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Théodore Rousseau Documented profileFrance
Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) devoted himself to landscape, studying with Pierre Alexandre Pau de Saint-Martin and subsequently Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond. Travels in Auvergne and No…
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Ferdinand Roybet Documented profileFrance
Ferdinand Roybet approached painting through training as an engraver in Lyon and through copying Flemish and Italian masters. His Salon debut in 1865 brought together Une musicienne…
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Fritz Lange Documented profileGermany
Fritz Lange (1851–1922) was a German painter associated with Düsseldorf whose practice combined landscape and animal painting. Available biographical accounts describe training with…
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Otto Lendecke Documented profileCountry to be documented
Otto Lendecke (1886–1918), an Austrian artist born in Lemberg who died in Vienna, worked as a painter, sculptor and illustrator. After leaving a military career in 1909, he exhibited…
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Hedwig Öhring Documented profileGermany
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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Guy Degobert Documented profileBelgium
Trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Guy Degobert (1914–1988) moved from realism with a Romantic atmosphere through an abstract period before returning to increasin…
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Johann Jungblut Documented profileCountry to be documented
Johann Jungblut (1860–1912), also known as Jungbluth, was a German painter born in Saarburg who died in Düsseldorf. His work centres on landscape, particularly Dutch waterways in win…
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Hermann Amann Documented profileGermany
Hermann Amann (1934–2020), born in Germany and long based in France, placed colour at the centre of his artistic development. He began with Expressionist landscapes in 1952 and studi…
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Franz van Severdonck Documented profileBelgium
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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August Lohr Documented profileMexico · United States
August Lohr pursued an international career connecting landscape painting with panoramic spectacle. Trained in Munich from 1863, he began by painting Alpine scenes. Between 1879 and…
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Théodore Géricault Documented profileFrance
Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) gave history painting an intensity informed by observation of the present. Trained with Carle Vernet and then Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, he presented The…
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Heinrich Hermanns Documented profileCountry to be documented
For Heinrich Hermanns (1862–1942), a painter and lithographer from Düsseldorf, landscape developed into a growing attention to light in cities and interiors. He studied at the Düssel…
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Adolf Fleischmann Documented profileGermany
Adolf Fleischmann developed an abstraction in which geometric construction retained the sensitivity of the painted gesture. Born in Esslingen in 1892, he studied with Adolf Hölzel am…
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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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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