Naum Gabo

Russian-American sculptor, born in Bryansk, south of Moscow, brother of Antoine Pevsner. Gabo adopted his professional name in 1915 when he made art his career. Before then he had embarked on medical studies in Munich, changed to science and then to engineering, and attended art history lectures. He visited Italy and also Paris where

Pablo Picasso

The most famous artist of modern times, most versatile and most fruitful, was horn in Malaga, only son of a painter who symbolically handed over his brushes when the boy was 13. From 1892, Pablo studied at Coruna and Barcelona art schools and, for a few months in 1897, at the Royal Academy in

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Paul Cezanne

French painter, a key figure among those who experienced impressionism and moved on to a more considered and constructive art, and for several reasons seen as the father of modern art. He was born in Aix-en-Provence and, apart from a period (1861-70) in Paris, lived and worked in and near Aix in isolation. The strength and

Paul Gauguin

French painter, whose life as well as work has been seen as representing an all-out rejection of western civilization. He was born in Paris, lived in Peru during 1851-55, and then again in France. From 1865 to 1871, he was in the merchant service and the French navy. He took up painting in 1871

Piet Mondrian

Dutch painter, born at Amersfoort and trained at the Amsterdam Academy. He first followed the naturalism of the Haguc school but awareness of new tendencies and also an interest in Theosophy led him to become more selective from among the form’s before him and the colors on his palette. By 1908, he was using

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Richard Hamilton

British painter, trained in art in evening classes and through advertising work, then at St Martin’s School and the Royal College of Art, all in London. To this he added in 1940 a course in engineering drawing and further art study at the Slade School. In 1952-53 he taught design at the Central School

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Robert Delaunay

His early work was dependent on impressionism and neo-impressionism; then came the impact of Cezanne and some awareness of early cubism, also an impulse towards bright color from the young Russian painter, Sonia Terk, who became his wife in 1910. From 1909 he was painting series – Saint-Severin, Eiffel Tower, The City – in which rhythmically disrupted or patterned forms

Victor Vasarely

Hungarian-French painter, trained in Budapest and influenced by constructivist ideas. He moved to Paris in 1930 and in the late 1940s evolved his characteristic idiom and method. In abstract paintings he explored ambiguities of form and space and sensations of movement through patterns of black and white and contrasting colors, becoming known as a leading op painter in the 1960s.

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Vincent van Gogh

Dutch painter active mainly in France and counted a post-impressionist. Almost unknown in his lifetime, he was, during his years as full-time artist, totally dependent on his brother, Theo, who worked for the dealer Goupil in Paris, and supplied him with paints and canvases. Vincent wrote many letters to him, also to other relatives

Vladimir Tatlin

Russian artist, called the father of constructivism though he rejected the role and was regarded in 1920s Western Europe as the man who led art into technology and industrial production. He was essentially poetic, capable of leadership but loved for his quiet ways, his craftsman’s skills and his playing and singing of Russian folk music on

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Willem de Kooning

Dutch-American painter, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He worked in a commercial art firm and attended art evening classes before emigrating to New York in 1926. In the mid 1940s he emerged as, with Pollock, the creator of American abstract expressionism. For years he had painted figures, balancing an Ingres-like conception of form with an anti-classical

William Blake

English poet, painter, illustrator and printmaker, an outstanding figure in what later became known as romanticism, now renowned for his visionary work in words and images and for his opposition to the academic priorities of his time, particularly those taught by Reynolds. The son of a London hosier, he attended a drawing school at the

David Aaker

David Allen Aaker (born February 11, 1938 – ) is an American organizational theorist, consultant and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, a specialist in marketing with a focus on brand strategy.[2] He serves as Vice Chairman of the San Francisco-based growth consulting company Prophet.[3] Biography Aaker received his SB in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management and then his MA in Statistics

Wil van der Aalst

Willibrordus Martinus Pancratius van der Aalst (born 29 January 1966) is a Dutch computer scientist and full professor at RWTH Aachen University, leading the Process and Data Science (PADS) group. His research and teaching interests include information systems, workflow management, Petri nets, process mining, specification languages, and simulation.[1] He is also known for his work on workflow patterns. Biography Born in Eersel, Netherlands, van der Aalst received an

James Abegglen

James Christian Abegglen (1926–2007) was an American-born Japanese business theorist and professor in management and economics at Sophia University. He was one of the founders of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in 1963, and the first representative director of its Tokyo branch, founded in 1966. Biography Abegglen was born in Michigan. After graduation from the University of Chicago, he served in the Third Marine Division to

Bodo Abel

Bodo Abel (* 18.January 1948) is a German Professor at the University of Hamburg in Business Administration, focused on“International Marketing”. He was till 2013 the program director of the international master program „MiBA – Master of International Business Administration“ at the University of Hamburg and at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance (FINEC), Russia. His teaching and

Russell L. Ackoff

Russell Lincoln Ackoff (February 12, 1919 – October 29, 2009) was an American organizational theorist, consultant, and Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Ackoff was a pioneer in the field of operations research, systems thinking and management science. Biography Russell L. Ackoff was born on February 12, 1919, in Philadelphia to Jack and Fannie (Weitz) Ackoff.[1][2] He

John Adair

John Eric[1] Adair (born 18 May 1934) is a British academic who is a leadership theorist and author of more than forty books (translated into eighteen languages) on business, military and other leadership.[2] Life Adair was born in Luton and educated at St Paul’s School before undertaking his national service as a second lieutenant in the Scots Guards from 1953 to 1955. Unusually, he served as adjutant of a Bedouin regiment in

Karol Adamiecki

Karol Adamiecki (Dąbrowa Górnicza, 18 March 1866 – 16 May 1933, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish engineer, management researcher, economist, and professor. Life Ulica Mokotowska 51/53, Warsaw, site of Adamiecki’s activities in 1927-33. Karol Adamiecki was a prominent management researcher in Eastern and Central Europe. He began his research at the Institute of Technology in St. Petersburg, Russia (1884–90). In 1891 he graduated

Ichak Adizes

Ichak Kalderon Adizes (/iːtsˈxɑːk əˈdiːzɪs/ uh-DEE-ziss[2]) is a Yugoslav American business consultant and former tenured professor.[3] Early life Ichak Adizes was born in North Macedonia.[4] As a Jewish child during World War II, he hid in Albania as a Muslim for protection. The story was documented in a film entitled I Want To Remember, He Wants To Forget.[5] In 1948, Adizes moved with his family