Anton Peschka

Peschka, Anton 1885-1940 Anton Peschka was born on 21 February 1885 in Vienna. After a commercial education he visited the painting school of Robert Scheffer. From 1906 to 1910 he studied with his close friend and contemporary, Egon Schiele, whose sister Gertrude he...

Paulina Olowska

Olowska, Paulina Born 1976 Paulina Olowska was born 1976 in Gdansk, Poland, she studied in the US at the School of Art Institute in Chicago, the Fine Arts Academy in Gdańsk and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Her works involving pop art, graffiti and Soviet propaganda...

Corneille

Corneille 1922-2010 Guillaume Cornelis Beverloo was born in Liege of Dutch parents in 1922 and studied in Amsterdam where he met and became friends with Karel Appel. He was influenced by German expressionism and French surrealism. He was, along with such luminairies...

Michael Landy R.A.

Landy, Michael R.A. Born 1963 Michael Landy RA, born in London in 1963 is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He took up art professionally after one of his paintings was selected for display on the BBC television programme ‘Take Hart’. After graduating from...

Roman Opałka

Opałka, Roman 1931-2011 Roman Opałka was born on August 27, 1931, in Abbeville-Saint-Lucien, France, to Polish parents. The family returned to Poland in 1946 and Opałka studied lithography at a graphics school before enrolling in the School of Art and Design in Lodz....

Marcel Dzama

Dzama, Marcel Born 1974 Marcel Dzama was born in 1974 and is a contemporary artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, who currently lives and works in New York. His work has been exhibited internationally, in particular his unique, ink and watercolour drawings. He is...