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Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (a.k.a. Hubert Wolfstern, [3] Hubert B. Wolfe + 666 Sr., [4] Hubert Blaine Wolfe+585 Sr., [5] and Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590 Sr., [6] among others, 4 August 1914 – 24 October 1997) was a German-born American typesetter who held the record for the longest personal name ever used.
His nineteen-foot-long drawing of 305 square miles of New York City is based on a twenty-minute helicopter ride. [7] [8] He also draws fictional scenes, for example, St. Paul's Cathedral surrounded by flames. Wiltshire's early books include Drawings (1987), Cities (1989), Floating Cities (1991), and Stephen Wiltshire's American Dream (1993).
The following lists of painters by name includes about 3,400 painters from all ages and parts of the world.
The longest place names in Poland are Sobienie Kiełczewskie Pierwsze and Przedmieście Szczebrzeszyńskie, with 30 letters (including spaces). The longest place name in the Netherlands is Westerhaar-Vriezenveensewijk (28 characters, including a hyphen). The longest street name is Laan van de landinrichtingscommissie Duiven-Westervoort in Duiven.
Polish-born American painter [16] Sherab Palden Beru: 1911–2012: 100/101: Tibetan thangka artist [17] Vittore Bocchetta: 1918–2021: 102: Italian sculptor, painter and academic [18] Gottfried Böhm: 1920–2021: 101: German architect and sculptor [19] Mary Borgstrom: 1916–2019: 102: Canadian potter and ceramist [20] Eva Børresen: 1920 ...
Kim in the middle of producing a drawing, 2014. Kim was famous for his detailed illustrations, ink and brush artistic style, and skill at drawing from memory. [2] [10] [14] He could complete his drawings entirely from his imagination, without the use of sketches, visual references, or other preparatory aids, and often used exotic forms of perspective, such as curvilinear perspective.
Robert Longo (born January 7, 1953) is an American artist, filmmaker, photographer and musician. Longo became first well known in the 1980s for his Men in the Cities drawing and print series, which depict sharply dressed men and women writhing in contorted emotion. [1] He lives in New York and East Hampton. [2] [3]
The drawing represents Leonardo's conception of ideal body proportions, originally derived from Vitruvius but influenced by his own measurements, the drawings of his contemporaries, and the De pictura treatise by Leon Battista Alberti. Leonardo produced the Vitruvian Man in Milan and the work was probably passed to his student Francesco Melzi ...