langs: 13 августа [ru] / august 13 [en] / 13. august [de] / 13 août [fr] / 13 agosto [it] / 13 de agosto [es]
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#1 Carl Rahl
Carl Rahl , sometimes spelled Karl Rahl (13 August 1812 – 9 July 1865), was an Austrian painter. Austrian painter (1812-1865) Carl Rahl c. 1850 Portrait of a Young Widow, 1849
Ludwik Józef Stasiak (13 August 1858, Bochnia - 3 December 1924, Bochnia) was a Polish painter, cartoonist, journalist, art historian and publisher. He worked in a wide variety of genres and provided illustrations for magazines such as Bluszcz [ pl ] (Ivy), Kłosy [ pl ] (Ears) and Tygodnik Illus
#3 Karim Patwa
Karim Patwa (born August 13, 1968) is a Swiss - English film director and screenwriter . He gained international attention especially through his film Drift , which won three prizes at the Max Ophüls Festival 2015 [1] [2] and the NDR-directing prize, [3] and was also nominated for the Swiss Film Awa
#4 Yvonne Boag
Yvonne Boag (born 13 August 1954) is an Australian painter and printmaker whose work reflects the many places where she has lived and worked. Australian artist Yvonne Boag Born ( 1954-08-13 ) 13 August 1954 (age 67) Glasgow , Scotland Nationality Australian Education South Australian School of Art
Harold Frederick Weaver Hawkins (1893–1977) was an English painter and printmaker working with the techniques of etching, monotypes, linocuts and woodcuts. [1] He specialized in "ambitious, sometimes mural-sized, modernist allegories of morality for an age of atomic warfare and global over-populatio
Kurt Wendlandt (August 13, 1917 in Poznań – February 13, 1998 in Berlin ) was a German painter, printmaker , photographer, author and illustrator. His work incorporates paintings, drawings, statuary, photogram , Décollage , light graphics and photos . Books illustrated by Wendlandt have been publish
Janet Taylor Pickett (born August 13, 1948) is an American artist. Pickett's mixed media works are inspired by her life experience as an African American woman. American artist Janet Taylor Pickett Picket in 2020 Born ( 1948-08-13 ) August 13, 1948 (age 73) Ann Arbor , Michigan , U.S. Nationality
Johann Gottfried Eiffe (13 August 1773 or 1779, Hamburg - 13 August 1818, La Victoire, Haiti ) was a German painter. German painter This article includes a list of references , related reading or external links , but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations . ( March 2021 ) Henri
Vasily Ivanovich Bazhenov ( Russian : Васи́лий Ива́нович Баже́нов ) (March 1 ( N.S. 12), 1737 or 1738 – August 2 (N.S. 13), 1799) was a Russian neoclassical architect , graphic artist , architectural theorist and educator. Bazhenov and his associates Matvey Kazakov and Ivan Starov were the leading l
Frederick Weygold (June 13, 1870 in Saint Charles , Missouri – August 13, 1941 in Louisville , Kentucky ) was an American painter, photographer and ethnographer, who has researched the life and culture of the North American Indians mainly examples of various Sioux tribes and artistically presented a
Jacobus Hendrik (Henk) Pierneef (usually referred to as Pierneef ) (13 August 1886 Pretoria – 4 October 1957 Pretoria), [1] was a South African landscape artist, generally considered to be one of the best of the old South African masters. His distinctive style is widely recognised and his work was g
Margaret Clarkson (born August 13, 1941) was born in Rotherham , West Riding of Yorkshire , England and trained as an artist at Rotherham School of Art and Bromley College of Art . Later she became an art teacher in South Yorkshire . [1] Clarkson works mainly with water colours and is best known for
#13 William Ronald
William Ronald Smith RCA (August 13, 1926 – February 9, 1998), known professionally as William Ronald , was an important Canadian painter, best known as the founder of the influential Canadian abstract art group Painters Eleven in 1953 and for his abstract expressionist "central image" paintings. He
Fritz Bamberger (October 17, 1814 – August 13, 1873) was a German painter, primarily of landscapes . German painter Fritz Bamberger The Beach at Estepona (1855)
Catherine Rachel da Costa (1679–1756), née Mendes , was an English miniaturist . She grew up in London and studied painting under Bernard Lens III . Most of her surviving portraits are of family and friends, and there is also a picture of Mary Queen of Scots . Da Costa was the first female Anglo-Jew
James Perry Wilson (August 13, 1889 - August 12, 1976) was an American, painter, designer, and architect best known for his natural history dioramas. Active for over 40 years, he is noted for his work with the American Museum of Natural History , the Peabody Museum of Natural History , and the Bosto
#17 Sue Williamson
Sue Williamson (born 1941) is an artist and writer based in Cape Town , South Africa. Messages from the Atlantic Passage, Installation, Basel Unlimited 2017, Switzerland This article is an autobiography or has been extensively edited by the subject or by someone connected to the subject . ( January
#18 Emil Sutor
Emil Sutor (June 19, 1888 – August 13, 1974) was a German sculptor . He was born in Offenburg and died in Karlsruhe . In 1936 he won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Hürdenläufer" ("Hurdle runners"). [1] German sculptor Olympic medal record Art competitions 1936 Ber
#19 Gerard David
Gerard David (c. 1460 – 13 August 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Only a bare outline of his life survives, although some facts are known. He may have been the Meester gheraet van brugghe who became a master of the Antwerp gui
#20 Leopold Matzal
Leopold Charles Matzal (August 13, 1890 – November 22, 1956) was a 20th-century Austrian-American visual artist. He was a realistic painter, known in New York City and northern New Jersey for his society portraiture and also, later in his career, for murals . [1] American painter Leopold Matzal, 20t
The Palanga Amber Museum ( Lithuanian : Palangos gintaro muziejus ), near the Baltic Sea in Palanga , Lithuania , is a branch of the Lithuanian Art Museum . It is housed in the restored 19th-century Tiškevičiai Palace and is surrounded by the Palanga Botanical Garden . The museum's collection of amb
The Corcoran Gallery of Art was an art museum in Washington, D.C. , United States, that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design , a part of the George Washington University . United States historic place Corcoran Gallery of Art U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S.
#3 Villa Manin
Villa Manin at Passariano is a Venetian villa located in Passariano of Codroipo , province of Udine , northern Italy . This article includes a list of references , related reading or external links , but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations . ( October 2014 ) Main façade of t
The Seattle Asian Art Museum (often abbreviated to SAAM ) is a museum of Asian art at Volunteer Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle , Washington , United States. Part of the Seattle Art Museum , the SAAM exhibits historic and contemporary artworks from China, Korea, Japan, India, the Hi
#5 Japanese American National Museum
The Japanese American National Museum ( 全米日系人博物館 , Zenbei Nikkeijin Hakubutsukan ) is located in Los Angeles, California , and dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans . Founded in 1992, it is located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown. The museum is an affiliate wit
#6 National Gallery of Australia
The National Gallery of Australia ( NGA ), formerly the Australian National Gallery , is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory , it was established i
Pinacotheca was a gallery in Melbourne , Australia. Established in 1967 by Bruce Pollard, it was ideologically committed to the avant-garde and represented a new generation of artists interested in post-object, conceptual [1] and other non-traditional art forms. [2] Art gallery located in Melbourne,
#8 North Carolina Museum of Art
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is an art museum in Raleigh, North Carolina . It opened in 1956 as the first major museum collection in the country to be formed by state legislation and funding. [1] Since the initial 1947 appropriation that established its collection, the Museum has continue
The Aga Khan Museum ( French : Musée Aga Khan ) is a museum of Islamic art , Iranian (Persian) art and Muslim culture located at 77 Wynford Drive in the North York district of Toronto , Ontario , Canada. [1] The museum is dedicated to Islamic art and objects, and it houses approximately 1,200 rare o
#10 Musée Carnavalet
The Musée Carnavalet in Paris is dedicated to the history of the city . The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau . On the advice of Baron Haussmann , the civil servant who transformed Paris in the latter half of the 19th cen
#11 The Photographers' Gallery and Workshop
The Photographers' Gallery and Workshop (1973–2010) was an Australian photography gallery established in South Yarra , a suburb of Melbourne , and which ran almost continuously for nearly forty years. Its representation, in the 1970s and 1980s, of contemporary and mid-century, mostly American and so
The Maine State Building is a historic building on Preservation Way, part of the Poland Springs resort complex in South Poland, Maine . It was built in 1893 at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago . Designed by Chicago architect Charles Sumner Frost , a Lewiston, Maine native and MIT graduate, the bu
#13 Musée national Eugène Delacroix
The Musée national Eugène Delacroix ( English: National Eugène Delacroix Museum ), also known as the Musée Delacroix , is an art museum dedicated to painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) and located in the 6th arrondissement at 6, rue de Furstenberg, Paris , France . It is open daily except Tuesday;
#14 Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains
The Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains ( German : Glashüttenmuseum des Erzgebirges ) is located in the old socage vault ( Fronfeste ) of Purschenstein Castle in Neuhausen/Erzgeb. in the German Free State of Saxony . Museum in Germany Ore Mountain Glassworks Museum (June 2009) Glassworks Museum o
The Muscarelle Museum of Art is a university museum affiliated with the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia . While the Museum only dates to 1983, the university art collection has been in existence since its first gift – a portrait of the physicist Robert Boyle – in 1732. Most early
#16 Musée Dobrée
The Musée Dobrée is a museum in Nantes , in the quartier Graslin in the immediate outskirts of the city centre and very close to the city's Natural History Museum . It was given to the city by Thomas Dobrée (13 August 1810 – 1895) and now belongs to the Conseil général de la Loire-Atlantique . In Ja
Graves Art Gallery is an art gallery in Sheffield , England . The gallery is located above the Central Library in Sheffield city centre. It houses permanent displays from the city’s historic and contemporary collection of British and European art along with a programme of temporary exhibitions. Grav
#18 Casa Roig Museum
The Casa Roig Museum is a historic house museum and gallery in Humacao , Puerto Rico . It was designed as a residence for the wealthy sugar planter Antonio Roig by the prominent Czech architect and Puerto Rico resident Antonin Nechodoma (1877–1928 [3] ), and built in 1920. House museum in Humacao, P
Arter is a contemporary art museum in the Dolapdere district of Istanbul , Turkey . Art center in Turkey Arter Arter, Dolapdere, architectural rendering by Grimshaw Architects Established 8 May 2010 ( 8 May 2010 ) Location Irmak Avenue No: 13, Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey Type Non-profit art institut
#20 Sedon Galleries
Sedon Galleries was a commercial art gallery in Melbourne , Australia , representing Australian traditional, impressionist and post-impressionist painting and prints. [1] It operated from 1925 to 1959. [2] [3] Melbourne commercial gallery of Australian traditional, impressionist and post-impressioni
#1 Statue of Paul Kruger, Church Square
The Statue of Paul Kruger ( Afrikaans : Krugerstandbeeld ) is a bronze sculpture located in Church Square in Pretoria , South Africa . The statue depicts Paul Kruger , the Boer political and military leader and President of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900, and four unnamed Boer soldiers
#2 Fountain of the Lions (Porto)
The Fountain of the Lions ( Portuguese : Fonte dos Leões ), is a 19th-century fountain built by French company Compagnie Générale des Eaux pour l'Etranger, in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória in municipality of Porto . Cast by the Val d’Osne foundry
The Cambrai Madonna , also called the Notre-Dame de Grâce , produced around 1340, is a small Italo-Byzantine , possibly Sienese , [1] replica of an Eleusa ( Virgin of Tenderness ) icon . The work on which it is based is believed to have originated in Tuscany c. 1300 , and influenced a wide number
#4 Stoning of Saint Stephen (Baldung)
The Stoning of Saint Stephen is a 1522 painting by the German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung . It is on display in the Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame . Its inventory number is MBA 315 ("MBA" stands for Musée des Beaux-Arts ). Painting by Hans Baldung The Stoning of Saint Stephen Artist Hans Baldung Ye
The World's Largest Stove (also called The Michigan Stove and Mammoth Garland ) was an oversized replica of a kitchen stove that was made for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair as a representation of Michigan Stove Company and its products. After the fair finished, the replica was displayed and used for
Patrick Lyon (1769, Edinburgh, Scotland – April 15, 1829, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Scottish-born American blacksmith, mechanic and inventor. After being falsely accused and imprisoned for a 1798 bank robbery, he became a working class hero. [1] A self-made businessman, he was among the fore
See No Evil is a collection of works of public art by multiple graffiti artists, located around Nelson Street in Bristol , UK. The artwork was first created in an event in August 2011 that was Europe's largest street art festival at the time. [1] It culminated with a block party . [2] The street was
Chief Kno-Tah was a wooden statue located in Shute Park in Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon . Carved by Peter Wolf Toth , it was the 56th Native American head in his Trail of the Whispering Giants series. The 25-foot (7.6 m) tall, 250,000-pound (110,000 kg) statue was the first of two carve
Boats du Rhône is a series of two sketches (a small one in a letter, [1] the other very large and detailed with a reed pen ) and three oil paintings, listed below, created by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh while living in Arles , France, during August, 1888. Quay with Sand Barges Artist Vincent v
#10 Communion of the Apostles (Barocci)
The Communion of the Apostles , or Institution of the Eucharist is a painting of the Last Supper by Federico Barocci located at Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. It was commissioned for the family chapel of Pope Clement VIII Aldobrandini and completed between 1603 and 1608. [1] The Communion of the
Jean-Michel Thierry de Crussol (1916–2011) was a French physician and art historian . His specialities are in Byzantine and Armenian art . [1] French physician and art historian (1916–2011) He was born on 13 August 1916 in Bagnères de Luchon , France . He studied and got his education in Paris. He c
Charlotte Klonk is a German art historian . [1] Klonk is most notable for her work on English landscape art in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, as well as for her work on museum interiors, particularly the white cube. She is currently a professor of art history at the Humboldt Unive
Dorothy G. Payer Shepherd (15 August 1916 – 13 August 1992) was a museum curator and historian specialising in medieval textiles and ancient Near Eastern and Islamic art. [1] During the Second World War she served with the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program . [2] Museum curator and historian
#4 Asta Vrečko
Asta Vrečko (born 13 August 1984 in Celje ) is a Slovenian art historian and politician . She serves as the minister of culture of the Republic of Slovenia since 2022. [1] Slovenian politician Asta Vrečko Minister of Culture Incumbent Assumed office 1 June 2022 Preceded by Vasko Simoniti Personal de
Raymond Martin Marie Ghislain, Baron Lemaire ( Uccle , 28 May 1921 - Woluwe-Saint-Lambert , 13 August 1997) was an art historian and an architectural historian, a leading expert in conservation and professor at the Catholic University of Leuven and later at the KU Leuven and the Université catholiqu
Campbell Dodgson , CBE DLitt (13 August 1867 – 11 July 1948) was a British art historian and museum curator . He was the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in 1912–32. [1] British art historian and museum curator Campbell Dodgson
Helen Gee (1919–2004) was an American photography gallery owner, co-owner of the Limelight in New York City, New York from 1954 to 1961. [1] [2] It was New York City's first important post-war photography gallery, pioneering sales of photographs as art. Helen Gee Born ( 1919-04-29 ) April 29, 1919 J
Amy Namowitz Worthen (née Amy Louise Namowitz ; born 1946) is an American printmaker, engraver , curator, art historian [1] of prints and author. [2] She is the Emerita Curator of Prints at the Des Moines Art Center . [3] [4] American printmaker, historian (born 1946) Amy Namowitz Worthen Born Amy L
Larisa Alekseevna Zhadova (born Zhidova; August 13, 1927 – December 9, 1981) was a Soviet art critic, art and design historian, specialized on Russian avant-garde . She is the author of the first monograph about Vladimir Tatlin . Daughter of the Soviet military leader Alexei Zhadov , she was the wif
Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky ( Russian : Влади́мир Фёдорович Одо́евский ; 11 August [ O.S. 30 July ] 1803 [1] – 11 March [ O.S. 27 February ] 1869 ) was a prominent Russian Imperial philosopher , writer, music critic , philanthropist and pedagogue . He became known as the "Russian H
#11 Edmond Pottier
Edmond François Paul Pottier (13 August 1855, Saarbrücken – 4 July 1934, Paris) was an art historian and archaeologist who was instrumental in establishing the Corpus vasorum antiquorum . He was a pioneering scholar in the study of Ancient Greek pottery . He was born in Saarbrücken , Rhineland, the
#12 Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot ( / ˈ d iː d ə r oʊ / ; [3] French: [dəni did(ə)ʁo] ; 5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic , and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert . He was a prominent fi
#13 Anatole Jakovsky
Anatole Jakovsky (13 August 1909 – 24 September 1983) was a French art critic who wrote substantially, collected widely, and established a museum in Nice for Naïve art , Musée international d'Art naïf Anatole Jakovsky . [1] This article needs additional citations for verification . ( August 2008 ) A
Stuart Cary Welch Jr. (2 April 1928 – 13 August 2008) was an American scholar and curator of Indian and Islamic art . American historian of Islamic art Stuart Cary Welch, Jr. Born Stuart Cary Welch, Jr. ( 1928-04-02 ) April 2, 1928 Buffalo, New York , New York (State), U.S. Died August 13, 2008 (200
#15 Werner Spies
Werner Spies (born 1 April 1937 in Tübingen ) is a German art historian, journalist and exhibition organizer. From 1997 to 2000, he was a director of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris . [1] Klaus Albrecht Schröder, director of the Albertina in Vienna , has called Spies "one of the most influentia
#16 George Oprescu
George Oprescu (27 November 1881 – 13 August 1969) was a Romanian historian, art critic and collector. Born into a poor family, he developed a taste for the fine arts early in life, as well as for the French language, which he taught into his forties. Subsequently working for the League of Nations ,
#17 Anita Brenner
Anita Brenner (born Hanna Brenner ; 13 August 1905 – 1 December 1974) was a transnational Jewish scholar and intellectual, [1] who wrote extensively in English about the art , culture, and history of Mexico. [2] She was born in Mexico, raised and educated in the U.S., and returned to Mexico in the 1
#18 James Cahill (art historian)
James Francis Cahill ( Chinese : 高居翰 ; pinyin : Gāo Jūhàn ; August 13, 1926 – February 14, 2014) was an art historian , curator, collector, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley . He was considered one of the world's top authorities on Chinese art . [1] [2] American art historian J
Harold Foss "Hal" Foster [1] (born August 13, 1955) is an American art critic and historian . He was educated at Princeton University , Columbia University , and the City University of New York . He taught at Cornell University from 1991 to 1997 and has been on the faculty at Princeton since 1997. I
#1 Luis Muñoz Rivera (Ponce statue)
Luis Muñoz Rivera is a statue to the memory of Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician Luis Muñoz Rivera located at Plaza Luis Muñoz Rivera in Ponce, Puerto Rico . The statue is in bronze . The statue's large marble pedestal follows in the Beaux Arts architectural tradition. Statue in Ponce, Pu
#2 Unisphere
The Unisphere is a spherical stainless steel representation of Earth in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens . The globe was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke as part of his plan for the 1964 New York World's Fair . Commissioned to celebrate the beginning of the space age
The Hiker is a statue created by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson . It commemorates the American soldiers who fought in the Spanish–American War , the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine–American War . The first version of it was made for the University of Minnesota in 1906, [1] but at least 50 copies were
Chair is a public artwork designed as an advertisement by Bassett Furniture, located at the intersection of Martin Luther King Ave. and V. Street S.E., in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C. , United States. Chair was originally surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture
The James Oglethorpe Monument is a public monument in Chippewa Square , Savannah , Georgia , United States . The monument honors James Oglethorpe , the founder of the Province of Georgia , who established the city of Savannah in 1733. Efforts towards the monument's erection began in 1901 and were le
#6 Statue of Notre-Dame-du-Saguenay
The statue of Notre-Dame-du-Saguenay is a statue located on Cap Trinité , at the mouth of Baie Trinité , near the village of Rivière-Éternité , and the river Saguenay River , in Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality , in the province of Quebec , in Canada . The statue of Notre-Dame-du-Sa
The Illinois Monument is a public monument located in the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in Cobb County, Georgia , United States. The monument honors the soldiers from Illinois who fought in the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta campaign of the American Civil War . It is lo
#8 Civil War Memorial (Adrian, Michigan)
The Civil War Memorial is a marble monument situated in the center of Memorial Park in Adrian , Michigan . The monument was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on August 13, 1971 and later added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 29, 1972. [1] [2] It was unveiled on July 4, 1870
#9 Statue of Robert Baden-Powell, Poole
A statue of Robert Baden-Powell , founder of Scouting , is installed on the Quay in Poole harbour, Dorset on the south coast of England. The statue, erected in 2008, is a life-size bronze [1] of Robert Baden-Powell by sculptor David Annand . It portrays Baden-Powell in his scout uniform, seated on a
The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial built in Washington, D.C. between 1939 and 1943 under the sponsorship of President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Roosevelt thought that it was a suitable memorial to the Founding Fathers of the United States and to Thomas Jefferson , the principal author o
#11 Confederate Defenders of Charleston
Confederate Defenders of Charleston is a monument in Charleston , South Carolina , United States . The monument honors Confederate soldiers from Charleston, most notably those who served at Fort Sumter during the American Civil War . Built with funds provided by a local philanthropist, the monument
#12 Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
Since the 1960s, many municipalities in the United States have removed monuments and memorials on public property dedicated to the Confederate States of America (CSA; the Confederacy), and some, such as Silent Sam in North Carolina, have been torn down by protestors. Efforts to remove Confederate me
The Peace Monument (also known as The Triumph of Peace ) is a public monument in Atlanta , Georgia , United States . Designed by Allen George Newman , the monument is located in Piedmont Park and was erected in 1911 by members of the Old Guard of the Gate City Guard, a Confederate -era militia , as
The Beethoven Monument is a large bronze statue of Ludwig van Beethoven that stands on the Münsterplatz in Bonn , Beethoven's birthplace. It was unveiled on 12 August 1845, [1] in honour of the 75th anniversary of the composer's birth. [2] Statue in Bonn, Germany For a list of all Beethoven sculpt