Karel Appel
Christiaan Karel Appel was born on April 25, 1921 at his parents house in a working-class district in Amsterdam, Netherlands. On the ground floor, his father, Jan Appel, had a barber shop. His mother, Johanna Chevalier, was a descendant of French Huguenots. Karel Appel had three brothers...
Milton Avery
Although Milton Avery was not an abstract artist, we have decided to include his work because of our admiration of him as an artist and his contribution to modern art. Milton Avery was a modern artist born in Altmar, New York on March 7, 1885. Having been born into a working-class family,...
Josef Albers
Albers was born in Bottrop, Germany on March 19, 1888. He studied art in Berlin, Essen, and Munich, before enrolling at the famous Bauhaus-Weimar school in 1920. It was there that the Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus asked him to teach the course ‘Werklehhre’ that...
Joan Miro
Joan Miro was born on April 20, 1893 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was the son of a goldsmith and a jewellery maker. His work is often referred to as whimsical and childlike and is primarily associated with the Surrealist art movement. In his youth, Miro was enticed by the art...