Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

31,194 artists in the collection

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Blewett, Wellington

American

American, born Canada, 1875 - 1962

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Bleyl, Fritz

German

German, 1880 - 1966

Hilmar Friedrich Wilhelm Bleyl, known as Fritz Bleyl (8 October 1880 – 19 August 1966), was a German artist of the Expressionist school, and one of the four founders of artist group Die Brücke ("The Bridge"). He designed graphics for the group including, for their first show, a poster, which was banned by the police. He left the group after only two years, when he married, to look after his family, and did not exhibit publicly thereafter.

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Bligny, Honore-Thomas

French

French, died 1785

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Blinky Palermo

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Bliss, Douglas Percy

British

British, 1900 - 1984

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Bliss, Harold

American

American, 1895 - 1944

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Bliss, Rosalind

British

British, active late 20th century

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Bloch, Albert

American

American, 1882 - 1961

Albert Bloch (August 2, 1882 – March 23, 1961) was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group of early 20th-century European modernists.

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Bloch, Herman

American

American (?), active 20th century

Herman Samuel Bloch (June 15, 1912 – June 16, 1990) was an American chemist and an inventor. Bloch invented the catalytic converter, a device that removes pollutants from automobile exhaust fumes. Bloch held more than 270 patents. He was the deputy director of research of the aerospace company AlliedSignal Inc, and chairman of the Cook County Housing Authority. He received the Chemical Pioneer Award in 1989 from the American Institute of Chemists. He received the Ernest J. Houdry Award in Applied Catalysis, the E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry in 1974, and the Richard J. Kokes Memorial Award and Lectureship from Johns Hopkins University in 1971. Bloch was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.

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Bloch, Julius

American

American, 1888 - 1966

Julius Thiengen Bloch (May 12, 1888 – August 22, 1966) was born in Kehl, Germany.

Bloch, Lucienne

Bloch, Lucienne

American

American, born Switzerland 1909 - 1999

Lucienne Bloch (1909–1999) was a Swiss-born American artist. She was best known for her murals and for her association with the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, for whom she produced the only existing photographs of Rivera's mural Man at the Crossroads, painted in 1933 and destroyed in January 1934 at Rockefeller Center in New York City.