Montague Summers

Montague Summers

male, deceased (1948)
Augustus Montague Summers (10 April, 1880 - 10 August, 1948) was an eccentric English author and clergyman. He is known primarily for his 1928...
Yanagi Soetsu

Yanagi Soetsu

male, deceased (1961)
Yanagi Soetsu, philosopher and founder of the mingei (folk art) movement in Japan in the late 1920s and 1930s. In 1916, Yanagi made his first trip...
Paresh Maity

Paresh Maity

male
Paresh Maity is an Indian artist. He lives and works in Delhi and is married to artist Jayasri Burman. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the...
Werner Drewes

Werner Drewes

male, deceased (1985)
Werner Drewes was a German-American painter and printmaker, born in 1899 in Canig, Germany. Since his death in 1985, recognition of Drewes's...
Zainul Abedin

Zainul Abedin

male
Zainul Abedin (1914-1976) was an artist from Bangladesh. Like many of his contemporaries, he was born in undivided India, and lived through the...
Karlgeorg Hoefer

Karlgeorg Hoefer

male, deceased (2000)
Karlgeorg Hoefer was a German calligrapher and typographer. Hoefer was born in Schlesisch-Drehnow, now Drzonów, in Silesia. He taught typography a...

Nyotaimori

female
Nyotaimori, often referred to as "body sushi", is the practice of eating sashimi or sushi from the body of a woman, typically naked. As a result of...
Philippe Phebus Dubois

Philippe Phebus Dubois

male, 51 years old (Brussels, Belgium)
Philippe Phébus Dubois started painting at the age of 30. During several years he studied the art of painting and drawing. Between 1989 en 1990 he s...
Eglantyne Louisa Jebb

Eglantyne Louisa Jebb

female
Eglantyne Louisa Jebb (1845-1925) was a socal reformer. Born in Killiney, Ireland, she married her cousin Arthur Trevor Jebb (1839-1894), a...
Kristen Baumlier

Kristen Baumlier

female
Kristen Baumlier is an artist living and working in Cleveland, Ohio. She is chair of the T.I.M.E. - Digital Arts department at the Cleveland...