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Art History: Famous Printmakers

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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A French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. Notable for 'Moulin Rouge - La Goulue' poster.

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Utagawa Kunisada

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A Japanese ukiyo-e artist who was the most popular, prolific and financially successful in the 19th century. His works include 'The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō' and 'Kabuki Actors'.

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler

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An American artist active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. Known for 'Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1', also known as 'Whistler's Mother', and his 'Venice etchings'.

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Francisco Goya

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Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Notable for 'Los Caprichos' and 'The Disasters of War'.

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Albrecht Dürer

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A German painter, printmaker, and theorist from the Renaissance. Notable works include 'Melencolia I,' 'Knight, Death, and the Devil,' and 'Young Hare'.

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Jacques Callot

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A baroque printmaker from Lorraine, now in France. He is an important figure in the development of the old master print. He made more than 1,400 etchings that depicted the life of his times, among which 'The Miseries of War' is well-known.

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Rembrandt van Rijn

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A Dutch master and one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art. Known for 'The Three Crosses' and his self-portraits.

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Marc Chagall

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A Russian-French artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century. Notable for his vibrant use of color and dreamlike imagery; his works include 'I and the Village' and several significant contributions to stained glass.

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M.C. Escher

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A Dutch graphic artist known for his mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. Notable works include 'Relativity', 'Ascending and Descending', and 'Waterfall'.

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Kiyoshi Saito

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A Japanese printmaker in the 20th century, one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition for modern Japanese printmaking. Notable works include 'Winter in Aizu' series.

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Hiroshige

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A Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Known for his landscapes, such as 'The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō' and 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo'.

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Katsushika Hokusai

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A Japanese artist from the Edo period best known for 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' and his series 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji'.

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Hokusai

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A Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Famous for 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' and 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji'.

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Edvard Munch

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A Norwegian printmaker and painter whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and was a precursor to Expressionism. He is best known for his work 'The Scream'.

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William Blake

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An English printmaker, painter, and poet. Best known for his expressive illustrations to his own books of poetry like 'Songs of Innocence and Experience', using the relief etching method he developed.

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Paul Gauguin

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A French post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin was later recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style. Notable works include 'Noa Noa' print series.

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Andy Warhol

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A leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Notable works include 'Marilyn Diptych', 'Campbell's Soup Cans', and his screen prints of cultural icons.

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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An Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictional and atmospheric 'prisons' (Le Carceri). His prints contributed to the remains of Rome becoming familiar to northern Europeans.

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Pablo Picasso

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A Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Notable works in printmaking include 'The Minotauromachy' and his series 'The Vollard Suite'.

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Käthe Kollwitz

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A German artist who worked with painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Known for her focus on the struggles of the working class and the effects of war, with works such as 'The Weavers' and 'The Peasant War'.

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