Belgium
1. From the second of June 2009 onwards, Godfried Van Bouillon saw a box with an apple on his left hand side .
2. It’s always cloudy in his fantasy, just like in Belgium.
3. I hide a lot of things in my paintings & my name is hidden in following acronym: I am Gert Néret.
4. The chemical symbol ‘Fe’ lies not far from where I expose right now.
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Bulgaria
1. Born on 31 March 1885 in Vidin, Bulgaria, he was one of the most distinguished painters of the 20th century. Born in a Bulgarian Jewish household, he lived in Bucharest, studied in Vienna and Munich, spent most of his conscious life in Paris, acquired an American citizenship, and travelled all around the world. Perhaps the most accurate definition of his persona would be "a cosmopolitan".
2. This artist was one of the biggest bohemians of his time, a friend of Amedeo Modiliyani , Ernest Hemingway , Picasso and Georges Papazov.
3. He was one of the most prominent figures of the artistic circle of Montparnasse and even received the nickname" Prince of Montparnasse ".
Norway
1. This stop is one of Norway’s most famous fjords.
2. Two of our best known romantic painters painted this picture from the fjord:
3. The two painters cooperated painting, with one of them painting the landscape and the other the figures.
4. This summer the fjord has been in the midst of a controversy between the government and environmental organizations, because of a plan of building pylons through the landscape.
5. The fjord is situated between Bergen and Stavanger.
Poland
He was one of the most famous painters of Polish Symbolism.
In his creativity he successfully joins the predominant style of his times with motifs of Polish martyrdom.
His father was General Secretary of the Land Credit Society and his mother was daughter of Alexander – an officer in Napoleon’s army.
When he was seventeen he moved to this city where he was a free student of the School of Fine Arts, then (at the request of Jan Matejko) left school and studied only in the SSP.
In 1897 he was one of the founders of the Association of Polish Artists ‘Sztuka’.
In 1898 his mother died. The most famous paintings: ‘Wigilia na Syberii’ (‘Christmas Eve in Siberia’), ‘Błedne koło’ (‘Vicious circle’), and ‘Melancholia’ (‘Melancholy’)
Clues from the Czech Republic coming sooner or later...
