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N° 1 Otto Piene Documented profile
Otto Piene, a German artist born in Bad Laasphe on 18 April 1928 and who died in Berlin on 17 July 2014, is particularly known as a co-founder of the ZERO group with Heinz Mack. He s…
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N° 2 Othon Friesz Documented profile
The French artist Othon Friesz, born in 1879 and deceased in 1949, is represented here by works whose titles refer to coastal locations and a hamlet landscape. The descriptions consu…
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N° 3 Otto Modersohn Documented profile
The German painter Otto Modersohn, born in 1865 and deceased in 1943, made landscape the enduring focus of his work. His early works belong to the tradition of the Barbizon School; l…
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N° 4 Oswald Achenbach Documented profile
The Prussian painter Oswald Achenbach, born and deceased in Düsseldorf, devoted a significant part of his work to the Italian landscape, whose colourful views and play of light infor…
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N° 5 Otto Eduard Pippel Documented profile
Otto Eduard Pippel was a German painter, born in Lodz in 1878 and died in Munich in 1960. His artistic training is stated to have taken place at the universities of Strasbourg, Karls…
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N° 6 Odilon Redon Documented profile
Odilon Redon’s work is distinguished by a shift from drawings and prints devoted to imaginary, generally macabre subjects to oil painting and pastel, which he took up after 1880 with…
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N° 7 Otmar Alt Documented profile
Born in Wernigerode in 1940, Otmar Alt is a German artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and design, among other fields. After an apprenticeship as…
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N° 8 Ossip Zadkine Documented profile
Ossip Zadkine’s work encompasses several practices: sculpture, drawing, watercolour and gouache, as well as printmaking, book illustration and designs for tapestries. Trained in Lond…
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N° 9 Oleg Tselkov Documented profile
Oleg Tselkov built his painting around a collective human face. From 1960, smooth heads and simplified features formed a recurring character, sometimes paired with threatening object…
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N° 10 Olivier Debré Documented profile
For Olivier Debré, abstraction linked to landscape takes the form of “fervent abstraction”: painting symbolises the emotion felt in front of the landscape. In 1953, he abandons figur…
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N° 11 Oskar Larsen Documented profile
Born in Vienna in 1882 and died there in 1972, Oskar Larsen is presented as an Austrian painter and graphic artist. A notice states that he studied at the Akademie der bildenden Küns…
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N° 12 Otto Ritschl Documented profile
Komposition 1974/12 is an oil on canvas measuring 130 × 97 cm. The catalogue describes a violet signature and the date “Ritschl 74” at the lower left; on the reverse, the work is sig…
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N° 13 Óscar Domínguez Documented profile
Óscar Domínguez’s career encompasses Surrealist painting, illustration and objects presented in exhibitions. His first Surrealist paintings date from 1932; his works also include the…
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N° 14 Odilon Roche Documented profile
French painter Odilon Roche, born in 1868 and died in 1947, is associated with Turnerinnen, a watercolour over pencil, signed lower right, measuring 26 × 20 cm and framed. This work…
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N° 15 Oleg Vassiliev Documented profile
Born in Moscow in 1931, Oleg Vassiliev (1931–2013) pursued a long career as a children’s book illustrator alongside his artistic practice. From the 1950s to the 1980s, he worked in t…
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N° 16 Oskar Schlemmer Documented profile
The German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943), who was born in Stuttgart and died in Baden-Baden, developed an artistic practice in which the b…
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N° 17 Omar Ba Documented profile
Born in Senegal in 1977, Omar Ba develops a painting practice that engages with contemporary political and social questions. His work addresses inequalities of wealth and power, migr…
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N° 18 Oskar Mulley Documented profile
Mountain farms and wayside chapels set against Alpine mountain ranges are among his recurring motifs. His paintings, executed with a palette knife, almost always depict landscapes wi…
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N° 19 Ossip Lubitch Documented profile
Ossip Lubitch’s career spans painting, graphic arts and the performing arts. In Berlin, he creates theatrical sets with Tchelitchev and Pougny for the Opera, the Deutsches Theater an…
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N° 20 Otto Greis Documented profile
The German Informel painter Otto Greis was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1913; a biographical notice gives either 28 August or 28 September as his date of birth. After beginning mecha…
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N° 21 Otto Schauer Documented profile
Born in Stuttgart in 1923 and died in Paris in 1985, Otto Schauer, also known as Friedrich Otto Schauer, is described as a German painter who worked in France from 1950 onwards. He s…
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N° 22 Ode Bertrand Documented profile
Ode Bertrand, born in Paris in 1930, came to visual art from classical dance and developed a practice within geometric abstraction and concrete art. A niece of Aurélie Nemours, she w…
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N° 23 Oscar Gauthier Documented profile
Oscar Gauthier (1921–2009), a French painter born in Fours, in the Nièvre, and who died in Nevers, developed an abstract body of work attentive to the rhythms and phenomena of nature…
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N° 24 Oscar Spielmann Documented profile
Trained in Vienna and then in Prague under Karl Krattner, Oscar Spielmann settled in Algiers in 1930 with his wife, the painter Eugénie Tchec, after discovering Algeria. His work als…
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N° 25 Oskar Zügel Documented profile
Oskar Zügel (1892–1968), also known as Oscar Zügel, was a painter from Murrhardt. Trained in Stuttgart, he developed work in dialogue with New Objectivity, Cubism and Futurism. Durin…
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N° 26 Otakar Kubín Documented profile
Othon Coubine, the artist name of Otakar Kubín, is a French-Czech artist of Moravian origin whose career links training in Central Europe, settling in France and landscapes from seve…
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N° 27 Otto Freundlich Documented profile
Otto Freundlich was a German painter and sculptor whose practice also encompassed stained glass and monumental art. After studying in Berlin, he stayed in Paris in 1908 and rented a…
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N° 28 Ofer Lellouche Documented profile
Ofer Lellouche, born in Tunisia in 1947, left France for Israel in 1966. Self-portraits and landscapes recur across his painting, prints, sculpture and performance. Since the late 19…
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N° 29 Olivier O. Olivier Documented profile
Born Pierre Marie Olivier in Paris in 1931, Olivier O. Olivier studied philosophy at the Sorbonne before entering art school. A member of the Collège de pataphysique from 1955, he jo…
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N° 30 Omar Galliani Documented profile
Omar Galliani, born in Montecchio Emilia in 1954 and trained at Bologna's Academy of Fine Arts, places drawing at the centre of his practice. Line explores a figuration informed by a…
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N° 31 Oskar Laske Documented profile
The Austrian painter and architect Oskar Laske was born in Czernowitz in 1874 and died in Vienna in 1951. A work entitled “Die Ssrjétenskaja in Odessa” combines watercolour, gouache…
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N° 32 Oswaldo Guayasamín Documented profile
Oswaldo Guayasamín was born in Quito in 1919 and died in 1999. He trained as a painter and sculptor at the art school in his native city and held his first exhibition in 1942. His ex…
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N° 33 Otto Griebel Documented profile
German painter Otto Griebel (1895–1972) participated in Dresden’s Dada milieu after the First World War. His friendship with the composer Erwin Schulhoff, established in 1919, connec…
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N° 34 Otto von Wätjen Documented profile
The German painter Otto von Wätjen, born in Düsseldorf and deceased in Munich, carried out a significant part of his artistic activity in Paris while remaining connected to Düsseldor…
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N° 35 Ottone Rosai Documented profile
Italian painter (1895–1957), Ottone Rosai is represented at the Museo del Novecento in Milan by “Mulino”, a work listed in the Civiche Raccolte d’Arte and owned by the Municipality o…
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N° 36 Olivier Sery Documented profile
Olivier Séry, a French painter, was born in Le Havre in 1906 and died in 2000. His biography associates him with subjects of wind and rain. It links this reputation to La Bourrasque,…
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N° 37 Opy Zouni Documented profile
Born in Cairo in 1941 and deceased in 2008, Opy Zouni was a Greek artist who lived and worked in Athens from 1963 onwards. According to Artsper, her family roots lie in Crete and San…
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N° 38 Orazio de Ferrari Documented profile
Orazio de Ferrari, born in Voltri in 1606 and deceased in 1657, was a painter of the Genoese Baroque. A pupil of Andrea Ansaldo, he developed religious painting informed by Van Dyck,…
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N° 39 Oscar Saccorotti Documented profile
Oscar Saccorotti (1898–1986), born in Rome and based in Genoa from 1914, develops a practice linking painting, printmaking and the decorative arts. His activities include designs for…
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N° 40 Oskar Moll Documented profile
Oskar Moll (1875–1947), born in Brieg in Silesia, was a German painter of landscapes, portraits and still lifes. He trained with Lovis Corinth and subsequently with Henri Matisse in…
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N° 41 Oswald Oberhuber Documented profile
Oswald Oberhuber (1931–2020), born in Merano and deceased in Vienna, was an Austrian artist who trained in sculpture in Innsbruck. His early Informal works used materials including p…
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N° 42 Oswald Tschirtner Documented profile
Born in Perchtoldsdorf in 1920 and died in Maria Gugging, near Vienna, in 2007, Oswald Tschirtner lived and worked at the Gugging institution. Admitted to the Maria Gugging psychiatr…
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N° 43 Otto Muehl Documented profile
A figure of Viennese Actionism and one of its co-founders, Otto Muehl (1925–2013) developed, between 1962 and 1970, a practice that shifted painting towards gesture, material and act…
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N° 44 Otto Mueller Documented profile
The German painter and lithographer Otto Mueller was born in Liebau in 1874 and died near Breslau in 1930. After training in lithography in Görlitz and studying in Dresden, he moved…
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N° 45 Otto Scholderer Documented profile
Otto Scholderer studied in Frankfurt before encountering French painting in Paris, where he became friends with Henri Fantin-Latour. Based in London from 1871 to 1899, he concentrate…
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N° 46 Otto van Veen Documented profile
A painter and author of emblem books, Otto van Veen, also known as Vaenius, connected Netherlandish humanist culture with Italian art. Born in Leiden, he travelled to Italy and worke…
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N° 47 Ohara Koson Documented profile
Known as Koson, Ohara Matao (1877–1945) devoted much of his print production to kachō-e, the genre of bird-and-flower imagery. He initially worked with publishers Akiyama Buemon and…
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N° 48 Olaf Wieghorst Documented profile
Olaf Wieghorst (1899–1988), born in Viborg, Denmark, emigrated to the United States in 1918. His experience with horses preceded and informed his painting: he served with a mounted c…
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N° 49 Oleksa Hryshchenko Documented profile
Alexis Gritchenko (1883–1977), a painter of Ukrainian origin born in Krolevets, settled in France in 1921 and in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1927. The town provided a home base until 1960. Gar…
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N° 50 Olivier Le May Documented profile
Olivier Le May (1734–1797) was a French painter and draughtsman associated with landscape. Public collections preserve examples of his interest in natural settings and the figures th…
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N° 51 Olle Bærtling Documented profile
Olle Bærtling (1911–1981), a Swedish painter and sculptor who also worked in textile art, worked in several media. The von Bartha gallery describes his works as producing a pronounce…
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N° 52 Olof Arenius Documented profile
Olof Arenius was a Swedish portrait painter born in 1700 who died in Stockholm in 1766. After training with David von Krafft, he continued his studies in the Netherlands and returned…
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N° 53 Olympe Arson Documented profile
Known as Marie Alexandrine Olympe Arson, the artist is said to have been born in 1814 and to have still been alive after 1870. One source describes her as a French flower painter. A…
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N° 54 Omar Onsi Documented profile
Omar Onsi, born in Beirut in 1901 and deceased there in 1969, contributed to the development of modern painting in Lebanon. Trained by Khalil Saleeby, he continued studying in Paris…
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N° 55 Oscar Wergeland Documented profile
Oskar Arnold Wergeland, usually known as Oscar Wergeland, was a Norwegian painter who lived from 1844 to 1910. Trained with Johan Fredrik Eckersberg and subsequently in Copenhagen an…
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N° 56 Otto Altenkirch Documented profile
Otto Altenkirch, born in Ziesar in 1875 and deceased in Siebenlehn in 1945, was a German landscape and theatre painter. After beginning his training in Berlin, he moved to Dresden wi…
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N° 57 Otto Friedrich Documented profile
Otto Friedrich, born in Győr in 1862 and deceased in Vienna in 1937, was an Austrian painter associated with Vienna’s artistic renewal around 1900. He studied at the Vienna Academy b…
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N° 58 Otto Fröhlich Documented profile
Robert Heinrich Otto Fröhlich (1869–1940), painter, book creator, copyist and engraver, trained at the Academy in Weimar from 1887 under Leopold von Kalckreuth and Carl Frithjof Smit…
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N° 59 Otto Günther-Naumburg Documented profile
Otto Günther-Naumburg, a German painter born in 1856 who died in 1941, worked in Berlin and Charlottenburg. His practice combined landscape painting with architectural views. By the…
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N° 60 Otto Gustaf Carlsund Documented profile
His painting initially shows similarities to Léger’s, before quickly being influenced by Ozenfant’s Purism. He exhibits at the Salon des Indépendants from 1927 to 1929. Carlsund is a…
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N° 61 Otto Herbert Hajek Documented profile
Abstract sculptor, painter and graphic artist, Otto Herbert Hajek (1927–2005) developed a body of work that also extends into public space and is particularly visible in Stuttgart, h…
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N° 62 Otto Lendecke Documented profile
Otto Lendecke (1886–1918), an Austrian artist born in Lemberg who died in Vienna, worked as a painter, sculptor and illustrator. After leaving a military career in 1909, he exhibited…
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N° 63 Otto Patzig Documented profile
The German painter and photographer Otto Patzig (1822–1885) is recorded as having been born in Hintergersdorf and having died in Klingenberg am Main. The documented works include por…
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N° 64 Otto Strützel Documented profile
The German landscape and animal painter Otto Strützel makes people and farm animals recurring elements in his landscapes: oxen, horses, ploughmen, shepherds and herds appear in parti…
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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