Emil Schumacher (1912 — 1999) was a German painter. He was an important representative of abstract expressionism in post-war Germany. In 2009 the Kunstquartier Hagen was inaugurated combining the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen as well as the newly built Emil Schumacher Museum in one Museum complex.
Carel Nicolaas Visser ( 1928 — 2015) was a Dutch sculptor. He is considered an important representative of Dutch abstract-minimalist constructivism in sculpture.Carel Visser is seen as one of the most important constructivist sculptors of the Netherlands. His later work is characterized by the assembly of a variety of materials, such as tires, oil drums, car windows, leather, sheepskin, eggs and so on. He made organized connections, a kind of assemblages, with this so-called great and sometimes small objets trouvés (found objects). Some of his work has been compared to a musical composition in which repetition and variation play an important role.
Malcolm A. Morley (1931–2018) was a British-American artist and painter. He was known as an artist who was a pioneer in various styles, working as a photorealist and expressionist, among many other styles.
Taro Yamamoto (October 29, 1919 – June 12, 1994) belonged to the New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris.
Balcomb Greene (1904–1990) and his wife, artist Gertrude Glass Greene, were heavily involved in political activism to promote mainstream acceptance of abstract art. They were founding members of the American Abstract Artists organization.His early style was completely non-objective. Juan Gris and Piet Mondrian as well as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse influenced his early style. From the 1940s his work «opened out to the light and space of natural form.» He painted landscapes and figure. «He discerned the pain of a man, and hewed to it integrally from beginning to end…. In his study of the figure he did not stress anatomical shape but rather its intuitive, often conflicting spirit.»Balcomb Greene contributed to modernist cause through his writings: «It is actually the artist, and only he, who is equipped for approaching the individual directly. The abstract artist can approach man through the most immediate of aesthetic experiences, touching below consciousness and the veneer of attitudes, contacting the whole ego rather than the ego on the defensive.»Wikipedia
Kathleen Gemberling Adkison (July 5, 1917 — 2010), was an American abstract painter.Like Jackson Pollock, Adkison worked with her canvas on the floor. She is recognized as among the first female to do so. However, her focus is based on the natural beauty of rocks, trees, tall grasses and other images she perceived from her hikes with her husband.
Mordecai Ardon (1896 –1992) was an Israeli painter.Ardon was born Max Bronstein in 1896 in Tuchów, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary, now Poland). In 1933 he emigrated to Jerusalem in Mandate Palestine. He was granted Palestinian citizenship in 1936 and changed his name to Mordecai Ardon.Beginning in the 1950s Ardon adopted a complex system of symbolic images in his paintings, taken from the Jewish Mystical tradition (Kabbalah), from the Bible and from a tangible reality. In his painting «Gates of Light», for example, he expressed «the inner mystery and timelessness of the landscape.»
«Jorge Oteiza Embil, Basque sculptor (born Oct. 21, 1908, Orio, Spain—died April 9, 2003, San Sebastián, Spain), examined the nature of space and emptiness in monumental minimalist sculptures that were influential in the art world of the mid-20th century. Oteiza began sculpting while studying medicine in Madrid. In 1935–48 he lived in South America, and the pre-Columbian art that he saw there informed his later work. Oteiza won the grand prize for sculpture at the 1957 São Paulo (Braz.) Bienal, but in 1959 he announced his retirement from sculpting. He continued to create small sculptures, however, in addition to publishing books on art theory and volumes of poetry. Orteiza’s frieze for the Aránzazu Basilica in Spain’s Guipúzcoa province, commissioned in 1950, aroused opposition but was finally completed in 1969. He was awarded the Spanish Medal of Fine Arts (1985), the Prince of Asturias Art Prize (1988), and the Gold Medal of Navarre (1992).»
«Eduardo Chillida was born on January 10, 1924, in San Sebastián, Spain. He began his career in 1943 studying architecture at the University of Madrid, but in 1947 he turned to drawing and sculpture and by 1948 had moved to Paris, then the world capital of the arts. Although he abandoned his studies, his oeuvre betrays his architectural training, displaying an underlying sense of structural organization as well as discipline in materials, planning of spatial relationships, and scaling of elements.
Prabuddha Dasgupta ( 1956 – 2012) was a noted fashion and fine-art photographer from India.Known for his iconic black and white imagery, he had an extended career, primarily as a fashion photographer, spanning more than three decades. Amongst his books, he is most known for Women (1996), a collection of portraits and nudes of urban Indian women.«Every photograph is an elaborate conversation in itself, but Prabuddha is only listening. It is because of this that the photographer’s gaze, while soaking in these time-worn interiors and photographing these time-ridden protagonists, is non-judgmental, with great dignity. It’s almost protecting, the way he seems to look at them, the vulnerability of this community meeting his own vulnerability as an artist. His craft is carefully studied, but his vision, intuitive, without pretence. The consciousness with which every subject is photographed is palpably.
