European Artist

Europe has shaped much of what we think of as art history, from the Renaissance masters to the movements that followed, Impressionism, Surrealism, and everything since. This section brings together painters, sculptors, and photographers from across the continent, with countries that have enough artists on WooArts getting their own dedicated page, while smaller national scenes are gathered here under one regional home. The range is huge, classical technique sitting alongside bold contemporary work, quiet countryside scenes next to big city energy. What ties these artists together is simply geography, not a shared style. Explore this section to see the full breadth of European art today.

Koen Demuynck | European Artist

Koen Demuynck is a Belgian photographer and digital artist known for blending advertising with surrealism, creating heavily manipulated images full of dark humor and unexpected detail. His striking, sometimes strange commercial work has appeared in countless advertisements worldwide, earning him a reputation as one of the more inventive minds in contemporary photography.
Pavle Paja Jovanović | European Artist

Pavle Paja Jovanović was a Serbian painter born in Vršac in 1859 who trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and went on to paint more than eleven hundred works over his lifetime. He became one of Europe’s leading portraitists after 1905, painting Emperor Franz Joseph I more than fourteen times, and he…
Martin Pustelnik | European Artist

Martin Pustelnik is a Czech photographer born in Ostrava in 1976 who bought his first digital SLR in 2005 and quickly fell into macro photography, especially dragonflies and insects. He prefers natural light and minimal editing, and beyond his nature work he also photographs flowers, landscapes, and people.
Arnold Böcklin | European Artist

Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss symbolist painter born in Basel in 1827 who trained at the Düsseldorf Academy before travels through Belgium, France, and Italy shaped his mature style. Best known for haunting, mythological works like Isle of the Dead, he went on to influence later Surrealists and even filmmakers, and he died in Fiesole,…
Krastyo Todorov | European Artist

Krastyo Todorov, known as Ketsa, is a Bulgarian artist born in Burgas in 1959 who trained in Kazanluk and Veliko Tarnovo before building a career spanning more than thirty solo exhibitions. His paintings, drawings, and lithographs use grotesque, distorted figures set against the Black Sea of his childhood, turning the coastline into a stage for…
Pavlos Prosalentis | European Artist

Pavlos Prosalentis, known as the Younger, was a Greek painter born in 1857 into a well-known artistic family, trained first by his father and later in Italy and France. As part of the nineteenth-century Orientalist movement, he lived for years in Egypt, painting the daily life of its markets, streets and people rather than its…
Boyan Moskov | European Artist

Boyan Moskov is a Bulgarian ceramic artist born in Ruse, who trained at Troyan Art School and the Sofia Art Academy before spending several years working and exhibiting in Sweden. He returned to Bulgaria in 2003 to start his own pottery business, and since 2007 he has lived and worked in New Hampshire, shaping clean,…
Sérgio Odeith | European Artist

Sergio Odeith is a Portuguese street artist born in Damaia in 1976, who began painting with spray cans as a teenager and taught himself the craft entirely through practice on the walls around Lisbon. He is best known for the anamorphic murals he calls Somber 3D, begun in 2005, which use corners and flat walls…
Edvard Munch | European Artist

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter born in Loten in 1863, whose childhood was marked by illness and loss and whose art grew out of those early wounds. He trained at the Royal School of Art and Design in Kristiania, now Oslo, and was influenced by Gauguin, van Gogh, and Toulouse Lautrec during his years…
Ludwig Deutsch | European Artist

Ludwig Deutsch was an Austrian Orientalist painter born in Vienna in 1855, who trained at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts before settling permanently in Paris in 1878. He made several journeys to Egypt starting in 1885, collecting the tiles, costumes, and objects he later used as props in his richly detailed paintings of Middle…
Francis O’Toole | European Artist

Francis O’Toole is an Irish painter based in Dublin, whose path to art began after a serious industrial accident at seventeen left him searching for direction for several years. Encouraged by his mother to paint, he later trained in classical techniques in Florence, Italy, and went on to win the One World Together Gold Medal…
Paula Rego | European Artist

Paula Rego was a Portuguese British artist born in Lisbon in 1935, known for storybook inspired paintings and prints made mostly in pastel. She trained at London’s Slade School of Fine Art and became known for powerful, sometimes unsettling depictions of women, including her Abortion Pastels series made in response to Portugal’s 1998 referendum. She…