Lovis Corinth, whose real name is Franz Heinrich Louis Corinth, was a German painter and printmaker, one of the most important representatives of German Impressionism and Expressionism. Corinth's oeuvre includes more than 100 paintings and several books and essays on painting. Today Corinth is regarded as one of the "Classics of Modern Art" and his works are exhibited in the most important museums and galleries of the German-speaking world.Lovis Corinth, whose real name is Franz ...

This book is a collection of 226 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Friedrich Nietzsche:“All I need is a sheet of paper; and something to write with, and then; I can turn the world upside down.”“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”“And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally. ”“Become who you are!”“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”...

This book is a collection of 91 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Jose Marti:“Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.”“A selfish man is a thief.”“Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything.”“Liberty is the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.”“Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the la...

This book is a collection of 250 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Francis Bacon:“God's first creature was light.”“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”“Boldness is a child of ignorance.”“Opportunity makes a thief.”“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is t...

This book is a collection of 225 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Plato:“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”“Ideas are the source of all things”“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”“Ignorance is the root and stem of every evil.”“I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”“Knowledge is the food of the soul.”“‎Love is a madness produced ...

Vasily Polenov was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists. He studied under Pavel Chistyakov and in the Imperial Academy of Arts . As a pensioner of the Academy he traveled to Germany, Italy, France, painted historical and genre pictures and portraits. But most attractive for him was landscape painting on plein air. He studied the works of French landscape painters, especially those by the Barbizon school. Polenov concentrated on painting ...

Willard Metcalf was an American artist born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter. He was one of the Ten American Painters who in 1897 seceded from the Society of American Artists. For some years he was an instructor in the Womans Art School, Cooper Union, New York, and in the Art Students League, New Yor...

As a boy, Ilya Repin received his first lessons in art in 1858, when he worked for a talented icon painter I. M. Bunakov. Working with Kramskoi, in a year Repin developed his skills sufficiently to be accepted in the Academy. In 1870, Repin made his first sketches for Baurge Haulers on the Volga, while being on a boat trip. When the work was finished in 1873, it immediately won recognition. In the same year for several months Repin had been traveling around Italy and then settled to work i...

Thomas Gainsborough was the most versatile English painter of the 18th century, inventive and original, always prepared to experiment with new ideas and techniques. He alone among the great portrait painters of the era devoted serious attention to landscapes. Unlike Reynolds, he was no great believer in an academic tradition and laughed at the fashion for history painting; an instinctive painter, he delighted in the poetry of paint. In his letters Gainsborough shows a warm-hearted and gene...

Nikolai Ge was a Russian realist painter famous for his works on historical and religious motifs. He was born to a Russian noble family of French origin; his grandfather immigrated to Russia in the 18th century. Nikolai graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg in 1857 with a gold medal. His painting “The Last Supper” (1863) made such a strong impression on public that Ge was made a professor of Imperial Academy of Arts. In 1864 he painted a big picture “Messengers of t...

Georges de La Tour was a French Baroque artist, who painted mostly religious scenes in chiaroscuro style, lit by pale candlelight. La Tour's s early paintings shows influences from Caravaggio, and probably also from Jacques Bellange, but unlike Caravaggio his religious paintings lack dramatic effects. He painted using chiaroscuro, careful geometrical compositions, and very simplified depicting of forms. His painting method moves during his career towards greater simplicity and stillness. L...

Fyodor Vasilyev was a Russian landscape painter who introduced the lyrical landscape style in Russian art. In his early works we can feel the influence of the Barbizon school; it affected his art but never resulted in a non-creative borrowing of the motifs. Though, at first, Vasilyev was somewhat inferior technically to the Barbizon painters, most critics agree that he eventually found his own way of handling the subject.  In 1870, Vasilyev traveled on the Volga with Ilya Repin, the p...