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Leonhard Rausch Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German landscape painter and engraver Leonhard Rausch, associated with Romanticism, was born in Jülich in 1813 and died in Düsseldorf in 1895. His preferred subjects range from t…
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Lodewijk Johannes Kleijn Documented profileNetherlands
Lodewijk Johannes Kleijn (1817–1897), a Dutch painter, became particularly known for his depictions of winter subjects. His name also appears in several spellings, including Lodewijk…
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Leo Grewenig Documented profileGermany
The German painter Leo Grewenig was born in Heusweiler in 1898 and died in Bensheim in 1991. “Auf der Staffelei”, a work from 1984, is described as mixed media on paper: the sheet, m…
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L. S. Lowry Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976), also known as L. S. Lowry, is an English artist whose painting focuses in particular on the industrial landscapes of Salford, Manchester and other…
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Louis Tinayre Documented profileFrance
The career of Louis Tinayre brings together drawings and photographs made on expeditions, large-scale panoramic displays and mural painting. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 14 March 186…
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Lavinia Fontana Documented profileItaly
Lavinia Fontana, a painter born in Bologna in 1552 and who died in Rome in 1614, also known as Lavinia Zappi, pursued a practice that combined portraiture with religious painting. In…
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Lucio Muñoz Documented profileSpain
The Spanish painter Lucio Muñoz Martínez (1929–1998), born and deceased in Madrid, worked with burnt paper, wood and canvas. Perforations, tears, folds and incisions were among the w…
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Luis Tomasello Documented profileArgentina
Luis Tomasello’s research focuses on the effects of reflected light: in his Atmosphères chromoplastiques, white cubes arranged on a white ground set the colours of shadow and light i…
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Léon Spilliaert Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter, draughtsman, illustrator and lithographer Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) developed a body of work in which night, empty expanses and self-portraiture occupy a centr…
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Lionel Edwards Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Lionel Dalhousie Robertson Edwards (1878–1966), a British artist born in Clifton, is associated with hunting subjects, horse racing and military subjects. In the late 19th century, h…
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Luigi Conconi Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Luigi Conconi (1852–1917), born and died in Milan, combined painting and architecture. He graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic School of Milan in 1874 a…
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Luis Feito Documented profileSpain
Born in Madrid in 1929, Luis Feito López, known as Luis Feito, developed his painting from early figurative elements through a Cubist period and then towards abstraction, particularl…
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Luc Tuymans Documented profileBelgium
Born in 1958 in Mortsel, Belgium, Luc Tuymans lives and works in Antwerp. His figurative paintings generally take pre-existing images as their starting point, including photographs a…
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Louis Marcoussis Documented profileFrance · Poland
Louis Marcoussis’s work spans Cubist painting, printmaking and illustration. His subjects range from still lifes and musical instruments to portraits, views of Paris and Breton lands…
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Louis Latapie Documented profileFrance
Louis Latapie, a French painter and printmaker born in Toulouse in 1891 and who died in Avignon in 1972, developed a body of work in which still lifes and female nudes feature in a s…
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Lucien Adrion Documented profileFrance
Painter and watercolorist Lucien Philippe Adrion (1889–1953), born in Strasbourg and died in Paris, initially pursues a professional career in drawing. He begins as a technical draft…
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Louis de Caullery Documented profileCountry to be documented
A Flemish painter active at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Louis de Caullery was born around 1580 in Cambrai and worked mainly in Antwerp. Trained in that city…
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Ludwig Dill Documented profileCountry to be documented
Known as Ludwig Dill, Wilhelm Franz Karl Ludwig Dill studied architecture at the Polytechnic Institute from 1872, before joining the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1874. There he…
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Louis-Léopold Boilly Documented profileFrance
Louis-Léopold Boilly, a French painter born in La Bassée in 1761 and died in Paris in 1845, practised both painting and lithography. He began studying painting in Douai with Charles-…
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Leberecht Lortet Documented profileFrance
A painter chiefly devoted to mountain landscapes, Leberecht Lortet—also referred to by the variant name Lortel—draws his subjects from several regions: Switzerland, the south of Fran…
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Ludwig Gedlek Documented profilePoland
The Polish painter Ludwig Gedlek, born in Kraków in 1847 and died in Vienna in 1904, devotes a significant part of his oeuvre to the horse: almost all of his paintings depict one. Hi…
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Leandro Bassano Documented profileCountry to be documented
Leandro Bassano, also known as Leandro dal Ponte, was born in Bassano del Grappa in 1557 and died in Venice on 15 April 1622. Trained with his brothers in his father’s workshop, he w…
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Lesser Ury Documented profileGermany
Lesser Ury, a German painter and printmaker associated with an Impressionist manner, is particularly known for his nocturnal café scenes and rain-soaked streets. His work also includ…
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Luc Didier Documented profileCountry to be documented
Artsper describes him as famous for his images of landscapes in the process of disappearing. Born in 1954 in Gœulzin, in the Nord, near Douai, he first studies with his father. From…
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Luigi Loir Documented profileFrance
Aloys François Joseph Loir, known by the artist’s name Luigi Loir, had a career spanning painting, decoration and illustration. After his family settled in the Duchy of Parma in 1847…
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Ludwig Muller Cornelius Documented profileGermany
The Munich painter Ludwig Müller-Cornelius is described as having been self-taught since his youth: after an apprenticeship, he becomes director of the Munich company Conrad. His rep…
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Ladislas Kijno Documented profileFrance
The French painter of Polish origin Ladislas Kijno combines an exploration of materials with subjects drawn from spirituality, poetry, music and contemporary history. His education e…
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Luis Argudín Documented profileMexico
Born in Mexico City in 1955, Luis Argudín is described as a Mexican painter and teacher. The published provenance for a work states that the father of its current owner acquired it d…
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Louis Aimé Japy Documented profileFrance
Associated with the Barbizon School, Louis Aimé Japy devoted his artistic activity to landscape painting. His career is documented by his exhibitions at the Salon and by works held i…
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Louis Apol Documented profileNetherlands
Born and died in The Hague, Louis Apol was a painter and photographer; documented works attest to his interest in winter landscapes, including a Paysage d’hiver dated circa 1900 and…
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Luciano Bartolini Documented profileItaly
Italian painter Luciano Bartolini, born in Fiesole in 1948 and deceased in 1994, turned to artistic creation after studying languages rather than through formal art training. He made…
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Léon Arthur Tutundjian Documented profileFrance
Léon Tutundjian’s career is marked by clear shifts in visual language: after figurative, Cubist and collage-based explorations, he turns to geometric and organic abstraction, before…
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Lucien Neuquelman Documented profileFrance
An oil on canvas entitled “Départ des pêcheurs à Douarnenez” provides a documented example: signed at lower right and bearing the inscription “À Douarnenez” on the reverse, it measur…
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Louis Valtat Documented profileFrance
The French painter and printmaker Louis André Valtat, born in Dieppe in 1869, first attracts attention early in his career with paintings in very vivid tones, made during his convale…
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Louis David Vaillant Documented profileUnited States
Louis David Vaillant is identified as an American painter. A work catalogued under the German title “Prunkstillleben mit Früchten” — a sumptuous still life with fruit — is documented…
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Lucio Fontana Documented profileArgentina · Italy
The Italian-Argentine sculptor, painter and theorist Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) is associated with the Manifiesto blanco and Spatialism, two reference points mentioned in his biograph…
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Louis Vivin Documented profileFrance
The self-taught painter Louis Vivin (1861–1936), born in Hadol in the Vosges and deceased in Paris, developed a body of work devoted primarily to urban landscapes. The son of a schoo…
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Léon Zack Documented profileFrance
At an early stage, painting and writing came together in Léon Zack’s work: trained in drawing and painting from adolescence, he went on to study literature in Moscow, published poetr…
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Lois Weinberger Documented profileAustria
Born in Stams, Tyrol, in 1947 and died in Vienna in 2020, Lois Weinberger was an Austrian artist whose practice took ruderal plants, often referred to as “weeds”, as its starting poi…
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Ludvík Kuba Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ludvík Kuba (1863–1956), a Czech artist born in Poděbrady, Bohemia, and who died in Prague, pursued several activities alongside one another: he was a landscape painter, musician, wr…
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Luigi Amato Documented profileItaly
Born in 1898 in Spezzano Albanese, Calabria, Luigi Amato received his first lessons in drawing and geometry from his father. At the age of fourteen, he received a scholarship that to…
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Lajos Kolozsváry Documented profileHungary
Lajos Kolozsváry, a Hungarian artist born in 1871 and deceased in 1937, is presented as a genre painter. The works recorded include group scenes centred on objects or subjects of stu…
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Ludwig Hans Fischer Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Austrian landscape painter, printmaker, etcher and ethnologist Ludwig Hans Fischer (1848–1915) developed a practice that combined painting and printmaking with the observation an…
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Leo Erb Documented profileGermany
For Leo Erb (1923–2012), a German artist born in St. Ingbert and deceased in Kaiserslautern, the line and white—rendered in all its nuances—are the two guiding threads of his work. T…
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Lajos Kassák Documented profileHungary
Self-taught, Lajos Kassák turned to avant-garde movements and identified himself as a proletarian artist, a position he upheld throughout his life. In 1909, while working as a labour…
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Lucebert Documented profileNetherlands
Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk (Amsterdam, 15 September 1924 – Alkmaar, 10 May 1994), known as Lucebert, was a Dutch artist, poet, painter and draughtsman. A member of CoBrA, he also to…
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Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Documented profileFrance
Born in Algiers and died in Le Vésinet, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer—also known as Lucien Lévy—was a French Symbolist painter, sculptor and ceramicist whose career brought together the practi…
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Ludovic Vallée Documented profileFrance
French pointillist painter Ludovic Vallée was born in Paris in 1864 under the name Joseph Louis Marie Vallée and died there in 1939. Louise Hervieu describes a body of work in which…
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Léon Richet Documented profileFrance
A French painter associated with the Barbizon School, Léon Richet pursued a career centred on landscape painting, as attested by works listed under his name. His paintings were exhib…
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Leo Gestel Documented profileNetherlands
The Dutch painter Leo Gestel, whose full name was Leendert Gestel, lived from 1881 to 1941. A sales catalogue lists under his name Haus im Grünen, a gouache on composite paper dated…
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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