Famous Artists

DBH 1 class are preparing their biographies about famous artists in History! You will soon be able to read them and comment! :)




EDVARD MUNCH
Edvard Munch was born on December 12th, 1863, in Løten, Norway, the son of Christian Munch, a military doctor. He spent most of his childhood living in Kristiania, which is now better known as Oslo, the Norwegian capital. Edvard Munch's mother, his brother, and one of his sisters died of tuberculosis while he was still young, and Edvard was himself a sickly child. At the age of 17 was tutored in the arts by Christian Krohg, a naturalist painter, who was quite famous in Norway. Edvard's talent was evident by his early realist paintings, but the traumatic events that plagued Edvard's youth had an even deeper impact on his artistic vision than and other artist or artistic movement.         
      The Scream                      BY: Nicu Zatinga

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Mozart (27 January 1756-5December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Clasic era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is amongthe most enduringly popular of classical composers.
Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competed on keyboard and violin, he composed the age of five and performed before European royalty.At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly.           
                  BY: Narcis Niculescu

Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and profilit practitioner if the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.
Claude Monet lived in Paris in 1840.
My favourite work is the artist’s Garden at Vétheuil, 1880,National gallery of art.

BY: Daniela Chisca
 
Goya

 Francisco de Goya y Lucientes was born on March 30, 1746, in Fuendetodos, a village in northern Spain. The family later moved to Saragossa, where Goya's father worked as a gilder. At about 14 young Goya was apprenticed to Jose Luzan, a local painter. Later he went to Italy to continue his study of art. On returning to Saragossa in 1771, he painted frescoes for the local cathedral. These works, done in the decorative rococo tradition, established Goya's artistic reputation. In 1773 he married Josefa Bayeu, sister of Saragossa artist Francisco Bayeu. The couple had many children, but only one--a son, Xavier--survived to adulthood.

       From 1775 to 1792 Goya painted cartoons (designs) for the royal tapestry factory in Madrid. This was the most important period in his artistic development. As a tapestry designer, Goya did his first genre paintings, or scenes from everyday life.

      At the same time, Goya achieved his first popular success. He became established as a portrait painter to the Spanish aristocracy. He was elected to the Royal Academy of San Fernando in 1780, named painter to the king in 1786, and made a court painter in 1789.

      In 1824, aafter the failure of an attempt to restore liberal government, Goya went into voluntary exile in France. He settled in Bordeaux, continuing to work until his death there on April 16, 1828. Today many of his best paintings hang in Madrid's Prado art museum.
                                               
                                                        BY: Georgiana Cocuz
 

Ion Andreescu
      
     Ion Andreescu was a painter. He was born in 15 February 1850 in Bucharest, Romania. Ion Andreescu was the son of a merchant's family.
     When he was 19, he entered Theodor Aman's Fine Arts School, and at the age of 22, he was an instructor of drawing and calligraphy at the Bishop's School in Buzau.
     When he was 23, he left the Bishop's School for the Tudor Vladimirescu Communal Secondary School, also in Buzau. Later, in 1875, when he was 25, he left the Communal Secondary School for  Buzau's Craftsmanship School.
     Influenced by Nicolae Grigorescu, he left Romania and went to Paris to further his education. In Paris, he bagan painting at Barbizon. Ion Andreescu painted lots of paintings, like “ Beech Forest”, “Street from Barbizon during summer time”, “The oak”, “Chrysanthemum”, “The red scarf”, “Peasant woman with green kerchief”, “Pink roses” and “Still life”. My favourite painting is “The oak”.
His work was exhibited with the works of better known painters such as Manet, Monet and Renoir.
     In 1881 Ion Andreescu returned in Romania, but was ill with tuberculosis. Ion Andreescu died in 22 October 1882, at the age of 32.
BY: Sidorov Paul Daniel