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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Hester Bateman

British

1709 - 1794

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Hester Frood

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Het Bijltje Factory

Dutch

Heuser, Heinrich

Heuser, Heinrich

German

German, born 1887

Degenerate art (German: Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an "insult to German feeling", un-German, Freemasonic, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions that included dismissal from teaching positions, being forbidden to exhibit or to sell their art, and in some cases being forbidden to produce art. Degenerate Art also was the title of a 1937 exhibition held by the Nazis in Munich, consisting of 650 modernist artworks that the Nazis had taken from museums, that were poorly hung alongside graffiti and text labels mocking the art and the artists. Designed to inflame public opinion against modernism, the exhibition subsequently traveled to several other cities in Germany and Austria. While modern styles of art were prohibited, the Nazis promoted paintings and sculptures that were traditional in manner and that exalted the "blood and soil" values of...

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H.E. Varren Company

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Hevesy, Iván

Hungarian

Hungarian, 1893 - 1966

Iván Hevesy (Hungarian: [ˈivaːn ˈhɛvɛʃi] ; 7 December 1893 – 29 January 1966) was a Hungarian literature, photography and film theorist. Hevesy is best known for his pioneering role in the history of the Hungarian avant-garde.

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He Weimin

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Hewett, Robert

American

American, 1913 - 2014

Hewit, Mabel Ameila

Hewit, Mabel Ameila

American

American, 1903 - 1984

Mabel Hewit (1903–1984) was an American woodblock print artist, particularly the white-line style of the Provincetown Printers.

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Hewitt, Edward Shepard

American

American, 1877 - 1962

Donald Shepard Hewitt (December 14, 1922 – August 19, 2009) was an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating the CBS television news magazine 60 Minutes in 1968, which at the time of his death was the longest-running prime-time broadcast on American television. Under Hewitt's leadership, 60 Minutes was the only news program ever rated as the nation's top-ranked television program, an achievement it accomplished five times. Hewitt produced the first televised presidential debate in 1960.

Heyboer, Anton

Heyboer, Anton

Dutch

Dutch, 1924 - 2005

Anton Heyboer (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑntɔn ˈɦɛibuːr] ; 9 February 1924 – 9 April 2005) was a Dutch painter and printmaker.

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Heyden, Jacob van der

German

German, 1573 - 1645