#artistbirthday — Public Fediverse posts

September 5 - the birthday of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) - a #German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his allegorical landscapes, which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees, or Gothic ruins.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-moonrise-over-the-sea-1822-caspar-david-friedrich.html

#arthistory #ArtistBirthday #Germany #art #MastoArt

September 3 - the birthday of Irish-born #Canadian painter Paul Kane (1810-1871). He worked mainly in Toronto but traveled as far as the Pacific coast depicting landscapes, Native American subjects, fur traders, and missionaries. His paintings, especially field sketches, were one of the first visual documents of Western indigenous life.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/encampment-river-winnipeg-paul-kane-1810-1871.html

#art #ArtHistory #ArtistBirthday #Canada #vintage #history

September 3 - the birthday of Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) - an #English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution". Wright is notable for his use of tenebrism, an exaggerated form of the better known chiaroscuro effect, which emphasizes the contrast of light and dark, and for his paintings of candle-lit subjects.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-the-alchemist-discovering-phosphorus-1771-joseph-wright-of-derby.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday

September 1 - the birthday of Japanese-born American painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953), an influential teacher and a leader of artists' organizations. He was one of the most important Modernist artists in the United States in the 1920s and '30s.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/landscape-1920-yasuo-kuniyoshi.html

#art #ArtHistory #Modernism #ArtistBirthday

August 21 - the birthday of Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886) - the acknowledged dean of American landscape painters following the death of Thomas Cole, he exemplified the fresh ideal of naturalism for the second-generation painters that came to be called the Hudson River School.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-high-point-shandaken-mountains-1853-asher-brown-durand.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #vintage #landscape #painting

August 19 - the birthday of French painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894). He associated with Monet and Degas as an art student and, beginning in the mid-1870s, became one of the most steadfast, inventive, and supportive adherents of the Impressionist movement, exhibiting regularly with the two artists.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/boating-on-the-yerres-1877-gustave-caillebotte.html

#art #ArtHistory #France #French #ArtistBirthday #vintage #boating

August 19 - the birthday of Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621-1674) - a Dutch Golden Age painter and a favorite student of Rembrandt, to whom he remained a close friend. Van den Eeckhout’s style, particularly in the biblical paintings, is based so closely on that of his master that many of his pictures have been taken as works by Rembrandt himself.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-adoration-of-the-magi-gerbrand-van-den-eeckhout.html

#arthistory #ArtistBirthday

August 14 - the birthday of Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789) - the leading French landscape painter of the later 18th century. He achieved great celebrity with his #marine paintings. He was also one of the century's most accomplished painters of tempests and moonlight scenes. "Others may know better", he said, with just pride, "how to paint the sky, the earth, the ocean; no one knows better than I how to paint a picture".

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-the-shipwreck-1772-claude-joseph-vernet.html

#arthistory #ArtistBirthday #vintage #storm

August 13 - the birthday of George Luks (1867-1933) - an American artist, identified with the aggressively realistic Ashcan School of #American painting. Luks painted working-class subjects and scenes of urban life, the hallmarks of Ashcan realism, with great enthusiasm. His paintings demonstrate Luks' ability to effectively manipulate crowded compositions and to capture expressions and gestures as well as gritty background details.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/bleecker-and-carmine-streets-new-york-1905-george-luks.html

#arthistory #ArtistBirthday #NewYork

August 04 - the birthday of John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902) - an #American painter best known for his #impressionist landscapes. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American #Impressionism to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-white-bridge-1895-john-henry-twachtman-1853-1902.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday

August 02 - the birthday of John Sloan (1871-1951) - an American painter and illustrator known for the vitality of his depictions of everyday life in New York City in the early 20th century. Sloan’s realistic paintings of urban genre gave rise to the epithet “Ashcan School.”

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/mcsorleys-bar-1912-john-sloan-1871-1951.html

#art #ArtHistory #ArtistBirthday #NewYorkCity #history #vintage #bar #saloon

August 02 - the birthday of Arthur Dove (1880-1946) - an early #American modernist, often considered the first American #abstract painter. Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinations, to produce his abstractions and his abstract landscapes.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/sunset-1935-arthur-dove.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #AbstractArt #America

August 01 - the birthday of Richard Wilson (1714-1782) - an influential #Welsh landscape painter, who worked in Britain and Italy. With George Lambert, he is recognized as a pioneer in the British art of landscape for its own sake and was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of #Wales as the "most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country".

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/caernarfon-castle-1745-richard-wilson.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #castle

July 30 - the birthday of Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) - Italian Renaissance painter and architect, who is best known for his work The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of all art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-garden-of-gethsemane-1570-giorgio-vasari.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday

July 29 - the birthday of Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) an American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. He was best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people and prominent Americans.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-old-stagecoach-1871-eastman-johnson-1824-1906.html

#art #ArtHistory #ArtistBirthday #America

July 28 - the birthday of Dutch Golden Age painter Judith Leyster (1609-1660) - the only 17th-century woman to paint modern figure pieces; the only 17th-century female to master a loose painting style; and the first woman in the Western world to be officially recognized by a painters’ guild as a ‘master painter’, in 1633, which gave her the right to have her own workshop, take on pupils and sell her paintings independently.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/merry-company-1629-judith-leyster-1609-1660.html

#art #ArtHistory #ArtistBirthday #Dutch #woman

July 28 - the birthday of Joaquín Torres-García - Uruguayan-Spanish artist, one of the leading Modernists of Latin America. Some critics have defined him as a "seeker" who renounces acquired values and focuses on abandoning the imitative to reach the creative. His constructive painting admits a formal, plastic, and semantic reading of a spiritual nature.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/constructive-painting-2-joaquin-torres-garcia.html

#arthistory #ArtistBirthday #modern #constructivism #LatinAmerica

July 25 - the birthday of Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) - American #realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. Eakins was a controversial figure whose work received little recognition during his lifetime. Since his death, he has been celebrated by #American art historians as "the strongest, most profound realist in 19th- and early-20th-century American art".

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/a-may-morning-in-the-park-1879-thomas-eakins.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #USA #Philadelphia #history

July 25 - the birthday of Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) - American #realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. Eakins was a controversial figure whose work received little recognition during his lifetime. Since his death, he has been celebrated by #American art historians as "the strongest, most profound realist in 19th- and early-20th-century American art".

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/a-may-morning-in-the-park-1879-thomas-eakins.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #USA #Philadelphia #history

July 25 - the birthday of Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) - American #realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. Eakins was a controversial figure whose work received little recognition during his lifetime. Since his death, he has been celebrated by #American art historians as "the strongest, most profound realist in 19th- and early-20th-century American art".

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/a-may-morning-in-the-park-1879-thomas-eakins.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #USA #Philadelphia #history

July 25 - the birthday of Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) - American #realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. Eakins was a controversial figure whose work received little recognition during his lifetime. Since his death, he has been celebrated by #American art historians as "the strongest, most profound realist in 19th- and early-20th-century American art".

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/a-may-morning-in-the-park-1879-thomas-eakins.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #USA #Philadelphia #history

July 25 - the birthday of Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) - American #realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. Eakins was a controversial figure whose work received little recognition during his lifetime. Since his death, he has been celebrated by #American art historians as "the strongest, most profound realist in 19th- and early-20th-century American art".

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/a-may-morning-in-the-park-1879-thomas-eakins.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #USA #Philadelphia #history

July 19 - the birthday of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) - a French artist who was prominent in the #Impressionist group and widely celebrated for his images of Parisian life. Ballet dancers and women at their toilette would preoccupy him throughout his career.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/35-the-dance-lesson-edgar-degas.html

#arthistory #ArtistBirthday #impressionism #dance #ballet

July 17 - the birthday of Camille Corot (1796-1875) - French landscape and portrait painter. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism. Corot declined to participate in the 1st Impressionist exhibition, but his influence was manifest in works by pupils and followers including Pissarro, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, and Sisley.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-the-environs-of-paris-1860s-camille-corot.html

#arthistory #ArtistBirthday

July 15 - the birthday of #Rembrandt (1606-1669) - Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is considered one of the greatest visual artists in art history. Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict various styles and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological themes, and animal studies.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-return-of-the-prodigal-son-1660s-rembrandt.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #1600s

July 14 - the birthday of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) - an #Austrian symbolist painter. Klimt was among the many European artists of his time who were inspired by cultural traditions from outside their own milieu. He lived in #Vienna, a crossroads of East and West, and he drew on sources such as Byzantine art, Mycenaean metalwork, Persian rugs and miniatures, the mosaics of the Ravenna churches, and Japanese screens.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/farm-garden-with-sunflowers-1907-gustav-klimt-1862-1912.html

#arthistory #ArtistBirthday #ArtNouveau #art

July 11 - the birthday of American painter James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) based primarily in the United Kingdom. During the 1860s and ’70s he began to use musical terms in the titles of his paintings, such as Symphony and Harmony, reflecting his belief in the “correspondences” between the arts. During this period he started to paint his “nocturnes”—scenes of London, especially of #Chelsea, that have poetic intensity.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/nocturne-blue-and-silver-chelsea-james-mcneill-whistler.html

#art #ArtHistory #ArtistBirthday

July 10 - the birthday of Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) - a Danish-French painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands). Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all 8 Paris #Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He "acted as a father figure not only to the #Impressionists" but to all 4 of the major Post-Impressionists, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and van Gogh.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/2-the-boulevard-montmartre-on-a-winter-morning-1897-camille-pissarro.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #impressionism #Paris #history

July 08 - the birthday of Artemisia Gentileschi - an #Italian #Baroque painter considered among the most accomplished 17th-century artists. She was producing professional work by the age of 15. In an era when #women had few opportunities to pursue artistic training or work as professional artists, Gentileschi was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/bathsheba-at-her-bath-1638-artemisia-gentileschi.html

#arthistory #ArtistBirthday #1600s #woman

October 19 - the birthday of Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) - an influential Italian painter, sculptor, and theorist of the #Futurist movement, which aimed to break away from traditional artistic styles by celebrating modern life and technology. The movement emphasized speed, energy, dynamism, and progress over static representations.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-elasticity-1912-umberto-boccioni.html

#art #ArtHistory #ArtistBirthday #Futurism #abstract #speed #energy #dynamism #progress

July 25 - the birthday of Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) - American #realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. Eakins was a controversial figure whose work received little recognition during his lifetime. Since his death, he has been celebrated by #American art historians as "the strongest, most profound realist in 19th- and early-20th-century American art".

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-champion-single-sculls-max-schmitt-in-a-single-scull-1871-thomas-eakins.html

#arthistory #ArtistBirthday #USA

August 19 - the birthday of Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) - a French painter who was a member and patron of the #Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-paris-street-rainy-day-1877-gustave-caillebotte.html

#art #ArtHistory #France #French #ArtistBirthday #paris #vintage

July 10 - the birthday of Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) - a Danish-French painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands). Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all 8 Paris #Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He "acted as a father figure not only to the #Impressionists" but to all 4 of the major Post-Impressionists, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and van Gogh.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-boulevard-montmartre-in-paris-1897-camille-pissarro.html

#arthistory #ArtistBirthday #impressionism

December 18 - the birthday of #Dutch marine artist Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707). Most of Van de Velde's work represents shipping off the coast of the #Netherlands. The vessels are painted with extremely intricate detail, providing a high-quality record of shipping in the period. He also excelled in his renderings of the sea and sky under various weather conditions.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/dutch-ships-in-a-calm-sea-1665-willem-van-de-velde-the-younger.html

#art #ArtHistory #ArtistBirthday #sailship #marine #MastoArt #FediArt #FediGiftShop

October 20 - the birthday of Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) - one of the leading #Dutch Golden Age painters, especially known for his large views of Dutch riverside scenes in a golden early morning or late afternoon light.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-maas-at-dordrecht-1650-aelbert-cuyp.html

#art #ArtHistory #ArtistBirthday #Ships #sailship #antique #history #historic #historical #Netherlands #sailboats

April 21 - the birthday of Ludovico Carracci (1555 - 1619) - an Italian early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker from Bologna. His works are characterized by an intense mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light that create spiritual emotion.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/annunciation-1604-ludovico-carracci.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #MastoArt #1500s

April 23 - the birthday of Joseph Mallord William Turner - English Romantic painter, printmaker, and watercolorist. He is known for his expressive coloring, imaginative landscapes, and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-the-burning-of-the-houses-of-lords-and-commons-16-october-1834-joseph-mallord-william-turner.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #MastoArt #WilliamTurner #1800s

May 21 - the birthday of French post-impressionist painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) - one of the most famous representatives of naive art or primitivism. Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-the-dream-1910-henri-rousseau.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #NaiveArt #primitivism #MastoArt #nude #jungle

May 21 - the birthday of French post-impressionist painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) - one of the most famous representatives of naive art or primitivism. Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-carnival-evening-1886-henri-rousseau.html?newartwork=true

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #NaiveArt #primitivism #MastoArt

November 04 - the birthday of Gerard van Honthorst (1592-1656) - a #Dutch Golden Age painter, a leading member of the Utrecht school influenced by the Italian painter Caravaggio, who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes.

Find it here:
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-merry-company-1622-gerard-van-honthorst.html

#art #ArtHistory #ArtistBirthday #antique #MasoArt #FediArt #FediGiftShop

February 23 - the birthday of British Symbolist painter George Frederic Watts (1817-1904). Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life. These paintings were intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the "House of Life", in which the emotions and aspirations of life would all be represented in a universal symbolic language.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/hope-1886-george-frederic-watts-1817-1904.html

#Art #ArtHistory #ArtistBirthday #Symbolism #symbolist #hope

July 14 - the birthday of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) - an #Austrian #symbolist painter. Klimt was among the many European artists of his time who were inspired by cultural traditions from outside their own milieu. He lived in #Vienna, a crossroads of East and West, and he drew on sources such as Byzantine art, Mycenaean metalwork, Persian rugs and miniatures, the mosaics of the Ravenna churches, and Japanese screens.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/music-gustav-klimt.html

#arthistory #ArtistBirthday #ArtNouveau #Symbolism

April 20 - the birthday of a French Symbolist artist Odilon Redon. Redon is best known today for the dreamlike paintings created in the first decade of the 20th century, which were inspired by Japanese art and leaned toward abstraction. His work is considered a precursor to Surrealism.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-flower-clouds-1903-odilon-redon.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #MastoArt #Symbolism #Symbolist

June 28 - the birthday of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) - a Flemish artist and diplomat. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, color, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and #history paintings of #mythological and #allegorical subjects.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/collections/rubens

#arthistory #ArtistBirthday #1600s

April 6 - the birthday of English painter John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). His artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-the-lady-of-shalott-1888-john-william-waterhouse.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #MastoArt #Waterhouse

June 25 - the birthday of Robert Henri (1865-1929) - an American painter and teacher. He pioneered the Ashcan School of #American realism with a small team of enthusiastic followers, depicting urban life in an uncompromisingly brutalist style. Henri was named one of the top three living American artists by the Arts Council of New York.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/sudden-shower-1900-robert-henri.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #MastoArt #realism

June 21 - the birthday of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) - an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. The son of a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Tanner specialized in religious subjects. Tanner often experimented with light in his works, which at times adds symbolic meaning.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-good-shepherd-1902-henry-ossawa-tanner.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #MastoArt

June 10 - the birthday of Gustave Courbet - a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rebelled against the Romantic painting of his day, turning to everyday events for his subject matter.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-fishing-boat-1865-gustave-courbet-1819-1877.html

#art #ArtHistory #ArtistBirthday #Realism

May 22 - the birthday of Mary Cassatt - American painter and printmaker. She was born in #Pennsylvania but lived much of her life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of #women. She sought to depict movement, light, and design in the most modern sense.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-woman-with-a-pearl-necklace-in-a-loge-1879-mary-cassatt.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #Impressionism #theater

May 21 - the birthday of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the Northern Renaissance. Dürer's vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolors, and books.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/adoration-of-the-magi-1494-albrecht-durer.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #Renaissance