtsman & Italian Renaissance intellectual renowned for sublime The Last Supper & Mona Lisa epitomised Renaissance man studied laws of science & nature
Born #onthisday1908 Jean Bellette Australian #Modernist #artist Frequently painted scenes influenced by Greek tragedies of Sophocles & Euripides & Homer’s epics Only woman to have won 2x Sulman Prize For Whom the Bell Tolls (1942) & Iphigenia in Tauris (1944)
Born #onthisday1916 Dr. S.M. Pandit Indian #Realist school #painter & one of most popular #artists of his time Topics varied from classical Indian literature & contemporary cinema Infused rare blend of artistic virtuosity & Bollywood glamour in portrayal of romantic characters
Born #onthisday1906 Ivor Pengelly Francis AM Australian #artist #Artcritic teacher Labelled South Australia's foremost #Surrealist #painter Best known for #Abstractart #landscapes similarly much admired Art critic 4 The News Early member South Australia’s Contemporary Art Society
Born #onthisday1743 Joseph Banks GCB PRS English botanist naturalist #artist #illustrator Made name on 1766 natural-history Newfoundland & Labrador expedition Accompanied Captain Cook on board the Endeavour 1st great voyage of discovery (1768–1771)