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Carl Georg Adolph Hasenpflug (German, 1802 to 1858)
Working in the Romantic style, Hasenpflug painted architectural views, often of German cathedrals or ruins during winter. Born to a Berlin shoemaker, Hasenpflug studied with Carl William Gropius and attended the Berlin Academy. He grew very popular during his lifetime for his evocative and highly detailed works and, along with Eduard Gaertner, Johann Erdmann Hummel, and Johann Heinrich Hintze. He is recognized as one of the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Johann Mongels Culverhouse (Dutch/American, 1820 to 1891)
Born in Holland in 1825, Culverhouse moved to the United States in 1849 where he painted in the classic Dutch genre style. Having spent much of his life working in the United States, he exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Brooklyn Art Association, the American Art-Union, the Boston Athenaeum and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His work is included in public and private collections [...] Click here to continue reading.
John William Boor, M.D. (1947 to 2007)
John William Boor, M.D. was born and raised in the city of Philadelphia. Dr. Boor’s love for the fine arts stemmed from his fascination with American history and his tremendous pride and respect for everything related to or originating from the great colonial city of Philadelphia.
To many he was their trusted doctor, specializing in Neurology. Others knew him as a collector of Americana. He had an [...] Click here to continue reading.
Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg (French, 1838 to 1904)
An accomplished and respected marine painter of the Breton and Normandy coasts, Kuwasseg was from an artistic Austrian family; two of his uncles and his father Karl-Josef Kuwasseg (1802 to 1870) were successful artists. He received his earliest training from his father, who believed travel was essential to an artistic education. Father and son traveled extensively across Europe, South America, and England and this experience proved invaluable [...] Click here to continue reading.
Water Coupe
Water coupes were small pots for ornamental as well as functional use by Chinese scholars. Displayed on their desks, they were filled with water for making ink or for refilling the artist’s brush washers to clean their writing utensils. Many were delicately carved from a variety of colored jades and agates and were patterned after organic plant forms or animals.
Information courtesy of Lois Thomas, p4A.com editor, April, 2009.
Ted Muehling – American Designer
Ted Muehling has been designing jewelry and fine objects in his New York City studio since 1976. He uses diverse materials to create pieces inspired by natural forms, such as olive branches, pinecones, and insect wings. His designs “trace the invisible forms that exist between nature and our perceptions of it”.
Information courtesy of Skinner, Inc., December 2008.
David Wojnarowicz (American, 1954 to 1992)
The art of David Wojnarowicz reflects, the harsh experiences of his youth: a difficult home life during childhood, dropping out of high school, hitch-hiking across country, living on the streets.
Despite claiming that he ‘never had what could be described as an art education’, he gleaned valuable and quite sophisticated lessons in assemblage and collage from Bay Area artists such as Jess and Bruce Connor, during a stay [...] Click here to continue reading.
Tseng Yu-Ho (Betty Ecke, Chinese/American, Hawaii, born 1924)
Born in Beijing in 1923, Tseng Yu-Ho studied the ancient art of mounting scroll paintings on a collage of various papers made of bamboo, mulberry tree bark, cotton, rice stalks, hemp or silk. In her work, the artist extended this technique to the surface of her paintings, where each sheet is colored before it is layered on another in order to attain the effect of opacity [...] Click here to continue reading.
James Theodore Elrod (American/Georgia, 1952 to 2000)
Jim was born in Atlanta, Georgia on November 30, 1952. He was the second son to Charles and Gloria Elrod. Jim was raised off Stewart Avenue and graduated from Sylvan High School in 1970. His passion was the Woodstock era and the movements that came with that style of music and flower children effect. Most of his early art, consisted of flowers and pottery paintings from that [...] Click here to continue reading.
Lovis Corinth (Prussian/German 1858 to 1925)
Perhaps no other artist since Rembrandt was so consumed with self portraiture as Corinth, an east Prussian (now Russia) native who studied in Paris as a history painter but spent his career in Munich and primarily Berlin as a quasi-Impressionist and German Expressionist artist. Corinth etched and lithographed no fewer than fifty self portraits, almost twice as many as Rembrandt. He suffered a major stroke in 1911 which [...] Click here to continue reading.
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