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Hans Holbein the Younger was born in Augsburg in 1497/98. He died in London in 1543, having been honoured with the title of painter to King Henry VIII. His talent was established at the early age of 18 when he illustrated Erasmus' manuscript, The Praise of Folly. After fleeing the Reformation, Holbein spent over two years in London, where he was welcomed by Thomas More. Under More's patronage, he acquired an outstanding reputation as a portrait painter. Holbein contributed to the illustrations in the first edition of Utopia. Holbein's specialty was anamorphosis, teasing the viewer's vision with a sense of humour. Even today his subtle innuendo comes over with a big ""wink."" Holbein painted numerous portraits of humanists, bishops, merchants and bankers, as well as of Henry VIII and his wives. Outstanding examples of his portraiture are the Darmstadt Madonna, the portrait of Henry VIII, the Cartellino, the portrait of Bonifacius Amerbach and, of course, the famous Ambassadors.

Der in Berlin und Moskau lebende Maler Evgeni Dybsky entwickelte seine körperartige, dreidimensionale und strukturreiche Malerei im Dialog mit den Fresken von Giotto di Bondone. Sieben Jahren arbeitete Dybsky an diesem Projekt, inspiriert von der Restaurierung des Freskenzyklus in der Cappella degli Scrovegni. Dabei entstanden Werke in der Größe der giottesken Fresken in Padua, aber auch kleinere Fragmente, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen – wichtige Hilfsmittel für den Maler. Diese Publikation zeigt alle 220 Arbeiten und veranschaulicht in zahlreichen Vergrößerungen die Besonderheit von Dybskys Malereistruktur. Biografie Evgeni Dybsky: 1955 geboren in Constanza, Rumänien 1978 Abschluss an der Moscow Art School 1984 Abschluss am Surikov Art Insitute, Moskau Lebt und arbeietet in Berlin and Moskau

Egon Schiele is considered by many to be the greatest draftsman of the 20th Century. The undeniable fact, however, that a considerable share of his work is of an explicitly erotic nature has blinded many people to his remarkable ability, so much that he is primarily known as an Austrian Expressionist artist of the erotic. Schiele's full artistic flowering lasted only a little over 10 years. He was cut down at the cruelly early age of 28, just as he was about to truly embrace his talent and take it to another level. Schiele's greatest early influence was the work of his older compatriot Gustav Klimt. His preferred medium was gouache, pencil, and watercolour on coarse-grained, sometimes coloured, paper. His oil paintings are relatively few in number. Because he died so young- aged only 28- art historians can only speculate where Schiele's more mature talent would have taken him if he had lived to middle, and even old, age.