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Karel Appel Documented profileNetherlands
Karel Appel (1921–2006), a Dutch painter, sculptor and poet, belonged to CoBrA, the group founded in 1948. Within this context, spontaneous expression and emotional intensity took a…
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Rudolf Bredow Documented profileGermany
Rudolf Bredow trained at Berlin’s School of Applied Arts from 1930 to 1934 with Hans Orlowski, Harold Bengen and Max Kaus. He subsequently worked as a painter and graphic artist for…
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György Ruttkay Documented profileHungary
Gyorgy Ruttkay (1898–1974) combined law and painting for much of his career. The biography published by Invaluable describes artistic training in Hungary from 1920, followed by a per…
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Clarkson Frederick Stanfield Documented profileCountry to be documented
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793–1867) was a British artist whose maritime experience preceded his career as a painter. Following service in the Royal Navy and a voyage to China, h…
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Hans Zank Documented profileGermany
Hans Zank’s career is closely connected with that of Willi Gericke. The two artists shared a studio in Spandau from 1919 and attended Johann Walter-Kurau’s art school in Berlin from…
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Simon Hantaï Documented profileFrance · Hungary
Simon Hantaï (1922–2008), a Hungarian-born painter who became French, arrived in Paris in 1948. His early experiments combined collage, scraping, rubbing and paint runs. Following a…
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Johann Georg Platzer Documented profileGermany
Johann Georg Platzer (1704–1761) was a painter and draughtsman of the Austrian Rococo, born into a family of painters in South Tyrol. His years in Vienna during the 1730s were a part…
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Jörg Immendorff Documented profileGermany
Jörg Immendorff (1945–2007) was a German painter and sculptor whose work explores the relationship between art and society. In 1968, he founded the Lidl movement, bringing together c…
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Lynn Chadwick Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Lynn Chadwick developed a sculptural practice in which construction and assembly played a central role. Settling in Gloucestershire as a freelance designer in 1947, he initially made…
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George Condo Documented profileUnited States
Born in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1957, George Condo studied music theory and art history before moving to New York. He worked as Andy Warhol’s assistant on the silkscreens for the…
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Myra Landau Documented profileMexico
Myra Landau (1926–2018) was born in Bucharest and reached Brazil with her family after fleeing Romania in 1940. Self-taught, she developed an abstraction based on moving geometric li…
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James Clarke Hook Documented profileCountry to be documented
James Clarke Hook (1819–1907) was an English painter and etcher. Admitted to the Royal Academy in 1836, he studied there for three years before exhibiting The Hard Task in 1839. A st…
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Gottfried Goebel Documented profileAustria
Gottfried Goebel (1906–1975), an Austrian painter born in Vienna who died in Paris, studied with Rudolf Jettmar at Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts. He exhibited at the Hagenbund and be…
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Hans Rottenhammer Documented profileGermany
Small paintings on copper form a distinctive part of the work of Hans Rottenhammer (1564–1625). Born in Munich, the Bavarian painter trained with Hans Donauer the Elder before workin…
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Elke Krystufek Documented profileAustria
Elke Krystufek, born in Vienna in 1970, is an Austrian artist working with photography, video, drawing, installation and performance. She uses her own body to examine sexual identity…
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Stephan Balkenhol Documented profileGermany
Carved and partially painted wood is central to the work of Stephan Balkenhol, a German sculptor born in Fritzlar in 1957. He trained at the Hamburg art school with Ulrich Rückriem a…
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Roger Raveel Documented profileBelgium
Roger Raveel (1921–2013) was born in Machelen-aan-de-Leie, where he lived and worked until his death. Trained in Deinze and then Ghent, he met Cobra artists in the early 1950s. His p…
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Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler Documented profileGermany
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler trained in Dresden in fashion, graphic design, painting and drawing, then joined the Dresdner Sezession in 1919. After settling in Hamburg in 1925, she depict…
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Beatriz Milhazes Documented profileBrazil
Beatriz Milhazes, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960, is a Brazilian artist. After studying social communication, she trained at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage between 1980 a…
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Angela de la Cruz Documented profileSpain
Born in A Coruña in 1965, Ángela de la Cruz explores the limits of painting and its existence as an object. After studying philosophy and literature in Santiago de Compostela, she co…
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Silvio Bicchi Documented profileItaly
Born in Livorno, Silvio Bicchi (1874–1948) trained with Giovanni Fattori at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts alongside his brother Ottorino. He became known for illustrations of the…
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Adriaen van de Velde Documented profileCountry to be documented
Figures and animals establish the scale of Adriaen van de Velde’s landscapes (1636–1672). The Dutch painter and etcher, a son of Willem van de Velde the Elder, trained with his fathe…
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William Didier-Pouget Documented profileFrance
Heather, heathland and changing light provide several connecting threads through the work of William Didier-Pouget. His titles themselves evoke moonrise, morning mist and twilight. T…
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Pierre Boucherle Documented profileFrance
Pierre Boucherle (1894–1988) was a French painter born in Tunis, where he studied at the fine arts school. His early satirical drawings were intended for the local press. His career…
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Pietro Dandini Documented profileCountry to be documented
Florence’s churches and palaces offer several ways into the work of Pier Dandini, also known by the first name Pietro. This painter of the Florentine Baroque produced both easel pict…
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Louis Toffoli Documented profileFrance
The world of work is a recurring subject in the paintings of Louis Toffoli (1907–1999), who had himself worked as a blacksmith and tailor. Born in Trieste, he attended evening art cl…
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Fabio Rieti Documented profileFrance
Fabio Rieti developed a practice bringing together painting, architecture and urban space. Arriving in New York with his mother in 1940, he studied with Corrado Cagli and subsequentl…
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Joseph Navlet Documented profileFrance
Joseph Navlet (1821–1889) was a French painter from Châlons-sur-Marne. He first trained with his father, a drawing teacher, before studying under Abel de Pujol at the École des beaux…
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Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine Documented profileFrance
Born in Rouen, Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (1751–1824) worked as a portrait and miniature painter. He studied with Jean-Baptiste Descamps at the art school in his native city, wher…
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Jan Thomas van Ieperen Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jan Thomas van Ieperen (1617–1678) pursued a career as a painter and printmaker that extended from Antwerp’s artistic circles to the court in Vienna. Born in Ypres, he was establishe…
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Charles-Henri Contencin Documented profileFrance
Charles-Henri Contencin (1898–1955) was a French painter and poster designer whose work focuses largely on mountains. Raised for part of his childhood in the Bernese Oberland, he lat…
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Paula Modersohn-Becker Documented profileCountry to be documented
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) was a German painter born in Dresden. After training in Bremen, she moved to Worpswede in 1898 and became involved with its artists’ colony. She ma…
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Eugène Louis Boudin Documented profileFrance
Born in Honfleur, Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) found many of his subjects in the harbours and beaches of northern France. The son of a ship’s captain, he opened a framing shop in Le Hav…
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Honoré Daumier Documented profileFrance
The satirical press provided an essential arena for Honoré Daumier (1808–1879). Born in Marseille and brought to Paris as a child, he earned his living from 1830 by drawing caricatur…
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George Frederic Watts Documented profileCountry to be documented
Painting, sculpture and monumental ambition intersect in the career of George Frederic Watts (1817–1904). Trained in sculpture by William Behnes, he entered the Royal Academy in 1835…
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Jorinde Voigt Documented profileGermany
Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1977, Jorinde Voigt explores processes of inner perception. Affect, memory, imagination, scientific data and human relationships inform an analytical app…
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Toshinobu Onosato Documented profileJapan
Toshinobu Onosato (1912–1986) was a Japanese painter whose work explored geometric abstraction. Based in Kiryū from childhood, he studied with Seifū Tsuda from 1931 to 1934 and found…
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Napoleone Angiolini Documented profileCountry to be documented
Napoleone Angiolini (1797–1871) was an Italian painter whose career was closely connected with Bologna. He trained at the city’s Academy of Fine Arts and received a scholarship in 18…
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Siegfried Anzinger Documented profileAustria
Siegfried Anzinger moved to Cologne in 1982. His exhibition history includes documenta 7 in Kassel, Zeitgeist in Berlin and the Venice Biennale in 1988. He received the Oskar Kokosch…
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Francky Boy Documented profileFrance
Painting, sculpture, film and stage design intersect in the career of Francky Boy, the pseudonym of François Sévéhon, born in Paris in 1954. Self-taught, he made around forty short a…
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Matt Mullican Documented profileUnited States
Matt Mullican, born in Santa Monica in 1951, investigates systems of knowledge and the relationships between perception, language and representation. The son of artists Lee Mullican…
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Kosta Alex Documented profileCountry to be documented
Kosta Alex developed his sculpture between the United States, Paris and Geneva. Born Kosta Alexopoulos in Elizabeth in 1925 to Greek immigrant parents, he learned carving, casting an…
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Barend Cornelis Koekkoek Documented profileNetherlands
Landscape lies at the heart of the work of Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803–1862), a Dutch painter from Middelburg. His woodland scenes give trees a monumental presence, setting human…
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Nestor Cambier Documented profileBelgium
Portraiture links the different stages of the career of Nestor Cambier, a Belgian painter and draughtsman born in Couillet in 1879. At the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, he…
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Jiří Georg Dokoupil Documented profileGermany
For Jiří Georg Dokoupil, born in Krnov in 1954, painting is a field of technical experiment rather than a language established once and for all. His series explore markedly different…
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Hubert Robert Documented profileFrance
Hubert Robert (1733–1808) was a French painter whose work gives a prominent role to architecture and ruins. After training with the sculptor Michel-Ange Slodtz, he studied perspectiv…
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Andrea Locatelli Documented profileCountry to be documented
Landscape lies at the heart of the work of Andrea Locatelli (1695–1741), a Roman painter whose compositions attracted patrons including Cardinals Alessandro Albani and Pietro Ottobon…
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Aurel Richter Documented profileHungary
Hungarian painter Aurel Richter (1870–1957), born in Budapest, also worked as an illustrator and designer. Mark Mitchell’s account records his training with Karl Lotz and his contact…
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Heinrich Hofmann Documented profileCountry to be documented
The figure of Christ holds an important place in the work of German painter and illustrator Heinrich Johann Michael Ferdinand Hofmann (1824–1911). Born in Darmstadt, he received his…
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Emil Schumacher Documented profileGermany
Emil Schumacher was a German painter born in Hagen in 1912 who died in 1999. After studying graphic arts in Dortmund, he participated in the inaugural exhibition of the Junger Westen…
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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