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Zdeněk Sýkora Documented profileCzechia
Zdeněk Sýkora made painting a field of experimentation between perception, calculation and chance. Based in Louny, he undertook postwar studies in Prague combining art, descriptive g…
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David Spiller Documented profileUnited Kingdom
David Spiller (1942–2018), a British artist born in Kent, developed a painting practice associated with Pop Art. He drew on cartoons, music and popular culture, incorporating Mickey…
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Hubert Sattler Documented profileFrance
Hubert Sattler (1817–1904) developed his landscape painting through extensive travel. Trained by his father Johann Michael Sattler and at the Vienna Academy, he travelled across Euro…
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Alberto Prosdocimi Documented profileCountry to be documented
Alberto Prosdocimi (1852–1925) divided his practice between watercolour and manuscript illumination. Trained at the Venice academy and in his father's workshop, he painted views of t…
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Max Jacob Documented profileFrance
Max Jacob (1876–1944) worked as a poet, painter and critic at the intersection of literature and the visual arts. Born in Quimper, he settled in Paris after studying law and began a…
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Kurt Schwitters Documented profileGermany · United Kingdom · Norway
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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Isaac Snowman Documented profileCountry to be documented
Isaac Snowman developed a painting practice in which portraiture and scenes of Jewish life played important roles. After attending the City of London School, he entered the Royal Aca…
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Hermann Winterhalter Documented profileCountry to be documented
Hermann Winterhalter, originally from Menzenschwand, developed a career in portraiture and died in Karlsruhe in 1891. Following early work in lithography and painting studies in Muni…
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Ferdinand Knab Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ferdinand Knab brought architecture and landscape together in compositions shaped by Romantic sensibilities. Training with Carl Alexander Heideloff in Nuremberg first gave him an arc…
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Cesare Annibale Musacchio Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Roman caricaturist Cesare Annibale Musacchio (1882–1956) built his career between Europe and South America. After completing school, he travelled through Buenos Aires before sett…
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Cornelis Saftleven Documented profileCountry to be documented
Cornelis Saftleven came from a family of artists and developed a body of work spanning several areas of painting and drawing. His career took him from Rotterdam to Antwerp and Utrech…
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Alfréd Réth Documented profileHungary
Alfréd Réth (1884–1966) developed a career that moved from learning to paint towards exploring materials. In 1903 he joined the Nagybánya artists' colony and worked under Károly Fere…
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Charles Van Beveren Documented profileNetherlands
Charles Van Beveren (1809–1850) developed his career between the Netherlands, Italy and France. Trained in Mechelen with Jean Vervloet and subsequently at the Antwerp Academy, he set…
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Theodor Christoph Schüz Documented profileCountry to be documented
Theodor Christoph Schüz (1830–1900) placed everyday gestures and religious devotion within the legacy of late Romanticism. Initially preparing for a notarial career in Herrenberg, he…
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Julião Sarmento Documented profilePortugal
Born in Lisbon in 1948, Julião Sarmento studied painting and architecture at the city’s School of Fine Arts between 1967 and 1974. From the 1970s, he expanded his practice to encompa…
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Edward Kienholz Documented profileUnited States
Edward Kienholz (1927–1994) turned discarded everyday objects into scenes confronting viewers with tensions within American society. In the late 1950s his assemblages became independ…
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Felice Casorati Documented profileItaly
Born in Novara, Felice Casorati (1883–1963) studied law in Padua while training with the painter Giovanni Vianello. The portrait of his sister Elvira, accepted at the Venice Biennale…
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Conrad Wise Chapman Documented profileUnited States
American painter Conrad Wise Chapman (1842–1910) grew up in Rome and trained with his father, John Gadsby Chapman. Returning to the United States in 1861, he enlisted in the Confeder…
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Alexandru Ciucurencu Documented profileRomania
Romanian painter Alexandru Ciucurencu (1903–1977) began an apprenticeship in a Tulcea studio at thirteen. He then studied at the Bucharest School of Fine Arts with George Demetrescu-…
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Guido Biasi Documented profileItaly
Guido Biasi situated his work within experimental networks linking Naples, Milan and Paris. Trained by Emilio Notte at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts, he joined Pittura Nucleare in…
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Achille Dovera Documented profileCountry to be documented
Trained at the Brera Academy under Francesco Hayez, Achille Dovera (1838–1895) initially explored historical subjects and the Risorgimento before concentrating on landscape. His care…
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Norman Bluhm Documented profileUnited States
Norman Bluhm was an American painter whose career connected architecture, European experience and gestural abstraction. He studied under Mies van der Rohe, but abandoned architecture…
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Jean-Paul Jérôme Documented profileCanada
Jean-Paul Jérôme (1928–2004) contributed to the renewal of abstraction in Quebec. He studied at Montreal’s École des beaux-arts from 1945 to 1952, then learned fresco techniques with…
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Edgar Bouillette Documented profileFrance
Edgard Bouillette turned to the mountains after beginning a legal career in Paris. Long stays in Chamonix, where he had a chalet built, sustained a practice encompassing oil painting…
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Eliza Douglas Documented profileCountry to be documented
Eliza Douglas approaches painting through images already in circulation: animated characters, logos and graphics drawn from music and fashion cultures. After studying film at Bard Co…
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Charles Laborde Documented profileFrance
Working as Chas Laborde, Charles Laborde developed a practice spanning press drawing, printmaking and illustrated books. Born in Buenos Aires to French parents, he grew up in Béarn b…
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Carla Accardi Documented profileItaly
Born in Trapani, Carla Accardi (1924–2014) developed a practice in Rome that extended abstraction beyond the conventional painting. Following training in Palermo and Florence, she mo…
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Gustavo Simoni Documented profileCountry to be documented
Gustavo Simoni trained in Rome with Dario Querci and Francesco Podesti. An early member of the Roman Society of Watercolourists in 1875, he made watercolour one of his means of expre…
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Paco R. Knöller Documented profileGermany
Born in Obermarchtal in 1950, Paco R. Knöller builds his practice around drawing and its extensions into printmaking. He studied at the Düsseldorf academy from 1972 to 1978 and made…
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Germaine Lacaze Documented profileFrance
Germaine Lacaze (1908–1994) developed a body of painting and printmaking informed by the places she visited. Working from a Montparnasse studio from 1934, she held her first Paris so…
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Roger Bezombes Documented profileFrance
Painter, printmaker, medallist and sculptor Roger Bezombes (1913–1994) trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and learned fresco painting with Paul Baudoüin. Maurice Denis intr…
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Leopoldo Richter Documented profileColombia
Art and entomology meet in the work of Leopoldo Richter (1896–1984). Trained in mathematics and natural sciences in Germany, he developed his interest in insects through contact with…
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Bernard Lorjou Documented profileFrance
Bernard Lorjou (1908–1986), born in Blois, moved to Paris around 1924 to become a painter. His discovery of Manet, followed by Goya, Velázquez and El Greco at the Prado in 1931, acco…
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Lionel Floch Documented profileFrance
The coast and communal life of western Brittany lie at the heart of Lionel Floch’s work. Born in Quimper, Floch (1895–1972) learned painting with Théophile Deyrolle in Concarneau bef…
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Gregory Masurovsky Documented profileUnited States
Gregory Masurovsky (1929–2009) developed a body of drawings and prints in which the artist’s book held a lasting place. He attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in 1954–1955 a…
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Christo Documented profileBulgaria · United States
Christo (1935–2020), born in Bulgaria, studied at Sofia’s Academy of Fine Arts before settling in Paris in 1958. There he met Jeanne-Claude, with whom he would develop large-scale in…
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Jacopo Fabris Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacopo Fabris (1689–1761) linked Venetian painting with the stages of northern Europe. His activity extended beyond easel pictures: theatrical scenery and stage arrangements occupied…
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René Bértholo Documented profilePortugal
René Bértholo (1935–2005) developed a practice encompassing painting, sculpture and printmaking. Trained in Lisbon, he first contributed to the magazine Ver, then settled in Paris in…
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Francesco Solimena Documented profileCountry to be documented
Francesco Solimena (1657–1747) held an important position in Neapolitan history and religious painting. Trained by his father Angelo and subsequently by Francesco di Maria in Naples,…
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Patrick Hughes Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Patrick Hughes makes the contradiction between visual perception and physical form the driving force of his painting. Born in Birmingham in 1939, the British artist began exhibiting…
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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794–1872) trained at the Vienna Academy under Friedrich Heinrich Füger. In Rome he joined the Nazarene circle, which included Johan…
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Hugues Claude Pissarro Documented profileFrance
Isaac Pomié is a professional name used by Hugues Claude Pissarro to distinguish part of his contemporary output. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1935, the son of Paul-Émile Pissarro an…
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Miquel Barceló Documented profileSpain
Miquel Barceló’s painting gradually expanded into bronze, ceramics and performance. Born in Felanitx, Mallorca, in 1957, he trained in Palma before beginning studies in Barcelona. Hi…
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Christoffel Bisschop Documented profileNetherlands
Born in Leeuwarden in 1828, Christoffel Bisschop was a Dutch painter of portraits and genre scenes. Following several stages of training in the Netherlands, he studied with Huib van…
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Paul Van Hoeydonck Documented profileBelgium
For Paul Van Hoeydonck (1925–2025), the Belgian artist born in Antwerp, the transition from surface to space became a driving force. Beginning with painting and collage in the 1950s,…
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Andreas Schelfhout Documented profileNetherlands
Andreas Schelfhout established his reputation through Dutch landscape painting, with winter scenes becoming his particular speciality. In The Hague, he moved from his father’s decora…
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Franz Radziwill Documented profileGermany
The German painter Franz Radziwill (1895–1983) developed his work between an expressionist inheritance and a realism imbued with strangeness. Contacts with Schmidt-Rottluff and Hecke…
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Tony Binder Documented profileGermany
Tony Binder’s career connects painting and photography across Europe and Egypt. Largely self-taught, he worked within the artistic circles of Vienna, Munich and Paris. In Alexandria,…
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Nikolay Diulgheroff Documented profileBulgaria
Born in Bulgaria, Nicolay Diulgheroff (1901–1982) developed a practice in Turin spanning painting, architecture and the applied arts. He studied in Vienna, Dresden and at the Bauhaus…
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Pierre-Narcisse Guérin Documented profileFrance
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin made history painting a theatre of human passions, drawing on stories from antiquity. Trained at the royal academy and under Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he won the…
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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