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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Furst, Paul

German

German, 1605 - 1666

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Furutani Hiroko

Furuyama Moromasa

Furuyama Moromasa

Furuyama Moromasa (Japanese: 古山師政, act. ca. 1695-1748) was a Japanese ukiyo-e painter and print artist active during the 18th century.

Furuyama Moroshige

Furuyama Moroshige

Furuyama Moromasa (Japanese: 古山師政, act. ca. 1695-1748) was a Japanese ukiyo-e painter and print artist active during the 18th century.

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Fusatane

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Fuseli, Henry

Fuseli, Henry

Fuseli, Henry

Swiss

Swiss, 1741 - 1825

Henry Fuseli ( FEW-zə-lee, few-ZEL-ee; German: Johann Heinrich Füssli [ˈjoːhan ˈhaɪ̯nʁɪç ˈfyːsli]; 7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his career in Britain. Many of his successful works depict supernatural experiences, such as The Nightmare. He produced painted works for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and for his own "Milton Gallery". He held the posts of Professor of Painting and Keeper at the Royal Academy. His style had a considerable influence on many younger British artists, including William Blake (1757-1827).

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Fuss, Adam

British

British, born 1961

Adam Fuss (born 1961) is a British photographer.

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Fussiner, Howard

American

American, 1923 - 2006

Füssli, Johann Melchior

Füssli, Johann Melchior

Swiss

Swiss, 1677 - 1736

Rudolf Füssli (also Hans-Rudolf, Johann Rudolf, Füessli; born 5 September 1709 in Zürich; died 12 September 1793, ibid) was a Swiss painter, art historian and lexicographer. Johann Rudolf Füssli was a son of the mayor Heinrich Füssli and his wife Dorothea, née Grebel. He was first apprenticed to the painter Johann Melchior Füssli in Zürich and then to Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg the Elder in Paris. From 1744 to 1746 he created the "New Year's Eve sheets of the Zurich fireworks society". Füssli dealt intensively with art history and published in 1763 for the first time the Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon. In 1779 appeared a new edition with a list of portraits of listed artists.

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Fussmann, Klaus

German

German, born 1938

Klaus Fußmann (born March 24, 1938), is a contemporary German painter. Fußmann was born in Velbert, Germany. He studied from 1957 to 1961 at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and from 1962 to 1966 at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 1974 to 2005, he was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Fußmann now divides his time living and working between Berlin and Gelting on the Baltic Sea. His work has won several awards, such as the Villa Romana prize in 1972 and the Art Award of Darmstadt in 1979. Major presentations of his work include exhibitions at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, 1972; the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, 1982; the Kunsthalle Emden, 1988; the Kunsthalle Bremen, 1992; and the Museum Ostwall in Dortmund, 2003. For his seventieth birthday in 2008 comprehensive exhibitions were held at Gottorf Castle in Schleswig, in the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg, and at the Mannheim Arts League. In 2005 Fußmann completed a monumental ceiling painting in the Mirror Hall of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.

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Futami Shoichi