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Paul-Vanier Beaulieu Documented profileCanada
Trained at the Montreal School of Fine Arts, Paul-Vanier Beaulieu initially worked in advertising before moving to Paris in 1938. Exchanges between France and Quebec subsequently sha…
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Marcel Cramoysan Documented profileFrance
Born in Étretat and active in Rouen, Marcel Cramoysan trained with Robert Antoine Pinchon. His figurative painting belongs to the artistic environment of the Rouen School and gives l…
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Maurice-Elie Sarthou Documented profileFrance
Maurice-Élie Sarthou studied at the fine arts schools in Montpellier and Paris before working as a drawing teacher. Settling in Paris in 1950, he soon divided his time with Sète and…
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Lajos Markos Documented profileHungary · United States
Trained in Budapest, Lajos Markos initially worked in Italy, developing a practice as a portrait painter. His move to New York with his wife in 1952 opened an American career combini…
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Charles Camoin Documented profileFrance
Charles Camoin, born in Marseille in 1879, briefly trained in Gustave Moreau's studio at the École des beaux-arts in Paris. There he met Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet and Henri Mangu…
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Hans Plattner Documented profileCountry to be documented
Active in sixteenth-century Nuremberg, Hans Plattner first appears in documents in 1521 and became the city painter in 1531. Portraits of the patrician community form a documented as…
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Yves Corbassière Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris in 1925, Yves Corbassière worked across painting, engraving, lithography, poster design, decoration and sculpture. He came from an industrial family based in Montmartre…
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Barnaba da Modena Documented profileCountry to be documented
Barnaba da Modena was a fourteenth-century Italian painter whose activity is chiefly documented in Genoa. A workshop contract of 1361 records his presence in the city and sheds light…
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Georges Vantongerloo Documented profileBelgium
Georges Vantongerloo (1886–1965), a Belgian artist, connected painting, sculpture, architecture and theoretical reflection. In the Netherlands he associated with Mondrian, Van der Le…
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Andreas Achenbach Documented profileCountry to be documented
Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910), born in Kassel, holds an important place within the Düsseldorf school. His training in that city between 1827 and 1835 preceded a career enriched by jo…
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Ignat Bednarik Documented profileRomania
Ignat Bednarik (1882–1963) was a Romanian artist born in Orșova who died in Bucharest. His practice brought together painting, illustration and decorative art, an area in which he al…
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Nikifor Krynicki Documented profileCountry to be documented
Nikifor Krynicki, also called Epifaniusz Drowniak, was a Lemko painter associated with naive art. Little recognised for much of his life, he gained wider attention only later. He wor…
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Jacob de Backer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacob de Backer was a painter and draughtsman associated with sixteenth-century Antwerp Mannerism. His biography remains uncertain: his dates, the stages of his training and the boun…
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Larry Rivers Documented profileUnited States
Larry Rivers (1923–2002) pursued a career in which painting, music and writing intersected. Initially a jazz saxophonist, he began painting in 1945 after encountering a work by Georg…
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Jim Nutt Documented profileUnited States
Born in Pittsfield in 1938, Jim Nutt is an American artist who graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1965. He helped establish the Hairy Who group alongside Gl…
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Richard Brakenburgh Documented profileCountry to be documented
Richard Brakenburgh (1650–1702) worked within the painting tradition of the northern Netherlands. Born and deceased in Haarlem, he also spent part of his career in Friesland before r…
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Gladys Nilsson Documented profileUnited States
Born in Chicago in 1940, Gladys Nilsson studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1966 she joined five other artists in the first Hairy Who exhibitions, whic…
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Luigi Veronesi Documented profileItaly
Luigi Veronesi (1908–1998) developed a practice connecting painting, photography, film and graphic art. His encounters with the European avant-garde, particularly Fernand Léger, acco…
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Carlos Nadal Documented profileSpain · France
The Spanish painter Carlos Nadal (1917–1998) developed a pictorial language informed by Post-Impressionism and Fauvism. Vivid colour is a recurring feature of his work, with landscap…
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Léon Detroy Documented profileFrance
Léon Detroy developed much of his career around Gargilesse and the landscapes of the Creuse valley. Following training in Paris, he settled in the village, renting a house that he bo…
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Fritz Mackensen Documented profileGermany
Fritz Mackensen (1866–1953) is closely associated with Worpswede, where he helped establish the artists’ colony with Otto Modersohn and Hans am Ende in 1889. His training included st…
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Mikko Oinonen Documented profileFinland
Mikko Oskar Oinonen, also known as Mikko Oinonen, trained in Helsinki before continuing his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris between 1908 and 1910. His meeting with Magnus Enc…
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Gaston Pierre Galey Documented profileFrance
Gaston Pierre Galey was born in Toulouse in 1880 and died in Collonges-sous-Salève in 1959. A pupil of Bonnat and Merson, he exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1911. His work has been…
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Augustin Carrera Documented profileFrance
Augustin Carrera built his career between Marseille and Paris, studying first with Alphonse Moutte and later with Léon Bonnat and Henri Martin. Exhibiting at the Salon des artistes f…
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Henricus Johannes Melis Documented profileNetherlands
Henricus Johannes Melis (1845–1923) was born in Sas van Gent and died in Rotterdam, where he had studied at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten. His painting combines genre scenes an…
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Mino Maccari Documented profileItaly
For Mino Maccari (1898–1989), images and writing belonged to a shared critical observation of human behaviour. Born in Siena, the Italian artist combined painting and printmaking wit…
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Giorgio Kienerk Documented profileItaly
Trained in Florence by Adriano Cecioni and subsequently Telemaco Signorini, Giorgio Kienerk (1869–1948) worked across painting, sculpture and graphic art. Early appearances at the Fl…
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Giorgio Belloni Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Codogno in 1861, the Italian painter Giorgio Belloni built his career around the coastal landscape. From the early 1880s, summer stays in Sturla, Noli and Forte dei Marmi sup…
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Michel Ghislain Stapleaux Documented profileBelgium
Belgian history painter and portraitist Michel Ghislain Stapleaux trained with Jacques-Louis David and became his last assistant during the older artist’s exile in Brussels. He worke…
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Mariano Bertuchi Documented profileSpain
The Spanish painter Mariano Bertuchi came from Granada and developed an essential part of his work through his relationship with Morocco. Light, landscape and life in the northern to…
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Pierre Alechinsky Documented profileBelgium · France
Born in Brussels in 1927, Pierre Alechinsky developed a practice bringing together painting, drawing, printmaking and writing. His friendship with Christian Dotremont led him to join…
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Julius Zimmermann Documented profileGermany
Julius Zimmermann, born in Augsburg in 1824, came from a family closely connected with art education. His father, Clemens von Zimmermann, taught at the Munich Academy, where Julius h…
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Léon Hornecker Documented profileGermany · France
Léon Hornecker began his training in Strasbourg as an apprentice in the Ott brothers’ glass workshop while attending evening drawing classes. He later taught drawing, painting and an…
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Dirk Dalens Documented profileCountry to be documented
Dirk Dalens II belonged to a family of painters active in the northern Netherlands during the seventeenth century. Trained by his father Willem and grandfather Dirck Dalens, he conti…
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Arthur William Heintzelman Documented profileUnited States
Arthur William Heintzelman (1890–1965) combined artistic production with teaching and the care of print collections. Trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, he continued his st…
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Fritz Halberg-Krauss Documented profileGermany
Fritz Halberg-Krauss (1874–1951) was a German painter associated with the landscape tradition of the Munich school. Regular appearances at the Glaspalast exhibitions from 1908 placed…
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Mersad Berber Documented profileBosnia & Herzegovina
The Bosnian painter and illustrator Mersad Berber (1940–2012) trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, completing his painting degree in 1963 and a printmaking specialisatio…
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Lyonel Laurenceau Documented profileHaiti
Born in Port-au-Prince in 1942, Lyonel Laurenceau studied in Haiti, the United States and France before settling in Montreal. Human character inspires painting in which portraiture,…
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Jean-Jacques Gailliard Documented profileBelgium
Jean-Jacques Gailliard (1890–1976), a Belgian artist born in Brussels, worked in painting, drawing and printmaking. His stay in Paris from 1920 to 1924 coincided with appearances at…
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Jean de Botton Documented profileFrance
Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Jean de Botton (1898–1978) combined his studies in painting and sculpture with an interest in fresco. He exhibited at the Salon des Indé…
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Emil Rau Documented profileGermany
Emil Rau, also known as Emil Karl Rau, was a German painter born in Dresden in 1858. The son of a lithographer to the Saxon court, he trained at the Dresden Academy under Leon Pohle…
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Josef Wittlich Documented profileGermany
Josef Wittlich, a German painter born in 1903, developed his work from photographs found in magazines. Soldiers, scenes of war, royal families, celebrities and portraits of women pro…
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Georges Spiro Documented profileFrance · Poland
Georges Spiro, born in Warsaw in 1909, was a Polish-French painter associated with Surrealism. Self-taught, he worked primarily in gouache. After settling in Nice in 1942, he helped…
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Gottfried Wilhelm Voelcker Documented profileCountry to be documented
Gottfried Wilhelm Völcker (1775–1849) was a German painter associated with the depiction of flowers and fruit. His practice connected oil painting and porcelain decoration in the con…
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Milo Reice Documented profileUnited States
Milo Reice, born in 1952, develops narrative paintings in which references to the past enter into dialogue with the present. Trained at the Tyler School of Art, he gives drawings, sk…
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Max Rimboeck Documented profileGermany
Born in Passau in 1890, Max Rimboeck, also recorded as Rimböck, worked in Munich. Landscape and portraiture occupy an important place in his painting, while documented works also inc…
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Eduard Bargheer Documented profileGermany · Italy
Eduard Bargheer (1901–1979), a German painter and printmaker born in Hamburg, began his independent career in the 1920s. Italy gradually became an essential point of reference, parti…
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Alfred Lenica Documented profilePoland
Alfred Lenica, born in Pabianice in 1899, pursued a career in which music and painting intersected. He studied in Poznań, including at the conservatory and a private institute of fin…
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Nicolaus Berkhout Documented profileNetherlands
Nicolaus Berkhout, a Dutch painter born in 1813, devoted his work to landscape and genre scenes. After working in Hilversum and Amsterdam, he continued his career in Germany, notably…
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Bernard Saby Documented profileFrance
Bernard Saby, born in Paris in 1925, approached painting and drawing from a background shaped by music. He studied composition with René Leibowitz and developed a distinctive form of…
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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