Born in the Congo in 1950, Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff was educated in Switzerland, England and the United States. In 1975 he received his Master of Art Degree from the Royal College of Art in London. He has exhibited his work in Europe and the United States, and has won numerous awards, including the Swiss Federal Government Scholarship. Three Oceans, his last ... Read moreone-man show in New York, his hometown, in 2001, at Salander - O'Reilly Galleries, where he lives, as well as Hadlyme, Connecticut. Donald Kuspit is America's foremost art critic, poet, and professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was formerly the A.D.White Professor-at- Large at Cornell University (1991-1997). He received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1983 (given by the College Art Association). He lives in Stony Brook, New York. H.H Gaj Singh II is the Maharaja of Marwar-Jodhpur in India. He succeeded to the titles and dignities of his father when only four years of age, in 1952, when his father died suddenly in a plane crash. He was enthroned shortly afterwards. At the age of eight, Gaj Singh first attended Cothill and then to Eton College. After Eton, he went on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he was awarded a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He lives in the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, India. Show Less