Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
31,194 artists in the collection
Chochola, Václav
Czech
Czech, 1923 - 2005
Parta hic ("The Hic Team") is a 1976 Czechoslovak film. The film starred Josef Kemr.
Choctaw
Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus
German
German, 1726 - 1801
Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (16 October 1726 – 7 February 1801) was a German painter and printmaker of Huguenot and Polish ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his life in Berlin, and became the director of the Berlin Academy of Art.
Choe Seok-hwan
Korean
Choffard, Pierre-Philippe
French
French, 1730 - 1809
Pierre-Philippe Choffard (19 March 1731 – 7 March 1809) was a French draughtsman and engraver. Choffard was born in Paris in 1731. While still very young he showed great aptitude for drawing flowers and ornaments, and was placed with an engraver of maps named Dheulland, but he afterwards received lessons from Babel, an engraver of ornaments, and is said to have had also the benefit of the advice of Nicolas Edelinck, Balechou, and Cochin. Commencing with the cartouches of maps, which date from 1753 to 1756, he next engraved invitation and address cards and book-plates, and these drew attention to his abilities and secured for him the commission to execute the tail-pieces for the celebrated edition of the 'Contes' of La Fontaine published by the Fermiers-Généraux in 1762. The fertility of invention and the taste displayed by the artist in these gems of art are known and admired by all. The series ends with his own portrait in profile as the tail-piece of 'Le Rossignol.' To these succeeded, among a host of minor pieces, the large ornaments placed at the head of each book of the Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' of 1767–1771, the headpieces to Saint-Lambert' s poem, 'Les Saisons,' issued in 1769...
Chogaku
Choi Sungjae
Chokha
Chōkichi
Japanese
Chokosai Eisho
Chokwe
Cholula