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To fullfil his dream, Adolf Hitler in 1909 moved to Vienna, the capital of Austria, where the Academy of Arts was located. To his own surprise he failed to get admission. Within a year he was living in homeless shelters and eating at charity soup-kitchens.

He spent his time reading anti-Semitic tabloids and pamphlets available at the newsstands and at local coffee shops. He had declined to take regular employment and took occasional menial jobs and sold some of his paintings or advertising posters whenever he could to provide sustenance.

Hitler didn't get much out of it - but in 1999 two paintings and a line drawing by Hitler - completed between 1911 and 1914 - were sold at auction for a total of $131,000.

By Hitler’s own accounting, he painted between one and three watercolors a day during his Vienna years. If one assumes he painted only one painting a day, and only three days a week, then the minimum number he would have painted would be six hundred, which is remarkably close to Hitler's own recollection over a thousand.

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André Martins de Barros was born in 1942 in Pau, a small town in the foothills of the Pyrénées near the Spanish border. He married in 1974 and has two grown-up children.

Andre started to paint from the age of 15 and just after completing his military service decided to devote all his time to passion : Painting.

Curious by nature and a perfectionist he has always enjoyed a challenge and one can see that over the years he has constantly experimented with different styles, starting with classic, expressionism moving on to more abstract work and eventually returning to the classic style which currently motivates him.

Freud was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922, son of Jewish parents Ernst Ludwig Freud, an architect, and Lucie nee Brasch. He is the grandson of Sigmund Freud and brother of Clement Freud, Freud and his family moved to the UK in 1933 due to the rise of Nazism, gaining British citizenship in 1939. During this period he attended Dartington Hall school in Totnes, Devon, and then Bryanston School.

Freud studied briefly at the Central School of Art in London then, with greater success, at Cedric Morris's East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham. Thereafter, he served as a merchant seaman in an Atlantic convoy in 1941 before being invalided out of service in 1942. Freud's first solo exhibition, at the Lefevre Gallery in 1944, featured the now celebrated The Painter's Room. In the summer of 1946, he travelled to Paris before continuing to Italy for several months. Since then he has lived and worked in London.

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Frederick Parrish (he would adopt the name Maxfield later) was born in Philadelphia in 1870 - of the generation of Orson Lowell, C.D. Gibson, Elizabeth Shippen Green, W.T. Benda, Franklin Booth, Howard Chandler Christy and F.R. Gruger. That made him almost 14 when he decorated the letter below - so take heart all you young doodlers. He illuminated many such letters that he wrote from London and Paris during 1884-86. John Goodspeed Stuart has collected many of them in his fascinating book, Young Maxfield Parrish (1992). As much as the letters show the pure "boy" in Parrish (don't you just love the weeping eyeball and "DUDE"?), other images from the book show a precocious talent for design and rendering. The piston at left is from the same time period, if not slightly earlier.

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As patrons of Southern Breeze Gallery, many of you have watched as Ms. Giust�s career as an artist has grown and her work has matured through the years. She has always remained humbled by the fact that she can do something she loves, i.e. paint, and make a living� that people have been so receptive to her work and all that represents. Born Sept. 14, 1952, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Amy received her BA (Art/Psychology) in 1974, from Hope College, in Holland, Michigan. She continued to study both on the university level and through the occasional workshop or seminar. Prior to moving to Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1986 Amy had been painting portraits but ��fell in love with the old �Southern� homes with their white porches�. When the family moved to Hattiesburg, Amy joined the South Mississippi Art Association and continued accepting commissions for paintings of homes until, to use her words, �I felt like a blue collar worker � �Here, and copy this�.�

James Daniel, III (classically trained artist, teacher, and muralist) lives and works in North Carolina. James began painting and drawing at a very early age and won many first and second place awards starting when he was nine years old. He attended schools focused on the arts and developed his skills by working directly with master artists in Boston, Italy, and North Carolina.

James has recently established Studio42 which represents the mural aspect of his work. Studio42 is dedicated to providing the finest quality mural painting available, to selected clients. Studio42's techniques are the same as those used 400 years ago by masters such as Michaelangelo, Tiepolo, and Rubens. Those artists created some of the most beautiful paintings and Studio42 intends to maintain that standard.

Hans Belmer (shown in this self portrait) made over a hundred photos of several dolls he with the assistance of his brother and his sister in-law made in the early 1930s in part as a protest against Germany's Nazi regime, and in part out of an expression of erotic feelings.

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This guy is a master of surrealism!!

Alquilar was born in Brooklyn, New York.
Her imagery combines iconography of primitive cultures to depict the paths to enlightenment. Like many primitive, outsider painters, Alquilar began her work after the sudden death of her husband that resulted in the fracture of a strong family structure.

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Cliff Nielsen studied traditional and digital illustration and graduated as valedictorian from art center college of design in 1994. His illustrations have been recognized for their excellence by the Society of Illustrators, Print, and Spectrum. Feature articles focusing on his work appear in design publications and fanzine magazines alike. Cliff has been an international speaker on digital art and has served as a judge for the Society of Illustrators and a variety of professional illustration award programs. He lives and dreams in Los Angeles, California.

British painter, born in Manchester. He worked as a clerk until his retirement at 65, using his spare time for art lessons and paintings. He exhibited regularly in Manchester from the 1920s, when he began his most characteristic works, bleak industrial landscapes and towns dotted with matchstick figures. These first attracted serious attention in the 1940s. A large retrospective exhibition was held at the Royal Academy in 1976.

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Alex Zwarenstein's approach to New York City, as the stage on which his view of the world and life is played out, is governed first and foremost by his history. He was born in Africa to Jewish parents, who were of Dutch and Lithuanian decent. At the age of 17, Zwarenstein left his home in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) for London. There he spent the next 13 years studying art, eventually receiving his masters from the Royal Academy of Art before coming to the United States.

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Dr Desmond Morris (born 24 January 1928 in the village of Purton, UK) is most famous for his work as a zoologist and ethologist. He first came to attention in the 1960s as a presenter of ITV television's Zoo Time. His studies focus on animal and human behaviour, explained from a zoological point of view. He has written a number of books and produced a number of television shows.

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