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Alessio Issupoff Documented profileItaly
The Russian painter Alessio Issupoff, born in 1889 and deceased in 1957, is also known as Aleksei Vladimirovich Issupoff and Alessio Isupov. These variants accompany a career that Pi…
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Charles François Nivard Documented profileFrance
The French painter Charles-François Nivard, born in Nancy in 1739 and deceased in Versailles in 1821, explored several areas of landscape painting: the countryside, village scenes, a…
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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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Balthasar van der Ast Documented profileCountry to be documented
A painter of still lifes of flowers, fruit and shells, Balthasar van der Ast often populates his compositions with insects and lizards. The treatment of the surfaces is described as…
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Johann Jakob Serr Documented profileGermany
A portrait painter, but also a poet and musician, Johann Jakob Serr (1807–1880) is presented as a German artist born in Rhodt, in the Palatinate, and who died in Heidelberg. In Herbs…
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Anthony Law Documented profileCanada
Listed as a Canadian painter, Anthony Law (1916–1996), also known as C. Anthony Law, Charles Anthony Francis Law or Tony Law, was an official war artist for the Royal Canadian Navy d…
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Thomas Rowlandson Documented profileCountry to be documented
Thomas Rowlandson turns satirical printmaking into a space for observing social life: less concerned with politics than James Gillray, he depicts its aspects and incidents in a manne…
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Abraham Neumann Documented profilePoland
The Polish painter Abraham Neumann, born in Sierpc in 1873 and deceased in 1942, developed a body of work whose subjects and techniques reflect a varied practice. After 1911, his pai…
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Jan Thorn Prikker Documented profileNetherlands
The Dutch artist Jan Thorn Prikker, also known as Johan Thorn Prikker, Jan Thorn-Prikker, Johan Thorn-Prikker and J. Thorn Prikker, teaches Heinrich Campendonk at the School of Appli…
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Albert Ebert Documented profileGermany · Germany
The German painter Albert Ebert, born in 1906 and died in 1976, is represented here by Karneval, an oil painting on wood dated 1959. The small-format panel measures 9.2 × 6.9 cm and…
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Hiroshi Sugito Documented profileJapan
Born in Nagoya in 1970, Hiroshi Sugito is a Japanese painter who graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in 1993. The source also describes him as a former…
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Giuseppe Cesetti Documented profileItaly
Giuseppe Cesetti (1902–1990) was an Italian painter. A pair of oil paintings on canvas titled “Wild Horses”, each signed and measuring 67.5 × 67.5 cm, bears a label from the Galleria…
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Marcel Broodthaers Documented profileBelgium
Belgian visual artist Marcel Broodthaers, born in 1924 and died in 1976, initially devoted a significant part of his life to poetry: he worked mainly as a poet until 1963, before tur…
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Hans Thiemann Documented profileGermany
The German painter Hans Thiemann, born in 1910 and died in 1977, becomes a professor at the Hamburg School of Fine Arts. An auction catalogue documents an untitled work from 1933, oi…
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Almir Mavignier Documented profileBrazil
Almir Mavignier, also known as Almir da Silva Mavignier, was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1925 and died in Hamburg in 2018. He is associated with Concrete Art and Op Art. Painting, poin…
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Jutta Koether Documented profileGermany
Jutta Koether, a German painter, musician, theorist and critic born in Cologne in 1958, lives and works between Berlin and New York. In the early 1980s, she became involved in Cologn…
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Endre Tót Documented profileHungary
Born in Sümeg in 1937, the Hungarian artist Endre Tót moves from painting to a conceptual practice using a variety of forms and media, from artist’s books to actions. After studying…
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Alan Green Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Born in London in 1932 and deceased in 2003, Alan Green was a British artist whose practice encompassed painting, illustration and printmaking. He studied at the Beckenham School of…
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Frans Francken I Documented profileCountry to be documented
Frans Francken I, also known as Frans Francken the Elder, was a Flemish painter born in 1542 and died in 1616. The father of Frans II, known as the Younger, he is often confused with…
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Rafael de Ochoa Madrazo Documented profileSpain
Rafael de Ochoa y Madrazo, also referred to as Rafael de Ochoa Madrazo and Rafael De Ochoa y Madrazo, is associated with two posters listed under the titles “France / Turquie” and “P…
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Frank Moss Bennett Documented profileUnited Kingdom
The British painter Frank Moss Bennett, born in Liverpool in 1874, worked in portraiture as well as historical scenes and architectural subjects. He studied at the Slade School of Fi…
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Pierre II Mignard Documented profileFrance
The French painter and architect Pierre II Mignard, known as the Chevalier Mignard, belonged to a family of artists. Born in Avignon in 1640, he was the eldest son of Nicolas Mignard…
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Alexander Kanoldt Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter Alexander Kanoldt, born in Karlsruhe in 1881 and died in Berlin in 1939, combined magical realism with still lifes of ordinary objects in the early 1920s; he also…
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Louis Tinayre Documented profileFrance
The career of Louis Tinayre brings together drawings and photographs made on expeditions, large-scale panoramic displays and mural painting. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 14 March 186…
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Augustin Fils Documented profileCountry to be documented
A painter and miniaturist as well as an aeronaut, Augustin fils pursued two distinct practices in parallel: his miniatures were based on silhouettes painted in watercolour, cut out a…
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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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Lavinia Fontana Documented profileItaly
Lavinia Fontana, a painter born in Bologna in 1552 and who died in Rome in 1614, also known as Lavinia Zappi, pursued a practice that combined portraiture with religious painting. In…
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Tom Christopher Documented profileUnited States
The American artist Tom Christopher, born in 1952, is represented here by Messenger at Park, an acrylic on canvas dated 2000 and measuring 61.5 × 101.5 cm. The painting bears the sig…
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Pier Leone Ghezzi Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter, draughtsman and caricaturist Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674–1755), active mainly in Rome, combined decorative and religious painting with the production of caricatures,…
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Henri Mège Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Romans, in the Drôme department, in 1904, Henri Mège died in Chambéry in 1984. He learned to paint from his mother, Isabelle Mège, who was also a painter. Pursuing a military…
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Peter Spens Documented profileCountry to be documented
Peter Spens (born in 1961) is the artist of Night Games, Beach Volleyball, an oil painting on panel dated 2016. The work’s description states that it is signed, dated and inscribed “…
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Richard Hambleton Documented profileCanada · United States
The Canadian painter and graffiti artist Richard Hambleton, associated with street art, conceived of his work as a conceptual practice carried out both in public space and for galler…
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Lucio Muñoz Documented profileSpain
The Spanish painter Lucio Muñoz Martínez (1929–1998), born and deceased in Madrid, worked with burnt paper, wood and canvas. Perforations, tears, folds and incisions were among the w…
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Surendran Nair Documented profileIndia
Indian artist Surendran Nair, born in 1956 in Kerala, in southern India, studies painting at the School of Fine Arts in Trivandrum, then pursues postgraduate studies at the Faculty o…
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Charles-Antoine Coypel Documented profileFrance
A painter, playwright and art critic, Charles Antoine Coypel — also known as Charles Coypel — belonged to a family of Parisian painters: he was the son of Antoine Coypel and the gran…
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Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim Documented profileCountry to be documented
Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim, generally known as Eduard Meyerheim, was a Prussian painter born in Danzig in 1808 and died in Berlin in 1879. He received his first lessons from his fath…
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Abel Lauvray Documented profileFrance
After studying law at his family’s request, Abel Lauvray enrolled at Cormon’s studio in Paris. In 1893, he accompanied Claude Monet on the Seine aboard his studio boat, which the pai…
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Jan Meerhout Documented profileCountry to be documented
Known by several forms of his name, including Johan Meerhoud and Jan Meerhoud, Jan Meerhout is presented as a Dutch painter; one source also describes him as a draughtsman. His activ…
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Luis Tomasello Documented profileArgentina
Luis Tomasello’s research focuses on the effects of reflected light: in his Atmosphères chromoplastiques, white cubes arranged on a white ground set the colours of shadow and light i…
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Giovanni Battista Vanni Documented profileCountry to be documented
Giovan Battista Vanni trained under Aurelio Lomi, Matteo Rosselli, Jacopo da Empoli, Cristofano Allori and Giulio Parigi. From 1624 to 1632, he worked in Rome, where his activity is…
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Max Klinger Documented profileGermany
Max Klinger, an engraver, draughtsman and sculptor, first trained in Karlsruhe in 1874–1875, then at the Berlin Academy of Arts, where he studied under Karl von Gussow. After complet…
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Ivan Contreras-Brunet Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1927, Ivan Contreras-Brunet made his first paintings in the early 1940s; he died in Vendôme, France, in 2021. After these early works, he attended courses…
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Albert Contreras Documented profileCountry to be documented
American painter Albert Contreras, born in 1933 and deceased in 2017, is represented in the available information by an abstract composition titled “Composition with Orange Circle No…
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Herbert Bayer Documented profileAustria · United States
Herbert Bayer was born in Austria in 1900 and died in the United States in 1985; his practice encompassed typography, photography, design, painting, architecture and sculpture. This…
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Heinrich Neppel Documented profileGermany
Heinrich Neppel, a German painter born in Munich in 1874 and who died in that city in 1936, is associated with landscape painting. According to Invaluable’s biographical entry, he st…
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David Ostrowski Documented profileGermany
German painter David Ostrowski, born in Cologne in 1981, develops a body of work centred on pictorial experimentation. His painting tests gesture, accident and imperfection across va…
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Richard Mudariki Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in 1985, Richard Mudariki is a full-time painter who lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. His contemporary paintings contain social commentary on various African issues.…
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Léon Spilliaert Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter, draughtsman, illustrator and lithographer Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) developed a body of work in which night, empty expanses and self-portraiture occupy a centr…
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Ferdinand Richardt Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Danish-American painter and illustrator Ferdinand Richardt devoted a substantial part of his work to landscapes and architectural views. His journey from Denmark to the United St…
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Henri Decaisne Documented profileBelgium
Henri de Caisne, a Belgian painter born in Brussels in 1799 and died in Paris in 1852, practised history painting, genre painting and portraiture. After receiving the prize for the a…
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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