2. Claude Monet
A French painter, who was born on 14th November 1840 and
died on 5th December 1926. He studied at the Ecole impériale
des Beaux Arts in Paris. He is the founding father of the
impresionissm.
Palmier à Bordighera Madame avec le parapluie
FRANCE

3. GERMANY
Jörg Immendorff
Immendorff (*June 14, 1945 †May 28, 2007) was one of the best
known German painters. He also was a sculptor-, stage designer
and art professor.

4. EL GRECO
Born in 1541, died in 1614; was a painter, sculptor and architect
of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a refer-
ence to his national Greek origin, and the artist normally signed
his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος
Θεοτοκόπουλος. The primacy of imagination and intuition over
the subjective character of creation was a fundamental
principle of El Greco's style.
GREECE
Pieta Laocoön Group

5. Munkácsy
Mihály
Born 20 February 1844, died 1 May 1900 in Endenich. He was a realist
painter. In 1861 he worked in Wenckheim castle in Gyula In 1865 was
admitted to the Art Academy in Vienna. His art work was influenced by
Rembrandt and Rubens .
A Girl a Trey
Spinkling at Easter
HUNGARY

6. ITALY
GIANNI VERSACE
GERARDO SACCO
ALBINO LORENZO
Gianni Versace, the fashion guru designer,
was born in Reggio Calabria in 1946 and
here he started in his mother sewing
workshop. Once he said:
“Reggio is the kingdom where the story of my life began: the
tailoring of my mother, the haute couture boutiques”.
Gerardo Sacco, the master-goldsmith,
was born in 1940 in Crotone, a city
founded by the Greeks in the eighth
century. BC. While still a teenager he
found a job at a small goldsmith's
workshop, and so discovered his true
calling: to mold and shape gold and
silver.
Albino Lorenzo, the painter of simplicity and
everyday life, was born in Tropea in 1922. It
was his father to give him as a young man, the
basics of drawing, and, from now on, his innate
interest in art. His early works denote already
attention to the simple things of life and,
before a love for his "places". The daily
struggle of ordinary people, the genuineness of
the rural world, all the problems that begin to
break in his work.
MAGNAGRECIAMAGNAGRECIA

7. Prāta vētra
Pop/rock band, wchich was formed in the summer of 1989 in
Jelgava by five former classmates – Renārs Kaupers, Jānis Jubalts,
Gundars Mauševics and Kaspars Roga, Māris Mihelsons. In Septem-
ber 1992 Brainstorm released their first single "Jo tu nāc". After this
came their first album, « Vairāk nekā skaļi»(More than Loud) 1993.
Their song "My Star" achieved
3rd place among 24 contest-
LATVIA

8. Fryderyk
Chopin
He was born in 1810 in Żelazowa Wola. Chopin gave his first piano recital
at the age of 8. In the autumn of 1831 Chopin arrived in Paris. On 16 No-
vember 1848, despite a fever, Chopin gave his last concert, playing for
Polish emigrés in the Guildhall in London. On 17 October 1849, Chopin died
of pulmonary tuberculosis in his Parisian flat in the Place Vendôme. He was
buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
POLAND

9. Júlio Pomar
Portugeese painter, who was born in the 10th of January 1926 in
Lisbon.He studied painting in both Lisbon and Porto Academy of Fine
Arts, in this last he one he joined the group of other fellow artists
called Independents.
He joined the neo-realist movement, from 1945 to 1957, and he painted
some of the most memorable images of the current. He latter started to
paint in a sort of neo-expressionist style.
PORTUGAL

10. Albín Brunovský -
painter, graphic artist, litographer,
illustrator and
pedagogue.
Andy Warhol -
painter, movie maker and leading
figure with the pop art revolution
Koloman Sokol
- painter, graphic artist, illustrator and a
founder of modern Slovak graphic art.
Martin Benka
- founder of Slovak modern painting and
drawing. Painter, illustrator, graphic de-
signer and scenic educationist.
SLOVAKIA

11. Pablo Picasso
Picasso was born in Malaga, 1881. He was a Spanish painter,
sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist. Picasso was the creator of
Cubism together with Georges Braque. The full name of the
painter was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan
Nepomuceno María de los
Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima
Trinidad Mártir Patricio Clito Ruiz y
SPAIN

12. Idil Biret
A Turkish concert pianist, renowned for her interpretations of the Ro-
mantic repertoire. Biret has been a State Artist since 1971, an honorary
title issued to artists by the government of Turkey for their contributions
into the Turish culture.
TURKEY

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