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N° 1301 Eva Hesse Documented profile
Josef Albers was among Eva Hesse’s teachers; the Kornfeld catalogue also cites Rico Lebrun. In 1964, she lived and worked with Tom Doyle in a former textile factory in the Kettwig-am…
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N° 1302 Federico Zuccari Documented profile
The Italian painter and draughtsman Federico Zuccari trained in Rome with his elder brother Taddeo. Their shared work included frescoes for palaces, chapels and country residences co…
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N° 1303 Félicien Rops Documented profile
Félicien Rops (1833–1898), born in Namur, combined drawing, printmaking and literary illustration. Associated with writers including Baudelaire and Mallarmé, he also developed a priv…
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N° 1304 Félix Planquette Documented profile
The French painter Félix Planquette, born in Arras in 1873 and died in Paris in 1964, devotes a significant part of his work to landscape and animal painting. He depicts, in particul…
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N° 1305 Ferdinand Brütt Documented profile
The German painter Ferdinand Brütt, associated with the Düsseldorf School of Painting, developed a body of work that includes both genre scenes and history paintings. After his first…
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N° 1306 Ferdinand Desnos Documented profile
Ferdinand Desnos (1901–1958), a self-taught painter from Pontlevoy, moved to Paris in 1927. His work developed from landscapes of the Touraine towards an imagined world bordering on…
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N° 1307 Franco Rognoni Documented profile
Franco Rognoni (1913–1999) was born and died in Milan. After training at the weaving school of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Crafts, he frequented the circles around…
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N° 1308 François Dilasser Documented profile
His career was marked early on by Gauguin, and later by Roger Bissière and the informal abstraction of the École de Paris. Painting and drawing bear witness to an interplay between o…
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N° 1309 Frank Gerritz Documented profile
Frank Gerritz, born in 1964, approaches drawing through sculpture. His cast-iron blocks, measured in relation to his own body, inform an exploration of impressions and surfaces. Grap…
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N° 1310 Frans de Hulst Documented profile
Dune or river landscapes, often dominated by fortified towers, characterise Frans de Hulst’s painting. His early works evoke the technique of Salomon van Ruysdael; this resemblance h…
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N° 1311 Frans van Mieris the Elder Documented profile
Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635–1681) worked in Leiden, where he trained with Gerard Dou after an initial apprenticeship as a goldsmith. His small domestic scenes depend on meticulo…
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N° 1312 Franz Courtens Documented profile
Franz Courtens, also known as Frans Courtens, was a Belgian painter born in Termonde in 1854 and died in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode in 1943. His work, associated with Belgian Impressionis…
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N° 1313 Franz Innocenz Josef Kobell Documented profile
Franz Kobell (1749–1822) devoted himself to drawing and landscape with encouragement from his brother Ferdinand. A pension from Elector Karl Theodor enabled him to travel to Italy in…
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N° 1314 Franz Krüger Documented profile
Franz Krüger (1797–1857), born in Großbadegast and deceased in Berlin, was a German painter, draughtsman and lithographer particularly known for portraits and horses. Trained by Carl…
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N° 1315 Franz van Severdonck Documented profile
François van Severdonck was a Belgian painter whose practice centred on animals and rural landscape. He trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels under Henri de Coene and…
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N° 1316 Franz Wilhelm Seiwert Documented profile
Franz Wilhelm Seiwert (1894–1933), a German painter, sculptor and essayist, trained at Cologne’s school of applied arts. His work increasingly combined geometric construction with so…
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N° 1317 Franz Xaver Pieler Documented profile
The Austrian painter Franz Xaver Pieler, born in Vienna in 1876 and deceased in Klosterneuburg in 1952, is described as a flower painter. His work Blumen in einer Vase, listed under…
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N° 1318 Friedrich August von Kaulbach Documented profile
Friedrich August von Kaulbach first studied with his father Friedrich before training in Nuremberg under Karl Raupp and August von Kreling. Settling in Munich in 1872, he joined the…
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N° 1319 Friedrich Otto Georgi Documented profile
Friedrich Otto Georgi (1819–1874), born in Leipzig, received his first instruction from his father, the painter Friedrich Traugott Georgi, before studying at the Dresden Academy. Ini…
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Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart
Documented profile Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart builds a geometric language from simple elements: his compositions bring together verticals and horizontals, primary colours and greys, followed by di…
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N° 1321 Fritz Lach Documented profile
Fritz Lach developed a landscape practice connected with the towns and banks of the Danube. An employee of the DDSG shipping company before settling in Vienna, he worked in several r…
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N° 1322 Fritz Schaefler Documented profile
The German painter and graphic artist Fritz Schaefler (1888–1954), associated with Expressionism, was born in Eschau, in the Spessart, and died in Cologne. His training in Munich beg…
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N° 1323 Gaston-Louis Roux Documented profile
Gaston-Louis Roux belonged to Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler’s circle of artists from 1927 to 1956. His first solo exhibition took place at the Galerie Simon in 1929. His compositions combi…
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N° 1324 Gaston Roullet Documented profile
Born in Ars-en-Ré in 1847 and deceased in Paris in 1925, Gaston Roullet developed a painting practice attentive to ports and maritime life. He exhibited at the Salons between 1874 an…
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N° 1325 Geldorp Gortzius Documented profile
The Flemish history painter and portraitist Gortzius Geldorp, born in Leuven in 1553, is distinguished by a practice in which the two genres converge: his history paintings, in the D…
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N° 1326 George Cole Documented profile
George Cole (1810–1883), a self-taught landscape painter, was the father of George Vicat Cole, who adopted his mother’s surname to distinguish his career. His work combines portraitu…
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N° 1327 George Condo Documented profile
Born in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1957, George Condo studied music theory and art history before moving to New York. He worked as Andy Warhol’s assistant on the silkscreens for the…
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N° 1328 Georges Dayez Documented profile
Georges Dayez (1907–1991) placed everyday figures within a painting practice attentive to construction. Femme lisant dans un intérieur (1945), an oil on canvas belonging to the Musée…
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N° 1329 Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro Documented profile
Georges Manzana-Pissarro (1871–1961) learned painting from his father and initially made Impressionist-related landscapes around Pontoise and Éragny. In 1894 he adopted the pseudonym…
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N° 1330 Georges Jeannin Documented profile
Georges Jeannin, a French painter born and deceased in Paris, made floral compositions the focus of his practice. He trained with Victor Vincelet. Admitted to the Société des artiste…
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N° 1331 Georges Valmier Documented profile
Georges Valmier (1885–1937) grew up in Montmartre, where his family settled in 1890. The Cézanne retrospective at the 1907 Salon d’Automne contributed to his visual education. Mobili…
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N° 1332 Gerwald Rockenschaub Documented profile
Gerwald Rockenschaub, born in 1952, studied at Vienna's University of Applied Arts. His geometric paintings of the early 1980s were associated with Neo Geo. He subsequently extended…
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N° 1333 Giacinto Gigante Documented profile
Giacinto Gigante was born in Naples in 1806 and died in 1876. He began as a cartographical draughtsman before developing his landscape painting. During his stay in Rome in 1826, he m…
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N° 1334 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Documented profile
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, born in Venice in 1682 and deceased there in 1754, worked as both painter and draughtsman. His training with Giuseppe Maria Crespi in Bologna informed hi…
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N° 1335 Giulio Turcato Documented profile
Giulio Turcato (1912–1995), born in Mantua, received his artistic training in Venice and participated in group exhibitions from 1932. During the war, he joined the antifascist resist…
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N° 1336 Giulio Vittini Documented profile
The documented career of Giulio Vittini encompasses painting, monumental decoration and decorative arts: mosaic, fresco, stage design, urban projects, and ceramic and faience worksho…
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N° 1337 Giuseppe Arcimboldo Documented profile
The Milanese Renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo entered Habsburg service in Vienna in 1562. His composite heads turn flowers, fruit, animals or objects into recognisable faces.…
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N° 1338 Giuseppe Zigaina Documented profile
Giuseppe Zigaina (1924–2015), born in Cervignano del Friuli, exhibited in Trieste as early as 1942 and participated in the Venice Biennale in 1948. His engagement with postwar painti…
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N° 1339 Glen Rubsamen Documented profile
Glen Rubsamen is an American artist from Los Angeles whose practice combines painting, photography and writing. His landscapes contrast skies of shifting colour with dark silhouettes…
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N° 1340 Godfrey Kneller Documented profile
Born in Lübeck in 1646 under the name Gottfried Kniller, Godfrey Kneller was a portrait painter whose name also appears in the form Gottfried Kneller. His father, Zachary Kniller, a…
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N° 1341 Grégoire Michonze Documented profile
Grégoire Michonze (1902–1982), born Michonznic in Kishinev, learned techniques including icon painting in tempera. In Paris from 1922, he associated with the Surrealists before devel…
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N° 1342 Guglielmo Welters Documented profile
Guglielmo Welters was born in Capri in 1913 and died in Genoa in 2003. The auction listing describes «Golfo di Bordighera» as an oil painting on panel signed «G. Welters». Another li…
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N° 1343 Gustave De Smet Documented profile
Gustave de Smet (1877–1943) returned to Belgium in 1922 after living in the Netherlands. His calm, structured compositions reflect the postwar return to order. Urban subjects subsequ…
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N° 1344 Gustave Mascart Documented profile
Gustave Mascart (1834–1914), a French painter born in Valenciennes and deceased in Paris, is associated with realistic urban landscapes, particularly views of Paris and its surroundi…
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N° 1345 Gustave Surand Documented profile
Trained under Jean-Paul Laurens at the École des beaux-arts de Paris, Gustave Surand exhibited at the Salon des artistes français from 1881 and received an honourable mention there i…
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N° 1346 Guy Vandenbranden Documented profile
Belgian painter, sculptor, draughtsman and graphic artist Guy Vandenbranden also works with collage. His career is marked by a transition from figuration to abstraction, followed by…
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N° 1347 Hans Thuar Documented profile
Hans Thuar (1887–1945), born in Treppendorf, grew up in Cologne and met August Macke in 1897. This friendship played a central role in his artistic development. After private lessons…
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N° 1348 Hans von Hayek Documented profile
His training takes him briefly to the School of Applied Arts in Vienna, then to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studies under Gabriel von Hackl, Wilhelm von Lindenschmit…
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N° 1349 Hedwig Öhring Documented profile
Hedwig Öhring (1855–1907), also known as Oehring, was a Munich painter devoted to figures from everyday life. Her small oil paintings depict village schoolteachers, peasants, hunters…
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N° 1350 Henri Gervex Documented profile
Henri Gervex (1852–1929), a French painter born and deceased in Paris, entered Alexandre Cabanel's studio at the École des beaux-arts in 1871. His career developed between Salon trad…
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N° 1351 Henri Louis Dupray Documented profile
Henri-Louis Dupray (1841–1909), born in Sedan and active in Paris, studied with Léon Cogniet and subsequently Isidore Pils. He made his Salon debut in 1863 and developed a specialism…
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N° 1352 Henry Moret Documented profile
The French painter Henry Moret, born in Cherbourg in 1856 and deceased in Paris in 1913, made the Breton coastline and its islands recurring subjects. The southern coast of Finistère…
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N° 1353 Hercules Brabazon Brabazon Documented profile
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821–1906), born Hercules Brabazon Sharpe, studied at Cambridge before pursuing artistic and musical training in Rome. An inheritance in 1847 gave him fin…
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N° 1354 Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate Documented profile
Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate (1822–1891) developed historical genre painting attentive to behaviour and accessories. His soldiers at leisure belong to the nineteenth-century intere…
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N° 1355 Hermann Weber Documented profile
Hermann Weber develops a practice combining painting, sculpture and interventions in public space. Born in Biberach in 1959, he studied at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts with Mar…
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N° 1356 Ignaz Raffalt Documented profile
Ignaz Raffalt (1800–1857) studied at the Vienna Academy from 1820 to 1825, with teachers including Johann Peter Krafft and Josef Mössmer. After running the family inn in Murau, he ac…
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N° 1357 Ippolito Caffi Documented profile
Ippolito Caffi (1809–1866), born in Belluno and trained at the Venice Academy, renewed the painting of urban views in the nineteenth century. In Rome and during journeys through Ital…
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N° 1358 Ivan Theimer Documented profile
Ivan Theimer, born in Olomouc in 1944, developed a practice as a sculptor, painter and draughtsman between France and Tuscany. He left Czechoslovakia in 1968. His language draws on t…
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N° 1359 Jacob Epstein Documented profile
Jacob Epstein (1880–1959), born in New York to a Jewish family of Eastern European origin, studied in his native city and Paris before settling in London in 1905. His sculptures for…
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N° 1360 Jacob van der Ulft Documented profile
Jacob van der Ulft, a seventeenth-century Dutch painter and draughtsman, worked mainly in Gorinchem, where he also held municipal offices, including that of mayor. His architectural…
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N° 1361 Jacques Yankel Documented profile
The son of the painter Michel Kikoïne, Jacques Yankel (1920–2020) turned to painting after studying geology and working in science for several years. Settling in Toulouse in 1941, he…
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N° 1362 Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann Documented profile
Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann (1809–1885), born and deceased in Frankfurt, trained at the Städel and then in lithography at Friedrich Carl Vogel’s establishment. With Jakob Becker he pr…
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N° 1363 Jan Hackaert Documented profile
Landscape is the field with which Jan Hackaert is associated: he is known for his landscape paintings. Born in Amsterdam, he lived and worked there. Among the works reported as held…
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N° 1364 Jan van Kessel the Younger Documented profile
Jan van Kessel the Younger (1654–1708), born in Antwerp, received his early training in the circle of his father, Jan van Kessel the Elder. Settling in Madrid in the late 1670s, he b…
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N° 1365 Jan Wildens Documented profile
Trained from a very young age under Pierre Verhulst, Jan Wildens entered the profession through apprenticeship: he was ten when he began studying painting. Enrolled as an apprentice…
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N° 1366 Jane Simone Bussy Documented profile
Jane Simone Bussy (1906–1960), known as Janie, was the daughter of the painter Simon Bussy and the writer and translator Dorothy Strachey. Her letters in the British Library illumina…
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N° 1367 Jean Degottex Documented profile
The French abstract painter Jean Degottex (1918–1988) turned to abstraction from 1948 onwards and developed a gestural form of painting. After leaving school at the age of fifteen, h…
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N° 1368 Jean-Francois Dubreuil Documented profile
Born in Tours in 1946, Jean-François Dubreuil has developed paintings based on the transcription of newspapers since the 1970s. He converts the areas occupied by their sections into…
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N° 1369 Jean-François Raffaëlli Documented profile
Jean-François Raffaëlli, born in Paris in 1850, who died in 1924, found many of his subjects on the city’s edges. Living for years in Asnières, he observed suburban landscapes and th…
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N° 1370 Jean-Frédéric Schall Documented profile
Jean Frédéric Schall (1752–1825), born in Strasbourg, trained and worked in Paris from 1772 under Nicolas Bernard Lépicié. A painter of portraits and genre scenes, he saw his composi…
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N° 1371 Jean-Michel Moreau Documented profile
Jean-Michel Moreau, known as Moreau le Jeune (1741–1814), was a French draughtsman and printmaker. His nickname distinguishes him from his elder brother Louis Gabriel. After 1773, he…
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N° 1372 Jean-Victor Bertin Documented profile
Jean-Victor Bertin (1767–1842), a French painter and lithographer, studied at the Royal Academy from 1785. His idealised, later increasingly naturalistic landscapes influenced pupils…
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N° 1373 Jean-Yves Couliou Documented profile
Jean-Yves Couliou, a French painter born in Landerneau in 1916 and deceased in Lorient in 1995, grew up near Pont-Aven, the region his parents came from. After secondary school, he t…
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N° 1374 Jiří Georg Dokoupil Documented profile
For Jiří Georg Dokoupil, born in Krnov in 1954, painting is a field of technical experiment rather than a language established once and for all. His series explore markedly different…
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N° 1375 John Lewis Brown Documented profile
John-Lewis Brown (1829–1890), born in Bordeaux and deceased in Paris, made the horse a central subject of his painting. Self-taught and an admirer of Géricault, he made his Salon deb…
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N° 1376 Jorinde Voigt Documented profile
Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1977, Jorinde Voigt explores processes of inner perception. Affect, memory, imagination, scientific data and human relationships inform an analytical app…
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N° 1377 Joris van Son Documented profile
Joris van Son became a master in Antwerp in 1643. His still lifes combine fruit, flowers and precious objects. In Rummer in a Niche with Flowers and Fruit at Museum Boijmans Van Beun…
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N° 1378 José de Zamora Documented profile
José de Zamora, also known as Pepito Zamora, connects drawing, fashion and performance. Trained in Paris with Paul Poiret, he designed costumes for the Casino de Paris and contribute…
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N° 1379 Joseph Anton Roth Documented profile
Joseph Anton Roth (1807–1868), a German painter, is known here through the biographical and work-related details recorded in the available sources. A catalogue describes an oil paint…
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N° 1380 Joseph Garibaldi Documented profile
The French painter Joseph Garibaldi, born and deceased in Marseille, anchors a significant part of his work in the landscapes and ports of the Provençal coast. He paints regularly in…
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N° 1381 Joseph Karl Stieler Documented profile
Joseph Karl Stieler came from Mainz and worked in François Gérard’s Paris studio before becoming a portraitist at the Bavarian court. His contrasts of light focus attention on faces.…
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N° 1382 Joseph-Laurent Malaine Documented profile
Trained in Tournai in the craft of flower painting, Joseph-Laurent Malaine belonged to a family tradition: his father, Régnier Joseph Malaine, also worked there as a master flower pa…
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N° 1383 Jules Coignet Documented profile
Jules Coignet, who was born in 1798 and died in 1860, studied under Jean-Victor Bertin but favoured a naturalistic approach to landscape. He transmitted his practice in the Cours com…
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N° 1384 Jules Gustave Leroy Documented profile
Jules Gustave Leroy is associated with paintings of cats and kittens, generally small in format: this specialisation is the most clearly documented feature of his work. A pupil of Ju…
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N° 1385 Julius Sergius von Klever Documented profile
Julius von Klever, born in Dorpat, now Tartu, in 1850 and deceased in Leningrad in 1924, was a landscape painter of German origin active in the Russian Empire. After attending the ar…
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N° 1386 Jun'ichi Dobashi Documented profile
Japanese abstract painter Jun’ichi Dobashi lived in Paris from 1953 to 1969. On March 15, 1960, he was among the Japanese figures present during Shotaro Akiyama’s visit to Pierre Sou…
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N° 1387 Karel Souček Documented profile
Karel Souček made the industrial city and its inhabitants central subjects of his painting. After training as a sign painter, he attended applied arts school and the Prague Academy,…
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N° 1388 Kiyoshi Hasegawa Documented profile
Hasegawa Kiyoshi was a Japanese painter and printmaker, born in Yokohama in 1891, who died in Paris in 1980. Based in Paris from 1919, he employed several printmaking processes, incl…
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N° 1389 Kurt Schwitters Documented profile
Born in Hanover, the German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) transformed ordinary fragments into artistic material under the name Merz. Newspaper clippings, timetables and advertis…
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N° 1390 Lado Gudiashvili Documented profile
Lado Gudiašvili (1896–1980), a Georgian painter trained in Tbilisi, lived in Paris from 1919 to 1926. His activities included illustration and stage design: in 1924 he prepared desig…
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N° 1391 Lavinia Fontana Documented profile
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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N° 1392 Leo Putz Documented profile
Leo Putz came from Merano and studied at the Munich Academy, then at the Académie Julian in Paris. A member of the Munich Secession and the Scholle group, he worked in painting, draw…
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N° 1393 Léon Bonnat Documented profile
Léon Bonnat (1833–1922), born in Bayonne, discovered Spanish painting at the Prado during his adolescence in Madrid. He studied with the Madrazos and later in Léon Cogniet’s Paris st…
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N° 1394 Léon de Smet Documented profile
Léon de Smet (1881–1966), Gustave’s younger brother, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. He subsequently shared a studio with young artists including Frits Van den Berghe a…
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N° 1395 Lorenzo Delleani Documented profile
Lorenzo Delleani (1840–1908), trained at Turin's Accademia Albertina, gradually moved from history painting towards landscape. His small outdoor studies could prepare more expansive…
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N° 1396 Lothar Quinte Documented profile
The German painter Lothar Quinte, born in 1923 and deceased in 2000, developed a body of work that took shape in painting before extending to projects for architecture and the perfor…
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N° 1397 Louis Appian Documented profile
Jean Louis Appian (1862–1896), born and deceased in Lyon, trained in his native city and subsequently with Alexandre Cabanel in Paris. The son of the painter Adolphe Appian, he devel…
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N° 1398 Louis Bombled Documented profile
Louis Bombled (1862–1927) worked at the intersection of drawing, illustration and poster design. The Bibliothèque nationale de France holds his poster for Les Misérables, printed by…
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N° 1399 Louis Cane Documented profile
Louis Cane participated in Supports/Surfaces before returning to art history and figuration. His activity also encompassed sculpture and furniture. In the early 1970s, he explored th…
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N° 1400 Louis Douzette Documented profile
Carl Ludwig Christoph Douzette (1834–1924), known as Louis Douzette, was born in Tribsees and died in Barth, in northern Germany. His Pomeranian landscapes explore transitions from d…
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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
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