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Who is Jan Kaja?

Jan Kaja (born 1957) is a painter, photographer and publisher. Kaja was born in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Together with Jacek Soliński, he has managed an art gallery Authors’ Gallery (org. Galeria Autorska) in Bydgoszcz. In 2015 he won an award from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland), and was bestowed a special medal for …

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5 facts about Maurits Cornelis Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher created unique and fascinating artworks that explore and demonstrate a wide range of mathematical ideas. Born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands in 1898, while he was in school, his family planned to continue his father’s construction career. He started his career as a graphic designer, making woodcuts and lithographs. Later, his half-brother, professor …

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24 facts about Torsten Billman

Torsten Edvard Billman (6 May 1909 – 6 April 1989) was a Swedish performer who worked as a printmaker, illustrator, and buon fresco painter. He counts as one of the 20th century’s premier wood-engravers. The poet Gunnar Ekelöf wrote not quite Torsten Billman: “To those, who bearing in mind the word art visualise large, magnificent, …

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Ludwig von Hofmann: 15 cool facts

Ludwig von Hofmann (17 August 1861, Darmstadt – 23 August 1945, Pillnitz) was a German painter, graphic player and designer. He worked in a captivation of the Art Nouveau and Symbolist styles. His perform was allocation of the painting matter in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Ludwig Von Hofmann Ludwig von Hofmann …

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Who is Henryk Hryniewski?

Henryk Hryniewski (Henryk Grinevsky)(Georgian: ჰენრიხ ჰრინევსკი; Russian: Генрих Викторович Гриневский) (November 22nd,1869–March 4th,1937) was a Polish-Georgian painter, graphic artist, and illustrator. He was also known as a scholar and an educator of standard Georgian architecture. He was arrested and put to death during Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge. Few of his native work survive. Hryniewski was …

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