Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder was a Flemish-born Dutch still life painter and art dealer. He is recognised as one of the earliest painters who created floral still lifes as an independent genre. He founded a dynasty of painters who continued his style of floral and fruit painting and turned Middelburg into the leading centre for flower painting in the Dutch Republic.
Bergen op Zoom is a city and municipality in southwestern Netherlands. It is located in the province of North Brabant, at the provincial border with Zeeland. In January 2021, the municipality had a population of 67,514.
Nikoláy Aslánovich Pirosmanashvíli or Niko Pirosmani, simply referred to as Nikala, was a Georgian painter who posthumously rose to prominence. Relatively poor for most of his life, he worked a variety of ordinary jobs. His rustic, everyday scenes are celebrated today for their depiction of the Georgia of Pirosmani's lifetime, and he has become one of the country's most beloved artistic figures.
Hans Deuss is a Dutch realist painter. Hans Deuss graduated from the Graphics training at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and started a career in advertising. In 1974 he became a painter.
Leonaert Bramer, also Leendert or Leonard, was a Dutch painter known primarily for genre, religious, and history paintings. Very prolific as a painter and draftsman, he is noted especially for nocturnal scenes which show a penchant for exotic details of costume and setting. He also painted frescos—a rarity north of the Alps—which have not survived, as well as murals on canvas, few of which are extant. Bramer is one of the most intriguing personalities in seventeenth-century Dutch art.
Levan Lagidze (Georgian: ლევან ლაღიძე; is a prominent Georgian painter.
Jo Coenen is a Dutch architect and urban planner. He studied architecture at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and later held professorships at TU Karlsruhe, Eindhoven University of Technology and Delft University of Technology.
Balthasar van der Ast was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in still lifes of flowers and fruit, as well as painting a number of remarkable shell still lifes; he is considered to be a pioneer in the genre of shell painting. His still lifes often contain insects and lizards.
Gerard Houckgeest was a Dutch Golden Age painter of architectural scenes and church interiors.
Hubert-Jan Henket is a Dutch architect. He is a specialist in the relations between old and new buildings, the redesign of buildings, renovation and restoration. He is the founder of DOCOMOMO international.
Gocha Vetriakov is a former Georgian naval officer who commanded the Georgian Navy from 2005 to 2006.
Eugène Sylvester Peters is a Dutch painter, printmaker and sculptor.
Gocha Tsitsiashvili is a retired amateur Israeli Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's light heavyweight category. Considering one of the world's top Greco-Roman wrestlers in his decade, Tsitsiashvili had claimed numerous medals in the international scene, including his prestigious gold from the 2003 World Wrestling Championships, and later represented as part of the Israeli team in three editions of the Olympic Games. Tsitsiashvili also became a member of the Hapoel Be'er Sheva Club under his personal coach Yakov Masin.
Carel Nicolaas Visser was a Dutch sculptor. He is considered an important representative of Dutch abstract-minimalist constructivism in sculpture.
Henricus Petrus Cornelis (Kees) Verschuren is a Dutch sculptor, painter and former lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, known for his monumentalist sculptures in public places in the Netherlands.
Levan Tsutskiridze was a Georgian monumentalist artist, illustrator, and painter of frescoes in the Sioni Cathedral, Tbilisi.
Sportvereniging Door Ons Samenspel Komt Overwinning, usually known as SV DOSKO, is a football club from Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands. They play their home matches at the Sportpark Meilust. The club's colours are red and yellow.
The Canto Collection is a series of 124 equally sized paintings made by the painter Rob Møhlmann. He worked on the series from 1982 up to and including 1993. Each painting depicts, as its central topic, literally and figuratively, an everyday tin can of the non-existent brand, Canto. The Canto Collection has been on permanent display, since 2008, in Museum Møhlmann, Appingedam, the Netherlands.
Artur Varela (1937–2017) was a Portuguese sculptor and painter whose work also included drawings, installations, film, collage, photography, cartoon and comic strips. He lived a substantial part of his life in Holland and several years in France, whose languages he spoke fluently, and where he exhibited widely, as well as Italy and Belgium. However, he remained viscerally connected to Portugal, reflected in the often irreverent, iconoclastic work he continued to exhibit in his native country.
Jean Thomassen is a Dutch artist and writer whose paintings are in an 'absurd realism' style. He lives in Heiloo in the Netherlands.
