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Why not for art works?

Composer Jean Marie Dorval was commissioned by The Nightingale Records label, located in Bavaria Germany, to create music about painters. In addition to these assignments, there were also other assignments that Jean Marie can still talk about with pleasure and is very grateful for this record company. For the moment, these albums are sold out:

   Chrysis - Paul Delvaux (Belgium)
   Lise - Auguste Renoir (France)
   The Love - Gustav Klimt (Austria)
   Estatic Zen - Meera (Japan)

Finnish painter AMELIE LUNDAHL

Amélie Lundahl (1850–1914) was a Finnish painter known for her delicate portraits and scenes of everyday life.

She studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, one of the few art schools open to women at the time, and exhibited at the prestigious Salon. Influenced by realism and impressionism, her work often featured women and children in soft, natural light. She spent a long time living and painting in Brittany.

After returning to Finland, she joined the Önningeby artists' colony in the Åland Islands and continued painting until her death. Her art remains a quiet but powerful voice in Finnish cultural history.

Symphonic orchestra with Finnish kantele and girls choir.

Possibility to buy works online: posters and prints on canvas.

JAMES ENSOR'S strange artworks

James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend (Belgium) for most of his life.

During the late 19th century, much of Ensor's work was rejected as scandalous, particularly his painting Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 (1888–89).
The Belgian art critic Octave Maus famously summed up the response from contemporaneous art critics to Ensor's innovative (and often scathingly political) work: "Ensor is the leader of a clan. Ensor is the limelight. Ensor sums up and concentrates certain principles which are considered to be anarchistic. In short, Ensor is a dangerous person who has great changes. ... He is consequently marked for blows. It is at him that all the harquebuses are aimed. It is on his head that are dumped the most aromatic containers of the so-called serious critics.

Some of Ensor's contemporaneous work reveals his defiant response to this criticism. For example, the 1887 etching "Le Pisseur" depicts the artist urinating on a graffitied wall declaring (in the voice of an art critic) "Ensor est un fou" or "Ensor is a Madman.

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GUSTAV KLIMT and his women's

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was not only a skilled Symbolist and Art Nouveau painter, his sex life was equally turbulent.
He regularly had short romances with models who posed for him and constantly walked (half) naked through his studio. During this period Klimt fathered at least fourteen children by different woman’s although he was never married to any of them.

The movie from 1906, in the background, takes us by tram through the streets of Vienna.

The music that I have composed and performed for large symphonic orchestra and women's choir is in the Viennese waltz form.

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illustrations from ALPHONSE MUCHA

Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist renowned for his Art Nouveau works, particularly his theater posters and the monumental Slav Epic series.

Early Life:
Alfons Maria Mucha was born on July 24, 1860, in Ivančice, Moravia (then part of the Austrian Empire). He demonstrated artistic talent from a young age, drawing despite limited resources, and also had a strong interest in music. After initial studies in Brno, he worked on decorative painting and stage sets, eventually moving to Vienna in 1879 for further training and work in theater design.

Education and Parisian Success;
With the support of Count Khuen Belasi, Mucha studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and later moved to Paris in 1887, enrolling at the Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi. He worked as a magazine illustrator, contributed to book illustrations, and shared a studio with Paul Gauguin. His breakthrough came in 1894 when he designed a poster for the Parisian actress Sarah Bernhardt’s play Gismonda, which became a sensational success and led to a six-year contract.

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Italian painter SOFONISBA ANGUISOLLA

Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532–1625) was an Italian painter from Cremona who became one of the first women to gain international fame as a professional artist during the Renaissance.

Early Life: Born into a noble but financially modest family in Cremona, Duchy of Milan. Her father, Amilcare Anguissola, prioritized education for his daughters and arranged apprenticeships with painters Bernardino Campi and Bernardino Gatti.

Career at the Spanish Court: In 1559, invited to Madrid by King Philip II of Spain. Served as lady-in-waiting and painting tutor to Queen Elizabeth of Valois. Became an official court painter, adapting her style to formal royal portraiture.

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SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, 28 August 1833 – 17 June 1898, was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.

Early Life and Education:
Edward Burne-Jones was born on 28 August 1833 in Birmingham, England. His mother died shortly after his birth, and he was raised by his father and their housekeeper.

Burne-Jones excelled in drawing from an early age, attending King Edward VI Grammar School and the Birmingham School of Art before enrolling at Exeter College, Oxford, to study theology. There, he met William Morris, forming a lifelong friendship and artistic collaboration. Initially intending to become a minister, Burne-Jones shifted his focus to art under the influence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Artistic Training:
Burne-Jones’s work is characterized by elongated, ethereal figures, rich colors, and dreamlike medieval or mythological themes. His notable paintings include The Beguiling of Merlin (1877), The Golden Stairs (1879–1880), Laus Veneris, and his Arthurian series, The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon. He also produced exceptional illustrations, including designs for the Kelmscott Chaucer, printed by Morris’s press.

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german artist KÄTHE KOLWITZ

Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) was a German artist renowned for her expressive printmaking, sculpture, and drawings that depicted the struggles of the working class and the human consequences of war.

Kollwitz’s work is marked by its social realism and expressionist style, emphasizing the human condition, injustice, and maternal grief. Her earliest acclaimed series, The Weavers (1893–1897), was inspired by Gerhart Hauptmann’s play about oppressed Silesian weavers. The cycle illustrated poverty, suffering, courage, and the eventual doom of the working class.

During and after World War I, she created several cycles addressing the horrors of war and personal grief, including War (1922–1923), Death (1934–1936), and the memorial The Grieving Parents (1932), commemorating the loss of her younger son Peter in 1914 near Dixmuiden, Belgium.

Her artwork often highlighted mothers’ suffering, children’s vulnerability, and the consequences of social inequity, blending naturalism with emotionally simplified, impactful forms.

In July 1936, she and her husband were visited by the Gestapo, who threatened her with arrest and deportation to a Nazi concentration camp; they resolved to commit suicide if such a prospect became inevitable. However, Kollwitz was by now a figure of international note, and no further action was taken.

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paris bruxelles JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID

At the beginning of the 19th century, as revolutions roared across Europe, Jacques-Louis David (Paris 30 August 1748 - Brussels 29 December 1825), the emblematic painter of Neoclassicism, found himself at a crossroads in his artistic and personal life. Born in the vibrant, modern city of Paris, he was imbued with the spirit of the Enlightenment and revolutionary ideals. It was against this tumultuous backdrop that he crossed paths with Brussels, a city where art and culture flourished in a more serene atmosphere.

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