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Biography of Barbara Elisabeth van Houten (excerpt)
Barbara Elisabeth van Houten (8 April 1862 – 27 May 1950) was a Dutch painter born in Groningen.She studied at the École du Louvre in Paris and later at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam under August Allebé. Her aunt, the painter Sientje Mesdag-van Houten, supported her artistic education.
Biography of August Allebé (excerpt)
August Allebé, born on 19 April 1838 in Amsterdam and died there on 10 January 1927, was a Northern Dutch painter and influential teacher.His early work was romantic, later evolving into realism and impressionism. A key figure in founding Amsterdam Impressionism – also called the “School of Allebé” – he offered a counterbalance to the dominant Hague School.
Biography of Ferdinand Marinus (excerpt)
Ferdinand Marinus (August 20, 1808 – July 6, 1890) was a Belgian painter known for his depictions of the Meuse River landscapes.Born in Antwerp, he studied under Ommeganck and Van Bree at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts. He refined his style during travels through the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy, drawing inspiration from Poussin and Claude Lorrain.
Biography of Frank van der Goes (excerpt)
Franc van der Goes (February 13, 1859 – June 5, 1939) was a Dutch journalist and Marxist theorist, co-founder of the SDAP and co-translator of Das Kapital into Dutch. Initially active in finance, he shifted to literature and politics, founding the literary journal De Nieuwe Gids in 1885, which he left over political disagreements.
Biography of August Wilhelm Dieffenbacher (excerpt)
August Wilhelm Dieffenbacher (August 14, 1858 – December 14, 1940) was a German painter and illustrator.He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Ludwig von Löfftz and Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger. He debuted in 1888 with Verfolgt at the Academy’s jubilee exhibition.
Biography of George E. Ohr (excerpt)
George Edgar Ohr (July 12, 1857 – April 7, 1918) was an American ceramic artist known as the “Mad Potter of Biloxi” in Mississippi. A forerunner of American Abstract Expressionism, he became famous for his daring, experimental forms between 1880 and 1910.
Biography of Jean-François Portaels (excerpt)
Jean-François Portaels (30 April 1818 – 8 February 1895) was a Belgian painter from a bourgeois family.Trained by François-Joseph Navez, his future father-in-law, he started with pastoral scenes before turning to Orientalism. After winning the Prix de Rome in 1842, he traveled to Italy and later the Middle East (1845–1847), gathering sketches that would feed his work for years.
Biography of Eugénie de Beauharnais (excerpt)
Eugénie de Beauharnais, born 23 December 1808 in Rieti and died 1 September 1847 in Freudenstadt, was a Franco-German princess. Daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais and Augusta of Bavaria, she grew up in luxury in Munich and inherited Schloss Eugensberg upon her father’s death.
Biography of Jules Joseph Lefebvre (excerpt)
Jules Joseph Lefebvre, born on 14 March 1836 in Tournan-en-Brie and died on 24 February 1911 in Paris, was a French painter, teacher, and art theorist.He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1852 and studied under Léon Cogniet. He won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1861 with The Death of Priam and regularly exhibited at the Paris Salon, gaining recognition for his portraits and idealized female figures.
Biography of Gerard Bilders (excerpt)
Born in Utrecht on 9 December 1838, Gerard Bilders was a Dutch landscape painter strongly influenced by his father, Johannes Warnardus Bilders. He spent part of his youth in Oosterbeek, later a center for plein-air painters, and moved to The Hague in 1857.
Biography of Lili Grenier (excerpt)
Lili Grenier, sometimes Lilly or Lily Grenier, born Noémi Amélie Sans on October 9, 1863, and deceased on September 10, 1936, was a model and muse for late nineteenth-century artists.At sixteen, she posed for Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, herself an artist, before joining Fernand Cormon’s studio in Montmartre.
Biography of Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt (excerpt)
Maria Alexandrovna, born Princess Maximiliane Wilhelmine Auguste Sophie Marie of Hesse and by Rhine on August 8, 1824, was Empress of Russia as the first wife of Emperor Alexander II. The daughter of Grand Duke Ludwig II of Hesse and Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, she was well educated and raised in simplicity and piety.
Biography of Taco Mesdag (excerpt)
Taco Mesdag, born September 21, 1829 in Groningen and died August 4, 1902 in The Hague, was a Dutch banker and painter.He worked in the family banking business with his younger brother Henry. Like his brother Hendrik Mesdag, Taco eventually turned to painting.
Biography of Wilhelm Waiblinger (excerpt)
Wilhelm Waiblinger (born 21 November 1804, died 17 or 30 January 1830) was a German Romantic poet, chiefly remembered for his association with Friedrich Hölderlin. As a theology student in Tübingen in the 1820s, he visited the reclusive and mentally ill Hölderlin and often took him on walks.
Biography of Willem Weissenbruch (excerpt)
Willem Weissenbruch, born on 4 February 1864 in The Hague, Netherlands, and deceased in 1941, was a Dutch etcher, painter, scenic designer, and draftsman. He was the son of painter Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch and Suzanna Petronella Geertruida Schouw, who later married. Willem began his career as a set painter in The Hague, studying under J.
Biography of Albert Verwey (excerpt)
Albert Verwey, born May 15, 1865, in Amsterdam and died March 8, 1937, in Noordwijk aan Zee, was a Dutch poet and essayist. A self-taught writer influenced by Spinoza, he published his first collection, Persephone, and co-founded the review De Nieuwe Gids in 1885 with Willem Kloos, leaving it in 1889.
Biography of Louis Pierre Gratiolet (excerpt)
Louis Pierre Gratiolet, born July 10, 1815, in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande and died February 16, 1865, in Paris, was a French anatomist, anthropologist, and zoologist.A founding member of the Société d’Anthropologie, he became professor of zoology at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris in 1863.
Biography of Wladyslaw Barwicki (excerpt)
Władysław Barwicki, born on 11 June 1865 in Puławy and died on 12 February 1933 in Lublin, was a Polish painter, sculptor, and poet. He studied in Warsaw under Wandalin Strzałecki and Wojciech Gerson. He painted religious, patriotic, and landscape scenes, and made his debut in 1888 with portrait exhibitions in Lublin.
Biography of Jacob Moleschott (excerpt)
Jacob Moleschott (August 9, 1822 – May 20, 1893) was a Dutch physiologist and writer on nutrition and dietetics. A proponent of scientific materialism and opponent of vitalism, he believed scientists should take part in political thought. Elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1884, he was born in the Netherlands but studied in Germany and later wrote extensively in Italian, particularly on scienza positiva.
Biography of Mariano Fortuny (painter) (excerpt)
Mariano Fortuny y Marsal, born on June 11, 1838, in Reus and died on November 21, 1874, in Rome, was a Spanish painter known for Orientalist, historical, and military scenes. Orphaned young, he was raised by his grandfather who introduced him to art.
Biography of Ninian Comper (excerpt)
Sir John Ninian Comper (10 June 1864 – 22 December 1960) was a major Scottish architect of the Gothic Revival. He focused almost exclusively on churches, designing and restoring them along with liturgical furnishings, stained glass, and vestments. He masterfully blended Gothic and Classical styles, a method he called “unity by inclusion.” His use of color, iconography, and liturgical focus made his work distinct and highly revered.
Biography of Albert Brasseur (excerpt)
Jules Dumont, known as Albert Brasseur (February 12, 1860 – May 13, 1932), was a French actor, opera singer, and theatre director.The son of the famous comedian Jules Brasseur, he was initially destined for a military career before a chance event led him to the stage, where he debuted at 17 in La Fleur d’Oranger.
Biography of Gerrit Jäger (excerpt)
Gerrit Jäger (Amsterdam, 7 June 1863 – The Hague, 27 August 1894) was a Dutch journalist and playwright. A close friend of Louis Couperus, he adapted Noodlot for the stage in 1892 after Couperus dedicated the second edition of Eline Vere to him.
Biography of Fernand Khnopff (excerpt)
Fernand Khnopff, born on 12 September 1858 in Dendermonde and died on 12 November 1921 in Brussels, was a Belgian Symbolist painter, engraver, photographer, and art critic. Deeply influenced by his youth in Bruges, his art evokes melancholy, silence, and dreamlike mystery.
Biography of Titia van der Tuuk (excerpt)
Titia Klasina Elisabeth van der Tuuk, born on November 27, 1854, and died on May 7, 1939, was a Dutch feminist and socialist. The daughter of a preacher and a children’s author, she was born in ’t Zandt, Groningen. Initially a teacher, she was forced to give up her profession due to deafness and hostility toward her openly declared atheism.
Biography of Wallace Lindsay (excerpt)
Wallace Martin Lindsay (February 12, 1858 – February 21, 1937) was a Scottish classical scholar and palaeographer. He held the Latin chair, then called Professor of Humanity, at the University of St Andrews. Born in Pittenweem, he studied at Edinburgh Academy, the University of Glasgow, and Oxford, where he was a fellow of Jesus College before joining St Andrews in 1899.
Biography of Gustav Pressel (excerpt)
Gustav Pressel, born on 11 June 1827 in Tübingen and died on 30 July 1890 in Berlin, was a German composer. Raised in a cultured family, he was musically encouraged by Friedrich Silcher, but initially studied theology at his father's request.
Biography of Olympia Brown (excerpt)
Olympia Brown, born January 5, 1835, and died October 23, 1926, was an American minister and suffragist. She was the first woman to be ordained with the consent of her denomination and was an eloquent advocate for women’s rights, being one of the few first-generation suffragists to vote after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Biography of Rebecca Latimer Felton (excerpt)
Rebecca Ann Felton (June 10, 1835 – January 24, 1930) was an American writer, reformer, and politician. A member of Georgia’s upper class, she became the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate—though for only one day, on November 21, 1922—entering office at age 87 as the oldest freshman senator in American history.
Biography of Zéphirin Gerbe (excerpt)
Jean-Joseph Zéphirin Gerbe was a French naturalist born on December 21, 1810, in Bras (Var), where he also died on June 26, 1890. A science graduate and assistant at the Collège de France, he led a modest yet prolific career, often working for publishers to supplement his income.
Biography of Auguste Stoeber (excerpt)
Auguste Stoeber, also known as August Stöber, was born on July 9, 1808, in Strasbourg and died on March 19, 1884, in Mulhouse. He was an Alsatian poet and folklorist, as well as a Protestant theologian, archaeologist, and historian. His work contributed to preserving and promoting Alsatian popular traditions, blending poetry, folklore, and scholarly research.
Biography of Jules Duprato (excerpt)
Jules Laurent Anacharsis Duprato, born on 20 August 1827 and died on 20 May 1892, was a 19th-century French composer. A student of Aimé Leborne at the Paris Conservatoire, he won the prestigious Premier Grand Prix de Rome for composition in 1848.
Biography of Wilhelm von Bismarck (excerpt)
Count Wilhelm von Bismarck-Schönhausen, born on August 1, 1852, and died on May 30, 1901, was a German civil servant and politician. The youngest son of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, he served briefly in the Reichstag (1880–1881) and later as president of the Hanover regency (1889–1890).
Biography of Daniel Vorländer (excerpt)
Daniel Vorländer (11 June 1867 in Eupen – 8 June 1941 in Halle) was a German chemist and a pioneer in liquid crystal research. He studied chemistry at Kiel, Munich, and Berlin, and later became a professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Biography of Dominique Clos (excerpt)
Dominique Clos (May 25, 1821 – August 19, 1908) was a French physician and botanist.He studied medicine and science in Toulouse and Paris, earning his medical degree in 1845 and a PhD in natural sciences in 1848. In 1853, he succeeded Alfred Moquin-Tandon as professor of botany at the University of Toulouse, a post he held until his retirement in 1889.
Biography of Caspar Ritter (excerpt)
Caspar Ritter (7 February 1861, Esslingen am Neckar - 18 July 1923, Ermatingen) was a Swiss painter best known for portraits of women, but he also created genre scenes and nudes. Born into a large family, he grew up in Winterthur with his grandfather, where he completed his secondary education.
Biography of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (excerpt)
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch experimental physicist, best known as the first to liquefy helium in 1908, reaching the record temperature of 1.5 kelvin.His groundbreaking work earned him the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Biography of Betsy van Vloten (excerpt)
Elizabeth “Betsy” van Vloten, born July 12, 1862 in Deventer and died February 21, 1946 in Haarlem, was a Dutch poet and writer. She was the daughter of scholar Johannes van Vloten and sister to translators Martha and Kitty. She was close to the “Tachtigers” literary circle, where she connected with writers like Frederik van Eeden and Frank van der Goes, enjoying both intellectual and social interactions with them.
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Biography of Juana Manuela Gorriti (excerpt)
Born on June 15, 1818, in Rosario de la Frontera, Juana Manuela Gorriti was an Argentine novelist regarded as the first major writer of the fantastic genre in her country.Coming from a liberal and educated family, she spent her early years in Salta before political turmoil forced her family into exile in Bolivia in 1831.
Biography of Manuel Atanasio Fuentes (excerpt)
Manuel Atanasio Fuentes Delgado (May 2, 1820 – January 2, 1889) was a Peruvian writer, jurist, journalist, and professor, best known for his political satire and historical essays. His sharp wit earned him the nickname “El Murciélago.” A versatile intellectual, he also worked in statistics, legal medicine, law, and public hygiene.
Biography of Jules Férat (excerpt)
Jules-Descartes Férat, born on 28 November 1829 in Ham and died on 6 June 1906 in Paris, was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator. Alongside Léon Benett and Édouard Riou, he ranks among the most prominent illustrators of Jules Verne, contributing to nine of his novels.
Biography of Friedrich Theodor Vischer (excerpt)
Friedrich Theodor Vischer (born 30 June 1807, died 14 September 1887) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, and philosopher of art. He is best remembered for Auch Einer, a novel in which he introduced the humorous concept of Die Tücke des Objekts—the spitefulness of objects toward humans.
Biography of Pierre Martinet (anarchist) (excerpt)
Pierre Martinet, known as “Pol” or “the Pariah,” was born on May 5, 1848, in Laudun (Gard) and died on October 6, 1919, in Clermont (Oise).A French anarchist and Dreyfusard, he was among the founders of European individualist anarchism but remained a divisive figure, often suspected of being a police informant.
Biography of Jeanne Marni (excerpt)
Jeanne Marnière, born Marie Françoise Jeanne Barousse on August 18, 1851, in Toulouse and who died on March 4, 1910, in Cannes, was a French writer better known under the pen name Jeanne Marni.Over her career, she also used other pseudonyms.
Biography of Otto Güntter (excerpt)
Otto Güntter (born 30 October 1858, died 30 March 1949) was a German philologist and the long-serving director of the Schiller National Museum in Marbach. Influenced by Friedrich Theodor Vischer, he studied philosophy and modern philology in Tübingen, later continuing his education in France and England.
Biography of Mariano Benlliure (excerpt)
Mariano Benlliure y Gil (8 September 1862 – 9 November 1947) was a Spanish sculptor and medallist, renowned for his public monuments and religious works in a heroic realist style.Born in Valencia, he began sculpting bullfighting scenes as a teenager and exhibited a wax model at the 1876 Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes.
Biography of Albert Günther (excerpt)
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, also known as Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (born October 3, 1830, in Esslingen – died February 1, 1914, in Kew Gardens), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. One of the most prolific naturalists of his time, he described more than 1,600 species of fish and over 340 species of reptiles.
Biography of William Strang (excerpt)
William Strang, born February 13, 1859 in Dumbarton, Scotland, and died April 12, 1921 in Bournemouth, England, was a Scottish painter and printmaker who also produced book illustrations. He was a member of several prestigious institutions, including the Royal Academy in London.
Biography of Jules Allix (excerpt)
Jules Allix, born September 9, 1818, in Fontenay-le-Comte and died September 1, 1903, in Paris, was a French political figure, a fervent republican, militant socialist, and committed feminist. Trained in law, he entered politics in 1848, took part in the June Days uprising, and was repeatedly arrested for revolutionary plots, leading to his exile in 1853.
Biography of Francisco Domingo Marqués (excerpt)
Francisco José Domingo y Marqués, born March 1, 1842, in Valencia and died July 22, 1920, in Madrid, was a Spanish painter in the Eclectic style. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos, later studying in Madrid with Federico de Madrazo and in Rome under Eduardo Rosales, where he won awards for his Baroque-inspired works. |
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