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N° 1 Karl Hagemeister Documented profile
The German painter Karl Hagemeister, born and deceased in Werder, returns there after several years of training and travel. The town becomes the setting for his work, where he gradua…
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N° 2 Käthe Kollwitz Documented profile
Born Käthe Schmidt in Königsberg in 1867, Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist whose practice encompassed printmaking, drawing and sculpture. She studied copper engraving with Rudolf M…
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N° 3 Karel Appel Documented profile
Karel Appel (1921–2006), a Dutch painter, sculptor and poet, belonged to CoBrA, the group founded in 1948. Within this context, spontaneous expression and emotional intensity took a…
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N° 4 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Documented profile
Born in Rottluff, near Chemnitz, in 1884, Karl Schmidt adds the name of his birthplace to his own and becomes known as Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. He dies in Berlin in 1976. Enrolled in a…
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N° 5 Kostia Terechkovitch Documented profile
Kostia Terechkovitch’s work spans several genres: dancers, landscapes, portraits, equestrian scenes and family subjects, alongside his work as an illustrator through lithography. He…
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N° 6 Karin Kneffel Documented profile
Karin Kneffel, born in Marl in 1957, develops figurative paintings that combine photorealistic precision with a complex construction of space. People, families and everyday scenes pr…
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N° 7 Klaus Fußmann Documented profile
Titled Ohne Titel, this watercolour on card, signed and dated « Fußmann ’91 », measures 84 × 70 cm. The work’s provenance is listed as a private collection in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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N° 8 Katharina Grosse Documented profile
Katharina Grosse’s practice combines studio painting with large-scale in situ interventions: painting is not limited to the canvas but can also cover built or natural environments. I…
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N° 9 Kees van Dongen Documented profile
Born in 1877, Kees van Dongen trained in decorative arts in Rotterdam before moving to Paris in 1897. In Montmartre he worked for the satirical press and became known for his caricat…
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N° 10 Karl Reille Documented profile
Karl Reille (1886–1975), born in Paris and deceased in Cerelles, was a French animal painter particularly associated with hunting on horseback with hounds. His familiarity with this…
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N° 11 Karl Otto Götz Documented profile
The German painter Karl Otto Götz, born in Aachen in 1914 and deceased in Niederbreitbach in 2017, developed an abstract painting practice in which automatism, spontaneous gesture an…
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N° 12 Kumi Sugai Documented profile
The Japanese painter, sculptor and printmaker Kumi Sugai (also transcribed as Kumi Sugaï) was born and died in Kobe, in 1919 and 1996. Her practice also includes printmaking, which i…
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N° 13 Karl Kaufmann Documented profile
Wikidata identifies Karl Kaufmann as an Austrian painter born in 1843. The entry associates several name variants with him, including F. Gilbert, Henri Carnier, Charles Marchand and…
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N° 14 Kim En Joong Documented profile
Kim En Joong’s career brings together painting, a life as a Dominican, and the creation of stained-glass windows, with the project at the Basilica of Saint-Julien in Brioude serving…
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N° 15 Karl Korab Documented profile
Karl Korab studied with Sergius Pauser at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1957 to 1964. While still a student, he began participating in exhibitions in Austria and abroad. Hi…
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N° 16 Keith Haring Documented profile
Keith Haring (1958–1990), whose full name was Keith Allen Haring, was an American artist and social activist. The works documented here offer a range of formats and supports: an unti…
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N° 17 Karl Fred Dahmen Documented profile
German artist Karl Fred Dahmen, born in Stolberg in 1917 and deceased in Bavaria in 1981, is represented by works shown in exhibitions in Europe, Asia and the United States. In 1958,…
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N° 18 Ker-Xavier Roussel Documented profile
François Xavier Roussel, known as Ker-Xavier Roussel, trained in Paris before joining the Nabis circle. He studied at the Lycée Condorcet from 1882 to 1885, then entered the Maillart…
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N° 19 Kimber Smith Documented profile
Kimber Smith (1922–1981), born in Boston, studied at the Art Students League in New York after the Second World War. He exhibited with Joan Mitchell at the New Gallery in 1951 and mo…
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N° 20 Kosta Alex Documented profile
Kosta Alex developed his sculpture between the United States, Paris and Geneva. Born Kosta Alexopoulos in Elizabeth in 1925 to Greek immigrant parents, he learned carving, casting an…
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N° 21 Karl Daubigny Documented profile
Karl Daubigny, a French painter born in 1846 and died in 1886, is also referred to as Carl (Charles Pierre) Daubigny, Karl Charles-Pierre Daubigny and Karl Pierre Daubigny. The Art I…
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N° 22 Karl Friedrich Lessing Documented profile
The German history and landscape painter Carl Friedrich Lessing first distinguished himself through dark and imaginative Romantic landscapes, which often feature castle ruins and aba…
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N° 23 Karl Horst Hödicke Documented profile
Karl Horst Hödicke (1938–2024) pursued a career closely connected with Berlin’s artistic life. Settling in the city in 1957, he studied with Fred Thieler from 1959 before moving away…
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N° 24 Konrad Klapheck Documented profile
Born and died in Düsseldorf (1935–2023), Konrad Klapheck began developing an oeuvre attentive to the ordinary objects of modernity in 1955. That year, in reaction to the abstract exp…
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N° 25 Karl Hubbuch Documented profile
Titled Doppelporträt Martha, this work is executed in pencil on medium-weight chamois-coloured board, measures 60.8 × 43.2 cm and bears the blind stamp “WATT”; the sales notice descr…
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N° 26 Kajetan Sosnowski Documented profile
The Polish artist Kajetan Sosnowski, born in Vilnius in 1913 and deceased in Warsaw in 1987, directed his research towards the visual dimensions of art. His interest in the developme…
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N° 27 Karel Souček Documented profile
Karel Souček made the industrial city and its inhabitants central subjects of his painting. After training as a sign painter, he attended applied arts school and the Prague Academy,…
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N° 28 Kiyoshi Hasegawa Documented profile
Hasegawa Kiyoshi was a Japanese painter and printmaker, born in Yokohama in 1891, who died in Paris in 1980. Based in Paris from 1919, he employed several printmaking processes, incl…
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N° 29 Kurt Schwitters Documented profile
Born in Hanover, the German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) transformed ordinary fragments into artistic material under the name Merz. Newspaper clippings, timetables and advertis…
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N° 30 Karl Edvard Diriks Documented profile
Karl Edvard Diriks began by studying architecture before turning towards painting, particularly through contact with Christian Krohg and Max Klinger. His early city views demonstrate…
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N° 31 Karl Hübner Documented profile
Carl Wilhelm Hübner (1814–1879), born in Königsberg and active in Düsseldorf, studied under Carl Ferdinand Sohn and Wilhelm von Schadow. His genre paintings stage social conflicts an…
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N° 32 Károly Markó Documented profile
Károly Markó the Elder made Italian landscape a point of exchange between his European career and Hungarian culture. After Vienna, he worked extensively in Italy while continuing to…
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N° 33 Kenjiro Azuma Documented profile
Kenjiro Azuma (1926–2016), also known as Kengiro Azuma, was a Japanese sculptor based in Milan. Born into a family of bronze artisans, he trained in Japan and at the Brera Academy be…
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N° 34 Kenneth Noland Documented profile
American artist Kenneth Noland (1924–2010) is represented in the collections listed by the Art Institute of Chicago by works spanning several decades. These include Plum (1959), Midm…
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N° 35 Kai Althoff Documented profile
Kai Althoff, born in Cologne in 1966, combines painting, drawing, objects and music in a practice where the human figure occupies an important place. His scenes suggest narratives wi…
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N° 36 Karel Dujardin Documented profile
The Dutch painter Karel Dujardin depicted Italianate landscapes populated by people and animals, while also producing portraits and religious compositions. Active in Amsterdam and Th…
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N° 37 Karl Cartier Documented profile
The French painter and museum curator Karl Cartier trained under Carolus-Duran, Gustave Boulanger and Jean-Léon Gérôme. Several painting titles refer to Moret: L’Entrée de Moret par…
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N° 38 Karl Philipp Fohr Documented profile
Carl Philipp Fohr (1795–1818), born in Heidelberg, gained the support of Princess Wilhelmine Luise of Hesse after his initial drawing instruction. His watercolours combine landscapes…
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N° 39 Keizo Morishita Documented profile
Settling in Milan in 1963 to study art, Keizo Morishita attended Marino Marini’s classes at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera on a scholarship, graduating in 1968. Although he spe…
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N° 40 Kenneth Armitage Documented profile
William Kenneth Armitage (1916–2002) was a British sculptor whose semi-abstract bronzes frequently retain a reference to the human figure. He studied at Leeds College of Art and then…
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N° 41 Kim Donaldson Documented profile
Kim Donaldson is presented as an advocate for conservation, committed to the subjects he depicts; his practice pays particular attention to animal habitats and anatomy. According to…
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N° 42 Konstantin Gorbatov Documented profile
Constantin Gorbatov, also known as Konstantin Ivanovich Gorbatov, was a Russian painter born in 1876 who died in Berlin in 1945. Trained in Saint Petersburg, he left Russia permanent…
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N° 43 Krisztián Frey Documented profile
Krisztián Frey (1929–1997) is represented by an untitled mixed-media work on paper, measuring 700 × 500 mm, whose entry notes three continuous horizontal folds and three continuous v…
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N° 44 Kain Tapper Documented profile
The Finnish sculptor Kain Tapper (1930–2004) is represented in the available references by public works located in several Finnish cities, from Saarijärvi to Turku and Kotka. He was…
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N° 45 Karl Eduard Biermann Documented profile
The Prussian painter Karl Eduard Biermann (1803–1892), born and deceased in Berlin, is also listed in the shortened form Eduard Biermann. After an apprenticeship at the Royal Porcela…
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N° 46 Karl Einhart Documented profile
The German painter Karl Einhart, born and deceased in Constance, devoted a significant part of his work to the landscapes of Lake Constance and its region. By his own estimate, he pr…
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N° 47 Karl Hermann Haupt Documented profile
The German painter, graphic artist, photographer and designer Karl Hermann Haupt (1904–1983) trained in Halle before taking courses at the Bauhaus from 1923 to 1924 with several of i…
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N° 48 Karl Langhammer Documented profile
The German painter Carl Langhammer — also known as Karl — worked primarily in landscape painting, while his practice also extended to decorative painting and illustration. Born in Be…
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N° 49 Karl Meisenbach Documented profile
The painter Karl Meisenbach, born in Nuremberg in 1898 and deceased in Munich in 1976, develops an artistic practice that leads him early towards expressive abstraction. His approach…
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N° 50 Karl Mücke Documented profile
Karl Emil Mücke, also known as Carl Mücke and Karl Muecke, was a German painter born and died in Düsseldorf, in 1847 and 1923 respectively. He was the son of the painter Heinrich Müc…
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N° 51 Karl Plattner Documented profile
Karl Plattner is listed as a painter, decorative painter, genre painter, landscape painter and still-life painter. Bergdorf is listed in the Karl Plattner Archives in Bolzano under r…
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N° 52 Karlo Kacharava Documented profile
Born in 1964 in Samtredia and died in 1994 in Tbilisi, Karlo Kacharava was a Georgian artist whose practice brought together art-making, writing and research in art history. After st…
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N° 53 Kay Rasmus Nielsen Documented profile
The Danish illustrator, painter and stage designer Kay Nielsen made storytelling a space for visual invention. Born in 1886, he died in 1957. He studied in Paris before working for t…
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N° 54 Kazuo Shiraga Documented profile
Kazuo Shiraga was among the artists who made the body a decisive tool of postwar Japanese painting. As a member of Gutai, he sought to renew the relationship between action and mater…
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N° 55 Keith Sonnier Documented profile
The American artist Keith Sonnier, who lived from 1941 to 2020, made light a sculptural material. In the late 1960s he combined neon with glass, foam rubber and electrical wiring. Th…
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N° 56 Keith Vaughan Documented profile
The British painter Keith Vaughan (also known as John Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977) developed a body of work centred on the male nude, landscape—particularly that of Essex—and still life…
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N° 57 Ken Grimes Documented profile
Ken Grimes was born in New York in 1947 and grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut. He works almost exclusively with black and white acrylic on canvas or hardboard. Informed by science fic…
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N° 58 Kenneth Martin Documented profile
Born in Sheffield in 1905, Kenneth Martin studied in his home city and then at London's Royal College of Art, where he met Mary Balmford, later Mary Martin. Together they developed a…
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N° 59 Kenneth Price Documented profile
American artist and printmaker Kenneth Price devoted most of his work to ceramic sculpture. He is particularly associated with abstract forms shaped from fired clay. His sculptures a…
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N° 60 Kiki Smith Documented profile
Kiki Smith, an American artist born in Germany in 1954, has developed work since the 1980s around the body, its functions and its vulnerability. Sculpture enters into dialogue with d…
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N° 61 Klaus Heider Documented profile
Klaus Heider (1936–2013), born in Göppingen, explored relationships between image, light and space. After studying painting in Stuttgart and printmaking in Berlin, he developed a pra…
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N° 62 Klaus Jürgen Schoen Documented profile
Klaus Jürgen Schoen (1931–2018) was a German painter born in Königsberg. He studied in Berlin-Weißensee and subsequently at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Berlin-Charlottenbur…
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N° 63 Klaus Pinter Documented profile
Klaus Pinter, born in Schärding in 1940, develops work between sculpture and architecture. A co-founder of Haus-Rucker-Co, he contributed to the group’s experiments. MoMA holds colla…
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N° 64 Klaus Staudt Documented profile
At the beginning of his career, Klaus Staudt made serial reliefs in white wood, before developing spatial and shadow reliefs, followed by two-layer reliefs. Born in 1932 in Otterndor…
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N° 65 Koulbak Victor Documented profile
Victor Koulbak, born in Moscow in 1946, is a Russian-born painter and draughtsman. Trained in his native city, he began working in commercial drawing and illustration. He left the So…
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N° 66 Kurt Craemer Documented profile
Kurt Craemer (1912–1961), born in Saarbrücken, studied applied arts in Cologne with Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann and subsequently attended the Düsseldorf Academy. His first visit to I…
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N° 67 Kurt Kranz Documented profile
Kurt Kranz (1910–1997), a German painter, is documented here through two works dated 1969. The Art Institute of Chicago lists Natural History. A drawing titled Zu Hände is described…
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N° 68 Kurt Lewy Documented profile
Kurt Lewy was born in Essen in 1898 and died in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1963. A painter, enameller and illustrator, he taught graphic techniques in Essen before being dismissed under…
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N° 69 Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt Documented profile
The German illustrator and painter Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt develops a practice that turns towards animal engraving. Born in Leipzig in 1895, he dies in Munich in 1977. He studies at the…
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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