September 5 - the birthday of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) - a #German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his allegorical landscapes, which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees, or Gothic ruins.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-moonrise-over-the-sea-1822-caspar-david-friedrich.html
September 3 - the birthday of Irish-born #Canadian painter Paul Kane (1810-1871). He worked mainly in Toronto but traveled as far as the Pacific coast depicting landscapes, Native American subjects, fur traders, and missionaries. His paintings, especially field sketches, were one of the first visual documents of Western indigenous life.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/encampment-river-winnipeg-paul-kane-1810-1871.html
September 3 - the birthday of Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) - an #English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution". Wright is notable for his use of tenebrism, an exaggerated form of the better known chiaroscuro effect, which emphasizes the contrast of light and dark, and for his paintings of candle-lit subjects.
September 1 - the birthday of Japanese-born American painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953), an influential teacher and a leader of artists' organizations. He was one of the most important Modernist artists in the United States in the 1920s and '30s.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/landscape-1920-yasuo-kuniyoshi.html
August 21 - the birthday of Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886) - the acknowledged dean of American landscape painters following the death of Thomas Cole, he exemplified the fresh ideal of naturalism for the second-generation painters that came to be called the Hudson River School.
August 19 - the birthday of French painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894). He associated with Monet and Degas as an art student and, beginning in the mid-1870s, became one of the most steadfast, inventive, and supportive adherents of the Impressionist movement, exhibiting regularly with the two artists.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/boating-on-the-yerres-1877-gustave-caillebotte.html
August 19 - the birthday of Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621-1674) - a Dutch Golden Age painter and a favorite student of Rembrandt, to whom he remained a close friend. Van den Eeckhout’s style, particularly in the biblical paintings, is based so closely on that of his master that many of his pictures have been taken as works by Rembrandt himself.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-adoration-of-the-magi-gerbrand-van-den-eeckhout.html
August 14 - the birthday of Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789) - the leading French landscape painter of the later 18th century. He achieved great celebrity with his #marine paintings. He was also one of the century's most accomplished painters of tempests and moonlight scenes. "Others may know better", he said, with just pride, "how to paint the sky, the earth, the ocean; no one knows better than I how to paint a picture".
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-the-shipwreck-1772-claude-joseph-vernet.html
August 13 - the birthday of George Luks (1867-1933) - an American artist, identified with the aggressively realistic Ashcan School of #American painting. Luks painted working-class subjects and scenes of urban life, the hallmarks of Ashcan realism, with great enthusiasm. His paintings demonstrate Luks' ability to effectively manipulate crowded compositions and to capture expressions and gestures as well as gritty background details.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/bleecker-and-carmine-streets-new-york-1905-george-luks.html
August 04 - the birthday of John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902) - an #American painter best known for his #impressionist landscapes. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American #Impressionism to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-white-bridge-1895-john-henry-twachtman-1853-1902.html
August 02 - the birthday of John Sloan (1871-1951) - an American painter and illustrator known for the vitality of his depictions of everyday life in New York City in the early 20th century. Sloan’s realistic paintings of urban genre gave rise to the epithet “Ashcan School.”
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/mcsorleys-bar-1912-john-sloan-1871-1951.html
August 02 - the birthday of Arthur Dove (1880-1946) - an early #American modernist, often considered the first American #abstract painter. Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinations, to produce his abstractions and his abstract landscapes.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/sunset-1935-arthur-dove.html
August 01 - the birthday of Richard Wilson (1714-1782) - an influential #Welsh landscape painter, who worked in Britain and Italy. With George Lambert, he is recognized as a pioneer in the British art of landscape for its own sake and was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of #Wales as the "most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country".
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/caernarfon-castle-1745-richard-wilson.html
July 30 - the birthday of Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) - Italian Renaissance painter and architect, who is best known for his work The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of all art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-garden-of-gethsemane-1570-giorgio-vasari.html
July 29 - the birthday of Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) an American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. He was best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people and prominent Americans.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/the-old-stagecoach-1871-eastman-johnson-1824-1906.html
July 28 - the birthday of Dutch Golden Age painter Judith Leyster (1609-1660) - the only 17th-century woman to paint modern figure pieces; the only 17th-century female to master a loose painting style; and the first woman in the Western world to be officially recognized by a painters’ guild as a ‘master painter’, in 1633, which gave her the right to have her own workshop, take on pupils and sell her paintings independently.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/merry-company-1629-judith-leyster-1609-1660.html
July 28 - the birthday of Joaquín Torres-García - Uruguayan-Spanish artist, one of the leading Modernists of Latin America. Some critics have defined him as a "seeker" who renounces acquired values and focuses on abandoning the imitative to reach the creative. His constructive painting admits a formal, plastic, and semantic reading of a spiritual nature.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/constructive-painting-2-joaquin-torres-garcia.html
July 25 - the birthday of Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) - American #realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. Eakins was a controversial figure whose work received little recognition during his lifetime. Since his death, he has been celebrated by #American art historians as "the strongest, most profound realist in 19th- and early-20th-century American art".
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/a-may-morning-in-the-park-1879-thomas-eakins.html
July 19 - the birthday of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) - a French artist who was prominent in the #Impressionist group and widely celebrated for his images of Parisian life. Ballet dancers and women at their toilette would preoccupy him throughout his career.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/35-the-dance-lesson-edgar-degas.html
July 17 - the birthday of Camille Corot (1796-1875) - French landscape and portrait painter. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism. Corot declined to participate in the 1st Impressionist exhibition, but his influence was manifest in works by pupils and followers including Pissarro, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, and Sisley.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-the-environs-of-paris-1860s-camille-corot.html
