Dirk’s Comments (group member since Feb 02, 2022)

Dirk’s comments from the Art Lovers part 3 group.

Peter Baumgartner
(1834 - 1911)

Peter Baumgartner was a German painter.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_B...


Don Quixote erklärt der Dulcinea seine Liebe
(Don Quixote declares his love for Dulcinea)
1811
Oil on cardboard.
49 x 60 cm.
Private collection
Sold by Neumeister, München on 26. September 2018
https://www.neumeister.com/kunstwerks...

William Stewart Watson
(1800 - 1870)

William Stewart Watson was born in 1800 and died in Edinburgh in 1870. His style seems based on the work of his contemporary Sir William Allan, a successful Royal Academy painter. Stewart Watson is said to have practised for some years in America, but he was in Rome in 1840 and in London between 1843 and 1847, after which he settled in Edinburgh where he remained for the rest of his life. The artist's favourite subjects were portraits and history paintings. In addition to painting, Stewart Watson often used other techniques and materials such as ink, watercolour, chalk and charcoal. He is also known as a miniature painter.


https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art...


Don Quixote Tilting at a Windmill
Before 1832
68.60 x 92.10 cm
National galleries of Scotland
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art...

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
(1796 - 1875)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Ba...


Don Quixote
1868
Oil on canvas
189.9 × 138.1 cm
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio.
https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/a...

This one needs a closer look I think…

José Moreno Carbonero
(1858– 1942)

José Moreno Carbonero was a Spanish painter and decorator. A prominent member of the Málaga School of Painting, he is considered one of the last great history painters of the 19th century. He was a celebrated portrait painter who enjoyed the patronage of Madrid's high society. He also created genre scenes and some landscapes, vedutas and still lifes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Mo...


Don Quixote e Sancho Pança
1911
Oil on canvas
48.5 x 67.5 cm
Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil
https://acervo.pinacoteca.org.br/onli...

Eugène Delacroix
(1798 - 1863)

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_...


Don Quixote in His Library
1824
Oil on canvas
40 x 32 cm
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
https://www.fujibi.or.jp/en/collectio...

Charles-Antoine Coypel
(1694 - 1752)

Charles-Antoine Coypel was a French painter, art critic, and playwright. He became court painter to the French king and director of the Académie Royale. He inherited the title of Garde des tableaux et dessins du roi (Keeper of the paintings and drawings of the king), a function which combined the role of director and curator of the king's art collection. He was mainly active in Paris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...


Don Quixote served by the girls at the inn
(After Charles-Antoine Coypel)
18th century
Oil on canvas
80.7 x 98.7cm
Private collection (Sold at Bonhams, Fevbruary 2024)
https://www.bonhams.com/auction/30152...

Work after Coypel's original, which was part of a series of cartoons that were to be executed in tapestry at the Gobelins factory, and now in Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris.

Pablo Picasso
(1881 - 1973)
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_P...


Don Quixote
1955
Sketch

Don Quixote is a 1955 sketch by Pablo Picasso of the Spanish literary hero and his sidekick, Sancho Panza. It was featured on the August 18–24 issue of the French weekly journal Les Lettres Françaises in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the first part, published in 1605, of the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote. Made on August 10, 1955, the drawing Don Quixote was in a very different style than Picasso’s earlier Blue, Rose, and Cubist periods.

Adolf Schrödter
(1805 - 1875)

Adolf Schrödter or Adolph Schroedter was a German painter and graphic artist; associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of German comics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_S...


Don Quichotte, in an armchair reading
1834
Oil on canvas
54,5 x 46 cm
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliot...

Every month I choose a theme and try to post as many different artists as there are days.
I won't reveal at first what the theme is, so the first days it's a bit of a guessing game. But I think it will not be too difficult.
You are welcome to comment on the pictures posted, or on other people's comments, you can say whatever you want (keeping with the rules of the group of course).
The only rule to this thread is that the person running this thread can post a picture here.
So please don't post a picture in this thread. That's all!
Enjoy!

Joaquim Rodrigo
(1912–1997)


Joaquim José Rodrigo was a Portuguese forestry engineer and painter. Self-taught, who came to painting late, from 1951 onwards, he exhibited an incipient expressionism in Gerais, free from commitments to neo-realist aesthetics. From 1954 until the end of the decade he developed and defined a painting with a rigorous geometric awareness, greatly influenced by Mondrian.
The year 1961, however, marked a new change in his career, curiously coinciding with the American pop art movement and a new emerging figuration in Europe, of which he could not have been aware. He practiced “raw art” for five years, a practice of fixing reality in symbolic terms, of everyday experience or traveled memory.


https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquim...


C7
1953
Oil on canvas
73 x 92 cm
National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado
http://www.museuartecontemporanea.gov...

José Escada
(1934–1980)


José Jorge da Silva Escada was a Portuguese visual artist and painter.
With a brief career, interrupted by his premature death at the age of 46, José Escada's work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition in 1980 at the National Society of Fine Arts, and in 2016 at the Caloust Gulbenkian Museum - Modern Collection (José de Azeredo Perdigão Modern Art Center).
On June 9, 1993, he was posthumously awarded the rank of Commander of the Military Order of Sant'Iago da Espada

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Es...


Dans la plage
1979
66 x 42 cm
National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado
http://www.museuartecontemporanea.gov...

Graça Morais
(b. 1948)
Graça Morais GOIH is a Portuguese artist. A member of the Academia Nacional de Belas-Artes [pt] (National Academy of Fine Arts) of Portugal, she was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry in 1997. She is married to the musician Pedro Caldeira Cabral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gra%C3%...


Pintura 1978
Oil on canvas
65 x 100
Centro de Arte moderna Gulbenkian
https://gulbenkian.pt/cam/works/pintu...

João Hogan
(1914–1988)


João Manuel Navarro Hogan was a Portuguese painter and printmaker.
Mainly a landscape painter, his style can be considered as neo-figurative although his synthesis of forms leads a considerable abstract approach to nature depiction. He employed a bold style, often using strong shades of green, browns and grey, in producing mainly urban landscapes, as well as abstract still-life work. His landscapes were always meditative and silent with an "earthy" feeling within it (often only one quarter of the painting is occupied by the sky) using for example in his preparatory studies close-up photographs of particular rocks that would later form mountains or rocky landscapes.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/João_Hogan


Casario de Lisboa (Lisbon houses)
1952
Oil on canvas
100 x73 cm
National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado
http://www.museuartecontemporanea.gov...

Next artist celebrates his birthday today: 24/02/53

Pedro Calapez
(b. 1953)
Pedro Manuel Delgado Calapez ComIH is a Portuguese visual artist, lives and works in Lisbon. He began participating in exhibitions in the 1970s, having held his first solo exhibition in 1982. His work has been shown in several galleries and museums both in Portugal and abroad.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_C...


Untitled
1987
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
250 × 174,5 cm
National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado
http://www.museuartecontemporanea.gov...

Manuela Pinheiro
(1939 - 2025)

Manuela Pinheiro Portuguese painter and illustrator. Know for Vibrant, abstract compositions with a focus on texture.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuela...


Homage to Dr. Maria Judite de Carvalho
1997/98
Oil-on-canvas triptych
130 x 50 and 100 x 41 cm
Private collection

Noronha da Costa
(1942–2020)

Luís Mário [de Sousa] Azevedo de Noronha [e Meneses] da Costa GOIH was a Portuguese visual artist and painter.
He studied architecture at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. He exhibited solo for the first time in 1962 (Lisbon, Paris, Munich); in 1966 he exhibited at the Salão de Maio, SNBA, Lisbon, and the following year he held a solo exhibition at Galeria Quadrante, Lisbon. In 1969 he participated in the São Paulo Biennial and was awarded the Soquil Prize for his performance in the 1968-69 season

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luís_No...



Deus morreu: Morte ao rei (God is dead: Death to the king)
1971-1975
Acrylic and fabric on canvas
120.5 x 100 cm
National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado
http://www.museuartecontemporanea.gov...

Luis Dourdil
(1914–1989)

Luis César Pena Dourdil Dinis, known as Luis Dourdil, was a self-taught Portuguese painter, graphic artist, designer and muralist. He started his career in figurativism, and later evolved to representations that combine it with abstractionism.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luís_Do...


Pintura II
1974
Tempera on canvas
93 x 127 cm
Centro de Arte moderna Gulbenkian
https://gulbenkian.pt/cam/en/works/pi...

Fernando de Azevedo
(1923–2002)

Fernando José Neves de Azevedo was a Portuguese painter.
He graduated from the António Arroio School of Decorative Arts, in Lisbon. He then enrolled at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, which he ended up abandoning. He exhibited for the first time in 1943, with Marcelino Vespeira and Júlio Pomar. He followed the beginning of the neorealist movement in 1945-46, but the following year he co-founded the Lisbon Surrealist Group (a movement with objectives contrasting with those of neorealism); In 1949 he participated in the group's first and only exhibition, which disbanded shortly afterwards. In 1952 he was one of the three participants in the important exhibition held at Casa Jalco, Lisbon, which the artists dedicated to the precursor of surrealism in Portugal, António Pedro. "An exhibition of «oil, photography, gouache, drawing, concealment, collage, linoleum» composed of three «First Solo Exhibitions» by Fernando de Azevedo, Fernando de Lemos and Vespeira".

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand...


Personagens preciosas
1950–1951
Oil on pressed cardboard
35 x 27 cm
National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado
http://www.museuartecontemporanea.gov...

Rocha de Sousa
(1938 - 2021)

João Manuel Rocha de Sousa was a Portuguese teacher, art critic and visual artist. He played a prominent role in redefining artistic education in Portugal, particularly in the period following the 25th of April 1974.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocha_d...


Por uma civilização (For a civilization)
1974
Oil and Acryl on canvas
110 x 100 cm
Centro de Arte moderna Gulbenkian
https://gulbenkian.pt/cam/works/por-u...

Aurélia de Sousa
(1866–1922)

Maria Aurélia Martins de Souza, known as Aurélia de Sousa, was a Portuguese-Chilean painter. She was the sister of the painter Sofia Martins de Souza and aunt of the painter and art collector Marta Ortigão Sampaio, original owner of the collection exhibited at the Casa-Museu Marta Ortigão Sampaio in Porto.
She was born in Valparaíso, Chile, the fourth of seven children to Portuguese emigrants António Martins de Sousa and Olinda Peres. The family lived in Brazil and Chile before moving back to Porto, Portugal in 1869, when she was three years old. They lived in the Quinta de China near the Douro River in a home bought by her father before he died in 1874, when she was eight years old.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurélia...


No atelier (In the studio)
1916
Oil on canvas
55 x 48 cm
National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado
http://www.museuartecontemporanea.gov...