This Russian artist was a member of almost all the European academies of fine arts, serving as Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts from 1828 to 1868.
This German painter is best known for seemingly realistic depictions of everyday objects, combining features of realism, Surrealism and Pop art.
Ray-Ray was the nickname given to Bernice Alexandra Kaiser by her family. Beyond that, little is known of her childhood in Sacramento, although Ray’s artistic talent was evidently recognized early on. After high school she left California with her widowed mother for New York City, where she studied with the German Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann and exhibited her paintings. After her mother’s death, Ray left New York for further training at the Art Academy in Cranbrook, Michigan, where Charles Eames was one of her teachers and mentors. After divorcing his first wife, Charles married Ray in 1941 in Chicago. The couple left immediately for Southern California, where they opened a design office.
In 2010, as the new director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Bill Moggridge rode into New York from California with a formidable resume: cofounder of Ideo, inventor of the first laptop computer, author of the seminal work on interaction design, educator, and winner of a slew of international design awards. But as a city full of designers and design-lovers was quick to discover, rarely has such an illustrious bio been animated by such a delightful person. … “If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.” FROM http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670751/in-remembrance-of-bill-moggridge-1943-2012