Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter H

Was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on Ma

Was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. He was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880 the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann. In 1932 he immigrated to the United States, where he resided until the end of his life.According to the Hofmann biography at the Tate Gallery website [1], Hofmann's work is distinguished by "a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships."The Guggenheim Collection's information on Hofmann states that his "completely abstract works date from the 1940s" [2]. Hofmann believed that abstract art was a way to get at what was really important. He famously stated that "the ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." [3]

He was born in Augsburg, Bavaria and died in Isenheim, Alsace. He and his brother Sigismund Holbein

He was born in Augsburg, Bavaria and died in Isenheim, Alsace. He and his brother Sigismund Holbein painted religious works in the late Gothic style. Hans the Elder was a pioneer and leader in the transformation of German art from the Gothic to the Renaissance style.

A German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style.

A German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style.

Is the lead vocalist of power metal band Blind Guardian. Together with André Olbrich, he is also th

Is the lead vocalist of power metal band Blind Guardian. Together with André Olbrich, he is also the principal songwriter for the band. He was also the bassist in Blind Guardian until the 1998 album Nightfall in Middle-Earth.

Was a German-born photographer. Namuth specialized in portraiture, photographing many artists, inclu

Was a German-born photographer. Namuth specialized in portraiture, photographing many artists, including abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock. His photos of Pollock at work in his studio increased Pollock's fame and recognition and led to a greater understanding of his work and techniques. Namuth used his outgoing personality and persistence to photograph many important artistic figures at work in their studios.Namuth photographed many other painters such as Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, and Mark Rothko and architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, and Louis Kahn. Namuth focused on his rapport with his subjects, getting many reclusive figures such as Clyfford Still to agree to be photographed. Namuth's work not only captured his subjects in their studios with their works

Is a Norwegian singer and songwriter, known by most Norwegians as the leading figure of 1970's folk-

Is a Norwegian singer and songwriter, known by most Norwegians as the leading figure of 1970's folk-rock band Vømmøl Spellmannslag, and also known as the writer of hit songs like "Fire fine lænestola" and the Christmas tune "Vårres jul". Rotmo sings in his own dialect, from the municipality of Verdal.

Was a painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer.[1] He was born in Berl

Was a painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer.[1] He was born in Berlin into a well-to-do family and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland.Richter's first contacts with modern art were in 1912 through the "Blaue Reiter" and in 1913 through the "Erster Deutsche Herbstsalon" gallery "Der Sturm", in Berlin. In 1914 he was influenced by cubism. He contributed to the periodical Die Aktion in Berlin. [2] His first exhibition was in Munich in 1916, and Die Aktion published as a special edition about him. In the same year he was wounded and discharged from the army and went to Zürich and joined the Dada movement.

Academy Award-winning Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer best known for his design work on th

Academy Award-winning Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer best known for his design work on the film Alien.Giger got his start with small ink drawings before progressing to oil paintings. For most of his career, Giger has worked predominantly in airbrush, creating monochromatic canvasses depicting surreal, nightmarish dream-scapes.

Was a renowned Danish author and artist.His most famous works of literature include Stolen Spring, F

Was a renowned Danish author and artist.His most famous works of literature include Stolen Spring, Frydenholm, Idealists, and The Scorpion, the last of which was published in over 20 countries. He is also well-known for his distinctive Naivist lithographs which depict jungle and savanna scenes that owe something to Henri Rousseau, and various drawings and paintings with satirical, political, and biblical subject matter.

Was an artist who produced many posters for the Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler. He was recruited to p

Was an artist who produced many posters for the Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler. He was recruited to produce Nazi propaganda posters by Joseph Goebbels. Schweitzer survived the war and had a successful career in graphic arts.

Was a German artist from Nuremberg, best known for his woodcuts.[1] He was a pupil of Albrecht Düre

Was a German artist from Nuremberg, best known for his woodcuts.[1] He was a pupil of Albrecht Dürer. As a pupil of Dürer, Springinklee was involved in creating a number of works commissioned by Emperor Maximilian I, including the monumental 192-panel woodcut the Triumphal Arch. The first prints with his monogram, HSK, date to 1513: Das Wunder der Heilige Wilgeffortis (The Miracle of Saint Wilgefortis), and a sheet from Maximilian's Weißkunig entitled Kaiser Maximilian ehret das Andenken der Vorväter (Emperor Maxamilian honouring the memory of his ancestors).

Was a German Renaissance artist, also known as The Petrarch Master for his woodcuts illustrating Pet

Was a German Renaissance artist, also known as The Petrarch Master for his woodcuts illustrating Petrarch's De remediis utriusque fortunae, or Remedies for Both Good and Bad Fortune, or Phisicke Against Fortune. [3] He is best known today for his very lively scenes and caricatures of working life and people, many created to illustrate the abstract philosophical maxims of Cicero and Petrarch.[4]

Is a German visual artist. Feldmann's approach to art-making is one of collecting, ordering and re-p

Is a German visual artist. Feldmann's approach to art-making is one of collecting, ordering and re-presenting. He began working in 1968, producing the first of the small handmade books that would become a signature part of his work. These modest books, simply entitled Bilde (Picture) or Bilder (Pictures), would include one or more reproductions from a certain type - knees of women, shoes, chairs, film stars, etc. - their subjects isolated in their ubiquity and presented without captions.

Was a Cameroonian theatre director, critic, and playwright, and professor of Theatre Arts at the Uni

Was a Cameroonian theatre director, critic, and playwright, and professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Yaoundé I.Ndumbe Eyoh was born in Kurume, Southwest Province. He attended primary school in Kumba and continued to St Joseph's College Sasse in

Is a German folk-singer and composer.His career started around 1955 when he performed typical Bavari

Is a German folk-singer and composer.His career started around 1955 when he performed typical Bavarian music. In 1970 he had his first and biggest success Golden schimmern meine Berge, a Number-1-Hit for three months in German folk-charts Lustige Musikanten.

An American singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and electronic musician with a four octave vocal ran

An American singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and electronic musician with a four octave vocal range.[1] She has released 11 albums since 1986.Rhodes received her first musical instrument, an acoustic guitar, as a gift from her mother, at age 11. At 14

A Punjabi singer and actor. He was born on 30 December,1965. At a very young age both Harbhajan Mann

A Punjabi singer and actor. He was born on 30 December,1965. At a very young age both Harbhajan Mann and his younger brother Gursewak Mann moved to Canada.

Is a popular young Israeli pop singer-songwriter and stage actor who won the second season of the Is

Is a popular young Israeli pop singer-songwriter and stage actor who won the second season of the Israeli television series Kochav Nolad (Hebrew for A Star Is Born). He has released two albums.

Good, who is of Puerto Rican, French, African American and Native American descent,[1] was born in P

Good, who is of Puerto Rican, French, African American and Native American descent,[1] was born in Panorama City, California, the daughter of Tyra Doyle, who works as her manager, and Leon Good, an LAPD officer.[2][3] She was raised in Santa Clarita, California and began her acting career at the age of four when she began appearing in commercials.[4] By age 10, Good was landing roles on television series including Gabriel's Fire, Nickelodeon's Cousin Skeeter, and On Our Own. Her breakout role came in the 1997 film, Eve's Bayou.[5]

Is a Greek singer. She is one of the most popular singers in Greece and has been commercially succes

Is a Greek singer. She is one of the most popular singers in Greece and has been commercially successful since the 1970s. She has worked with important Greek songwriters, performed at top musical theatres all over the world and has received several awards. She has recorded over thirty albums and has been featured on albums of other musicians. Her family migrated from Bulgurca village, where near to present Izmir's Gaziemir (formerly Seydiköy) district in 1924. Greeks were constituted majority of Bulgurca's population before population exchange between Turkey and Greece in 1924. Place of Bulgurca's was replaced in 1998 due to building Tahtali Dam. It is bounded to Menderes (formerly Cumaovasi) district.

Harish Raut was a leading Indian artist who developed a distinctive figurative style. Idealized rura

Harish Raut was a leading Indian artist who developed a distinctive figurative style. Idealized rural women, going about their daily chores was the main subject of his work. His early work was based on the rural realities of his hometown Bordi and the neighbouring town of Bassein, Maharashtra. Rural India continued to inspire him and he found his muse once again in the women of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Kerala . Drawing inspiration from his own humble background, his paintings are infused with a keen eye to movement and colour, celebrating the ordinary and moving beyond the mere decorative.

Is a Taiwanese singer/songwriter, known as the Godfather of Music in Asia, the creator of the first

Is a Taiwanese singer/songwriter, known as the Godfather of Music in Asia, the creator of the first Mandarin rap song, and the first person to experiment the style of R&B in Chinese music. Yu is not only a well-established singer, he is also a successful host of many variety shows, among them was the long-running "Super Sunday". He is currently married to Annie Shizuka Inoh.

Was a Dutch painter of still lifes, notably of fruit. His birth year is a rough estimate based on th

Was a Dutch painter of still lifes, notably of fruit. His birth year is a rough estimate based on the appearance of his first works in 1628. He was active in Leiden between 1628 and 1633 and back in Delft from 1633 to 1656. In 1654-1655 he made a trip to the Dutch East Indies. Steenwijck is best known for his visual sermon in the painting An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life at the National Gallery, London.

Is a jazz pianist.He studied classical piano as a boy, but switched to jazz which he studied at the

Is a jazz pianist.He studied classical piano as a boy, but switched to jazz which he studied at the Berklee College of Music from 1955 to 1958. Around this time Jaki Byard and Herb Pomeroy taught him privately. He went on to work in Pomeroy's band. Later

While studying sculpture and fine arts in Buffalo, he was awarded a scholarship to the Art Student L

While studying sculpture and fine arts in Buffalo, he was awarded a scholarship to the Art Student League in 1930, where he spent the following two years. From 1935-1939, as one of the many American artists who benefited from Roosevelt's Federal Art Project, Ambellan created a series of mural sculptures entitled Family and Learning, for the Willert Park Courts (a public housing project in Buffalo), as well as a sculpture for Brooklyn College in New York. He was also one of the artists featured in the 1938 group show, Subway Art, at the Museum of Modern Art. Ambellan was elected President of the Sculptors Guild of America in 1941, the same year that his work was exhibited in group shows at both the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.