PAINTERS

DONALD JAMES ZOLAN 1/3 – A positive man, he saw the good in every human being. He was born in Illinois on August 11, 1937, in a bungalow in the small town of Brookfield. He had a way of curious approach: when he met someone for the first time, he always used to say “Hello, I’m Donald Zolan, an artist, …

GERDA WEGENER 1/3 – She was born on March day, 1886. She was a Danish fashion illustrator and painter of lesbian erotica in the 1930s, she grew up in Hobro, but she left home at the age of 17 and moved to Copenhagen as a teenager to pursue her artistic interests. She worked as a successful fashion illustrator for magazines, …

NAOTO HATTORI 1/3 – Ignoring all rules, he paints whatever comes into his stream of consciousness. However, he starts each painting by making many sketches to put all his thoughts together. His vision is like a nightmare, or just a trippy dream. First, just take it in as it is and paint whatever you see in your mind with no …

ALBERT BLOCH 1/3 – He was born in St. Louis (Missouri), to a Bohemian-Jewish immigrant father and a mother who was a German Jew, but he was not raised in the Jewish faith and he later adopted a form of Christianity. He studied art at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. He was an American Modernist artist, the only …