Iman Maleki (b. 1976)
Wish, 2000, oil on canvas, 100 x 70 cm, private collection.
Iman Maleki is an Iranian realist painter. This born talent, who had special passion for paintings right from his childhood, started to learn at the age of 15 from his only teacher, Morteza Katouzian, a realist painter from Iran. After graduating from the Art University of Tehran he participated in various exhibitions in his homeland and abroad.
Paul Jonkers (b.1951)
End Game, c.2007, oil on canvas, 51 x 61cm, private collection.
Paul Jonkers was born in Amsterdam, since 1970 he has studied, lived and worked in the UK. His paintings are a surreal blend of colour, reoccurring iconography, personal revelations and honesty about the reality of life itself.
David Teniers the Younger
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery in Brussels, c. 1651, oil on canvas, 123 × 163 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
David Teniers the Younger was a Flemish artist. His son and his grandson were also painters. His wife Anna was the daughter of Jan Brueghel the Elder and the granddaughter of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
The great significance of Leopold Wilhelm is based less on his political activity as regent of the Spanish Netherlands than on his role as a patron of the arts. He compiled a gallery of more than 1400 pictures, most of which are found in the Kunsthistorisches Museum today.
Here Teniers, who was the gallery director of the archduke, depicts the archduke and himself with several other people against a decorative background of paintings. They view 51 Italian works from the collection of the duke of Hamilton. Leopold Wilhelm had purchased them shortly before this picture was painted.
