Artists

Bebenek, Andrzej

Yumeno Kyūsaku (夢野 久作; 4 January 1889 – 11 March 1936) was the pen name of Sugiyama Yasumichi (杉山 泰道), an early Shōwa period Japanese author, Zen priest, post office director and sub-lieutenant. The pen name roughly means "a person who always dreams". His Dharma name was Goshin-in Gin'en Taidō-koji (悟真院吟園泰道居士). He wrote detective novels and is known for his avant-gardism and his surrealistic, wildly imaginative and fantastic, even bizarre narratives.

Beccafumi, Domenico

Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486 – May 18, 1551) was an Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter active predominantly in Siena. He is considered one of the last undiluted representatives of the Sienese school of painting.

Beccard, Helen Louise

Béchard, Henri

Becher, Bernd

Becher, Bernd and Hilla

Bernhard "Bernd" Becher (German: [ˈbɛçɐ]; 20 August 1931 – 22 June 2007), and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser (2 September 1934 – 10 October 2015), were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids. As the founders of what has come to be known as the 'Becher school' or the Düsseldorf School of Photography, they influenced generations of documentary photographers and artists in Germany and abroad. They were awarded the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Award.

Becher, Hilla

Hilla Becher (née Wobeser; 2 September 1934 – 10 October 2015) was a German conceptual photographer. Becher was well known for her industrial photographs, or typologies, with longtime collaborator and husband, Bernd Becher. Her career spanned more than 50 years and included photographs from the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Italy. Becher, alongside her husband, received the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Award. The Bechers founded the Düsseldorf School of Photography in the mid-1970s. In 2015, she died from a stroke at age 81, in Düsseldorf.

Bechtle, Robert

Robert Alan Bechtle (May 14, 1932 – September 24, 2020) was an American painter, printmaker, and educator. He lived nearly all his life in the San Francisco Bay Area and whose art was centered on scenes from everyday local life. His paintings are in a Photorealist style and often depict automobiles.

Beck, C.C.

Becker, David

David Becker (born October 20, 1961) is an American jazz guitarist and leader of the David Becker Tribune. He is also a graduate of the Musicians Institute.

Becker, Fred

Frederick Gerhard Becker (1913-2004) was an American printmaker and educator.

Becker, Jack

Sir Jack Ellerton Becker FAA (4 October 1904, in Unley, South Australia – 9 May 1979, in Pembroke, Bermuda), was a South Australian entrepreneur. In the 1920s and 1930s, he capitalised on the developing craze for music making his first fortune when he sold his highly successful Adelaide College of Music in 1942. In the 1940s and 1950s, land speculation in the Ninety Mile Desert and the area that became Elizabeth yielded two further fortunes. Becker contracted to give £200,000 to the Australian Academy of Science over ten years when it was having financial problems in the early 1960s. Becker was appointed a fellow of the academy in 1961. He received a knighthood in the Queen's New Years Honours of 1962. In 1971, Becker and his wife retired to Pembroke, Bermuda. He died on 9 May 1979, and the academy was bequeathed an additional $3 million in his will. The academy's Canberra headquarters was for a time named Becker House in his honour. In contrast to Howell's rather jaded and matter-of-fact 1993 biography in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Rogers 1982 biography in Historical Records of Australian Science paints a much brighter picture of Becker's abilities and "benevolence".