Born #onthisday1850 Ion Andreescu Romanian #artist & master of #pleinair #painting Won 1st prize in an Art contest as a student Moved to Paris & was accepted at The Salon Joined Barbizon school of #Realism & adopted its colours tonal qualities loose brushwork & soft forms
Born #onthisday1682 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Venetian Rococo #painter #illustrator 1 of Venice’s outstanding 18th-century artists as art matured it evolved from 17th-century Italian Baroque traditions & embraced Rococo manner Director life drawing Venetian Academy (1750)
Born #onthisday1884 Max Beckmann German #painter #printmaker #draughtsman channeled WWI experiences into haunting expressive images saturated in emotion symbolism & mesmerising narrative flirted with Expressionism to emerge as a leading Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) artist
… way for acceptance of female artists Hale wrote History of Art: A Study of the Lives of Leonardo, Michelangelo Raphael Titian and Albrecht Dürer
… frequently named one greatest movie posters ever made Recognised in 1940s as the creator of 180+ Vargas Girls World War-II era pin-ups for Esquire magazine Created 152 paintings for Playboy magazine over 16 years as career flourished & he had major international exhibitions
Born #onthisday1896 Alberto Vargas iconic Peruvian watercolour & airbrush painter of pin-up girls Regarded as one of finest artists in his genre Early career worked as artist for Ziegfeld Follies & Hollywood studios Vargas' most famous film poster was 1933 The Sin of Nora Moran…
Born #onthisday1880 Franz Marc one of key figures of the German #Expressionist movement & a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter artistic journal Fascinated by #Cubism & #Futurism Marc’s art used bright primary colours & profound emotion but increasingly became starkly #abstract
Born #onthisday1741 Henry Fuseli Swiss #painter 200+ canvasses #draughtsman #writer on art & “Master of the supernatural” thanks to his inventive designs & methodswho spent much of his life in Britain His style influenced many younger British artists such as William Blake
Born #onthisday1808 Carl Spitzweg German #Romanticist #painter Viewed as 1of the most important Biedermeier era artists Later #paintings & drawings are often humorous #genrepaintings with many of his works depicting sharply characterized eccentrics like The Hypochondriac (1865)
Born #onthisday1920 Patrick Heron CBE British abstract & figurative #artist critic & polemicist recognised as one of leading #painters of his generation Made major contribution to dissemination of modernist ideas of painting through his art & critical writing …