Aage Sikker Hansen

Aage Sikker Hansen was a Danish artist who was born in 1897. Aage Sikker Hansen's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 56 USD to 667 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2015 the record price for this artist at auction is 667 USD for.

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Martin Claus, 1880-1956 (at least that's what we think, but it might be not totally correct), german illustrator. We don't know much about his life, we can try to stitch together a timeline of his career from the dates of some of his works

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Edward Penfield

Edward Penfield (June 2, 1866 - February 8, 1925) was an American painter, illustrator, and publicist. Father of the modern poster in the United States. With a style characterized by drawings in vast backgrounds cut out on a light background and text strongly integrated with the image, he is considered one of the pioneers of American graphics. Originally from Brooklyn, he studied art in his hometown and around 1890 took painting lessons from the impressionist George de Forest Brush. From 1891 to 1901 he was art director of important magazines such as Harper's, Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Weekly for which he also edited the advertising. The works for Harper & Brothers will remain among the most significant of his career.

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Heinrich Vogeler

Heinrich Vogeler (December 12, 1872 – June 14, 1942) was a German painter, designer, and architect, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He was born in Bremen, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1890–95. His artistic studies during this period included visits to Belgium and Italy. Vogeler was a central member of the original artist colony in Worpswede, which he joined in 1894. In 1895 Vogeler bought a cottage there and planted many birch trees around it, which gave the house its new name: Barkenhoff (Low German for Birkenhof, or "birch tree cottages"). In 1901, he married Martha Schröder. He made book illustrations in an art nouveau style, and executed decorative paintings for the town hall of Bremen shortly before traveling to Ceylon in 1906. During a trip to Łódź, he studied Maxim Gorky's works, which resulted in the development of a deep sympathy for the working class. This feeling reached further heights when he saw life in the slums

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