Artists Who Focus in Drawing

Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin
Authors, Artists

Auguste Rodin was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one...

Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer
Artists, Authors

Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, Knight,...

Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti
Artists, Authors, Actors & Actresses

Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Alberto Giacometti was born in October 1901 in Italian-speaking Switzerland...

Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David
Artists

Jacques-Louis David was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the prominent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral...

Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
Artists, Authors

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and an important forerunner of expressionistic art. His best-known composition, The...

Francisco Goya
Francisco Goya
Artists, Authors

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was an Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. He has been...

Georges Braque
Georges Braque
Artists, Authors

Georges Braque was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as cubism. Georges Braque was born in...

Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Artists, Authors

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci , April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519 was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect,...

M. C. Escher
M. C. Escher
Authors, Artists

Maurits Cornelis Escher , usually referred to as M. C. Escher , was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs...

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Authors, Artists

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Despite making...

Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Artists, Authors

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso was an Andalusian-Spanish...

Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne
Authors, Artists

Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception...

Sofonisba Anguissola
Sofonisba Anguissola
Artists

Sofonisba Anguissola (also spelled Anguisciola; c. 1532 - November 16, 1625) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. Sofonisba Anguissola was born in Cremona, Lombardy around 1532, the...

Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
Authors, Artists

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces....

Wilhelm Busch
Wilhelm Busch
Authors, Artists

Wilhelm Busch (15 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was an influential German caricaturist, painter, and poet who is famed for his satirical picture stories with rhymed texts. After initially...

Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí
Artists, Actors & Actresses, Authors

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol , was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known...

Raphael
Raphael
Artists, Authors

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone , , was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the...

Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch
Artists

Hieronymus Bosch was an Early Netherlandish painter...

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Artists, Authors

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas...

Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman
Authors, Artists

Bruce Nauman is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing and performance....

Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
Artists, Authors

Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter, a protégé of Gustav Klimt, and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century....

Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
Authors, Artists

Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but...

Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin
Authors, Artists

Nicolas Poussin was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. Until the 20th century...

Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
Artists, Authors

Edgar Degas , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas , was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Authors, Artists

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the decadent and theatrical...

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