Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

39,743 artists in the collection

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Friedman, Martin

American

American, born 1925

Martin Lee Friedman (September 23, 1925 – May 9, 2016) was an American museum curator who spent the majority of his career as the director of the Walker Art Center and oversaw the opening of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1989.

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Fried, Nancy

American

American, born 1945

Robert Nathan Fried (born January 16, 1963) an American film producer and media, technology, and healthcare entrepreneur and is the CEO of Niagen Bioscience since 2018. He is the founder of Fried Films and Spiritclips, LLC, a division of Hallmark Cards which includes Hallmark eCards and Feeln. He previously was president and CEO of Savoy Pictures.

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Friedrich Amerling

Austrian

1803 - 1887

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Friedrich Carl Gröger

German

1766 - 1838

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Friedrich, Caspar David

German

German, 1774 - 1840

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Friedrich Egermann

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Friedrich Fennel

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Friedrich Gauermann

Austrian

1807 - 1862

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Friedrich Gilly

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Friedrich Hagenauer

German

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Friedrich Hundertwasser

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Friedrich I, Jakob Andreas

German

German, 1684 - 1751

The following list of Illuminati members is a compilation of well-known personalities associated with the Illuminati, an 18th-century Bavarian secret society. The list is in alphabetical order. The Illuminati Order was founded on May 1, 1776, by the philosopher and canon lawyer Adam Weishaupt in Ingolstadt and existed primarily in the Electorate of Bavaria until it was banned in 1784/85. The secret society had set itself the goal of spreading the values of the Enlightenment and infiltrated the lodges of the Freemasons for this purpose. A total of 1,394 members of the order can be identified, around a third of whom were also Freemasons and came almost exclusively the German-speaking world (particularly Bavaria and Thuringia). The members included members of the upper classes, including nobles, entrepreneurs, scholars, intellectuals, military personnel, and civil servants. After a brief heyday, the Illuminati where banned in Bavaria in 1784/85 as treasonous and anti-religious, and by the 1790s at the latest, it was largely inactive. Although hardly any French-speaking people belonged to the Illuminati, conspiracy theories later arose that suspected the group of being behind the French...