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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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Jan van Huchtenburgh Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter and printmaker Jan van Huchtenburg (1647–1733) devoted a substantial part of his practice to military history. In Paris in 1667, he worked with Adam François van de…
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Nedko Solakov Documented profileBulgaria
Nedko Solakov builds narratives with words as much as with images and objects. Born in Bulgaria in 1957 and trained in Sofia and Antwerp, he developed work critically engaging with h…
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Mihail Chemiakin Documented profileFrance · Russia · United States
Born in Moscow in 1943, Mikhaïl Chemiakine trained at the secondary art school attached to the Leningrad Academy, then worked at the Hermitage. He organised an exhibition there with…
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Shirley Goldfarb Documented profileUnited States
Shirley Goldfarb (1925–1980) studied at New York’s Art Students League after a brief involvement with theatre. There she met the draughtsman Gregory Masurovsky, whom she married in 1…
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Karl Horst Hödicke Documented profileGermany
Karl Horst Hödicke (1938–2024) pursued a career closely connected with Berlin’s artistic life. Settling in the city in 1957, he studied with Fred Thieler from 1959 before moving away…
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Michel Maly Documented profileFrance
Born in Blois, Michel Maly (1936–2018) developed a figurative practice in which the city became the setting for scenes populated by numerous figures. Paris, New York, Venice and Flor…
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Florencio Molina Campos Documented profileArgentina
Florencio Molina Campos (1891–1959) was an Argentine artist known for his often humorous depictions of the Pampa and gaucho life. His first exhibition of paintings took place at the…
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Ewald Mataré Documented profileGermany
Animals occupy a major place in Ewald Mataré’s sculpture and also appear in his works on paper. Around 1946, Drei Kühe am Meer combined watercolour and opaque white, organising the c…
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Otto Freundlich Documented profileGermany
Otto Freundlich was a German painter and sculptor whose practice also encompassed stained glass and monumental art. After studying in Berlin, he stayed in Paris in 1908 and rented a…
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Rufino Tamayo Documented profileMexico
Pre-Columbian heritage and pictorial experiment meet in the work of the Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991). His employment in the ethnographic drawing department of the Nationa…
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Ken Grimes Documented profileUnited States
Ken Grimes was born in New York in 1947 and grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut. He works almost exclusively with black and white acrylic on canvas or hardboard. Informed by science fic…
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Johan Laurentz Jensen Documented profileCountry to be documented
Johan Laurentz Jensen (1800–1856), born in Gentofte and deceased in Copenhagen, was a Danish painter specialising in flowers and still lifes. He studied with Christoffer Wilhelm Ecke…
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Yang Jiechang Documented profileChina
Yang Jiechang trained in Foshan and then at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1982 and teaching there until 1988. His work appeared in Magiciens de la Terre in Paris…
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Egon Schiele Documented profileCountry to be documented
Egon Schiele (1890–1918) was a figure of Viennese Modernism. In 1906 he entered Christian Griepenkerl’s class at the Vienna Academy, later participating in the formation of the Neuku…
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Arturo Bonfanti Documented profileItaly
The passage from figuration to abstraction shapes the career of Arturo Bonfanti, born in Bergamo in 1905. Trained at the Andrea Fantoni art school and then by Angiolo Alebardi, he mo…
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Charles Johnson Payne Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Snaffles (1884–1967), the pseudonym of Charles Johnson Payne, was a British painter and illustrator. His military experience informed his early caricatures and later his work as a wa…
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Narcisse Berchère Documented profileFrance
Narcisse Berchère was a French painter specialising in Orientalist landscapes. A pupil of Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond at the École des beaux-arts in Paris, he made his Salon debut in…
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Marc Desgrandchamps Documented profileFrance
Marc Desgrandchamps, born in Sallanches in 1960, works as a painter and printmaker. After studying in Aix-en-Provence and at the fine arts school in Paris, he settled in Lyon in 1984…
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Giuseppe Capogrossi Documented profileItaly
Giuseppe Capogrossi (1900–1972) was born and died in Rome. After graduating in law, he chose painting and attended Felice Carena’s studio. His early period includes landscapes, nudes…
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Paul Wunderlich Documented profileGermany
Paul Wunderlich (1927–2010) was a German painter, printmaker and sculptor associated with fantastic realism. Trained in Hamburg, he worked with the Paris printer Desjobert in 1961, t…
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Jacques Truphémus Documented profileFrance
Expressing light through colour is a central concern in the work of Jacques Truphémus (1922–2017). Portraits, still lifes, landscapes and café scenes offered ways to pursue this expl…
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Germain Van der Steen Documented profileFrance
From imaginary plants to cats and birds, Germain Van der Steen (1897–1985) created a pictorial world of vivid colour. Associated with naïve painting, this self-taught artist first wo…
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Egill Jacobsen Documented profileCountry to be documented
The mask became an essential motif early in the work of Egill Jacobsen (1910–1998), a Danish painter born in Copenhagen. During a visit to Paris in 1934, he encountered works by Mati…
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Nicolae Vermont Documented profileRomania
Nicolae Vermont was a Romanian artist trained by Theodor Aman in Bucharest and subsequently at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. He began contributing to the magazine Universul in 188…
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Bolesław Biegas Documented profileFrance · Poland
Sphinxes, cosmic visions and unsettling figures run through the imagination of Boleslas Biegas (1877–1954). Born Bolesław Biegalski in Poland, this Symbolist artist practised sculptu…
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Alice Halicka Documented profileFrance · Poland
Alice Halicka settled in Paris in 1912 and began exhibiting at the Salons. Her painting includes a Cubist phase, exemplified by Composition cubiste avec violon et partition musicale,…
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Alfred Casile Documented profileFrance
Grey light and muted tones distinguish the landscapes of Alfred Casile (1848–1909). He trained at the Marseille art school with Philippe-Auguste Jeanron and later in Paris with Antoi…
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Achille Laugé Documented profileFrance
Returning to the Aude region gave a decisive direction to the work of Achille Laugé (1861–1944). After studies in Toulouse and then with Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Paul Laurens in Pa…
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Maurice Wyckaert Documented profileBelgium
Maurice Wyckaert (1923–1996), born and deceased in Brussels, was a Belgian painter whose early still lifes have been compared with the work of Jean Brusselmans. He joined the Présenc…
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Rudolf Hellwag Documented profileCountry to be documented
Coasts and English landscapes hold an important place in the work of Rudolf Hellwag (1867–1942). Born in Innsbruck, the German marine and landscape painter studied in Munich and Karl…
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Hans Bellmer Documented profileGermany · France
Hans Bellmer (1902–1975), a French artist of German origin, belonged to the Surrealist movement. During the 1930s he constructed and photographed La Poupée, exploring transformations…
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Dimitrie Știubei Documented profileRomania
Dimitrie Știubei first pursued a career in the Romanian navy before devoting himself entirely to painting. He attended Jean Alexandru Steriadi’s studio and studied in Munich with Ern…
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Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet Documented profileFrance
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet (1715–1793) was a French painter best known for his views of Paris and the Seine. Trained by his father, he exhibited at the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1…
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Nicolas Lancret Documented profileCountry to be documented
Nicolas Lancret (1690–1743), born and deceased in Paris, trained in Pierre Dulin’s studio and subsequently with Claude Gillot. Following Watteau, he painted scenes of sociability and…
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Horst Egon Kalinowski Documented profileGermany
Horst Egon Kalinowski (1924–2013), born in Düsseldorf, developed a practice spanning painting and sculpture. After a stay in Italy, he attended Jean Dewasne and Edgard Pillet’s abstr…
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Lovis Corinth Documented profileGermany
Views of the Walchensee occupy an important place in the final years of Lovis Corinth (1858–1925). From 1919, the German painter and his wife owned a house in Kochel am See, and he r…
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Turi Simeti Documented profileItaly
Light and shadow play a decisive role in the monochrome work of Turi Simeti (1929–2021). Born in Alcamo, Sicily, the artist initially took an interest in Burri’s burned materials bef…
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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