Saturday, June 21, 2025

Knud Baade
(1808- 1879)
 

Knud Baade was a Norwegian painter, mostly of portraits and landscapes. He was particularly known for his moonlight paintings which are characterized by strong and dramatic contrasts between light and shadow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knud_Baade

Bird Mountain, Hestmandø
1844
Oil on canvas
80 x 115 cm
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø, Norway

Friday, June 20, 2025

Aleksei Mikhailovich Gritsai
(1914 - 1998)
 
Aleksei Gritsai is a People's Artist of the USSR and is best known for his unique, incredible landscapes. Gritsai has pursued significant reforms in the art and culture of the mid-1950s in the Soviet Union and reflected these changes in his work. At some point of his career, the artist has rejected monumental compositions, carefully thought-out plots, totalitarian propaganda, formulas of Socialist Realism and false sentimental themes in favour of contemplation of the nature and comprehension of the world through poetic motives of the Russian landscape.

https://russianartgallery.org/inventory/aleksei_gritsaiis


April. The Sun Is Going Down
1973
Oil on canvas
79.5 x 49.7 cm.
The Institute of Russian Realist Art (IRRA), Moskva, Russia

Thursday, June 19, 2025

 Eugène Boudin
(1824-1898)

Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire; and Corot called him the "King of the skies".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Boudin

Le Havre: The Outer Harbor at Sunset
1882
Oil on canvas
54.5 x 74.5 cm
Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
https://sammlung.museum-barberini.de/en/MB-Bou-04_eugene-boudin-le-havre-the-outer-harbor-at-sunset

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Albrecht Dürer 
(1831 - 1913)

Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in contact with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 was patronized by Emperor Maximilian I. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_Dürer


Landscape with a Woodland Pool
1497
water and bodycolour on paper
30 × 22 cm.
The British Museum, London
https://www.bmimages.com/preview.asp?image=00125889001

 

Dürer was the first artist to recognize the expressive potential of watercolour. Indeed, his work as a landscape artist in the medium led to its adoption by other artists.
 

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Fujishima Takeji
1867–1943)
 
Fujishima Takeji was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing Romanticism and impressionism within the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. In his later years, he was influenced by the Art Nouveau movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujishima_Takeji


Sunrise over the Eastern Sea
1932
Oil on canvas
90 x 65 cm
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Chuo City, Japan
https://www.artizon.museum/en/collection/art/22729

Monday, June 16, 2025

Frederic Edwin Church
(1826 - 1900) 

Frederic Edwin Church  was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. Church's paintings put an emphasis on realistic detail, dramatic light, and panoramic views. He debuted some of his major works in single-painting exhibitions to a paying and often enthralled audience in New York City. In his prime, he was one of the most famous painters in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Edwin_Church

Cotopaxi
1862
Oil on canvas
121.9 × 215.9 cm
Detroit Institute of Arts
https://dia.org/collection/cotopaxi-37907

 The painting depicts Cotopaxi, an active volcano that is also the second highest peak in modern-day Ecuador, spewing smoke and ash across a colorful sunrise. The work was commissioned by well-known philanthropist and collector James Lenox and was first exhibited in New York City in 1863.

Sunday, June 15, 2025

 Henry Ossawa Tanner
(1859 - 1937)

Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles. In 1923, the French government elected Tanner chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner

Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City
c. 1885
Oil on canvas
98.5 x 138 cm 
The White House, Washington, United States
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/sand-dunes-at-sunset-atlantic-city-by-henry-ossawa-tanner

    

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