Ponzi Ettore

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Born in Borgo San Donnino (Fidenza) on 26.10.1902, died in Fidenza on 31.01.1992. Ettore Ponzi studied at the Paolo Toschi Art Institute in Parma with Paolo Baratta, Guido Marussig and Pietro Berzolla, and he got his degree in 1934. In 1936 and 1937 he was at the Military Academy of Salerno. He participated together with […]

Point Armant

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Born in Algiers, 23.10.1861; died in Marlotte, Seine-et-Marne, March 1932. Armand Point was very well-known French Symbolist painter and designer. He began his career painting the Algerian scenes of his youth, rendering Orientalist subjects—such as markets and musicians—with a distinctive, unaffected precision. In 1888 he went to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts […]

Pištělka Petr

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Born in Švábenice in 14.07.1887, died in Vyškov in 1963. Graduated in 1913 at the Prague Art Academy in the class of H. Schwaiger and M. Pirner. He made a study trip to Italy in 1914. In the First World War he served his army duty in Russia. After the war traveled to Japan (1919), […]

Pigassou Joseph

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Born in Narbonne on 14.08.1878, died in Mas-Grenier in 1961. Amateur photographer and painter. Studied literature and philosophy at the Seminare in Narbonne. He wanted to be a professional painter, but under pressure of his family he studied medicine in Toulouse. He started to practice photography and watercolor painting first on his trip to Tunisia […]

Picard F.

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19th century French illustrator and painter. A work entitled “Vue de la baie de Salonique, 1854” was sold via the auction house Desamais, Avignon, France on 12.08.1991 (lot number 132).

Petrović Nadezda

One of the most prominent Serbian painters. Born in Chachak in 1873. Started her art education in Belgrade in 1891 at the Female Gymnasium and later in Drawing School. Later she became a student of Djordje Krstić and during 1896/97 attends the Art School of Kiril Kutlik. Studied at the Art Academy in Munich under […]

Petrov Ivan

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Born on 17th September 1909 in village Razpopovci, died in 1991 in Sofia. He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Sofia, art of painting in 1931, in the class of Prof. Nikola Marinov. In the period 1931-47 he was a teacher in Elena, Plovdiv. From 1931 until 1976 he was Professor at the Academy […]

Petrov Ilya

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Born in in Razgrad in 1903, graduated from the Art Academy in Sofia in the class of Nikola Marinov in 1926. After graduation he continues his education in Munich where he studied in the school of Prof Hainrich Man between 1926 and 1928. In the 1930s he made study trips to France and Italy. Since […]

Petković Nikola

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Born in 1893 in Indzija, Serbia, died in 1952 in Pittsburg, Nikola Petković was painter and priest who lived and worked in Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and USA. He was rather unknown painter, however since recently he has been re-discovered and compared with the best Serbian painters of his time (like Nadezda Petrović). He was born […]

Pankok Otto

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Born in in Mülheim on the Ruhr on 6.6.1892 died in Wesel on 10.10.1966. In 1912 he began his formal training as an artist at the Art Academies in Düsseldorf and Weimar. After only a few months he left the Weimar Academy, where his teachers were Fritz Mackensen and Albin Egger-Lienz and went on a […]