Flashcards: Surrealist artists

Vojo Stanić (Montenegrin: Vojo Stanić/Војо Станић, born 3 February 1924) is a Montenegrin painter and sculptor.

Serge Brignoni (12 October 1903 – 6 January 2002) was a Swiss avant-garde painter and sculptor.

Paul Wunderlich (10 March 1927 in Eberswalde - 6 June 2010 in Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols) was a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist.

Richard Oelze (June 29, 1900 in Magdeburg – November 26, 1980 in Gut Posteholz near Hameln) was a German painter.

Brett Whiteley AO (7 April 1939 – 15 June 1992) was an Australian avant-garde artist.

Leonid Dimov (Bulgarian: Леонид Димов) (born January 11, 1926, in Izmail, Bassarabia, which was part of Romania at the time; d. December 5, 1987, in Bucharest) was a Romanian postmodernist poet and translator.

Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977), was an American photographer.

Frederick John Kiesler (Czernowitz or Tschernovitz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), September 22, 1890 – New York City, December 27, 1965) (born as Friedrich Jacob Kiesler).

Wolfgang Robert Paalen (July 22, 1905 in Vienna, Austria – September 24, 1959 in Taxco, Mexico) was a German-Austrian-Mexican painter, sculptor and art philosopher.

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (4 March 1901 or 1903 – 22 June 1937), born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar.

Leonor Fini (1907 – 1996) was an Argentine surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful women.

Victor Reinganum (1907–1995) was an artist and illustrator, probably best known for his illustrations on book dustjackets, including the first editions of Muriel Spark's The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960) and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961).

Abdul Mati Klarwein (April 9, 1932 – March 7, 2002) was a painter best known for his works used on the covers of music albums.

Émile Savitry (1903-1967) was a French photographer and painter.

Àngel Planells i Cruañas (Cadaqués, December 2, 1901 - Barcelona, July 23, 1989) was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter.

António Pedro da Costa (Portuguese Cape Verde, Santiago, Praia, 9 December 1909 – Caminha, Moledo, Portugal, 17 August 1966) was a Portuguese painter, potter, journalist and writer.

Guy Bourdin (2 December 1928, Paris – 29 March 1991, Paris), was a French artist and fashion photographer known for his provocative images.

(This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Palencia and the second or maternal family name is Pérez.) Benjamín Palencia (7 July 1894 − 16 January 1980) was a Spanish painter and draftsman from Barrax, Albacete.

Endre Rozsda (Hungarian: Rozsda Endre,; 18 November 1913, Mohács – 17 September 1999, Paris) was a Hungarian-French painter.

Michael Forster (1907–2002) was an Anglo-Canadian abstract artist.

Erik Johansson (born April 1985) is a Swedish-born artist based in Prague who creates surreal images by recombining photographs and other materials.

Edwin G Lucas (30 March 1911 - 9 December 1990) was a Scottish Modernist artist.

Rodney Matthews is an illustrator and conceptual designer of fantasy and science-fiction.

Isabelle Waldberg, née Isabelle Margaretha Maria Farner (1911-1990) was a French-Swiss sculptor associated with surrealism.

Jean-Philippe Dallaire (9 June 1916 – 27 November 1965) was a Canadian painter with an eclectic and highly original style.

Jean Lambert-Rucki (1888–1967), a Polish avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist, was best known for his participation in the Cubist, Surrealist and Art Deco movements.

Joseph Noiret (28 February 1927 – 17 January 2012) was a Belgian painter writer and poet.

Julian Otto Trevelyan, RA (20 February 1910 – 12 July 1988) was a British artist and poet.

Jean Benoît was an artist known as "The Enchanter of Serpents", most famous for his surrealist sculptures.

Greta Knutson or Knutson-Tzara (also known as Greta Knutson; 1899–1983) was a Swedish modernist visual artist, art critic, short story writer and poet.

Bridget Bate Tichenor (born Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate on November 22, 1917 – died on October 20, 1990), also known as Bridget Tichenor or B.

John Banting (12 May 1902 – 30 January 1972) was an English artist and writer.

Josip Seissel (1904–1987) was a Croatian architect and urban planner, who under the pseudonym of Jo Klek was a constructivist artist, graphical designer and theatrical designer.

Mark Wilkinson (born in Windsor, England on 3 October 1952) is an English illustrator.

Endre Szász (7 January 1926 - 18 August 2003) was a Hungarian graphic artist, printmaker, illustrator, muralist and ceramics decorator.

Marcel Mariën (April 29, 1920, Antwerp – September 19, 1993, Brussels) was a Belgian surrealist (later Situationist), poet, essayist, photographer, collagist, filmmaker, and maker of objects.

Emma Frith Bridgwater (10 November 1906 – 13 March 1999), known as Emmy Bridgwater, was an English artist and poet associated with the Surrealist movement.

Eva Švankmajerová (September 25, 1940 – October 20, 2005) was a Czech surrealist artist.

Lars Bo (29 May 1924 – 21 October 1999) was a Danish artist and writer.

Gilberto Hernández Ortega (1924–1978) was an artist from the Dominican Republic.

Juan Ismael (19 December 1907 – 24 August 1981) was a Spanish multidisciplinary artist, commemorated by the Juan Ismael Arts Centre in Puerto del Rosario.

James Roderick Moir (born 24 January 1959), better known by the stage name Vic Reeves, is an English comedian, artist, actor and television presenter, best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer (see Vic and Bob).

Williams Carmona is a Cuban painter.

Janika Fabrikant, a French-Swiss painter of urban and industrial landscapes, was born in Paris, France, in 1934.

John Rutherford Armstrong ARA (14 November 1893 – 19 May 1973) was a British artist and muralist who also designed for film and theatre productions.

Isabel Meyrelles (born 1929) is a Portuguese surrealist sculptor and poet.

Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen (December 24, 1909 -- September 13, 1957) was a Danish painter, writer and art theorist.

Alice Phillipot (later Paalen and Rahon) (8 June 1904 – September 1987) was a French/Mexican poet and artist, whose work contributed to the beginning of abstract expression in Mexico.

Mimi Parent (September 8, 1924 – June 14, 2005), born Marie Parent in Montreal, was a Canadian surrealist artist.

Luis Enrique Tábara (born 1930 in Guayaquil, Ecuador) is a master Ecuadorian painter and teacher representing a whole Hispanic pictorial and artistic culture.

Alfred-Georges Regner (22 February 1902 in Amiens – 20 September 1987 in Bayeux), was a French surrealist painter and engraver.

Josh Lord (born 1972) started his career as an independent Australian artist in 1992, influenced by cultural movements and art genres including pop art, Dada and Surrealism.

Mia Araujo is an Argentine-American painter who is best known for her elaborate and detailed works of surrealist and fantasy imagery.

Baibekov studied art at the Kazan Art College, followed by the Kharkov Academy of Fine Art, where he majored in Public Art.

Freydoon Rassouli is an Iranian-Born, American abstract surrealist and visionary artist and author.

George Marshall Cohen (August 4, 1919 – April 18, 1999) was an American painter and art professor.

Christian W. Staudinger (born December 19, 1952 in Erfurt, East Germany) is a German artist who attended to art after his escape from the GDR and the trial of a civil life.

Roger Van de Wouwer (Hoboken (Antwerp), July 21, 1933 - Wilrijk (Antwerp), October 22, 2005) was a Belgian surrealist painter and illustrator.

Curt Echtermeyer (1896–1971), also known as Curt Bruckner or Curt Bruckner-Echtermeyer, was a German painter.

Julio de Diego (1900 – August 22, 1979) was a Spanish-born American visual artist.

Tristram Paul Hillier RA (11 April 1905 – 18 January 1983) was an English surrealist painter.

Edna Reindel (1894–1990) was a subtle Surrealist and American Regionalist painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, muralist, and teacher active from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Gunther Gerzso (June 17, 1915 – April 21, 2000) was a Mexican painter, designer and director and screenwriter for film and theatre.

Victor Safonkin (born August 22, 1967 at Saransk) is a surrealist painter.

Peter Purves Smith (26 March 1912 – 23 July 1949), born Charles Roderick Purves Smith, was an Australian painter.

Jacques-André Boiffard (1902-1961) was a French photographer, born in Epernon in Eure-et-Loire.

Nele Zirnite (born May 27, 1959 in Lithuania) is a graphic artist, painter, associated printmaking professor and Guildmaster of the Etching Guild in Latvia.

Agustín Lazo Adalid (1896 – January 28, 1971) was a Mexican artist and playwright who is credited with introducing surrealism to Mexico.

Marcelino Macedo Vespeira (Samouco, Alcochete, 9 September 1925- Lisbon, 22 February 2002) was a Portuguese painter.

Jacques Calonne (born 1930 in Mons) is a Belgian artist, composer, singer, actor, logogramist, and writer.

Edgar Karl Alfons Ende (23 February 1901 – 27 December 1965) was a German surrealist painter and father of the children's novelist Michael Ende.

Esteban Francés (1913-1976) was a Spanish surrealist painter.

Eugenio Fernández Granell (28 November 1912 – 24 October 2001) was an artist often described as the last Spanish Surrealist painter.

Naohisa Inoue (井上 直久 Inoue Naohisa, born in 1948 in Osaka, Japan) is a fantasy artist influenced by both the Surrealism and Impressionism movements.

Harue Koga (古賀 春江 Koga Harue, June 18, 1895 - September 10, 1933) was a Japanese surrealist/avant-garde painter active in the Taishō period and early Showa Period.

Rachel Baes (1 August 1912 – 8 June 1983) was a Belgian surrealist painter.

Roberto Aizenberg (22 August 1928 – 16 February 1996), nicknamed "Bobby", was an Argentine painter and sculptor.

Colin Middleton MBE (29 January 1910 – 23 December 1983) was an Irish artist and surrealist.

Paul Nougé (1895–1967), was a Belgian poet, founder and theoretician of surrealism in Belgium, sometimes known as the "Belgian Breton".

Antonino Romanov del Renzio dei Rossi di Castellone e Venosa (Toni del Renzio) (15 April 1915 - 7 January 2007), an artist and writer of Italian and Russian parentage, was leader of the British Surrealist Group for a period.

Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar (1925-1966) (Arabic: عبد الهادي الجزار) was an Egyptian painter.

Antonio Muñiz (August 3, 1969 – Chihuahua Mexico) is an abstract surrealist artist from Los Angeles.

Conroy Maddox (27 December 1912 – 14 January 2005) was an English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer; and a key figure in the Birmingham Surrealist movement.