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Albert Lindegger
Albert Lindegger or Lindi (14 September 1904 – 14 October 1991) was a Switzerland, Swiss painter and illustrator. He is best known as a political Satire, satirist. Biography Born in Bern, he studied art in Paris, at the ''Académie André Lhote''. In 1934 he adopted the artist name "Lindi", and exhibited in the ''Kunsthalle Bern''. By the 1930s he had established himself as a caricature, caricaturist, and travelled widely through Europe, visiting Spain and Turkey, as well as Madagascar and countries in North Africa, Northern Africa. Through the years of World War II, Lindegger continued to draw caricatures, often critical of the Nazi Germany, German Nazi regime, but also illustrated books such as Émile Zola's ''Nana (novel), Nana'' and Guy de Maupassant's ''Bel Ami'' and '':fr:Une vie (roman), Une vie''. After the war he continued to contribute illustrations to magazines, and worked for the publications ''Die Weltwoche'' in Basel and ''National-Zeitung (Switzerland), National-Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil Painting
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of the world. The advantages of oil for painting images include "greater flexibility, richer and denser colour, the use of layers, and a wider range from light to dark". But the process is slower, especially when one layer of paint needs to be allowed to dry before another is applied. The oldest known oil paintings were created by Buddhist artists in Afghanistan and date back to the 7th century AD. The technique of binding pigments in oil was later brought to Europe in the 15th century, about 900 years later. The adoption of oil paint by Europeans began with Early Netherlandish painting in Northern Europe, and by the height of the Renaissance, oil painting techniques had almost completely replaced the use of tempera paints in the majority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
