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N° 1 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…
CHF 240’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Country to be documented Reference profile ↗Additional references (5)
awarewomenartists.com ↗www.artic.edu ↗www.inha.fr ↗fr.wikipedia.org ↗en.wikipedia.org ↗ -
N° 2 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° 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 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° 5 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° 6 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° 7 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…
CHF 65’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗United States Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
id.ndl.go.jp ↗www.culturaitalia.it ↗catalogo.beniculturali.it ↗www.sothebys.com ↗ -
N° 8 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° 9 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° 10 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° 11 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° 12 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° 13 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° 14 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° 15 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° 16 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° 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 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° 19 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° 20 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…
CHF 4’951Highest documented result in CHF · frais inclusReference profile ↗France Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
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N° 21 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° 22 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° 23 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…
CHF 3’285Highest documented result in CHF · frais inclusReference profile ↗United States Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
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N° 24 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…
CHF 3’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Japan Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
catalogue.bnf.fr ↗museumcollection.tokyo ↗artplatform.go.jp ↗www.momak.go.jp ↗ -
N° 25 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° 26 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…
CHF 2’600Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Country to be documented Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
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N° 27 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° 28 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° 29 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…
CHF 2’200Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Japan Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
id.ndl.go.jp ↗www.schulerauktionen.ch ↗www.germannauktionen.ch ↗www.dobiaschofsky.com ↗ -
N° 30 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° 31 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° 32 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° 33 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° 34 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° 35 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° 36 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…
CHF 650Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Country to be documented Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
www.wienmuseum.at ↗www.moma.org ↗www.heikecurtze.com ↗www.klauspinter.net ↗ -
N° 37 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…
CHF 550Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Country to be documented Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
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N° 38 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° 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 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° 41 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° 42 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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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