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Walt Disney Documented profileUnited States
American producer, director, screenwriter, actor and animator Walter Elias Disney — known as Walt Disney — initially develops his work around drawing and animated films before expand…
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Walter Dahn Documented profileGermany
German artist Walter Dahn, born in 1954 and deceased in 2024, developed a practice that gives particular importance to drawing, photography, video and Super 8 films. From 1971 to 197…
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Walter Dexel Documented profileGermany
Walter Dexel (1890–1973) was a German painter, graphic artist and designer. Titled «Wasserfall», this oil on board is dated 1913 and measures 39.4 × 29.9 cm; the entry notes the sign…
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Walter Gramatté Documented profileGermany
Walter Gramatté, a German painter and printmaker born in Berlin in 1897 and died in Hamburg in 1929, fought in the First World War. His artistic career unfolded over a short life, wi…
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Walter Jacob Documented profileGermany
Walter Jacob (1893–1964), born in Altenburg under the name Walter Friedrich Richard Jacob, began exhibiting in 1912 at the Beyer & Sohn gallery in Leipzig. Max Klinger acquired one o…
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Walter Leblanc Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian artist Walter Leblanc, born in Antwerp in 1932 and deceased in Silly in 1986, developed a body of work in which material and torsion became essential means of renewing pa…
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Walter Leistikow Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German artist Walter Leistikow, born in 1865 and deceased in 1908, was among the pupils of the painter Hans Fredrik Gude. This information documents one aspect of his training, b…
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Walter Ophey Documented profileGermany
The German painter and graphic artist Walter Hugo Ophey took part in founding the Sonderbund in 1909, as part of a group of painters from Düsseldorf that included Julius Bretz, Max C…
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Walter Pichler Documented profileAustria
The Austrian artist Walter Pichler (1936–2012) places drawing at the foundation of his work, while also attaching major importance to space and the nature of sculpture. This interpla…
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Walter Schmögner Documented profileAustria
Born in 1943, Walter Schmögner is an Austrian painter and sculptor. Among the documented works is the watercolour « Aufgeklapptes Brotbuch mit Strickzeug », signed and dated 1973, me…
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Walter Wörn Documented profileGermany
Born in Stuttgart in 1901 and deceased in that city in 1963, Walter Wörn is cited in a biography of Wilhelm Adolf Geyer among the artist friends from his student years. The same sour…
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Walther Bötticher Documented profileCountry to be documented
Walther Bötticher belongs to German Expressionism, and his work is distinguished by a relationship with nature in which sensitive observation accords with a decorative conception of…
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Wassily Kandinsky Documented profileGermany · France
In the work of Vassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), colour and form are conceived as means of expression capable of acting directly on the viewer. His early musical training informs an app…
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Werner Berges Documented profileGermany
German painter Werner Berges, born in Cloppenburg in 1941, is presented by Galerie Foxx as one of the representatives of German Pop Art. According to the gallery, the figure of the “…
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Werner Büttner Documented profileGermany
German painter Werner Büttner, born in 1954, also works in sculpture and songwriting; his work is described as suffused with humour, lucidity and poetry. His references include liter…
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Werner Scholz Documented profileAustria · Germany
Werner Scholz’s career is marked by his beginnings in Berlin: he studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts in 1919 and 1920, then founded a studio there in 1920. In 1937,…
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Wifredo Lam Documented profileCuba · France
Wifredo Lam’s painting brings together Cubist forms and Surrealist ideas with a long-standing interest in the symbolism of Cuban Santería, a religion combining elements of Catholicis…
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Wilhelm Amandus Beer Documented profileGermany
Wilhelm Amandus Beer (1837–1907), a German painter, is associated with the depiction of scenes from Russian folk life. His preference for these subjects is said to have earned him th…
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Wilhelm Grögler Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter and illustrator Wilhelm Grögler was born in 1839 in Uherské Hradiště and died in Munich in 1897. Based in Munich, he was not enrolled at the city’s Academy; little…
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Wilhelm Hempfing Documented profileGermany
The German painter Wilhelm Hempfing, born in Schönau in 1886 and deceased in Karlsruhe in 1948, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Friedrich Fehr. He also learned…
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Wilhelm Hensel Documented profileCountry to be documented
Wilhelm Hensel (1794–1861), a Prussian portrait painter and engraver, was born in Trebbin and died in Berlin. His training began in Berlin: he enrolled at the Academy of Architecture…
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Wilhelm Imkamp Documented profileGermany
Abstract painting is at the heart of Wilhelm Imkamp’s work: shaped by his impressions of nature and by music, it seeks, according to the biographical source, to offer the eye an expe…
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Wilhelm Sasnal Documented profilePoland
Born in 1972 in Tarnów, Poland, Wilhelm Sasnal is a Polish artist whose practice spans painting, photography, posters, illustration and film. In his paintings, photographic images dr…
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Wilhelm Theodor Nocken Documented profileGermany
Wilhelm Theodor Nocken (1830–1905), a German artist born and deceased in Düsseldorf, trained in the city before working there as a landscape painter. While still an apprentice house…
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Wilhelm Thöny Documented profileAustria
Wilhelm Thöny, an Austrian painter, was born in Graz in 1888 and died in New York in 1949. A watercolour on paper entitled “Springbrunnen in Paris” is dated 1937. The sale catalogue…
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Wilhelm Trübner Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German artist Wilhelm Trübner, who lived from 1851 to 1917, is represented here, among other works, by Bildnis Fräulein St., an oil-on-canvas portrait dated around 1910. Measurin…
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Wilhelm Velten Documented profileGermany
The Russian-German genre painter Wilhelm Velten was born in Saint Petersburg in 1847 and died in Munich in 1929. He began studying at the Academy of Munich in 1869 and became a pupil…
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Wilhelm Volz Documented profileGermany
The German painter and lithographer Wilhelm Volz (1855–1901) is also listed as a painter of historical, genre and landscape scenes, as well as an illustrator and etcher. These detail…
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Wilhelm Wieger Documented profileGermany
The German painter and graphic artist Wilhelm Wieger, also known as Will Wieger, was born on 2 May 1890 in Hardegsen, in what is now the Landkreis Northeim. He lived in Sweden from 1…
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Willem de Klerk Documented profileNetherlands
Presented as a Dutch painter, Willem de Klerk is stated to have lived from 1800 to 1876. Sale listings attribute two winter landscapes to him: a watercolour with a cart, and a compos…
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Willem van de Velde the Younger Documented profileCountry to be documented
Willem van de Velde the Younger, a marine painter born in Leiden in December 1633 and who died in London in 1707, is associated first with calm maritime scenes and later with battle…
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Willem van Mieris Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter Willem van Mieris, born in 1662 and died in 1747, is represented here by a composition devoted to the story of Joseph. The painting, executed in oil on wood and mea…
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Willi Baumeister Documented profileGermany
Willi Baumeister (1889–1955), a German artist born and deceased in Stuttgart, developed a practice encompassing painting, typography and theatre sets. Trained at the Royal Academy of…
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Willi Sitte Documented profileGermany · Germany
The German painter Willi Sitte, born in 1921 in Kratzau (now Chrastava), grew up in a Czech family whose father was of German origin. In 1944, while serving in the Wehrmacht in Italy…
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William Aiken Walker Documented profileUnited States
The American painter William Aiken Walker, who died in 1921, is particularly associated with scenes of the lives of the rural Black population on plantations. The entry describing th…
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William Callow Documented profileCountry to be documented
William Callow went to Paris in 1829 to work as an engraver alongside Charles Bentley. During this Parisian period, he also exhibited a watercolour of Richmond Hill at the Paris Salo…
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William Gear Documented profileUnited Kingdom
The Germann Auktionshaus catalogue documents Winter Hedgerow, dated 1951: an oil painting on canvas measuring 995 × 807 mm, signed and dated, and also titled on the reverse. The work…
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William Lionel Wyllie Documented profileUnited Kingdom
The English painter of maritime subjects William Lionel Wyllie (1851–1931) is documented as depicting boats, shores and the people who frequent them. Born in Camden Town, London, he…
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William Turner Dannat Documented profileUnited States
William Turner Dannat (1853–1929), also known as William T. Dannat and William Turner Dannatt, is documented by works ranging from preparatory studies to portrait painting. The Art I…
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Willy Moralt Documented profileGermany
Wilhelm Karl Paul Moralt (1884–1947), known as Willy Moralt, was a German genre and landscape painter. Beginning in 1903, he studied at the Munich Academy under Karl Raupp. An auctio…
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Willy Stieborsky Documented profileAustria
Georg Willy Stieborsky, known as Willy Stieborsky, was an Austrian painter, draughtsman and stage designer, born in Vienna in 1881 and died in 1966. Trained at the Academy of Vienna,…
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Winston Churchill Documented profileUnited Kingdom
For Winston Churchill (1874–1965), the British statesman, painting is presented as his principal leisure pursuit; the available information does not allow his artistic practice to be…
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Wout Vercammen Documented profileBelgium
Wout Vercammen (1938–2018) is identified as an artist in the available documents. The Maurice Verbaet Center includes him in its selection of artists. A work attributed to Vercammen,…
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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