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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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Jan Sawka Documented profilePoland
Painter, printmaker, graphic designer and stage designer Jan Sawka trained in both fine art and architecture in Wrocław. In Poland, he participated in the counterculture, making post…
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Emmanuel Lansyer Documented profileFrance
Emmanuel Lansyer turned from architecture to painting after working in the offices of Alfred Dauvergne and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. His training with Gustave Courbet and Henri Harpigni…
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Alfred-Marie Le Petit Documented profileFrance
Alfred Marie Le Petit, who also signed Alfred Le Petit, was the son of the caricaturist of the same name. His career encompassed painting, printmaking, decoration and humorous drawin…
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Edmond Hédouin Documented profileFrance
Known as Edmond Hédouin, Pierre Edmond Alexandre Hédouin developed a career linking painting, printmaking and illustration. He trained in Paris with Paul Delaroche and Célestin Nante…
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Phillip Martin Documented profileCountry to be documented
Painter and sculptor Phillip John Martin made painted posters on wrapping paper a central theme of his work after a trip to Austria in 1951. After attending Felsted from 1938 to 1948…
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Paul de Castro Documented profileFrance
Landscape is Paul de Castro’s principal subject: he paints the parks and streets of Paris as well as views of the provinces. Trained at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts…
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Pinchas Burstein Documented profilePoland · United States
Pinchas Burstein (1927–1977), known as Maryan S. Maryan, was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland, and died in New York. Following a first solo exhibition in Jerusalem in 1949, he showed his wo…
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Antonio da Correggio Documented profileCountry to be documented
Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio, who died in 1534, was a major figure of the Renaissance in Emilia. His work in Parma includes the dome frescoes of San Giovanni Evangelista and t…
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Jacques-Philippe Caresme Documented profileFrance
Jacques-Philippe Caresme (1734–1796) worked in painting, drawing, pastel and watercolour. Exhibiting at the Salon from 1767, he undertook commissions for religious patrons and royal…
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Sydney Lough Thompson Documented profileNew Zealand
Working between New Zealand and Brittany, Sydney Lough Thompson (1877–1973) developed a painting practice attentive to light and harbour life. He began training in Christchurch in 18…
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Sunil Das Documented profileIndia
Drawing occupies a central place in the work of Sunil Das (1939–2015), an Indian artist born in Calcutta. Horses observed in the mounted police stables inspired hundreds of drawings…
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Stefan Hoenerloh Documented profileCountry to be documented
Stefan Hoenerloh, born in Karlsruhe in 1960, develops painting in which architecture becomes a means of experiencing the passage of time. His biography records his move to Berlin in…
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Anton Räderscheidt Documented profileGermany
Born and deceased in Cologne, Anton Räderscheidt (1892–1970) explored several pictorial languages during a career shaped by war and exile. After the First World War, in which he was…
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Narcisse Virgilio Díaz Documented profileFrance
Narcisse Díaz de la Peña first trained in a porcelain factory, entering an apprenticeship in 1822, then studied with the painter Souchon and by copying works in the Louvre. Accepted…
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Robert Gardelle Documented profileCountry to be documented
Robert Gardelle (1682–1766) made portraiture a central focus of his career in Geneva. Known as “the Younger” to distinguish him from his brother Daniel, a miniaturist based in Englan…
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Dionís Bennàssar Mulet Documented profileSpain
Dionís Bennássar’s (1904–1967) career remained closely tied to Mallorca. He studied art in Palma while working as an electrician, then continued painting in Pollença. An injury to hi…
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George Keyt Documented profileSri Lanka
George Keyt (1901–1993), born into a Burgher family in Kandy, devoted himself to painting from 1927. The Buddhist environment of his home city shaped both his visual and literary wor…
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Hans Muelich Documented profileGermany
Hans Mielich, also known as Muelich or Müelich, spent most of his career in Munich, painting portraits for the bourgeoisie and working for the Bavarian court. After a stay in Regensb…
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Paul Baum Documented profileGermany
Paul Baum (1859–1932) made landscape the field for his development towards Neo-Impressionism. Born in Meissen, he studied in Dresden with Friedrich Preller and subsequently in Weimar…
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Emile Pierre Joseph De Cauwer Documented profileBelgium
Émile Pierre Joseph De Cauwer developed a painting practice focused on architecture, moving between church interiors and urban spaces. Training with his father Joseph at the Ghent Ac…
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Emanuel Glicen Romano Documented profileUnited States
Born in Rome, Emanuel Glicenstein Romano (1897–1984) pursued a career spanning Italy, the United States and Israel. Arriving in New York with his father in 1926, he adopted the name…
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Roger Desserprit Documented profileFrance
Roger Desserprit explored relationships between colour, relief and space. After lessons in painting and drawing in Chalon-sur-Saône, he attended the Paris École des beaux-arts from 1…
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André Elbaz Documented profileCanada · France · Morocco
Theatre, drawing and the transformation of paper run through the career of André Elbaz, born in El Jadida in 1934. His earliest collages served as theatre posters before painting and…
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Norbert Bisky Documented profileGermany · Germany
Norbert Bisky brings the visual legacy of his childhood in East Germany into dialogue with contemporary upheavals. Born in Leipzig in 1970, he studied in Berlin from 1994 to 1999, no…
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Jacques Callot Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Lorraine printmaker Jacques Callot (1592–1635) began an apprenticeship with the Nancy goldsmith Demange Crocq in 1607. His career subsequently took him to Florence, where he refi…
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Nikos Kessanlis Documented profileGreece
Nikos Kessanlis (1930–2004), born in Thessaloniki and deceased in Athens, progressively expanded the means of producing an image. He trained with Nikos Nikolaou, among others, then s…
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Édouard Manet Documented profileFrance
Édouard Manet (1832–1883) trained with Thomas Couture and copied old masters at the Louvre. His modern scenes renewed painting’s subjects and provoked criticism, notably with Le Déje…
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Carl Welz Documented profileGermany
Carl Welz (1860–1929) combined landscape painting with scenes of everyday life. According to a biographical entry published in an auction catalogue, he studied at the Academy of Fine…
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Adolf Hölzel Documented profileAustria · Germany
Adolf Hölzel (1853–1934), born in Olmütz and deceased in Stuttgart, combined painting with an important teaching career. He trained at the Vienna and Munich academies and participate…
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Andrea Vizzini Documented profileItaly
Born in Grotte in 1949, Andrea Vizzini is an Italian painter and sculptor whose beginnings were marked by conceptual painting employing figuration. His canvases draw on myth, art his…
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Speedy Graphito Documented profileFrance
Speedy Graphito, the pseudonym of Olivier Rizzo, was born in Paris in 1961. After beginning as a graphic designer and art director in advertising, he joined the X-Moulinex collective…
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Gustav Klimt Documented profileCountry to be documented
Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), an Austrian painter born in Baumgarten, trained at Vienna’s School of Applied Arts from 1876. His early career involved major official decorative commission…
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Georges Seurat Documented profileFrance
Georges Seurat (1859–1891) developed a painting method informed by contemporary research into optics and colour. By placing small touches side by side, he sought an optical mixture t…
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Nicolas Colombel Documented profileFrance
Nicolas Colombel’s career links Parisian training, Roman artistic circles and commissions from the French monarchy. Trained in Pierre Sève’s studio, he spent time in Rome, joining th…
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Jacques de Loustal Documented profileFrance
Loustal, the professional name of Jacques de Loustal, builds narratives through colour and a distinctive relationship between image and text. Trained in architecture, he began in the…
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Wilhelm Kuhnert Documented profileGermany
Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert placed animals within living environments rather than treating them as an isolated repertoire of forms. The German painter and illustrator attached particul…
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Hubert de Lartigue Documented profileFrance
Hubert de Lartigue, a French artist born in 1963, moved from illustration to painting centred on the female figure. Trained in graphic arts at the Duperré, Arts décoratifs and Estien…
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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