(Ricardo) Cor Leone

Ricardo, born in Vienna, Austria, was soon introduced to art by his father, archaeologists and numismatist, travelling with him through many important museums and ancient sights all over Europe, especially Italy. Alongside he started with photography in the age of six. After many years of beeing mainly active as photographer, he started painting as autodidactic artist.
His influences are Sebastião Salgado and Annie Leibovitz (and others) on the photographic side and Caravaggio, Basquiat, Klee, Freud, Chagall (and many others) from the painting side.