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Fritz Wotruba Fritz Wotruba
Wotruba, Fritz (1907–1975). The leading Austrian sculptor of the 20th century, also a designer and architect. He was born in Vienna and trained there as an engraver, 1921–4, before studying sculpture under Anton Hanak (1875–1934). His masterly craftsmanship soon won him... Read more
Leo Castelli Leo Castelli
Castelli, Leo (1907–99). Italian-born American art dealer. He was born in Trieste, studied law at Milan University, and initially worked in banking and insurance. In 1939 he opened a gallery in Paris specializing in Surrealist art, and in 1941 he emigrated to New York. Finding the market for... Read more
John Golding John Golding
Golding, John (1929– ). British painter and art historian. He is probably best known as an eminent scholar of 20th-century art, particularly of Cubism, but he has also made a reputation as an abstract painter. His early education was in Mexico and Canada, and in 1951–7 he did... Read more
Henri Matisse Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse , 1869-1954, French painter, sculptor, and lithographer. Along with Picasso , Matisse is considered one of the two foremost artists of the modern period. His contribution to 20th-century art is inestimably great. Matisse began to study law and, during an illness in 1890, took up... Read more
Charles Spencelayh Charles Spencelayh
Spencelayh, Charles (1865–1958). British painter. He was born in Rochester, Kent, and studied at the Royal College of Art and in Paris. Early in his career he lived in or near London, later in Manchester, and finally (from 1941) at Bozeat, Northamptonshire. Completely resistant to any modern... Read more
Pedro Figari Pedro Figari
Figari, Pedro (1861–1938). Uruguayan painter, born and mainly active in Montevideo. He had a versatile and distinguished career as a lawyer, politician, writer, and editor (he founded the Montevideo newspaper El Diario) and although he had studied painting in his youth he did not devote... Read more
Light art Light art
Light art. A general term for works that use artificial light (generally electric) as an artistic medium of its own or as an important constituent of a piece. The major pioneer of light art was the Danish-American artist Thomas Wilfred, who made his first small works in this vein in 1905, but the... Read more
art history art history
art history the study of works of art and architecture. In the mid-19th cent., art history was raised to the status of an academic discipline by the Swiss Jacob Burckhardt , who related art to its cultural environment, and the German idealists Alois Riegl, Heinrich Wölfflin , and Wilhelm... Read more
Karen Katz Karen Katz
Katz, Karen 1947-PersonalBorn September 16, 1947, in Newark, NJ; daughter of Alex (a furniture manufacturer) and Muriel (a homemaker) Katz; married Gary Richards (a writer), 1999; children: Lena. Education: Tyler School of Art, degree. 1969; Yale School of Art and Architecture, M.F.A.,... Read more
Richard Serra Richard Serra
Richard Serra 1939-, American sculptor, b. San Francisco; grad. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., 1961), Yale (B.F.A., M.F.A., 1974). Many of his early works (1960s) are cast in rubber or lead. Later, using metals, concrete, fiberglass, and other materials, he created large-scale abstract... Read more

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