Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter H

Was a Polish singer, dancer and actress. She began her career at the age of 16 in the Warsaw cabaret

Was a Polish singer, dancer and actress. She began her career at the age of 16 in the Warsaw cabaret "Sfinks".

Is an artist and sculptor from Glasgow, Scotland.Hannah was the daughter of a Russian refugee, Charl

Is an artist and sculptor from Glasgow, Scotland.Hannah was the daughter of a Russian refugee, Charles Frank, a notable camera maker, and grew up in the Laurieston district of the Gorbals. She studied art at the University of Glasgow. She had a number of poems, and later a series of drawings, published in the University magazine, all of which appeared under the name AL AARAAF. This is the title of a long poem by Edgar Allan Poe which had special significance for her. It was the name given by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe to a mysterious star which suddenly appeared in the heavens, and after growing brighter and brighter for a few days, suddenly disappeared, never to be seen again. She graduated in 1930.

A prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group, known especially for his savagely c

A prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group, known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s.

Was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of t

Was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage.She was born Johanne Höch in Gotha, Germany. From 1912 to 1914 she studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Berlin under the guidance of Harold Bergen. She studied glass design and graphic arts, rather than fine arts, to please her father. She worked for the Red Cross in 1914, at the start of World War I. In 1915 she entered the graph class of the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Also in 1915, Höch began an influential friendship with Raoul Hausmann, a member of the Berlin Dada movement. Höch's involvement with the Berlin Dadists began in earnest in 1919. After her schooling,

An opera singer.In 2003 Holgersson made her opera début as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and

An opera singer.In 2003 Holgersson made her opera début as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and in May 2004, she graduated from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, receiving diplomas in voice performance and pedagogy. Her main professor during her years at the RCM was Christina Öqvist-Matton.As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Opera Orchestra of Stockholm, the Drottningholm Baroque Orchestra and Kroumata (percussion-ensemble), with the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, and with conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Siegfried Köhler and Laurence Reenes. She has also collaborated with the composers Ingvar Lidholm, Steve Dobrogosz and Kjell Perder.

An English actress and former singer. She was previously a member of the successful pop group S Club

An English actress and former singer. She was previously a member of the successful pop group S Club (7).She was born in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, the youngest of three children and is the younger sister of former model and fashion designer Tanya Spearritt. Her uncle, Eddie Spearritt,[1] from Lowestoft was a professional football player who played for Ipswich Town F.C. in the 1960s. At the age of 3, Spearritt modelled in a Mothercare catalogue. When she was 12, she landed a part in the Great Yarmouth Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Society's production of Annie. Thereafter she successfully auditioned for the National Youth Music Theatre, and became part of the company. While with the NYMT she met future S Club member and boyfriend Paul Cattermole, as well her friend and future flatmate, actress Sheridan Smith. She appeared in the NYMT's productions Pendragon (1994–1995) — performing in New York and Hong Kong, Tin Pan Ali (1996), and the West End musical Bugsy Malone (1997) — she was a member of the original cast.

Was an American painter, sculptor, and photographer.Wilke first gained renown with her "vulval" terr

Was an American painter, sculptor, and photographer.Wilke first gained renown with her "vulval" terra-cotta sculptures in the 1960s.[3] Her sculptures are often mentioned as some of the first explicit vaginal imagery arising from the women's liberation movement.

A Norwegian singer. She recorded her first album in 1970 when she was 14 and has been a fixture in N

A Norwegian singer. She recorded her first album in 1970 when she was 14 and has been a fixture in Norwegian popular music since then.Already the following year she won the Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest selection, the Melodi Grand Prix, with the sweet pop-ballad Lykken er... (Happiness Is...). She didn't have much success in the European final however, but 14 years later she won the Eurovision Song Contest with Elisabeth Andreasson, whom together formed the duo Bobbysocks. She also took part for Norway as a part of the quartet Just4Fun in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991.

A Finnish singer of popular music. She is mostly known for her evergreen hit "Mombasa" (1975).

A Finnish singer of popular music. She is mostly known for her evergreen hit "Mombasa" (1975).

Was an American artist and illustrator, as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy ficti

Was an American artist and illustrator, as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry. He painted nearly 150 covers for various science fiction, fantasy, and detective fiction magazines, as well as contributing hundreds of blac

A German songwriter (Liedermacher), singer and guitarist.

A German songwriter (Liedermacher), singer and guitarist.

Was an Austrian composer of Czech descent who is also known under the pseudonym Hanns Elin.Jelinek s

Was an Austrian composer of Czech descent who is also known under the pseudonym Hanns Elin.Jelinek studied briefly with Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg,and Franz Schmidt an experience that influenced him to write many works in the twelve-tone technique. Then, he studied music on his own; from 1958 lecturer and from 1965 professor at the Vienna Academy of Music. 1966 awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize.

Is an Israeli mixed media artist best known for his celebrity caricatures. Piven was born in Uruguay

Is an Israeli mixed media artist best known for his celebrity caricatures. Piven was born in Uruguay and raised in Israel. He came to the United States in 1987 and graduated from the School of Visual Arts, in New York, in 1992.

German actor and singer. He was the single biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1945

German actor and singer. He was the single biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1945 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.

Is an artist, living and working in Sweden since 1948. He has made illustrations for many magazines

Is an artist, living and working in Sweden since 1948. He has made illustrations for many magazines and books. He is best known for his illustrations for the Bland tomtar och troll books.Arnold had a very strict Catholic education, with strong belief in h

Was a German painter and printmaker in woodcut.Hollstein ascribes 834 woodcuts to him, mostly for bo

Was a German painter and printmaker in woodcut.Hollstein ascribes 834 woodcuts to him, mostly for book illustrations, with slightly over a hundred being "single-leaf", that is prints not for books. The best of them show a talent for striking compositions, and a blend, not always fully successful, of Italian Renaissance forms and underlying German style. From about 1508 he spent much of his time working on the woodcut projects of Maximilian I until the Emperor's death in 1519. He was responsible for nearly half of the 135 prints in the Trumphs of Maximilian, which are large and full of character. He also did most of the illustrations for Weiss Kunig and much of Theurdank.

Is a German artist in constructivism. He was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1947 as the son of an ele

Is a German artist in constructivism. He was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1947 as the son of an electrical engineer. Zingraff showed an early interest in the arts, in particular in trompe-l'œil, the optical illusion technique.[1]

Is a Swiss painter and sculptor. Born in Lucerne, he is known in particular for illustrating postage

Is a Swiss painter and sculptor. Born in Lucerne, he is known in particular for illustrating postage stamps, activism, lithographs for the Swiss Red Cross, and participation on the Olympic Committee. The Hans Erni House in the Lucerne Transportation Museum contains a large collection of artwork.

Was a German painter and sculptor who lived and worked in Britain for much of his career, having esc

Was a German painter and sculptor who lived and worked in Britain for much of his career, having escaped the Third Reich. He was becoming successful as an artist when the Third Reich made his life in Germany impossible. He was one of the artists exhibited in the 1937 Degenerate Art Exhibition (Entartete Kunst) put on by the Nazis to highlight the modernist trends in art they opposed. Feibusch was one of a minority of artists included whose work was relatively conservative, and he was probably included for his Jewish heritage. His works in that exhibition, now lost, were two paintings of angels.

Is a German artist and sculptor. Since 1959 he lives an works in Karlsruhe. His most important works

Is a German artist and sculptor. Since 1959 he lives an works in Karlsruhe. His most important works are the sculpture at the Elisabeth Selbert school in Karlsruhe and the Rappenbrunnen in Karlsruhe-Durlach. The sculpture at the Elisabeth Selbert school has a height of 3.10m (10 feet 2 inches) and is made of granite with a marmor sculpture. The Rappenbrunnen is also made of granite with a horse and bull head made of diabase which symbolize the names of the two crossing streets on which it has been erected.

Was a still life Dutch painter.He was a specialist in bouquets of blooms.

Was a still life Dutch painter.He was a specialist in bouquets of blooms.

Was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement. Following the

Was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement. Following the fall of the Weimar Republic, Grundig was declared a degenerate artist by the Nazis, who included his works in the defamatory Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich in 1937. He expressed his antagonism toward the regime in paintings such as The Thousand Year Reich (1936). Forbidden to practice his profession, he was arrested twice—briefly in 1936, and again in 1938, after which he was interred in Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1940–1944.

A German American conceptual artist, who lives and works in New York.Haacke's early work as a concep

A German American conceptual artist, who lives and works in New York.Haacke's early work as a conceptual artist focused on systems and processes. Some of the themes in his early works from the 1960s, such as Condensation Cube (1963-65), include the interactions of physical and biological systems, living animals, plants, and the states of water and the wind. He also made forays into Land Art. His later works have dealt more with socio-political structures and the politics of art. Haacke has been outspoken throughout his career about his belief that museums and galleries are often used by the wealthy to seduce public opinion. From 1967 to 2002 Haacke was a professor at the Cooper Union in New York City.

Was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World Wa

Was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the French Foreign Legion.

Was a Swedish sculptor who resided in Biot in southern France until his death. Born near Örnskölds

Was a Swedish sculptor who resided in Biot in southern France until his death. Born near Örnsköldsvik, Västernorrlands län, Sweden, he was mostly known for his gigantic ceramic fruit and has installations in several countries, especially in his native Swe