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N° 1 Wilhelm Kuhnert Documented profile
Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert placed animals within living environments rather than treating them as an isolated repertoire of forms. The German painter and illustrator attached particul…
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N° 2 Wassily Kandinsky Documented profile
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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N° 3 Wifredo Lam Documented profile
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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N° 4 Willi Baumeister Documented profile
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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N° 5 Walter Ophey Documented profile
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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N° 6 Willy Moralt Documented profile
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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N° 7 Wilhelm Velten Documented profile
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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N° 8 Walter Hagen Documented profile
Walter Hagen (1928–1980), born in Regensburg and deceased in Hemau, was a German painter, graphic artist and restorer. After completing a craft apprenticeship in painting and gaining…
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N° 9 Willem van Mieris Documented profile
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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N° 10 Werner Scholz Documented profile
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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N° 11 Willem van de Velde the Younger Documented profile
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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N° 12 Willy Eisenschitz Documented profile
Willy Eisenschitz (1889–1974), born in Vienna, continued his artistic training at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. There he met the painter Claire Bertrand, who became h…
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N° 13 Walter Jacob Documented profile
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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N° 14 Walter Leistikow Documented profile
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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N° 15 Wilhelm Leibl Documented profile
Wilhelm Leibl was a German painter and printmaker associated with realism. He trained at the Munich Academy, encountered Courbet’s painting and travelled to Paris in 1869. His move t…
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N° 16 Willi Sitte Documented profile
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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N° 17 Walasse Ting Documented profile
Walasse Ting, also known as Ding Xiongquan, developed his career between China, Paris, New York and Amsterdam. After Hong Kong, he arrived in Paris in 1953, according to the Musée Ce…
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N° 18 Walter Dahn Documented profile
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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N° 19 Walter Dexel Documented profile
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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N° 20 Walter Sickert Documented profile
Walter Sickert (1860–1942) renewed British figurative painting through his attention to urban life and ordinary situations. A pupil of Whistler in London and a friend of Degas and se…
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N° 21 Werner Büttner Documented profile
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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N° 22 Werner Berges Documented profile
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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N° 23 William Callow Documented profile
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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N° 24 Walter Pichler Documented profile
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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N° 25 Wilhelm Amandus Beer Documented profile
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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N° 26 Wilhelm Hempfing Documented profile
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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N° 27 Wilhelm Trübner Documented profile
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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N° 28 Willem Kalf Documented profile
Willem Kalf (1619–1693), originally from Rotterdam, spent time in Paris before returning to the Dutch Republic. He settled in Amsterdam in 1653. His early works depict kitchens and r…
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N° 29 Wout Vercammen Documented profile
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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N° 30 Wouterus Verschuur Documented profile
Wouterus Verschuur was born in Amsterdam in 1812 and died in Vorden in 1874. An animal and landscape painter, draughtsman and lithographer, he trained with Pieter Gerardus van Os and…
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N° 31 Wajih Nahlé Documented profile
Wajih Nahlé (1932–2017), a Lebanese painter, calligrapher and sculptor, studied in Moustafa Farroukh’s studio. The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts lists his Dervishes of 1980, a…
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N° 32 Walter Leblanc Documented profile
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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N° 33 Walter Schmögner Documented profile
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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N° 34 Wilhelm Brücke Documented profile
Wilhelm Brücke (1800–1874), also known as Johann Wilhelm Brücke, was a German painter trained at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. The son of a goldsmith, he pursued an artistic caree…
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N° 35 Wilhelm Imkamp Documented profile
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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N° 36 Wilhelm Theodor Nocken Documented profile
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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N° 37 Wilhelm von Kobell Documented profile
Wilhelm von Kobell (1766–1853), born in Mannheim, came from a family of painters and trained under his father Ferdinand. Settling in Munich during the 1790s, he studied Upper Bavaria…
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N° 38 Willem de Klerk Documented profile
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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N° 39 Willem Roelofs Documented profile
Willem Roelofs connects Romantic landscape with the investigations of the Hague School. In 1841 he travelled along the Rhine with his teacher Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen; visits t…
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N° 40 William Charles Thomas Dobson Documented profile
William Charles Thomas Dobson (1817–1898), born in Hamburg, studied with Charles Eastlake at the Royal Academy. Journeys to Italy and Germany drew him towards Nazarene religious pain…
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N° 41 William Nichols Documented profile
William Nichols approaches landscape at close range. His large paintings place the viewer within gardens and woodland, where layers of transparent glaze develop colour and texture. T…
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N° 42 Wu Guanzhong Documented profile
Wu Guanzhong (1919–2010) studied in Hangzhou with Lin Fengmian and Pan Tianshou before continuing his education in France. Returning to China in 1950, he explored connections between…
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N° 43 Walter Sauer Documented profile
Walter Sauer (1889–1927), a Belgian painter and draughtsman, trained in Brussels under Constant Montald. His knowledge of Japanese prints accompanied a decorative approach in which t…
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N° 44 Werner Gilles Documented profile
Werner Gilles (1894–1961), born in Rheydt and deceased in Essen, was a German painter and draughtsman. After studying in Kassel and Weimar, he attended the Bauhaus, where he worked w…
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N° 45 Werner Heldt Documented profile
Werner Heldt (1904–1954), born in Berlin, made his native city a central subject of his paintings and drawings. He attended the school of applied arts before studying at the Hochschu…
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N° 46 Wilhelm Busch Documented profile
Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908), born in Wiedensahl, abandoned mechanical engineering studies to train at the academies of Düsseldorf, Antwerp and Munich. From 1858 he contributed to Flieg…
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N° 47 Wilhelm Morgner Documented profile
The German painter and graphic artist Wilhelm Morgner, associated with Expressionism, was born in Soest, Westphalia, on 27 January 1891 and died in combat at Langemark, West Flanders…
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N° 48 Wilhelm Wessel Documented profile
Wilhelm Wessel (1904–1971), born in Iserlohn, studied in Berlin under César Klein and Karl Hofer. A teacher before becoming an independent artist after the war, he was married to the…
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N° 49 Willem Bodemann Documented profile
Willem Bodemann, generally named Willem Bodeman in Dutch collections, was born in Amsterdam in 1806 and died in Bussum in 1880. The first pupil of Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, he travel…
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N° 50 Willem Key Documented profile
Willem Key was a portraitist and painter of religious subjects active in sixteenth-century Antwerp. Trained under Pieter Coecke and Lambert Lombard, he brought these two fields toget…
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N° 51 William-Adolphe Bouguereau Documented profile
William Bouguereau, who was born in La Rochelle in 1825 and died there in 1905, was a French painter trained in the academic tradition. A student of François-Édouard Picot at the Éco…
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N° 52 William Aiken Walker Documented profile
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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N° 53 William Didier-Pouget Documented profile
Heather, heathland and changing light provide several connecting threads through the work of William Didier-Pouget. His titles themselves evoke moonrise, morning mist and twilight. T…
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N° 54 William Etty Documented profile
William Etty, born in York in 1787, who died in 1849, trained at the Royal Academy Schools in London. John Opie’s lectures encouraged his interest in history painting and the example…
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N° 55 William James Müller Documented profile
William James Müller (1812–1845), trained in Bristol, drew on travel for landscapes and figure studies. Journeys through Europe, followed by Greece, Egypt and Turkey, enlarged his re…
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N° 56 William Russell Flint Documented profile
William Russell Flint (1880–1969), born in Edinburgh, began as an apprentice lithographer. Moving to London in 1900, he worked in medical illustration and subsequently for magazines.…
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N° 57 Winfred Gaul Documented profile
Winfred Gaul (1928–2003), born in Düsseldorf, studied with Willi Baumeister and Manfred Henninger at Stuttgart’s academy from 1950 to 1953. He joined Gruppe 53 in 1955 and participat…
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N° 58 Wolf Kahn Documented profile
Wolf Kahn (1927–2020), born in Stuttgart, left Germany as a child, reached England and joined his family in New York in 1940. After studying with Stuart Davis and Hans Hofmann, becom…
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N° 59 Wosene Worke Kosrof Documented profile
Wosene Worke Kosrof, born in Addis Ababa in 1950, trained at his city’s fine arts school and earned an MFA at Howard University in 1980. His work centres on characters from Amharic s…
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N° 60 Walter Gramatté Documented profile
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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N° 61 Walter Spitzer Documented profile
Walter Spitzer (1927–2021) was a painter, printmaker and sculptor born in Cieszyn, Poland, who settled in France. Deported as a teenager to Blechhammer and subsequently transferred t…
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N° 62 Wilhelm Wieger Documented profile
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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N° 63 Willem Frederiksz van Royen Documented profile
Willem Frederiksz van Royen, a Dutch painter who died in 1723, spent most of his career in Brandenburg. He trained with Arnold van Ravesteyn in The Hague between 1661 and 1668 before…
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N° 64 Willem van Aelst Documented profile
Willem van Aelst (1627–1683) was a Dutch painter specialising in still life. Raised in Delft, he trained with his uncle Evert van Aelst and joined the Guild of Saint Luke in 1643. He…
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N° 65 William Gear Documented profile
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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N° 66 William Stanley Haseltine Documented profile
William Stanley Haseltine trained with Paul Weber in Philadelphia before developing a landscape career divided between the United States and Europe. His views of the New England coas…
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N° 67 Willy Hamacher Documented profile
Willy Hamacher (1865–1909) was a German painter born in Breslau, now Wrocław, who specialised in coastal landscapes. He studied under Carl Cowen Schirm, then Eugen Dücker at the Düss…
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N° 68 Willy Schlobach Documented profile
Willy Schlobach, born in Brussels and deceased in Nonnenhorn in 1951, was a painter associated with Belgian artistic life. Close to James Ensor, he developed a particular interest in…
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N° 69 Władysław Jackiewicz Documented profile
Władysław Jackiewicz, born in 1924 and deceased in 2016, was a Polish painter closely associated with Gdańsk. He studied under Artur Nacht-Samborski, graduated in 1952 and became an…
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N° 70 Woldemar Hottenroth Documented profile
Woldemar Hottenroth (1802–1894), born in Blasewitz near Dresden, trained at the city’s academy under Johann Friedrich Matthaei and Ferdinand Hartmann. A scholarship enabled him to tr…
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N° 71 Wolfgang Mattheuer Documented profile
Wolfgang Mattheuer (1927–2004), born in Reichenbach in the Vogtland, first trained in lithography before studying in Leipzig from 1946 to 1951. He taught at the Hochschule für Grafik…
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N° 72 Walala Tjapaltjarri Documented profile
A Pintupi artist from Australia's Western Desert, Walala Tjapaltjarri grew up in a nomadic family group before joining the community of Kiwirrkurra in 1984. Encouraged by his brother…
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N° 73 Walt Disney Documented profile
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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N° 74 Walter Uhl Documented profile
Walter Uhl (1907–1990) is documented by La route blanche, an oil painting on panel, signed and dated 1969, measuring 66 × 82 cm. The work is listed as lot 1139 in the Piguet sale of…
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N° 75 Walter Wörn Documented profile
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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N° 76 Walther Bötticher Documented profile
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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N° 77 Werner Berg Documented profile
Werner Berg (1904–1981), born in Elberfeld, abandoned an initial commercial and academic path to devote himself to painting. After studying art in Vienna and Munich, he settled in 19…
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N° 78 Werner Drewes Documented profile
Werner Drewes (1899–1985), born in Germany and resident in the United States from 1930, developed a practice as a painter and printmaker. His Bauhaus training brought him into contac…
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N° 79 Werner Schramm Documented profile
The German painter Werner Schramm, born in Duisburg in 1898 and died in Düsseldorf in 1970, was mobilised as a medical orderly during the final months of the First World War. From 19…
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N° 80 Werner Tübke Documented profile
Werner Tübke (1929–2004) studied in Leipzig and subsequently in Greifswald. He developed a figurative art informed by the Italian Renaissance. His compositions gather numerous figure…
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N° 81 Wilhelm Gallhof Documented profile
Wilhelm Gallhof (1878–1918), from Iserlohn, worked in painting and printmaking. The register of Munich’s Academy of Fine Arts records his enrolment on 22 October 1900, aged twenty-tw…
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N° 82 Wilhelm Grögler Documented profile
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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N° 83 Wilhelm Hensel Documented profile
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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N° 84 Wilhelm Kray Documented profile
Wilhelm Kray (Berlin, 1828 – Munich, 1889) was a German painter of portraits, genre scenes and marine subjects. After working as a goldsmith, he began studying at the Berlin Academy…
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N° 85 Wilhelm Laage Documented profile
Wilhelm Laage, born in Stellingen in 1868, trained in Hamburg and then Karlsruhe with Alfred Lichtwark's support. He subsequently followed his teacher Leopold von Kalckreuth to Stutt…
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N° 86 Wilhelm Sasnal Documented profile
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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N° 87 Wilhelm Thöny Documented profile
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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N° 88 Wilhelm Volz Documented profile
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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N° 89 William Edward Norton Documented profile
William Edward Norton, born in Boston in 1843, built his artistic career around an early experience of the sea. Childhood excursions along the American East Coast and subsequent sea…
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N° 90 William Fleming Vallance Documented profile
William Fleming Vallance, born in Paisley in 1827 and deceased in 1904, was a Scottish painter particularly associated with maritime subjects. He trained at the Trustees School under…
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N° 91 William Hoggatt Documented profile
William Hoggatt (1880–1961) was born in Lancaster, where he worked for a stained-glass maker and attended the Storey Institute’s art school. He later settled on the Isle of Man, livi…
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N° 92 William Kentridge Documented profile
William Kentridge, born in Johannesburg in 1955, develops a practice in which drawing, cinema and theatre continually inform one another. His animation technique uses charcoal drawin…
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N° 93 William Lionel Wyllie Documented profile
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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N° 94 William Tomkins Documented profile
William Tomkins was an eighteenth-century British painter who died in London in 1792. He exhibited at the Free Society of Artists from 1761, and subsequently at the Society of Artist…
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N° 95 William Trost Richards Documented profile
William Trost Richards (1833–1905), born in Philadelphia and deceased in Newport, was an American landscape and marine painter. Associated with the Hudson River School and the Americ…
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N° 96 William Turner Dannat Documented profile
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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N° 97 Willy Herrmann Documented profile
Willy Herrmann (1895–1963), born in Berlin-Spandau, maintained strong ties to Berlin throughout his life. After serving in the First World War, he returned to Berlin in 1919 and sett…
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N° 98 Willy Stieborsky Documented profile
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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N° 99 Winston Churchill Documented profile
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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N° 100 Wojciech Sadley Documented profile
Wojciech Sadley, born in Lublin in 1932 and deceased in 2023, was a Polish artist working across painting and textile art. Following musical studies, he trained in interior architect…
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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