Biography Category
(pôl s zär´ lö´) (KEY) , 1859–1927, French drypoint etcher and painter. He is best known for his drypoint studies and portraits of fashionable...
(m n´d rt hôb´ mä) (KEY) , 1638–1709, Dutch landscape painter. In landscape art Hobbema was second only to his contemporary Jacob van Ruisdael, ...
1878–1955, German painter. After a stay in Paris, where he was influenced by Cézanne’s works, Hofer settled in Berlin (1913). He developed a rest...
1537–1619, English miniature painter, son of a goldsmith. Trained first as a jeweler, he was court painter to Elizabeth and to James I. The first tr...
(f l p´) (KEY) , 1850–1917, Canadian sculptor, b. Halifax, N.S. He studied in Italy (1869–71) and in Paris, and after 1902 he became the most not...
1910–94, English chemist and X-ray crystallographer, b. Egypt. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for determining the structure of bioch...