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Bencho Obreshkov Documented profileBulgaria
Bentcho Obrechkov, born in Karnobat in 1899, trained in Bulgaria, Germany and France. After graduating from the Sofia School of Fine Arts in 1920, he pursued painting in Dresden unde…
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Alois Greil Documented profileCountry to be documented
Alois Greil worked as a painter and illustrator between Austria and Germany. A pupil of Christian Ruben at the Vienna Academy, he later worked in Stuttgart before settling permanentl…
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Raymond Grandjean Documented profileFrance
Raymond Grandjean (1929–2006) combined painting and writing in a career closely connected with Lyon. After a group exhibition at the Foyer des artistes in 1948, he held his first sol…
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Zacharie Noterman Documented profileBelgium
Zacharie Noterman (1820–1890), a Belgian painter born in Ghent, continued his training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp before moving to Paris. He participated several ti…
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James Malcolm Rielly Documented profileUnited Kingdom
James Malcolm Rielly, born in Wrexham in 1956, is a Welsh artist who studied at Gloucester College of Art & Design and subsequently at Belfast College of Art. His career led him to w…
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Jan Fris Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jan Fris, also known as Johannes Fris, was a Dutch painter active in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. His known production consists almost entirely of still lifes, with dated works ran…
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Gustav Pope Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Active in Victorian Britain, Gustave Pope, also known as Gustav Pope, developed a body of work in which literary imagination plays an important part. His exhibition career included t…
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Kees van Dongen Documented profileFrance · Netherlands
Born in 1877, Kees van Dongen trained in decorative arts in Rotterdam before moving to Paris in 1897. In Montmartre he worked for the satirical press and became known for his caricat…
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Yves Ganne Documented profileFrance
Born in Angers in 1931, Yves Ganne entered the École des beaux-arts in Nantes in 1946. His path continued in Paris, where he settled in 1950 and joined Fernand Léger’s studio. He sub…
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Jean-Marie Calmettes Documented profileFrance
Born in Wissous, Jean-Marie Calmettes (1918–2007) was a French painter and sculptor whose career accompanied the post-war developments of the School of Paris. He first became known f…
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Maurice Poirson Documented profileFrance
Maurice Poirson was a nineteenth-century French painter who trained under Alexandre Cabanel. His work gives a significant place to female figures, portraiture and scenes of social li…
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Johann Michael Baader Documented profileGermany
Johann Michael Baader was an eighteenth-century German artist whose life connects Eichstätt with Paris. A painter, watercolourist and etcher, he also supplied drawings for prints. Th…
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Emile Baes Documented profileBelgium
Émile Baes (1879–1954) was a Belgian artist born in Brussels whose activities encompassed painting, printmaking, art criticism and writing. His training took him from Brussels to Par…
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Ludwig Rubelli von Sturmfest Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ludwig Rubelli von Sturmfest developed a body of work in which the maritime world has a prominent place. His service in the imperial and royal navy began in 1861 and ended two years…
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Adrien Marie Documented profileFrance
Adrien Marie developed his career at the intersection of painting and the printed image. He trained in wood engraving with François Pannemaker and Guillaume Cabasson, then in paintin…
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Friedrich Karl Gotsch Documented profileGermany
Friedrich Karl Gotsch (1900–1984) was a German painter whose artistic training developed between Kiel and Dresden. As a pupil of Hans Ralfs, he encountered Edvard Munch’s work before…
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Arnold Schmidt Documented profileCountry to be documented
Arnold Schmidt joined the House of Artists at Gugging in 1986 and developed a practice based on circular gestures. Repeated curves, layered or placed side by side, build both his fig…
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Emile Bonny Documented profileFrance
Émile Bonny, also known as Milous, was a Swiss painter whose work spans landscape, the figure and decoration. His training in Lausanne with Violette Diserens accompanied a preference…
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Rafa Nasiri Documented profileIraq
Rafa Nasiri (1940–2013) developed his career through training in painting and a sustained engagement with printmaking. After studying with Faik Hassan and Jewad Selim, he graduated i…
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Kay Rasmus Nielsen Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Danish illustrator, painter and stage designer Kay Nielsen made storytelling a space for visual invention. Born in 1886, he died in 1957. He studied in Paris before working for t…
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Eugène Deshayes Documented profileFrance
Eugène Deshayes (1828–1890) was a French painter whose participation in the Salon extended from 1848 to 1867. Landscape lies at the centre of his work, with a sensibility associated…
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Edmond Heuzé Documented profileFrance
A self-taught artist encouraged by Suzanne Valadon in Montmartre, Edmond Heuzé worked in several occupations before earning his living from painting. His experience as a Moulin-Rouge…
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Angelo Garbizza Documented profileFrance
A draughtsman and printmaker from Istria, Angelo Garbizza spent an important part of his working life in Paris, where he was active for roughly a decade. Views of the capital form th…
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Pierre Jutand Documented profileFrance
Pierre Jutand trained at the École Boulle and subsequently at the decorative and fine arts schools in Paris, studying with teachers including Jules Cavaillès, Marcel Gromaire and Mau…
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Robert Pötzelberger Documented profileAustria
Robert Poetzelberger developed a career in which artistic practice and teaching played complementary roles. He taught at the Munich academy from 1880 to 1892 and at the Stuttgart aca…
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Martin Bradley Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Born in London in 1931, Martin Bradley began painting while working as a young seaman, making portraits of his shipmates. Back in London, he studied Asian languages, literature and a…
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Lucas Cranach the Elder Documented profileGermany
Lucas Cranach the Elder was a major painter and printmaker of the German Renaissance. Portraits and religious compositions document his presence in Vienna at the beginning of the six…
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Hippolyte Berteaux Documented profileFrance
Trained at the Paris École des beaux-arts with Hippolyte Flandrin, Léon Cogniet and Paul Baudry, Hippolyte Berteaux pursued a career as a painter and decorator. After three years wor…
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Karl Korab Documented profileAustria
Karl Korab studied with Sergius Pauser at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1957 to 1964. While still a student, he began participating in exhibitions in Austria and abroad. Hi…
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Karin Kneffel Documented profileGermany
Karin Kneffel, born in Marl in 1957, develops figurative paintings that combine photorealistic precision with a complex construction of space. People, families and everyday scenes pr…
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Karl Reille Documented profileFrance
Karl Reille (1886–1975), born in Paris and deceased in Cerelles, was a French animal painter particularly associated with hunting on horseback with hounds. His familiarity with this…
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Fateh Moudarres Documented profileSyria
Fateh Moudarres, born in Aleppo in 1922, developed his painting through studies in Syria, Rome and Paris. These stages connected his education to exchanges between the Middle East an…
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Peter Brüning Documented profileGermany
Peter Brüning was a German painter and sculptor associated with postwar Informel. He studied under Willi Baumeister in Stuttgart before spending time in Paris, where he met Hans Hart…
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Jaroslav Grus Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jaroslav Grus (1891–1983), born in Pardubice and deceased in Prague, worked as a painter, graphic artist, illustrator and printmaker. Landscape held a particular place in his artisti…
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Elisabeth Chaplin Documented profileFrance
Élisabeth Chaplin developed her career between France and Italy, with Florence as an important centre. As a young artist in Fiesole, she visited Francesco Gioli's studio, met Giovann…
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Samuel Bernard Documented profileFrance
Samuel-Jacques Bernard, also known as Jacques-Samuel Bernard, was a painter and engraver active in seventeenth-century Paris. His father Noël provided his first training, which he co…
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Henri Emilien Rousseau Documented profileFrance
Born in Cairo, Henri Émilien Rousseau chose painting and trained in Paris with Jean-Léon Gérôme. His travels took him through Europe and the Maghreb, particularly Morocco, before he…
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Alfred Wickenburg Documented profileAustria
Austrian painter and graphic artist Alfred Wickenburg settled in Graz in 1923 after several study visits to Italy. He helped found the Graz Secession and later taught landscape and s…
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Rekha Rodwittiya Documented profileIndia
Born in Bengaluru in 1958, Rekha Rodwittiya grew up mainly in Baroda, where her family settled in 1967. She developed her artistic practice there and also studied photography with Jy…
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Ivan Pokhitonov Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Matrionovka in the Kherson governorate, Ivan Pokhitonov (1850–1923) initially followed a path outside art schools. After schooling in Elisavetgrad and Nikolaev, he studied ag…
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Luigi Steffani Documented profileCountry to be documented
Luigi Steffani went to Milan in 1844 and studied there without attending an academy. Travel subsequently became important to his development and repertoire. Following his debut at th…
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Fernand Lematte Documented profileFrance
Fernand Lematte trained at the École des beaux-arts in Paris in Alexandre Cabanel’s studio. His career developed in part through the Paris Salon, where he regularly presented his com…
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Pierre Skira Documented profileFrance
Born in 1938, Pierre Skira pursues painting alongside a sustained activity as a writer. The son of publisher Albert Skira, he works particularly in pastel, a medium also found in his…
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Leon Joubert Documented profileFrance
Born in Quimper and deceased in Paris, Léon Joubert (1851–1928) devoted much of his painting to landscape. He trained with Léon Germain Pelouse and Fernand Cormon and is associated w…
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Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill Documented profileUnited States
The American painter and etcher Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill was born in Philadelphia in 1874 and died in 1929. His documented work brings landscape into contact with human structures,…
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William Edward Norton Documented profileUnited States
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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Heinrich Funk Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Herford in 1807, Heinrich Funk grew up in a family already connected with painting: his father, also named Heinrich, gave private drawing lessons. In 1829 he entered the Düss…
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Peter August Böckstiegel Documented profileGermany
Peter August Böckstiegel (1889–1951) was a German painter and etcher from Aroode, now part of Werther in Westphalia. Born into a small farming family, he began training in painting i…
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Stjepan Vecenaj Documented profileCroatia
The Croatian painter Stjepan Večenaj (1928–2000) came from Gola and began painting in 1954, receiving his earliest guidance from his brother Ivan. His first solo exhibition took plac…
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Amedeo Modigliani Documented profileCountry to be documented
Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) developed his career between his Italian training and the artistic world of Paris. Following studies in Florence, he settled in Paris in 1906 and associ…
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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