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N° 1 Imi Knoebel Documented profile
Born Klaus Wolf Knoebel in Dessau in 1940, Imi Knoebel explores the basic resources of abstract painting. He studied at the Werkkunstschule in Darmstadt from 1962 to 1964, then with…
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N° 2 Ida Kerkovius Documented profile
The German painter and weaver Ida Kerkovius, also described as German-Baltic, pursued a practice combining painting and textile arts. At the age of eighteen, she began training at a…
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N° 3 Ivan Rabuzin Documented profile
Croatian naïve painter Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) is placed in this movement by one source as early as 1946. Born in Ključ on 27 March 1921, he died in Varaždin on 18 December 2008. He…
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N° 4 Ilija Bosilj Documented profile
Ilija Bašičević, known as Ilija Bosilj, was born and died in Šid. He was born there in 1895, when the town belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and died in 1972. After about four…
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N° 5 Ina Barfuss Documented profile
Born in 1949, Ina Barfuss is presented as a German textile artist. Her name also appears in the spelling Ina Barfuß. The reverse of Tanzsaal bears the inscription “Barfuss, 81, Tanzs…
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N° 6 Irving Petlin Documented profile
Irving Burnell Petlin, an American artist born in Chicago on December 17, 1934, and who died in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, on September 1, 2018, took part in the exhibition No…
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N° 7 Ivan Puni Documented profile
Jean Pougny, also known as Ivan Puni, was a French-Russian painter who died in Paris in 1956. During his first stay in Paris, beginning in 1910, he attended the Académie Julian and e…
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N° 8 Isaac de Moucheron Documented profile
A North Netherlandish painter, draughtsman, printmaker and ornamental designer, Isaac de Moucheron produced a body of work in which architecture occupies a major place. His activity…
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N° 9 Isaac van Ostade Documented profile
Born in Haarlem in 1621, Isaac van Ostade learned painting from his brother Adriaen. He remained in the town until his death in 1649, devoting his short career to landscapes and scen…
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N° 10 Ignaz Raffalt Documented profile
Ignaz Raffalt (1800–1857) studied at the Vienna Academy from 1820 to 1825, with teachers including Johann Peter Krafft and Josef Mössmer. After running the family inn in Murau, he ac…
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N° 11 Ippolito Caffi Documented profile
Ippolito Caffi (1809–1866), born in Belluno and trained at the Venice Academy, renewed the painting of urban views in the nineteenth century. In Rome and during journeys through Ital…
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N° 12 Ivan Theimer Documented profile
Ivan Theimer, born in Olomouc in 1944, developed a practice as a sculptor, painter and draughtsman between France and Tuscany. He left Czechoslovakia in 1968. His language draws on t…
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N° 13 Irma Blank Documented profile
Irma Blank’s work explores the graphic possibilities of writing beyond its usual communicative function: her signs evoke the composition of alphabetic writing while remaining illegib…
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N° 14 Isao Utsumiya Documented profile
Isao Utsumiya, born in Morioka in 1945, is a Japanese artist who settled in France in 1967, the year he graduated from Musashino Art University. Soon after arriving, he became known…
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N° 15 Ismael González de la Serna Documented profile
Ismael de la Serna, a Spanish painter active notably in Paris, explored relationships between figuration and abstraction. Cubism informed his still lifes: in Bodegón of 1926–1927, he…
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N° 16 István Boldizsár Documented profile
István Boldizsár (1897–1984), born in Orosháza, belonged to the tradition of the Nagybánya artists’ colony. As a Budapest student, he encountered this milieu in the late 1910s before…
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N° 17 István Nyári Documented profile
István Nyári, born in Budapest in 1952, graduated in advertising graphics from the Hungarian College of Applied Arts in 1977. He began making fine art in 1978 while also designing re…
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N° 18 Italo Mus Documented profile
Italo Mus, also known as Joseph-Italo Mus, was born in Châtillon on 24 April 1892 and died in Saint-Vincent on 15 May 1967. His first artistic training took place in his father’s wor…
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N° 19 Ivan Kliun Documented profile
Ivan Kliun participated in the Russian avant-garde by exploring relationships between painting, relief and sculpture. Close to Malevich, he pursued Cubist and Futurist experiments be…
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N° 20 Ian Davenport Documented profile
Born in Kent in 1966, Ian Davenport is a British painter who graduated from Goldsmiths College in London in 1988. That year he participated in Freeze, the exhibition associated with…
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N° 21 Ida Applebroog Documented profile
Ida Applebroog was an American artist whose practice examines violence, power relations and gender roles. Drawing, painting, sculpture and narrative arrangements allowed her to quest…
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N° 22 Ipolit Strâmbu Documented profile
Born in Bratilovu in 1871, Ipolit Strâmbu studied fine arts in Bucharest and Munich. His stay in Paris in 1901 contributed to the exchanges that led to Tinerimea Artistică, an associ…
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N° 23 Iran Darroudi Documented profile
Iran Darroudi brought together painting, writing and film. She studied painting in Paris, stained glass in Brussels and art history at the École du Louvre. Her imaginary landscapes p…
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N° 24 Isa Genzken Documented profile
Isa Genzken, born in Bad Oldesloe in 1948, is a German artist who trained at several institutions, completing her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1977. Her practice encomp…
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N° 25 Isaac Snowman Documented profile
Isaac Snowman developed a painting practice in which portraiture and scenes of Jewish life played important roles. After attending the City of London School, he entered the Royal Aca…
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N° 26 Isidore Verheyden Documented profile
A Belgian painter of landscapes, portraits and still lifes, Isidore Verheyden began his artistic training in Brussels within an academic tradition before devoting himself to plein-ai…
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N° 27 Ivan Contreras-Brunet Documented profile
Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1927, Ivan Contreras-Brunet made his first paintings in the early 1940s; he died in Vendôme, France, in 2021. After these early works, he attended courses…
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N° 28 Ian McKeever Documented profile
Born in Withernsea in 1946, Ian McKeever began painting in 1969 after studying English literature. His early investigations brought landscape and photography into dialogue with conce…
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N° 29 Ibrahim Hussein Documented profile
Ibrahim Hussein, born in Kedah in 1936 and deceased in Kuala Lumpur in 2009, studied in Singapore and then in London at the Byam Shaw School and Royal Academy Schools. His career con…
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N° 30 Ida Barbarigo Documented profile
Ida Barbarigo, born Cadorin in Venice, trained at the Academy of Fine Arts with her father Guido Cadorin and Arturo Martini. She moved to Paris in 1952 and adopted the name Barbarigo…
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N° 31 Ideo Pantaleoni Documented profile
Ideo Pantaleoni (1904–1993), also known by the compound name Ideo Tommaso, was an Italian painter, sculptor and lithographer associated with the Movimento Arte Concreta. His work bel…
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N° 32 Ignat Bednarik Documented profile
Ignat Bednarik (1882–1963) was a Romanian artist born in Orșova who died in Bucharest. His practice brought together painting, illustration and decorative art, an area in which he al…
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N° 33 Ignatius van der Beken Documented profile
The Flemish painter Ignatius van der Beken is recorded as having lived from 1689 to 1774. He is also listed under the names Ignace van der Beken, Ignace Van der Beken, Ignace Bekers,…
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N° 34 Ignaz Gaugengigl Documented profile
Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl, also referred to as Ignaz Gaugengigl, was a painter and engraver, born in 1855 and died in 1932. Born in Bavaria and described as Bavarian-American, he is as…
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N° 35 Ilya Bolotowsky Documented profile
Ilya Bolotowsky emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1923. A founding member of American Abstract Artists, he developed paintings based on relationships between geometric fo…
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N° 36 Ilya Repin Documented profile
Ilya Repin (1844–1930), born in the territory of present-day Ukraine, occupies an important place in the realist painting of the Russian Empire. His pictures combine social observati…
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N° 37 Imre Goth Documented profile
Imre Goth’s career is distinguished by the intersection of portraiture and the illustrated press: he portrayed figures from the entertainment world, including Lilian Harvey, as well…
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N° 38 Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola Documented profile
Innocenzo da Imola, also known as Innocenzo Francucci, developed a religious painting practice attentive to Raphael’s models. His career connected Imola with Bologna, where he receiv…
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N° 39 Iosif Iser Documented profile
Romanian painter and draughtsman Iosif Iser trained in Munich before working as a cartoonist and spending time in Paris. His contributions to the press accompanied a sustained engage…
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N° 40 Isaac Levitan Documented profile
Isaac Levitan, who was born in 1860 and died in 1900, studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, including under Alexei Savrasov and Vasily Polenov. His la…
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N° 41 Isaak Soreau Documented profile
Isaak Soreau, born in 1604, belonged to a family of painters associated with Hanau. His father Daniel and his twin brother Peter worked within the same artistic milieu. He specialise…
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N° 42 Isidore Rosenstock Documented profile
Isidore Rosenstock (1880–1956), born in Strasbourg and deceased in Paris, developed a body of work in which watercolour held a privileged place. He exhibited regularly at the Salon d…
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N° 43 Issachar Ber Ryback Documented profile
Issachar Ber Ryback, born in Elisabethgrad in 1897, who died in Paris in 1935, trained in Kyiv within a milieu receptive to the avant-garde. In 1916 he joined El Lissitzky in a surve…
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N° 44 Ivan Aivazovsky Documented profile
Marine painting is central to Ivan Aïvazovski’s reputation: sources attribute more than 6,000 works to him, about half of them seascapes. When painting, he worked from memory, guided…
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N° 45 Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé Documented profile
Ivan Choultsé’s painting focuses on natural motifs, with water and snow given particular prominence; winter landscapes, often Swiss, are especially frequent. Descriptions of his work…
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N° 46 Ivan Pokhitonov Documented profile
Born in Matrionovka in the Kherson governorate, Ivan Pokhitonov (1850–1923) initially followed a path outside art schools. After schooling in Elisavetgrad and Nikolaev, he studied ag…
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N° 47 Izaak van Oosten Documented profile
Isaak van Oosten was a Flemish landscape painter born in Antwerp in 1613 who died in 1661. His Landscape with Boats at the Prado, painted on copper between 1652 and 1661, adapts a co…
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Countries reflect citizenships recorded in the source and may be incomplete. Reference profiles open the indicated source and do not imply that works are available at the gallery.
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