Famous People with Dyslexia ~ Artists
Ludwig
van Beethoven (1770
- 1827)
was a German composer.
He is generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the
history of music, and was the predominant figure in the transitional
period between the Classical
and Romantic eras in
Western classical music.
His reputation and genius have inspired — and in many cases intimidated
— ensuing generations of composers, musicians, and audiences. While
primarily known today as a composer, he was also a celebrated pianist
and conductor, and an
accomplished violinist.
Born in Bonn, Germany,
he moved to Vienna, Austria,
in his early twenties, and settled there, studying with Joseph
Haydn and quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso
pianist.
In his late twenties he began to lose his hearing gradually,
and yet he continued to produce notable masterpieces throughout
his life, even when his deafness was almost total. Beethoven was
one of the first composers who worked as a freelance — arranging
subscription concerts, selling his compositions to publishers, and
gaining financial support from a number of wealthy patrons — rather
than being permanently employed by the church or by an aristocratic
court.
Leonardo da
Vinci (1452 –1519)
was an Italian polymath:
architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, mathematician,
musician, scientist, and painter. He has been described as the archetype
of the "Renaissance man",
a man infinitely curious and equally inventive. He is widely considered
to be one of the greatest painters
of all time, and perhaps the most intelligent and capable man to
ever have lived.
Leonardo is famous for his realistic paintings,
such as the Mona Lisa
and The Last Supper,
as well as for influential drawings such as the Vitruvian
Man. He conceived ideas vastly ahead of his own time, notably
conceptually inventing a helicopter,
a tank, the use of concentrated
solar power, a calculator,
a rudimentary theory of plate
tectonics, the double
hull, and many others. In addition, he greatly advanced the
state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy,
astronomy, civil
engineering, optics,
and the study of water
(hydrodynamics).
Mozart
(1756 – 1791)
was a prolific and influential composer
in the Classical era. His
output of more than six hundred compositions includes works widely
acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic,
concertante, chamber,
piano, operatic,
and choral music.
Mozart is among the most enduringly popular of European composers,
and many of his works are part of the standard concert repertoire.
He is generally considered to be one of the greatest composers of
classical music.
Pablo
Ruiz Picasso (1881 - 1973) was
a Spanish painter and sculptor, one of the most recognized figures
in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with
Georges Braque, of cubism. It has been estimated that Picasso produced
about 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000
book illustrations and 300 sculptures or ceramics.
Vincent
van Gogh (1853
– 1890) was a Dutch
draughtsman and painter,
classified as a Post-Impressionist.
His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known,
most popular and most expensive pieces. He did not embark upon a
career as an artist until 1880, at the age of 27. Initially he worked
in sombre colours, until an encounter in Paris with Impressionism
and Neo-Impressionism
accelerated his artistic development. He produced all of his more
than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1100 drawings
or sketches, during the last ten years of his life. Most of his
best-known works were produced in the final two years of his life,
and in the two months before his death he painted 90 pictures.