Self Portrait by Max Kurzweil The artist I am looking at today is the Austrian painter and printmaker, Maximilian Franz Viktor Zdenko Marie Kurzweil who was born on October 12th 1867 in Bzenec, a small town in the South Moravian Region, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and now part of the Czech…

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12.06.2025

Famous Views of the Sixty odd Provinces by Utagawa Hiroshige. Part 1. – my daily art display

Memorial Portrait of Utagawa Hiroshige by Utagawa Kunisada (c.1858) This portrait of the artist Hiroshige shows him as he looked just before his death, with the robes and shaven head of a Buddhist priest. At the age of sixty, two years before his death of an undetermined long illness, he took monks vows. Utagawa Hiroshige or Andō Hiroshige,…

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23.06.2025

Famous Views of the Sixty odd Provinces by Utagawa Hiroshige. Part 2. – my daily art display

Title Page for the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces of Japan by Hiroshige Hiroshige was born in Edo (now Tokyo) in 1797 and grew up in a minor samurai family. His father was part of the firefighting force assigned to Edo Castle. It was here that Hiroshige was given his first exposure to…

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06.07.2025

Mark (Max) Gertler. Part 1. – my daily art display

Max Gertler by Lady Ottoline Morrell vintage snapshot print, 1917. © National Portrait Gallery, London My featured artist today is Markz Gertler. He was one of the most prominent artists of his generation and an early member of the New English Art Club, elected in 1912. He was a painter of figures, portraits and still-life. Markz was…

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Famous Views of the Sixty odd Provinces by Utagawa Hiroshige. Part 1. – my daily art display

Famous Views of the Sixty odd Provinces by Utagawa Hiroshige. Part 2. – my daily art display

Mark (Max) Gertler. Part 1. – my daily art display

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