Damon de laszlo biography channel

  • Damon P. de Laszlo is an English industrialist, a patron of the arts, and a scientific philanthropist.
  • Born in Hungary, de László studied in Budapest, Paris and Munich before receiving his first significant commission from the Bulgarian royal family in 1894.
  • Damon de Laszlo of the Bradshaw Foundation who specialise in funding research into incredible cave and rock art research around the world.

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    Field Trip No. 090318 - Review by Damon de Laszlo

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    Participants: Damon de Laszlo, Peter Robinson, Dr Alan Garfinkel Gold, Ryan Gerstner, Ron Smith and Laurie Gilmore.

    The Bradshaw Foundation mounted an expedition in March 2018, inviting representatives from the California Rock Art Foundation [CRAF] – Dr Alan Garfinkel Gold, Ryan Gerstner and Ron Smith.

    The expedition was preceded by a meeting at the Getty Centre in Los Angeles between the Getty Conservation Institute and the Bradshaw Foundation. The meeting discussed, firstly, the establishment of an international Alliance of professionals and rock art site managers to enable the exchange of information and to work together, and secondly, to reach the public and new audiences by disseminating information of different kinds and at different levels via the Bradshaw Foundation. The Getty Conservation Institute and the Bradshaw Foundation have agreed to collaborate to solicit a steady flow of

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    Philip de Laszlo(1869-1937) is among the most celebrated British portraitists of the first half of the twentieth century. He portrayed the leading figures of his generation, including actresses, dictators, scientists, writers, politicians, princes and society figures. This fascinating introduction to his work takes us from his humble beginnings in Budapest and his student years in härlig de siecle Paris and Munich, to his success as a society painter with commissions to paint kings, queens, presidents and two popes. In 1907 dem Laszlo settled in England, where he began to move away from his sober early style towards bravura portraiture in the grand manner. On the retirement of John Singer Sargent he became Britain's most favoured portraitist, and his sittings book not only remained full for the next two decades, but in 1930 he succeeded Walter Sickert as President of the Royal Society of British Artists. This publication concentrates on de Laszlo's British career - astonishingly prolifi

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    Dabous Giraffe Rock Art Petroglyph

    One of the finest examples of ancient rock art in the world - two life-size giraffe carved in stone

    The two life-size giraffe petroglyphs, known as the Dabous giraffe, are the largest known animal carvings in the world. Despite their remote location in the Sahara, the prehistoric rock art was inevitably attracting attention, to the extent that damage was occurring. Under the auspices of UNESCO, the Bradshaw Foundationwas tasked with coordinating the Dabous preservation project, in association with the Trust for African Rock Art.

    The preservation project was to involve taking a mould of the carvings from which to create a limited edition of aluminium casts, one of which would be gifted to the town of Agadez near the archaeological site, another of which would be located at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington D.C. A further element of the preservation project was to sink a water well in the area in order to support a small T