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Conrad Felixmüller Documented profileGermany
Conrad Felixmüller is a painter whose works often address the social realities of the Weimar Republic. Born in Dresden on 21 May 1897, he died in Berlin-Zehlendorf on 24 March 1977.…
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Carl Hilgers Documented profileCountry to be documented
Carl Hilgers, also written as Karl Hilgers, was a German landscape painter who was born and died in Düsseldorf, in 1818 and 1890. He received his first lessons at the Düsseldorf Acad…
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Alois Binder Documented profileAustria · Germany
Popular genre scenes occupy a central place in Alois Binder’s painting, alongside Bavarian landscapes, scenes in traditional dress, portraits and still lifes. Born in 1857 in Hausman…
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Johann Wilhelm Preyer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Rheydt in 1803 and died in Düsseldorf in 1889, Johann Wilhelm Preyer is described as a painter devoted exclusively to still life. The biographical note describes a meticulous…
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Mirta Cerra Herrera Documented profileCuba
The Cuban artist Mirta Cerra Herrera, born in Bejucal and also known as Mirta Cerra, pursues a practice that combines painting and sculpture with work as an avant-garde designer and…
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Jan Miel Documented profileCountry to be documented
A Flemish painter active in the 17th century, Jan Miel is associated with the Bamboccianti group. Around 1636, he was in contact with Claude Lorrain; in 1640, he entered Andrea Sacch…
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Gustav Wiethüchter Documented profileGermany
The German painter and graphic artist Gustav Wiethüchter (1874–1946) is documented in both practices, at the intersection of painting and graphic art. The works listed by MAGEDA reve…
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Henri Alphonse Barnoin Documented profileFrance
Henri Alphonse Barnoin, a French painter and lithographer born in Paris in 1882, depicts Breton figures in traditional dress, fishermen, port and market scenes, processions, and rock…
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Albert Bredow Documented profileCountry to be documented
Albert Bredow’s career took him through Riga, Moscow and St Petersburg, where he worked as a theatre set designer. He worked in Riga from 1852 to 1855, then travelled to Moscow in 18…
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Victor Gilbert Documented profileFrance
The French painter Victor Gabriel Gilbert, born in Paris in 1847, made his debut at the Salon des artistes français with still lifes. In 1873, he presented Avant le bal and Les apprê…
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Carl Gustav Carus Documented profileCountry to be documented
Carl Gustav Carus (1789–1869), a Saxon physician and painter, brings together artistic practice and reflection on landscape in his career. In Nine Letters on Landscape Painting, publ…
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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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Dieter Schwertberger Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in 1942 in Gresten, Lower Austria, Dieter Schwertberger, who signs his work De Es, first trains as an engineer in Vienna, graduating in 1962, before studying painting with Ernst…
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Jacob Duck Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacob Duck, a Dutch painter said to have lived from 1600 to 1667, is presented as an Utrecht artist who specialised in interiors with soldiers. According to Léonard Pouy’s study, his…
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Marie Joseph Orgiazzi Documented profileFrance
In an auction catalogue, Marie Joseph Orgiazzi is identified as having lived from 1945 to 1998 and is represented by a work entitled « A Federico Lorca ou le sang du poète ». Describ…
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T. Lux Feininger Documented profileGermany · United States
A painter and photographer, T. Lux Feininger pursued an artistic practice shaped by his training at the Bauhaus and by interests that also extended to music and theatre. Born in Berl…
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Bui Xuan Phai Documented profileVietnam
Born in the village of Kim Hoang, in Ha Tay Province, Bui Xuan Phai graduated from the Higher School of Fine Arts of Indochina in 1945. He subsequently taught at the Hanoi School of…
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Bruno Goller Documented profileGermany
The German painter Bruno Goller, born in 1901 and deceased in 1998, is also documented as a teacher at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. Konrad Klapheck attended his drawing class…
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Salomon Rombouts Documented profileCountry to be documented
A landscape painter associated with Haarlem, Salomon Rombouts trained with his father, Gillis Rombouts, who was also a painter. He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke…
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Odilon Roche Documented profileFrance
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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Tran Phuc Duyen Documented profileFrance · Vietnam
Trần Phúc Duyên (1923–1993), a Vietnamese artist born in Hanoi, worked as a lacquer artist in Hanoi; his studio received private commissions. Views of Vietnam occupy an important pla…
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Max Schoendorff Documented profileFrance
A painter, printmaker, illustrator and stage designer, as well as an author and publisher, Max Schoendorff works across the visual arts, publishing and performance. Born and died in…
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Georges Roudneff Documented profileGermany · France
Born in 1933 in Faymoreau, in the Vendée, Georges Roudneff spends his childhood in Nice, in a family in which his mother was Ukrainian and his father came from an old Russian family,…
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Franz Skarbina Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter Franz Skarbina (1849–1910), born and deceased in Berlin, developed his career within the capital’s artistic life, combining artistic practice, teaching and collect…
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Adriaen van Ostade Documented profileCountry to be documented
Tavern scenes and depictions of peasant life recur in the work of Adriaen van Ostade. The view of peasants’ leisure activities evolves: the early scenes emphasise excessive behaviour…
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Heinrich Vogeler Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter and printmaker Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942) developed a practice that brought painting and printmaking together with the design of interiors and the objects within…
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Rebecca Horn Documented profileGermany
Rebecca Horn’s work engages the body and movement through devices that transform gesture and explore its automation. In Pencil Mask (1972), a mask made of leather straps and fitted w…
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Blinky Palermo Documented profileGermany
The German artist Blinky Palermo was the artistic name of Peter Schwarze, who became Peter Heisterkamp after his adoption. Born in Leipzig on 2 June 1943, he died in Malé on 18 Febru…
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Stanisław Stückgold Documented profilePoland
Stanisław Stückgold, also known as Stanislaus or Stanislas Stückgold, was a painter born in 1868 and died in 1933. Before devoting himself to painting, he studied at the Polytechniku…
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Marcel Leprin Documented profileFrance
From 1926, his travels through the French countryside gave rise to a body of landscapes and urban views. Meaux and Avallon are among the places mentioned, followed in 1927 by Poitier…
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Adolf Chwala Documented profileCountry to be documented
Presented as a Czech painter who lived from 1836 to 1900, Adolf Chwala is listed in a catalogue by Dobiaschofsky Auktionen AG in connection with a work recorded under his name. Entit…
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Michele Cascella Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter, watercolourist and pastellist Michele Cascella was born on 7 September 1892 in Ortona a Mare and died in Milan in 1989. He was the son of Basilio Cascella and th…
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Dirck Hals Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter from the United Provinces Dirck Hals is best known for his genre scenes. Born in Haarlem in 1591 and dying in the same city in 1656, he developed a body of work who…
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Arcangelo Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter and sculptor Esposito Arcangelo, known as Arcangelo, was born in Avellino in 1956. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 1976 and graduated there in…
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Francisco Bores Documented profileSpain
Born in Madrid in 1898 and died in Paris in 1972, Francisco Bores was a Spanish painter whose career unfolded between these two cities. In 1916, he entered the academy of Cecilio Pla…
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Otto Ritschl Documented profileGermany
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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Marcel Wibault Documented profileFrance
Marcel Wibault’s painting spans several fields: alpine landscapes, the work on the Mont Blanc Tunnel, rocks and, later, portraits of children and scenes of everyday life. Born in Bes…
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Henri-Edmond Cross Documented profileFrance
Henri-Edmond Cross, the artist name of Henri Edmond Joseph Delacroix, was born in Douai in 1856 and died in Le Lavandou in 1910. He trained in Lille with Carolus-Duran and Alphonse C…
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Nathalie Chabrier Documented profileFrance
The French painter, lithographer and illustrator Nathalie Chabrier, born in Paris in 1932, initially works in stained glass, tapestry, ceramics and mural painting. This practice acro…
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Georges Trincot Documented profileCountry to be documented
The horse has been part of his imagination since childhood. After the death of his parents, he and his brother are taken in in Switzerland by an uncle who is a horseman and owns a ri…
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Georg Breitwieser Documented profileCountry to be documented
German painter and printmaker Georg Breitwieser was born in 1890 in Langstadt, near Dieburg, and died in 1938 in Darmstadt. He first trained as a glass painter, then studied with Ado…
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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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Guglielmo Giusti Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Guglielmo Giusti, born in Naples in 1824, is associated with the Neapolitan school and described as a pupil of Théodore Duclère. A notice reports that he took par…
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Ina Barfuss Documented profileGermany
Born in 1949, Ina Barfuss is presented as a German textile artist. Her name also appears in the spelling Ina Barfuß. The reverse of Tanzsaal bears the inscription “Barfuss, 81, Tanzs…
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Jan Baptist Lambrechts Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter Jan Baptist Lambrechts, born in Antwerp in 1680, is associated with genre painting, particularly tavern scenes and festive gatherings. His half-brother Jeroom hel…
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Carlo Mense Documented profileGermany
The German painter Carlo Mense, born in Rheine in 1886 and died in Königswinter in 1965, is also described as a draughtsman and printmaker. After studying at the Düsseldorf Academy o…
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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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Douglas Swan Documented profileUnited States
Born in New Britain, Connecticut, Douglas Litterick Swan (1930–2000) was an American artist whose education took place mainly in Scotland, before continuing in London and Italy. His…
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Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem Documented profileCountry to be documented
Alongside Jan Both and Jan Asselijn, Nicolaes Berchem is associated with the second generation of Dutch Italianate landscape painters. He created idealised landscapes in which figure…
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Documented profileCountry to be documented
The career of Giambattista Tiepolo, a Venetian painter whose practice extended from altarpiece painting to large decorative schemes, is documented in Venice’s painters’ guild from 17…
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Countries reflect citizenships recorded in the source and may be incomplete. Reference profiles open the indicated source and do not imply that works are available at the gallery.
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