Biography Category
(y ´hän h n´r kh f n dän´ k r) (KEY) , 1758–1841, German sculptor. He studied with Pajou in Paris and with Canova in Rome. His art shows a revi...
(rä l´ düf ´) (KEY) , 1877–1953, French painter, illustrator, and decorator, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. After meeting Matisse he aban...
fl. 1671–98, English potter, reputed founder of the Chelsea porcelain factory. The registration in 1671 of his patent for the “Mistery of transpar...
(Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas) ( l r´ zh rm N´ dgär´ d gä´) (KEY) , 1834–1917, French painter and sculptor, b. Paris; son of a banker. Althoug...
1784–1849, English landscape painter. He was a leading watercolorist. Most of De Wint’s landscapes are distinctly English in subject and treatment...
(zhäN dübüf ´) (KEY) , 1901–85, French painter and sculptor. Dubuffet began his artistic career in 1942. He created primitive, childlike, and hu...