Albrecht Altdorfer | Biografia ed Opere

Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-1538) è stato un pittore Tedesco, fondatore della Scuola Danubiana nel sud della Germania, contemporaneo di Albrecht Dürer.

Fu uno dei principali artisti del Rinascimento tedesco, oltre che pittore anche architetto, incisore, scultore, calcografo e disegnatore per xilografie.

Dipinse rappresentazioni religiose e mitologiche, ma furono in particolare i suoi paesaggi a renderlo celebre per la loro bellezza: furono creati dall'artista non per illustrare storie e parabole, ma con il proposito di esaltare il fascino della natura e delle figure umane che si muovono all'interno di essa.

Ute Herrmann, 1969 | Romantic / Impressionist garden

German painter Ute Herrman was born in Cologne.

1986/1988 - Technical College for Design, Rheinbach;

1988/1990 - Graduate College for Design and Graphic Design, Rheinbach;

1990/1992 - Studied at the Rhine-Sieg Academy of Art, Dipl.- Graphic Designer;

1992 - Training in Portrait and Life Drawings;

Since 1992 - Independent Freelancer;

1993 - First stays in Paris and in the artist town of Carmel, California;

Albert Einstein: "La creatività è contagiosa. Trasmettila!"

▻ La logica ti porta da A a B. L'immaginazione ti porta ovunque!
▻ La creatività è contagiosa. Trasmettila!
▻ L'arte è l'espressione del pensiero più profondo nel modo più semplice.
▻ L'immaginazione è più importante della conoscenza. La conoscenza è limitata, l'immaginazione abbraccia il mondo.
▻ Per perdere la testa, bisogna averne una!

Niccolò Paganini by Johann Peter Lyser

Johann Peter Lyser

(German engraver, journalist, critic, miscellaneous writer; caricaturist,1804-1870)

about Paganini from the magazine "Originalien", 1830

Niccolò Paganini | Cartoon Drawing by Johann Peter Lyser

"Paganini is an Italian artist, and an Italian artist will be never sad or misanthrope. If he become that, it is the end of the art. In the character of Paganini there is nothing exalted.

His heart bits with a strong joy of living, it is attached to this land and to all it has to offer. However great the passion for his art is, he does despise nothing, not even things of little importance if they offer enjoyment […].

Paganini is one of the strangest, indeed baroque and certainly greatest phenomena, that cross land for over a century, but there is nothing mysterious about him. He his not like the stormy sea, but he is like the quiet lake.

Carsten Witte (German photographer, 1964)

The Hamburg native photographer Carsten Witte has an extensive portfolio ranging from fashion, beauty, advertising and art. He specializes in black and white photography and believes that all his photo's hold a story.

Carsten Witte Studies of Visual Arts and Photography at FH Bielefeld, Internships and assistances to several Photographers. Collaboration with photographer Angela Bergling from 1987-1995.

"Starting with Editorial and Campaign Photography I turned towards Art in 2004. Several exhibitions since then all over the world".

Ernst Koerner (1846-1927) | Landscape painter

Ernst Karl Eugen Koerner was a German🎨 landscape painter.

In 1861, while still attending the public schools, he began working in the studios of Hermann Eschke, where he received most of his artistic education.

Later, he also worked for Karl Steffeck and Gottlieb Biermann.

Rudolf Jordan (1810-1887) | Genre painter

Wilhelm Rudolf Jordan was a German🎨 genre painter, illustrator, etcher and art teacher.

His father was a member of the Judicial Council and he was a descendant of Charles-Étienne Jordan; advisor to Frederick the Great.

After completing his basic artistic studies with Karl Wilhelm Wach at his private school in Berlin, Jordan moved to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he took master classes with Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow and Karl Ferdinand Sohn.

17th century Inventions

1670 ‣ Dom Pérignon invents Champagne

The 17th century🎨 was the century that lasted from January 1, 1601, to December 31, 1700.

It falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque🎨 cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis.