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.
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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
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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
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