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Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable of...
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Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1928
Date of death:
- Feb 22, 1987 (age 58 years)
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer (German pronunciation: [ˈalbʀɛçt ˈdyʀɐ]) (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been...
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1471
Date of death:
- Apr 6, 1528 (age 56 years)
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈmʉŋk], 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionistic art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1863
Date of death:
- Jan 23, 1944 (age 80 years)
Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of...
Date of birth:
- Mar 30, 1746
Date of death:
- Apr 16, 1828 (age 82 years)
M. C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972), usually referred to as M.C. Escher (English pronunciation: /ˈɛʃər/, Dutch: [ˈmʌʊ̯rɪts kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈɛʃər] ( listen)), was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically...
Date of birth:
- Jun 17, 1898
Date of death:
- Mar 27, 1972 (age 73 years)
Otto Dix
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈhaɪnʀiç ˈɔto ˈdɪks]) (2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker. Noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and of the brutality of...
Date of birth:
- Dec 2, 1891
Date of death:
- Jul 25, 1969 (age 77 years)
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is one of the most recognized figures in...
Date of birth:
- Oct 25, 1881
Date of death:
- Apr 8, 1973 (age 91 years)
Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎, October or November 1760–May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. In his time, he was Japan's leading expert on Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best-known...
Date of birth:
- 1760
Date of death:
- 1849 (age 89 years)
Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde (7 August 1867 – 13 April 1956) was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolour painters of the 20th century. He is...
Date of birth:
- Aug 7, 1867
Date of death:
- Apr 13, 1956 (age 88 years)
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop art as, "not 'American' painting but actually...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1923
Date of death:
- Sep 29, 1997 (age 73 years)
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15, 1930 in Augusta, Georgia, United States) is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery.
Jasper Johns spent his early life in...
Date of birth:
- May 15, 1930 (age 79 years)
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. He was a master draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but excelled primarily as a painter....
Date of birth:
- Dec 31, 1869
Date of death:
- Nov 3, 1954 (age 84 years)
Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.
Léger was born in the Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, where his father raised cattle. Fernand Léger initially trained as an architect...
Date of birth:
- Feb 4, 1881
Date of death:
- Aug 17, 1955 (age 74 years)
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525 – 9 September 1569) was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (Genre Painting). He is nicknamed "Peasant Bruegel" to distinguish him from other members of the...
Date of birth:
- 1525
Date of death:
- Sep 9, 1569 (age 44 years)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi də tuluz loˈtʁɛk]) (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in...
Date of birth:
- Nov 24, 1864
Date of death:
- Sep 9, 1901 (age 36 years)
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. In both his urban and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 22, 1882
Date of death:
- May 15, 1967 (age 84 years)
William Hogarth
William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was a major English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic...
Date of birth:
- Nov 10, 1697
Date of death:
- Oct 26, 1764 (age 67 years)
John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Millais (pronounced Mih-lay) was born in Southampton, England in 1829, of a...
Date of birth:
- Jun 8, 1829
Date of death:
- Aug 13, 1896 (age 67 years)
Frank Stella
Frank Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.
He was born in Malden, Massachusetts. After attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover,...
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1936 (age 73 years)
Anders Zorn
Anders Leonard Zorn (February 18, 1860 – August 22, 1920) was one of Sweden’s foremost artists who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and printmaker in etching.
Zorn was born in the parish of Yvraden, in Mora, Dalarna. He was...
Date of birth:
- Feb 18, 1860
Date of death:
- Aug 22, 1920 (age 60 years)
Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 28, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated...
Date of birth:
- Feb 12, 1884
Date of death:
- Dec 28, 1950 (age 66 years)
Louis le Brocquy
Louis le Brocquy (born 10 November 1916) is an Irish painter born in Dublin. Louis le Brocquy's work has received much international attention and many accolades in a career that spans seventy years of creative practice. In 1956, he represented...
Date of birth:
- Nov 10, 1916 (age 93 years)
Patrick Caulfield
Patrick Caulfield, CBE (29 January 1936 – 29 September 2005) was an English painter and printmaker known for his pop art canvases.
Patrick Caulfield studied at the Chelsea School of Art from 1956 to 1960, and at the Royal College of Art from 1960 to...
Date of birth:
- Jan 30, 1936
Date of death:
- Sep 29, 2005 (age 69 years)
Sean Scully
Sean Scully (born Dublin, Ireland, 30 June 1945) is an Irish-born American painter and printmaker who has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. His work is collected in major museums worldwide.
Scully was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1989...
Date of birth:
- Jun 30, 1945 (age 64 years)
Dick Higgins
Dick Higgins (March 15, 1938 – October 25, 1998) was a composer, poet, printer, and early Fluxus artist.
Higgins was born in Cambridge, England. Like many of the other Fluxus artists, he studied composition with John Cage. He married artist Alison...
Date of birth:
- 1938
Date of death:
- Oct 25, 1998 (age 60 years)
Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent (June 21, 1882–March 13, 1971) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer.
Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York, the same year as fellow American artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper. Kent lived much of...
Date of birth:
- Jun 21, 1882
Date of death:
- Mar 13, 1971 (age 88 years)
Félicien Rops
Félicien Rops (7 July 1833 - 23 August 1898) was a Belgian artist, and printmaker in etching and aquatint.
Rops was born in Namur in 1833, and was educated at the University of Brussels. Rops's forte was drawing more than painting in oils; he first...
Date of birth:
- Jul 7, 1833
Date of death:
- Aug 23, 1898 (age 65 years)
Yoshitoshi
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - June 9, 1892) (Japanese: 月岡 芳年; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi 大蘇 芳年) was a Japanese artist.
He is widely recognized as the last great master of Ukiyo-e, a type of Japanese woodblock printing. He is additionally regarded as...
Date of birth:
- 1839
Date of death:
- Jun 9, 1892 (age 53 years)
Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud (born November 15, 1920) is an American painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks. His last name is pronounced "Tee-bo." He is associated with the Pop art movement because of his...
Date of birth:
- Nov 15, 1920 (age 89 years)
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier (February 26, 1808 – February 10, 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century.
A prolific draftsman who produced over...
Date of birth:
- Feb 26, 1808
Date of death:
- Feb 10, 1879 (age 71 years)
Édouard Vuillard
Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) was a French painter and printmaker.
Date of birth:
- Nov 11, 1868
Date of death:
- Jun 21, 1940 (age 71 years)
Yoshitaka Amano
Yoshitaka Amano (天野 喜孝 (formerly 天野 嘉孝), Amano Yoshitaka) (born July 28, 1952) is a Japanese artist known for his illustrations for Vampire Hunter D and for his character designs, image illustrations and title logo designs for the Final Fantasy...
Date of birth:
- Jul 28, 1952 (age 57 years)
Banksy
Banksy is a quasi-anonymous British graffiti artist. He is believed to be a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, near Bristol and to have been born in 1974, but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and...
Date of birth:
- 1974 (age 36 years)
Dulah Marie Evans
Dulah Marie Evans, later Dulah Marie Evans Krehbiel (1875-1951) was an American painter,photographer, printmaker, illustrator, and etcher.
She was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa. She attended William Penn University and graduated from The Art Institute of...
Date of birth:
- 1875
Date of death:
- 1951 (age 76 years)
Samuel Palmer
Samuel Palmer (27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881) was an English landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in English Romanticism and produced visionary pastoral paintings.
Palmer, who was born in...
Date of birth:
- Jan 27, 1805
Date of death:
- May 24, 1881 (age 76 years)
Shepard Fairey
Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is a contemporary artist, graphic designer, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, in which he...
Date of birth:
- Feb 15, 1970 (age 39 years)
Xu Bing
Xu Bing (Chinese: 徐冰 b. 1955) is a Chinese-born artist, resident in the United States since 1990.
Born in Chongqing in 1955, Xu grew up in Beijing. In 1975, near the end of the Cultural Revolution, he was relocated to the countryside for two years....
Date of birth:
- 1955 (age 55 years)
Salvatore Rosa
Salvator Rosa (1615 - March 15, 1673) was an Italian Baroque painter, poet and printmaker, active in Naples, Rome and Florence. As a painter, he is best known as an "unorthodox and extravagant" and a "perpetual rebel" proto-Romantic.
He was born in...
Date of birth:
- 1615
Date of death:
- Mar 15, 1673 (age 58 years)
Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton, CH (born February 24, 1922) is an English painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage titled Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent...
Date of birth:
- Feb 24, 1922 (age 87 years)
Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero (August 24, 1926 – October 18, 2009) was an American artist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she had long been based in New York City. She was married to and collaborated with artist Leon Golub (1922–2004).
As both artist and activist, Nancy...
Date of birth:
- 1926
Date of death:
- Oct 18, 2009 (age 83 years)
Lee Bontecou
Lee Bontecou is an American artist who was born 15 January 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island. She attended the Art Students League of New York from 1952 to 1955 where she studied with the sculptor William Zorach. She received a Fulbright scholarship...
Date of birth:
- Jan 15, 1931 (age 79 years)
Jack Levine
Jack Levine (b. Boston, Massachusetts, January 3, 1915) is an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives.
Born of Lithuanian Jewish parents, Levine grew up...
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1915 (age 95 years)
Théophile Steinlen
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, frequently referred to as just Steinlen (November 10, 1859 – December 13, 1923), was a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker.
Born in Lausanne, Steinlen studied at the University of Lausanne before taking...
Date of birth:
- Nov 10, 1859
Date of death:
- Dec 13, 1923 (age 64 years)
Edward Ruscha
Edward Ruscha ("roo-SHAY") (born December 16, 1937 Omaha, Nebraska) is an American artist associated with the Pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film.
Ed Ruscha was born into a Roman...
Date of birth:
- Dec 16, 1937 (age 72 years)
Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins (b. October 25, 1938, Riga, Latvia) is an American artist.
Vija Celmins immigrated to the United States with her family from Latvia when she was ten years old. She and her family settled in Indiana. Celmins received international...
Date of birth:
- Oct 25, 1938 (age 71 years)
Arman
Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French artist. Born Armand Pierre Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman is a painter who moved from using the objects as paintbrushes ("allures d'objet") to using them as the painting itself. He is best...
Date of birth:
- Nov 17, 1928
Date of death:
- Oct 22, 2005 (age 76 years)
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning (born August 25, 1910) is an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre.
Born in Galesburg, Illinois, Tanning lived in Paris for twenty-eight years. Having moved...
Date of birth:
- Aug 25, 1910 (age 99 years)
Red Grooms
Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Groom was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of...
Date of birth:
- Jun 7, 1937 (age 72 years)
Bernard Buffet
Bernard Buffet (10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter of Expressionism and Member of the Anti-Abstract Art Group "L 'homme Témoin [the Witness-Man]".
Buffet was born in Paris, France, and studied art there at the École Nationale...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1928
Date of death:
- Oct 4, 1999 (age 71 years)
Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin (1922 – 2000) was an American sculptor, book illustrator, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.
Leonard Baskin was a first cousin of American modern dancer and choreographer, Sophie Maslow.
While he was a student at Yale...
Date of birth:
- 1922
Date of death:
- 2000 (age 78 years)
Margaret Kilgallen
Margaret Leisha Kilgallen (October 28, 1967 – June 26, 2001) was a San Francisco Bay Area artist. Though a contemporary artist, her work showed a strong influence from folk art. She was considered a central figure in the Bay Area Mission School art...
Date of birth:
- Oct 28, 1967
Date of death:
- Jun 26, 2001 (age 33 years)
Betty Goodwin
Betty Roodish Goodwin OC (March 19, 1923 – December 1, 2008) was a Canadian printmaker, sculptor, painter, and installation artist.
Born in Montreal, Betty Goodwin loved to paint and draw as a child, and was much encouraged by her mother to pursue...
Date of birth:
- Mar 19, 1923
Date of death:
- Dec 1, 2008 (age 85 years)
Hans Burgkmair
Hans Burgkmair the elder (1473 - 1531) was a German painter and printmaker in woodcut.
Burgkmair was born in Augsburg, the son of painter Thomas Burgkmair and his son, Hans the Younger, became one too. From 1488 he was a pupil of Martin Schongauer...
Date of birth:
- 1473
Date of death:
- 1531 (age 58 years)
Rick Amor
Rick Amor (born 1948) is an Australian artist and figurative painter. He was an official war artist.
Rick Amor was born in Frankston, Victoria, Australia. He has a certificate in art from the Caulfield Institute of Technology, and Associate Diploma...
Date of birth:
- Mar 13, 1948 (age 61 years)
Fred Williams
Frederick Ronald (Fred) Williams OBE (23 January 1927 - 22 April 1982) was an Australian painter and printmaker. He was one of Australia’s most important artists, and one of the twentieth century’s major painters of the landscape. He had more than...
Date of birth:
- Jan 23, 1927
Date of death:
- Apr 22, 1982 (age 55 years)
Nancy Graves
Nancy Graves (December 23, 1939 – October 21, 1995) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon. According to artcyclopedia.com , her works are...
Date of birth:
- Dec 23, 1939
Date of death:
- Oct 21, 1995 (age 55 years)
Arthur B. Davies
Arthur Bowen Davies (September 26, 1863 – October 24, 1928) was an avant-garde American artist.
He was born in Utica, New York and studied at the Chicago Academy of Design from 1879 to 1882. He briefly attended the Art Institute of Chicago and then...
Date of birth:
- Sep 26, 1863
Date of death:
- Oct 24, 1928 (age 65 years)
Raphael Soyer
Raphael Soyer (1899 – November 4, 1987) was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American scene painter. He is identified as a Social Realist because of his interest in men and women viewed in...
Date of birth:
- 1899
Date of death:
- Nov 4, 1987 (age 88 years)
John Brack
John Brack (10 May 1920 - 11 February 1999 in South Melbourne, Victoria) was an Australian painter, and a member of the Antipodeans group.
John Brack was Art Master at Melbourne Grammar School (1952-62). His art first achieved prominence in the...
Date of birth:
- May 10, 1920
Date of death:
- Feb 11, 1999 (age 78 years)
Alex Katz
Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figural artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints.
Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1928 the family moved to St. Albans...
Date of birth:
- Jul 24, 1927 (age 82 years)
