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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Brochery

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Brochier

Brock, Bazon

Brock, Bazon

German

German, born 1936

Bazon Brock (born Jürgen Johannes Hermann Brock, 2 June 1936) is a German art theorist and critic, multi-media generalist and artist. He is considered a member of Fluxus. He was a professor of aesthetics at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the University of Wuppertal.

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Brockhurst, Gerald Leslie

British

British, 1890 - 1978

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (31 October 1890 – 4 May 1978) was a British painter and etcher. During the 1930s and 1940s he was celebrated as a portraitist, painting society figures such as Marlene Dietrich and the Duchess of Windsor. Today he is best known for his small etched prints of beautiful, idealized women – many of them modelled by his first and second wives.

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Brockhusen, Theo von

German

German, 1882 - 1919

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Brocot Brocot

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Broda

American

American, active c. 1935

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Brod, Fritzi

American

American, 1900 - 1952

Fritzi Brod (1900–1952) was an Austro-Hungarian Empire-born American artist. Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, Washington the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Brodovitch, Alexey

Brodovitch, Alexey

American

American, born Russia, 1898 - 1971

Alexey Vyacheslavovich Brodovitch (also Brodovich; Belarusian: Аляксей Брадовіч, Russian: Алексе́й Вячесла́вович Бродо́вич; 1898 – April 15, 1971) was a Russian-American photographer of Belarussian descent, designer and instructor who is most famous for his art direction of fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958.

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Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers University

Brodsky, Eugene

Brodsky, Eugene

American

American, born 1946

Eugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 – c. February 18, 2025) was an American actor. Considered one of the greatest actors of his generation and a paragon of the New Hollywood movement, Hackman's mainstream acting career spanned over four decades. Hackman made his credited film debut in the drama Lilith (1964). He later won two Academy Awards, his first for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's action thriller The French Connection (1971) and his second for Best Supporting Actor for playing a villainous sheriff in Clint Eastwood's Western Unforgiven (1992). He was Oscar-nominated for playing Buck Barrow in the crime drama Bonnie and Clyde (1967), a college professor in the drama I Never Sang for My Father (1970) and an FBI agent in the historical drama Mississippi Burning (1988). Hackman gained further fame for his portrayal of Lex Luthor in three of the Superman films from 1978 to 1987. He also acted in The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Scarecrow (1973), The Conversation (1974), Night Moves (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Under Fire (1983), Hoosiers (1986), The Firm (1993), Wyatt Earp (1994), Crimson Tide (1995), The Quick and the Dead (1995), Get Shorty...

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Brodsky, Harry

American

American, 1908 - 1997