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N° 1 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° 2 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° 3 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° 4 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° 5 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° 6 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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www.heritage-kbf.be ↗www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk ↗mleuven.prezly.com ↗ -
N° 7 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° 8 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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www.musee-orsay.fr ↗vlaamsekunstcollectie.be ↗fine-arts-museum.be ↗www.getty.edu ↗ -
N° 9 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° 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 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° 12 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° 13 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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emuseum.delart.org ↗online-sammlung.hamburger-kunsthalle.de ↗www.sammlung.pinakothek.de ↗ -
N° 14 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° 15 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° 16 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° 17 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° 18 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° 19 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° 20 Wright Barker Documented profile
Wright Barker was a British painter whose work includes animals, rural scenes and mythological subjects. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1891 and 1938 and lived for a time…
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artuk.org ↗artuk.org ↗artuk.org ↗shop.artuk.org ↗books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ↗ -
N° 21 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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www.galeriearyjan.com ↗fine-arts-museum.be ↗fine-arts-museum.be ↗musee-breton.finistere.fr ↗ -
N° 22 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° 23 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° 24 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° 25 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° 26 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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www.getty.edu ↗www.rijksmuseum.nl ↗www.rijksmuseum.nl ↗assets.amsterdammuseum.nl ↗ -
N° 27 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° 28 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° 29 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° 30 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° 31 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° 32 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° 33 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° 34 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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d-nb.info ↗matrikel.adbk.de ↗st.museum-digital.de ↗images.schulerauktionen.ch ↗ -
N° 35 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° 36 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° 37 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° 38 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° 39 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° 40 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° 41 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° 42 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° 43 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° 44 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° 45 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° 46 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° 47 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° 48 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° 49 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° 50 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° 51 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° 52 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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collection.terraamericanart.org ↗americanart.si.edu ↗www.nga.gov ↗www.nga.gov ↗ -
N° 53 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° 54 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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hk.art.museum ↗www.nationalgallery.sg ↗hk.art.museum ↗www.nationalgallery.sg ↗ -
N° 55 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° 56 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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www.nationalgalleries.org ↗yahcs.york.ac.uk ↗www.yorkartgallery.org.uk ↗www.tate.org.uk ↗ -
N° 57 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° 58 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° 59 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° 60 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° 61 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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N° 62 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° 63 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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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