Artists

Bakker, Gerhard H.

Baksteen, Dirk

Dirk Baksteen (29 March 1886 in Rotterdam – 24 September 1971 in Antwerp,) was a Belgian painter and etcher. Baksteen, the son of Dirk Baksteen and Jansje van Heiningen, grew up in a family of ten children and had to help support the family as a house painter. However, Baksteen, like his brother Gerard, became a painter at a young age. Baksteen ended up in Antwerp in 1912 on the advice of his brother. In the Kempen, both brothers came into contact with the Rotterdam-born painter Jakob Smits. His brother moved back to Antwerp, but Baksteen stayed with Smits to learn from him as a painter. Baksteen did not follow an academic painting course like his brother. Smits and Baksteen spent many hours in Smits' studio, who soon understood that Baksteen had more aptitude for graphic arts. Due to his stay in Mol, Baksteen is attributed to the Molse School. Baksteen's work has been exhibited at the Jacob Smits Museum. Baksteen's work is held in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Caput Ovis Collection. An archive folder of reviews of his work, exhibition catalogs and other papers and ephemera on the artist is...

Bakst, Lev Samoilovich

Balakjian, Mark

Leonard Marchant RE (23 October 1929 – 9 January 2000) was a painter and printmaker, particularly admired as a master of the mezzotint.

Balas, Jack

Balbo, Thomas

Balcar, Jirí

Jiří Balcar (26 August 1929 – 28 August 1968) was a Czechoslovak graphic artist, painter, illustrator, typographer and cartoonist. He was famous for designing movie posters and book covers.

Balcom, Lowell Leroy

Baldassare d'Este

Baldassare Estense (ca. 1443 – after 1504) was an Italian painter. He was born in Reggio, has been supposed to have been an illegitimate scion of the house of Este, since no mention of his father's name ever occurs in contemporary records, whilst he was called 'Estensis,' and received unusual promotion and rewards from the Dukes of Ferrara. He was a pupil of Cosimo Tura, and was also a medallist. In 1469 he painted the likeness of Borso I, and was ordered to present it in person to the Duke of Milan. From 1471 to 1504 he was a salaried officer at the court of Ferrara, living first in Castel Nuovo, for which he painted a canvas that has perished, and afterwards in Castel Tedaldo, of which he was the governor. In 1483 he painted the portrait of Tito Strozzi, now in the Costabili Gallery at Ferrara. His will, dated 1500, is in the archives of Ferrara, but the exact date of his death is unknown.

Baldassare Franceschini

Baldassare Peruzzi

Baldessari, John

John Anthony Baldessari (June 17, 1931 – January 2, 2020) was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California. Initially a painter, Baldessari began to incorporate texts and photography into his canvases in the mid-1960s. In 1970, he began working in printmaking, film, video, installation, sculpture and photography. He created thousands of works which demonstrate—and, in many cases, combine—the narrative potential of images and the associative power of language within the boundaries of the work of art. His art has been featured in more than 200 solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe. His work influenced that of Cindy Sherman, David Salle, Annette Lemieux, and Barbara Kruger among others.