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Was a German painter. He was one of the official artists of Nazism.Wissel, who was born in Velber, w

Was a German painter. He was one of the official artists of Nazism.Wissel, who was born in Velber, was a painter in the genre of Nazi Folk Art, the idea being that these paintings should show the simple, natural life of a farming family. The phrase 'union with the soil' best describes the subject of his art. Wissel was able to idealise farming life because the predominantly urban viewers of these works did not have a connection with it. Exhibitions of paintings of this genre were meant to show the peasants and working class that they were just as good as the wealthy, and that they too deserved a pleasant life. These paintings were part of the Nazi's 'blood and soil' campaign, designed to associate the ideas of health, family and motherhood with the country. Wissel painted many pictures such as these, but his work contains subtle distortions and accentuations influenced by expressionism. He died in Velber in 1973.

Was a German painter and politician. He was tasked by the Nazi Party to oversee the purging of "Dege

Was a German painter and politician. He was tasked by the Nazi Party to oversee the purging of "Degenerate art", made by most of the German modern artists. He was the favoured painter of Hitler.Already a member of the Nazi Party in the early 1920’s, he met Hitler in 1925 and became one of his advisors in artistic matters. Hitler commissioned Ziegler to paint a memoriam portrait of his niece, Geli Raubal, who committed suicide. In 1937 he painted the Judgement of Paris, which Hitler personally acquired some time later, hanging it in his residence at Munich - Hitler would later also hang Ziegler's The Four Elements at a residence in Munich. It became an overnight sensation through frequent reproduction.

Was a Lithuanian stained glass artist, painter, stage designer, and museum director who worked in Li

Was a Lithuanian stained glass artist, painter, stage designer, and museum director who worked in Lithuania and in Chicago, Illinois. Valeška graduated from the Kaunas Art School in 1928. He then began work as a church decorator, moving on to co-found a m

Was a leading singer in the Alhambra Theatre[1] in Havana, and also an actor and a leading personali

Was a leading singer in the Alhambra Theatre[1] in Havana, and also an actor and a leading personality in the theatre. Colombo was the most recorded artist in Cuba up to 1925: records show he recorded about 350 numbers between 1906 and 1917.

A Philippine-born classical pianist. She is a notable concert pianist and recitalist.Adolovni Acosta

A Philippine-born classical pianist. She is a notable concert pianist and recitalist.Adolovni Acosta started piano lessons at the age of nine with her mother Ernestina. She continued with Juliana Velázquez. At age 11, she won in a radio competition in Manila, and at age 12, she was a winner in the Lucia Francisco Music Circle Piano Scholarship Competition. After graduating from high school at age 14, she passed the college entrance examination at the University of the Philippines (UP) and entered the Conservatory of Music

Was an American sculptor, born in Karlsruhe, Germany.He arrived in the United States at age 10 after

Was an American sculptor, born in Karlsruhe, Germany.He arrived in the United States at age 10 after which he studied at Cooper Union and Art Students League and with sculptors Augustus St. Gaudens and Philip Martiny. He later served as an assistant to Ch

Was an American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor.After his 1930’s one man show he won r

Was an American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor.After his 1930’s one man show he won respect amongst his peers. In 1935, he and nine others, including Ben-Zion, Ilya Bolotwsky, Louis Harris, Jack Kufeld, Mark Rothko, and Louis Schanker, known as “The Ten” exhibited their works together until 1940. They would come to be known as the Abstract Expressionists.From 1937-1939, Gottlieb lived in the Arizona desert, and taking the cue from his environment he painted cacti and barren scenery. He transitioned from this into more Surrealist works like the Sea Chest which displays mysterious incongruities on an otherwise normal landscape. He expresses space most fully in his mature works. It is then that he conveys to the viewer the expansiveness he must have felt looking at Arizona desert sky, although he distills this expansiveness into a more basic abstract form.

A German Catholic priest.

A German Catholic priest.

Was a French artist. He is considered the father of modern chiromancy, aka palmistry or palm reading

Was a French artist. He is considered the father of modern chiromancy, aka palmistry or palm reading, a form of divination.[1]

Was a French sculptor, best known for his war memorials. After early studies in Lille, his town of b

Was a French sculptor, best known for his war memorials. After early studies in Lille, his town of birth, he was accepted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He returned in due course to Lille and married Marguerite Piétin.They were to have four children of which three were boys. He served in the army during the 1914–1918 war and became a prisoner of war. During the years leading up to the war he had neglected sculpture and was director of the “Lille Cinéma”

Was a Flemish genre painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.At

Was a Flemish genre painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.At a young age Brouwer, probably born as Adriaen de Brauwer, moved perhaps via Antwerp to Haarlem, where he became a student of Frans Hals alongside Adriaen van Ostade. He also was active in stage acting and poetry.

Was a Northern Mannerist sculptor born in the Netherlands, whose international style crossed the thr

Was a Northern Mannerist sculptor born in the Netherlands, whose international style crossed the threshold to the Baroque; he excelled in refined modelling and bronze casting and in the manipulation of patina and became the most famous European sculptor o

Was a seventeenth-century Dutch painter best-known for his portraits of the exiled British royal cou

Was a seventeenth-century Dutch painter best-known for his portraits of the exiled British royal court. His style was strongly influenced by his contemporary, Anthony Van Dyck.

Was a Dutch painter of the Dutch school. He grew up in the small town of Rijswijk, in the western Ne

Was a Dutch painter of the Dutch school. He grew up in the small town of Rijswijk, in the western Netherlands. This town was also the hometown of Edin, another Dutch painter from the area. Cabel was also known as Adri'tje

Was a Dutch genre painter.He was the eldest son of Jan Hendricx Ostade, a weaver from the town of Os

Was a Dutch genre painter.He was the eldest son of Jan Hendricx Ostade, a weaver from the town of Ostade near Eindhoven. Although Adriaen and his brother Isaack were born in Haarlem, they adopted the name "van Ostade" as painters.

Was a Swiss classical pianist.His father was Carl Aeschbacher. His youth was spent at Trogen where h

Was a Swiss classical pianist.His father was Carl Aeschbacher. His youth was spent at Trogen where his father was professor of piano at the Conservatoire, and his father was his instructor from the age of four to sixteen.[1] His teachers were Emil Frey (at the Zürich Conservatory) and Volkmar Andreae. He then continued his studies for two years intensively with Artur Schnabel in Berlin and began his performing career in 1934. He became famous as an interpreter of Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Aeschbacher also performed and left recordings of works by Othmar Schoeck, Arthur Honegger, Heinrich Sutermeister and Walter Lang. He recorded for Decca among other labels.

Is an English singer, songwriter, and music producer.Baker made his debut as a singer on Magnet Reco

Is an English singer, songwriter, and music producer.Baker made his debut as a singer on Magnet Records/Epic Records in the United Kingdom. In 1975, he released his first solo album, Into a Dream (MAG 5009). From that album, he had several hits on the United Kingdom's UK Music Week chart and performed several times on the BBC Television's Top of the Pops programme.

Was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer.Prior to his involvement with The S

Was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer.Prior to his involvement with The Sound, Borland was a part of the seminal punk rock trio The Outsiders. The latter became the first English punk band to release an album by themselves, 1977's Calling On Youth.

While at school, Adrian befriended Dave Murray and founded his first band Urchin as lead singer and

While at school, Adrian befriended Dave Murray and founded his first band Urchin as lead singer and lead guitarist. Adrian had bought his first guitar from Murray, a Woolworths' Top 20, for five quid. Murray left Urchin to join Iron Maiden, the new band of another local musician, Steve Harris. Smith continued to front Urchin, with limited success

Is an English singer, musician and songwriter.Gurvitz (until the early 1970s he used the surname Cur

Is an English singer, musician and songwriter.Gurvitz (until the early 1970s he used the surname Curtis and then took the family real name, Gurvitz) is mostly known for the 1982 worldwide hit ballad "Classic". This is in total contrast to his first chart

Was an English Robert Roode and painter who specialized in animals, particularly horses. He was born

Was an English Robert Roode and painter who specialized in animals, particularly horses. He was born in Ludlow, Shropshire and initially studied at the Royal Veterinary College; he subsequently joined the army as a veterinary officer, attaining the rank o

Is a Mexican singer. Blonde and blue eyed, Adrian became, in 1990, the first non-Puerto Rican member

Is a Mexican singer. Blonde and blue eyed, Adrian became, in 1990, the first non-Puerto Rican member of Menudo.Controversy rattled the group, as a drug arrest in Miami International Airport against members Sergio Blass and Ruben Gomez and a sex scandal involving Edgardo Diaz and former member Ralphy Rodriguez threatened the music group.

Is an English pianist, keyboard player, singer and composer.Classically trained at the Leeds College

Is an English pianist, keyboard player, singer and composer.Classically trained at the Leeds College of Music and with a music diploma to his name (LGSM), Adrian's musical career spans twenty-five years. During this time he has produced six major concept

A popular contemporary cartoonist, is best known for his ongoing graphic novel series Optic Nerve an

A popular contemporary cartoonist, is best known for his ongoing graphic novel series Optic Nerve and his periodical illustrations in The New Yorker.Despite heavy youth-culture exposure, (he is often referenced in mainstream publications such as Entertainment Weekly and teen TV dramas) Tomine remains a largely underground figure, placed demographically between RAW artists such as Art Spiegelman and Harvey Pekar, and the relationship-oriented artists of the late 90s such as Craig Thompson.

Was a Dutch animal and landscape painter, son of Willem van de Velde, the elder and brother of Willi

Was a Dutch animal and landscape painter, son of Willem van de Velde, the elder and brother of William van de Velde, the younger, the marine painter.