Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865 - 1940)

Artist. Famous for painting and photographing the Alaskan wilderness. Struggling and needing money, he decided in 1904, at the age of 38, to try the hard life of a pioneer prospector and joined the crowd seeking gold and riches in Valdez, Alaska. He painted little in his first years in the territory, instead prospected for […]

Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764 - 1820)

America’s first professional architect and engineer – he immigrated to America in 1795.  After designing Philadelphia’s first water system, Latrobe went on to design or consult on more than 60 private homes in America, as well as dozens of public buildings.  Only three Latrobe designed, preserved,  residential homes remain in the entire country.    He […]

Karin Larsson (1859 - 1928)

Renowned Swedish Designer and Artist. Born Karin Bergöö. Wife of famed Swedish artist Carl Larsson. As a couple they formed an aesthetic partership. Acknowledged as ”the creator of the Swedish style,” meaning interior design and decorations of textiles and furniture among other things. She was educated at the Academy of Arts and The Arts and […]

Mikhail Larionov (1881 - 1964)

Painter, Stage Designer, Theorist. One of the most influential artists of Russia’s pre-World War I avant-garde. Born in Tiraspol, Moldova,  he was raised in Moscow and entered its Art Institute in 1898.  There he met fellow student Natalia Goncharova,  who became his lifelong companion.  Initially attracted to Symbolism,  Larionov sought his own path with modern […]

Angelo F. Lanzini (1909 - 1998)

Artist and Architect. He came to this country from Venice, Italy, in 1927 after being educated at the “Royal Acadamie of Arts” in Europe. He served his country in the Army Air Corps in WWII where he was a topographical map maker. He designed and decorated hundreds of churches in his career, and, in 1961, […]

Walter Lantz (1899 - 1994)

Cartoonist. He created the cartoon character “Woody Woodpecker,” which was voiced by his wife, Gracie Lantz.  Family links:  Spouse:  Gracie Lantz (1903 – 1992)

Harry Lange (1930 - 2008)

Harry Lange (December 7, 1930 – May 22, 2008) was a German film production designer and art director. Lange was born in 1930 in Eisenach, Thuringia. After World War II, Thuringia became part of Soviet-controlled East Germany; Lange went across the border to West Germany, where he studied art before moving to the United States in 1951. […]

Fitz Henry Lane (1804 - 1865)

Artist. Also known as Fitz Hugh Lane, he was a maritime painter who pioneered the luminist style, so called because his paintings celebrated the transcendence of light in ordinary scenes. He was a wealthy painter of seascapes, harbor scenes and ship portraits, for which he was commissioned by their owners. But he was first recognized […]

Edwin Landseer (1802 - 1873)

Artist.  Born in London, the youngest son of the engraver John Landseer. Edwin Landseer was something of a prodigy whose artistic talents were recognised early on. He studied under several artists, including his father, and the history painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, who encouraged the young Edwin to perform dissections in order to fully understand animal […]

Charles Landseer (1799 - 1879)

Charles Landseer was born in London on 12 August 1799, the second son of the engraver John Landseer, and the elder brother of the animal painter, Sir Edwin Landseer. He trained under his father, and the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon. He was awarded the silver palette of the Royal Society of Arts for a drawing […]

George Lambert (1873 - 1930)

George Lambert began exhibiting his pictures at the Art Society and the Society of Artists, Sydney in 1894. Lambert began contributing pen-and-ink cartoons for The Bulletin in 1895 and began painting full-time in 1896. In 1899 he won the Wynne Prize with Across the Blacksoil Plains. He studied at Julian Ashton’s art school in Sydney […]

René Lalique (1860 - 1945)

Glassmaker. Born Rene Jules Lalique in the village of Ay in the Champagne district of France. He apprenticed with the Parisian Jeweler Louis Aucoq in 1876. Between 1878 and 1880 he attended Sydenham Art College in London. He married Augustine-Alice in July 1902 and opened a new business. By 1891 he has created jewelry for […]

Alfred Laliberté (1878 - 1953)

Artist. Born in Ste-Élisabeth-de-Warwick, Arthabaska, Québec in 1878, he began carving with his pocket knife as a youth, produced woodcarvings so impressive that they gained the attention of the public. A Montreal newspaper, “La Presse,” organized a scholarship drive to raise money to send him to Paris, France to study art at the École des […]

Genaro Lahuerta (1905 - 1985)

Painter. He was born and died in Valencia. During the 1930s, he represented the vanguard’s art in Comunidad Valenciana. He was influenced by the Fauvism movement, but during his travels to Africa, he was very impressed and began a collection of personal landscapes. Among his paintings are “Mi Madre,” “Retrato de Azorín,” “Paisaje de Secano” […]

John Lafarge (1835 - 1910)

Artist. Born in New York City to wealthy French parents and was raised bilingual. John Lafarge received his first artistic training at the age of six and learned to use watercolors while still in grammar school. At the age of 24, after studying law for a time, John went to Paris to study painting under […]

Neville Labovitch (1927 - 2002)

Acclaimed British architect and organiser of both high profile royal and public events. One of the greatest impresarios of special occasions in twentieth century London, his works ranged from the now legendary Pavarotti concerts in Hyde Park to the greatest children’s party ever produced, in 1979 during the International Year of the Child. The queen […]

Pierre Charles L’Enfant (1754 - 1825)

Engineer. Born Pierre Charles L’Enfant in France, he came to America in 1777 and joined the Continental Army a volunteer during the War of Independence, and attained the rank of major of engineers, and served to the end of the war. In 1791, when Congress decided to build a capital city on the Potomac, George […]

Ezra F. Kysor (1834 - 1907)

Architect. He was a pioneer of the building boom that helped transform Los Angeles from a frontier hamlet into an important city in the late 19th Century. Some of his surviving work is part of the Los Angeles Plaza Historic District (El Pueblo de Los Angeles), which was declared a National Landmark in 1972. His […]

Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev (1878 - 1927)

Painter, his work includes “Merchants Wife.” Student of Ilya Repin.

Kisho Kurokawa (1934 - 2007)

Architect. Born in Nagoya, Japan,  he initially studied architecture at Kyoto University and went on to earn a master’s degree in 1959 from the University of Tokyo,  and a PhD in 1964. He was a co-founder of the Metabolist Movement, a school advocating organic, renewable architecture that could evolve through the addition of clip-on modular […]

Naohiko Kumagai (1970 - 1970)

Artist and painter. “Waterfall” is one of his better known works. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842 - 1910)

Innovative Russian artist who foreshadowed impressionism.

Walt Kuhn (1880 - 1949)

Artist. Well known for his works “The Blue Clown,” “The White Clown,” and “Juggler.” He also wrote and produced the motion picture “Walt Kuhn’s Adventure in Art.” (bio by: Laurie)

Marie Triepcke Kröyer (1867 - 1940)

Noted Artist. Marie Triepcke grew up in Denmark. She wanted to be a painter and studied at art school. In 1889 she married Severin Kröyer. Severin Kröyer was a famous painter with a large circle of friends and wanted to live in grand style. He and Marie spent the winters in Copenhagen and the summers […]

Christian Krohg (1852 - 1925)

Painter,  Author.  He is probably best-known for his seascapes,  which he depicted from unusual angles. His novel “Albertine” (1886) caused such a scandal with its sexual suggestiveness that it was confiscated by the police.  Educated in Germany and later in Paris, Krohg was also a journalist for the Oslo-based newspaper “Verdens Gang” from 1890 to […]

Cornelius Krieghoff (1815 - 1872)

Artist. A well-known painter of oil landscapes, Krieghoff was born in Dusseldorf, Germany. He began to travel as a young man and took part in the Seminole Wars in Florida as a member of the United States Army. Krieghoff was later commissioned by the War Department to make paintings from many sketches done in those […]

Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984)

Lee Krasner is identified as an abstract expressionist due to her abstract, gestural, and expressive works. She worked in painting, collage painting, charcoal drawing, and occasionally mosaics. She would often cut apart her own drawings and paintings to create her collage paintings. She also commonly revised or completely destroyed an entire series of works due […]

Mikhail Ivanovich Kozlovsky (1753 - 1802)

Artist. A sculptor, according to his tomb “the rival of Phidias, the Russian Buonarotti”.  Note: Former burial location.

Alberto Korda (1928 - 2001)

Photographer. Born in Havana, Cuba under the name of Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, it was during a memorial service in Havana on May 5, 1960 that he took a picture of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. That picture became monumentally famous, even being deemed by the Maryland Institute of Art as “the most famous image of the 20th […]

Sergei Timofeevich Konenkov (1874 - 1971)

Sculptor. Born the son of poor Russian peasants, he became one of Soviet Union’s most respected and versatile artists. He attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, before attending the St. Petersburg Academy of Art. Graduating in 1897, his artwork combined elements of modernism, realism and symbolism, and was featured widely throughout Western […]