French Rococo Era Painter, 1685-1766 Related Paintings of Jjean-Marc nattier :. | Catherine I of Russia by Nattier | Portrait of Jeanne Louise de Lorraine, Mademoiselle de Lambesc (1711-1772) and her brother Louis de Lorraine, Count then Prince of Brionne | Marie-Anne de Nesle, Marquise de La Tournelle, Duchesse de Chateauroux | Marie-Josephe de Saxe, Dauphine de France dite autrfois Madame de France | Portrait of Baronne Rigoley d'Ogny as Aurora, | Related Artists:
Vassily KandinskyRussian-born French Expressionist Painter , 1866-1944
was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession??he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat??he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Azbe and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933.
Master of san FrancescoTuscany ca.1350
Firmin Massotpainted Portrait of a lady, wearing a white dress and seated beside a harp a landscape beyond in 1810