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Hendrick ter Brugghen Documented profileCountry to be documented
The shift from history subjects to scenes of musicians marks an important change in Hendrick ter Brugghen’s painting. At the beginning of his career, he painted exclusively history s…
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Hugo Ungewitter Documented profileCountry to be documented
Hugo Ungewitter’s career combines official recognition with a journey to Abyssinia: the Berlin court awarded him the title of professor in 1913, and he then travelled to Abyssinia in…
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Hiroshi Sugito Documented profileJapan
Born in Nagoya in 1970, Hiroshi Sugito is a Japanese painter who graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in 1993. The source also describes him as a former…
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Hans Thiemann Documented profileGermany
The German painter Hans Thiemann, born in 1910 and died in 1977, becomes a professor at the Hamburg School of Fine Arts. An auction catalogue documents an untitled work from 1933, oi…
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Henri Mège Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Romans, in the Drôme department, in 1904, Henri Mège died in Chambéry in 1984. He learned to paint from his mother, Isabelle Mège, who was also a painter. Pursuing a military…
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Herbert Bayer Documented profileAustria · United States
Herbert Bayer was born in Austria in 1900 and died in the United States in 1985; his practice encompassed typography, photography, design, painting, architecture and sculpture. This…
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Heinrich Neppel Documented profileGermany
Heinrich Neppel, a German painter born in Munich in 1874 and who died in that city in 1936, is associated with landscape painting. According to Invaluable’s biographical entry, he st…
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Henri Decaisne Documented profileBelgium
Henri de Caisne, a Belgian painter born in Brussels in 1799 and died in Paris in 1852, practised history painting, genre painting and portraiture. After receiving the prize for the a…
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Hansjörg Wagner Documented profileGermany
Hansjörg Wagner, a German sculptor, painter and draughtsman born in Berlin in 1930 and who died in Munich in 2013, developed a body of work that brings together sculpture, painting a…
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Henri Rousseau Documented profileFrance
A self-taught artist, Henri Rousseau taught himself to paint without formal academic art training and began his career as a painter in 1872. After working as a clerk to a bailiff, he…
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Henri Alphonse Barnoin Documented profileFrance
Henri Alphonse Barnoin, a French painter and lithographer born in Paris in 1882, depicts Breton figures in traditional dress, fishermen, port and market scenes, processions, and rock…
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Heinrich Vogeler Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter and printmaker Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942) developed a practice that brought painting and printmaking together with the design of interiors and the objects within…
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Henri-Edmond Cross Documented profileFrance
Henri-Edmond Cross, the artist name of Henri Edmond Joseph Delacroix, was born in Douai in 1856 and died in Le Lavandou in 1910. He trained in Lille with Carolus-Duran and Alphonse C…
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Henry Dieckmann Documented profileGermany
The German painter Henry Dieckmann is described as working primarily on landscapes of northern Germany and Parisian street scenes in a naive style. A work titled Brasserie, acrylic o…
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Hans Maurus Documented profileGermany
The German painter Hans Maurus, born in Munich in 1901 and deceased in 1942 in Marijanowska, on the Eastern Front, is also referred to by the first name Hanns. One notice describes h…
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Heinrich Nauen Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter and printmaker Heinrich Nauen developed his career across several artistic centres, from Düsseldorf and Stuttgart to Laethem-Saint-Martin, Paris, Berlin and the Rh…
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Heijo Hangen Documented profileGermany
German painter Heijo Hangen (1927–2019) is cited among the German artists in Jan Kubíček’s international circle. Among the documented works is an untitled canvas from 1982, executed…
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Herbert Böttger Documented profileGermany
Herbert Böttger, a German painter born in Krefeld in 1898 and deceased in Büderich in 1954, is documented through catalogued works and several exhibitions devoted to New Objectivity.…
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Heinrich Bürkel Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Bavarian painter of genre scenes and landscapes Heinrich Bürkel (1802–1869) studied in Munich. In 1830, he exhibited at the Brussels Salon A Landscape with Figures, a Traveller H…
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Heinz Mack Documented profileGermany
Born in 1931 in Lollar, Hesse, Heinz Mack studied fine art in Düsseldorf, then philosophy at the University of Cologne until 1956; he earned a state qualification in both disciplines…
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Hermine David Documented profileFrance
Hermine David works in landscape and portraiture; one biographical source describes her as post-Impressionist. She studies at the Académie Julian, in Jean-Paul Laurens’s studio, from…
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Hugo Darnaut Documented profileAustria
Austrian painter Hugo Darnaut, born in Dessau in 1851 and died in Vienna in 1937, also known as Darnaut-Fix, trained across several artistic centres in Central Europe. After spending…
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Hermann Glöckner Documented profileGermany
Born in 1889 and died in 1987, Hermann Glöckner is a German artist whom Jean Mortier places among those who, in the GDR, retreated into a form of “inner emigration”. According to thi…
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Hans Staudacher Documented profileAustria
Titled Ohne Titel, this oil on canvas mounted on wood measures 198 × 198 cm. The catalogue entry describes it as signed and dated, with a partially illegible inscription transcribed…
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Heinrich von Zügel Documented profileGermany
The paintings of the German artist Heinrich Johann von Zügel (1850–1941) combine the observation of working animals with sustained attention to landscape and light. In his rural scen…
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Hugo Mühlig Documented profileGermany
The German painter Hugo Mühlig, born in Dresden and deceased in Düsseldorf, is described by the source as Impressionist, which notes landscapes and rural scenes in his paintings. The…
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Hans von Hayek Documented profileAustria
His training takes him briefly to the School of Applied Arts in Vienna, then to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studies under Gabriel von Hackl, Wilhelm von Lindenschmit…
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Hans Dahl Documented profileNorway
The Norwegian painter Hans Dahl, born in Granvin in 1849 and deceased in Balestrand in 1937, developed a body of work associated with the Düsseldorf School of painting. Before dedica…
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Heinrich Maria Davringhausen Documented profileGermany
Born in Aachen in 1894, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen was a German painter whom sources associate with New Objectivity and Magic Realism. A major part of his work made in Germany betw…
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Hubert Salentin Documented profileCountry to be documented
Also known as Johann Hubert Salentin, Hubert Salentin was a German painter born in 1822 and died in 1910. Junge Hirtin offers a concrete point of reference in his oeuvre: this oil on…
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Hugo Kauffmann Documented profileCountry to be documented
Hugo Wilhelm Kauffmann (1844–1915), a German painter born in Hamburg and who died in Prien am Chiemsee, pursues his career across several German cities and Paris. The son of the pain…
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Henryk Hayden Documented profileFrance · Poland
Henri Hayden, also known as Henryk Hayden-Wurcel, was a French painter and lithographer of Polish origin, born in Warsaw in 1883 and died in Paris in 1970. From 1902, he pursued tech…
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Henry Schouten Documented profileBelgium
A painter of landscapes and, above all, animals, Henri Schouten depicts cattle, sheep, horses, poultry and dogs, as well as animals in the fields. He exhibits at the art society L’Un…
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Henri Goetz Documented profileFrance
Henri Goetz, a French painter and engraver of American origin, was born in New York in 1909 under the name Harry Bernard Goetz and died in Nice in 1989. He settled in Paris in 1930,…
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Herbert Helmert Documented profileGermany
German painter Herbert Helmert, born in Dresden in 1924 and deceased in Munich in 1997, followed a path of training and work that took him from Saxony to Berlin and then to Munich. A…
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Henri Manguin Documented profileFrance
The French painter and printmaker Henri Manguin (1874–1949) practised both painting and printmaking: etchings, drypoints and lithographs form another facet of his work. After leaving…
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Hubert Berke Documented profileGermany
The German painter Hubert Berke, born in 1908 and deceased in 1979, develops a body of work that includes both abstract paintings and book illustrations. He studies philosophy and ar…
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Heinrich Siepmann Documented profileGermany
An untitled work from 1993, signed and dated “Siepmann 93”, is painted in oil on painting board and measures 104 × 129 cm. Its provenance is given as a private collection in North Rh…
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Helmut Middendorf Documented profileGermany
Born in 1953 in Dinklage, Germany, Helmut Middendorf took part in the founding of Galerie am Moritzplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg in 1977. He is associated with the New Fauves (Neue Wilde…
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Hermann Albert Documented profileGermany
German painter born in 1937, Hermann Albert is notably the artist of “Figure and Horse” (1985). This gouache on paper, signed lower right and dated “85”, measures 50 × 45 cm (sight).
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Hermann Seeger Documented profileGermany
Wikidata presents Hermann Seeger as a German painter, born in 1857 and died in 1945. The Lempertz catalogue lists under his name Drei Mädchen am Strand, an oil on canvas measuring 57…
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Henryk Stażewski Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Polish artist Henryk Stażewski, born in Warsaw in 1894 and deceased in 1988, took part in several of the leading constructivist and avant-garde groups of his time. In 1924, he co…
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Heinrich Steiner Documented profileGermany
The German painter and printmaker Heinrich Steiner pursued a path spanning painting, stage design and teaching, from Germany to Italy. Born in Kaiserslautern in 1911, he first took c…
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Henri Nicolas van Gorp Documented profileFrance
Henri-Nicolas Van Gorp is particularly noted as a portraitist; his genre scenes, too, circulated beyond painting, often reproduced as prints. An engraving attributed to him depicts a…
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Hélène de Beauvoir Documented profileFrance
The French painter Hélène de Beauvoir (1910–2001), Simone de Beauvoir’s younger sister, developed a practice combining painting and printmaking. After completing the baccalauréat, sh…
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Henri Duvieux Documented profileFrance
Henri Duvieux (1855–1920), a French painter active in the late 19th century, worked in a range of genres, including genre scenes, figures and animated landscapes, as well as Oriental…
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Hans Reichel Documented profileGermany · France
The German-born painter, who later became a French citizen, Hans Reichel developed a body of work in which the observation of nature gives rise to motifs in transformation, often ren…
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Hans Krenn Documented profileAustria
Hans Krenn’s career combines training as an architect with a documented practice of painting, printmaking, mixed media and small-scale sculpture. His work is situated within the arti…
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Heinz Kreutz Documented profileGermany
The German painter Heinz Kreutz, born in Frankfurt am Main on 31 December 1923 and died in Penzberg in 2016, worked in several disciplines, from painting to pottery. After classical…
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Hans Wulz Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter Hans Wulz, born in Landeck, Tyrol, in 1909 and deceased in Vienna in 1985, developed a practice that combined painting, drawing and sculpture. From 1924 to 1928,…
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GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026