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Hermann Nitsch Documented profileAustria
The Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch, born in Vienna in 1938 and deceased in 2022, made the Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries a central concern of his work from 1957 onwards. He conceive…
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Hermann Schnee Documented profileGermany
Hermann Schnee (1840–1926) was a German landscape painter born in Treuenbrietzen. Raised around the parks of Potsdam, he received encouragement from the writer Theodor Storm, a famil…
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Hermann Seeger Documented profileGermany
Wikidata presents Hermann Seeger as a German painter, born in 1857 and died in 1945. The Lempertz catalogue lists under his name Drei Mädchen am Strand, an oil on canvas measuring 57…
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Hermann Stenner Documented profileCountry to be documented
Hermann Stenner (1891–1914), born in Bielefeld, belonged to the younger generation of German Expressionism. After attending the schools of Heinrich Knirr in Munich and Hans von Hayek…
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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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Hermanus Franciscus Busch Documented profileNetherlands
Metzemaekers describes Hermanus Franciscus Busch as a Dutch amateur draughtsman. Born in Groningen on 18 December 1789, he died there on 15 October 1843. Metzemaekers states that he…
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Hermine David Documented profileFrance
Hermine David works in landscape and portraiture; one biographical source describes her as post-Impressionist. She studies at the Académie Julian, in Jean-Paul Laurens’s studio, from…
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Hervé Di Rosa Documented profileFrance
Hervé Di Rosa, born in Sète in 1959, trained at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. His participation in Finir en beauté in 1981 placed him among the artists associat…
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Hippolyte Berteaux Documented profileFrance
Trained at the Paris École des beaux-arts with Hippolyte Flandrin, Léon Cogniet and Paul Baudry, Hippolyte Berteaux pursued a career as a painter and decorator. After three years wor…
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Hippolyte Camille Delpy Documented profileFrance
Born in Joigny in 1842, Hippolyte-Camille Delpy died in Paris in 1910. His landscape painting developed through the teaching of Charles-François Daubigny and the advice of Camille Co…
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Hippolyte Lecomte Documented profileFrance
Hippolyte Lecomte (1781–1857), born in Puiseaux and deceased in Paris, worked as a painter, draughtsman and lithographer. His art contributed to the visual narration of contemporary…
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Hiroshi Sugito Documented profileJapan
Born in Nagoya in 1970, Hiroshi Sugito is a Japanese painter who graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in 1993. The source also describes him as a former…
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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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Horacio Garcia Rossi Documented profileArgentina
Horacio Garcia Rossi (1929–2012), born in Buenos Aires, studied at his city’s fine arts school before settling in Paris in 1959. Within GRAV, he worked with Julio Le Parc, François M…
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Horst Antes Documented profileGermany
Born in Heppenheim in 1936, Horst Antes develops a figurative language centred on a schematic figure that has become a recurring motif in his work. From 1957 to 1959, he studies at t…
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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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Horst Janssen Documented profileGermany
Horst Janssen (1929–1995) developed a graphic oeuvre comprising drawings, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs and end-grain woodcuts. A stay in Svanshall, in southern Sweden, resulted in…
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Howard Hodgkin Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017) was born in London and studied at Camberwell School of Art and Bath Academy of Art, where he later taught. His paintings begin with encounters, places and…
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Hsiao Chin Documented profileTaiwan
Born in Shanghai in 1935, Hsiao Chin, also transcribed as Xiao Qin, develops a practice in which Chinese calligraphy and surfaces dominated by white are part of a conception of art a…
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Hubert Berke Documented profileGermany
The German painter Hubert Berke, born in 1908 and deceased in 1979, develops a body of work that includes both abstract paintings and book illustrations. He studies philosophy and ar…
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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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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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Hubert Salentin Documented profileCountry to be documented
Also known as Johann Hubert Salentin, Hubert Salentin was a German painter born in 1822 and died in 1910. Junge Hirtin offers a concrete point of reference in his oeuvre: this oil on…
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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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Hubert Schmalix Documented profileAustria
Hubert Schmalix (1952–2025) was born in Graz and died in Los Angeles. He studied at Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts from 1971 to 1976, including with Max Melcher. Associated with Austr…
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Hubert van Steel Documented profileCountry to be documented
The painter and draughtsman Hubert van Steel — also known as Huibert van Steel — is documented between 1856 and 1929. Places associated with his activity include Gouda, Arnhem, The H…
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Hugo Darnaut Documented profileAustria
Austrian painter Hugo Darnaut, born in Dessau in 1851 and died in Vienna in 1937, also known as Darnaut-Fix, trained across several artistic centres in Central Europe. After spending…
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Hugo Kauffmann Documented profileCountry to be documented
Hugo Wilhelm Kauffmann (1844–1915), a German painter born in Hamburg and who died in Prien am Chiemsee, pursues his career across several German cities and Paris. The son of the pain…
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Hugo Mühlig Documented profileGermany
The German painter Hugo Mühlig, born in Dresden and deceased in Düsseldorf, is described by the source as Impressionist, which notes landscapes and rural scenes in his paintings. The…
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Hugo Scheiber Documented profileHungary
Born in Budapest in 1873, Hugó Scheiber returned to the city with his family at the age of fifteen. He worked during the day and attended evening painting classes, completing his tra…
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Hugo Ungewitter Documented profileCountry to be documented
Hugo Ungewitter’s career combines official recognition with a journey to Abyssinia: the Berlin court awarded him the title of professor in 1913, and he then travelled to Abyssinia in…
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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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Huub Milder Documented profileCountry to be documented
One, *Stilleven met bloemenvaas en fruitschaal*, is an oil still life on canvas from 1975; the other, *Ende der Fahrt*, is an oil painting on panel from 1978. The sale listings descr…
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Hyacinthe Rigaud Documented profileFrance
Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659–1743), also known as Hyacinthe Rigaud y Ros, was born in Perpignan. He trained in Montpellier with Paul Petzet and Antoine Ranc. Settled in Paris by 1681 at th…
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Ian Davenport Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Born in Kent in 1966, Ian Davenport is a British painter who graduated from Goldsmiths College in London in 1988. That year he participated in Freeze, the exhibition associated with…
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Ida Kerkovius Documented profileLatvia
The German painter and weaver Ida Kerkovius, also described as German-Baltic, pursued a practice combining painting and textile arts. At the age of eighteen, she began training at a…
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Ignat Bednarik Documented profileRomania
Ignat Bednarik (1882–1963) was a Romanian artist born in Orșova who died in Bucharest. His practice brought together painting, illustration and decorative art, an area in which he al…
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Ignatius van der Beken Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter Ignatius van der Beken is recorded as having lived from 1689 to 1774. He is also listed under the names Ignace van der Beken, Ignace Van der Beken, Ignace Bekers,…
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Ignaz Gaugengigl Documented profileGermany
Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl, also referred to as Ignaz Gaugengigl, was a painter and engraver, born in 1855 and died in 1932. Born in Bavaria and described as Bavarian-American, he is as…
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Ilija Bosilj Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ilija Bašičević, known as Ilija Bosilj, was born and died in Šid. He was born there in 1895, when the town belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and died in 1972. After about four…
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Imi Knoebel Documented profileGermany
Born Klaus Wolf Knoebel in Dessau in 1940, Imi Knoebel explores the basic resources of abstract painting. He studied at the Werkkunstschule in Darmstadt from 1962 to 1964, then with…
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Imre Goth Documented profileHungary
Imre Goth’s career is distinguished by the intersection of portraiture and the illustrated press: he portrayed figures from the entertainment world, including Lilian Harvey, as well…
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Ina Barfuss Documented profileGermany
Born in 1949, Ina Barfuss is presented as a German textile artist. Her name also appears in the spelling Ina Barfuß. The reverse of Tanzsaal bears the inscription “Barfuss, 81, Tanzs…
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Ipolit Strâmbu Documented profileRomania
Born in Bratilovu in 1871, Ipolit Strâmbu studied fine arts in Bucharest and Munich. His stay in Paris in 1901 contributed to the exchanges that led to Tinerimea Artistică, an associ…
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Irma Blank Documented profileGermany
Irma Blank’s work explores the graphic possibilities of writing beyond its usual communicative function: her signs evoke the composition of alphabetic writing while remaining illegib…
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Irving Petlin Documented profileUnited States
Irving Burnell Petlin, an American artist born in Chicago on December 17, 1934, and who died in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, on September 1, 2018, took part in the exhibition No…
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Isa Genzken Documented profileGermany
Isa Genzken, born in Bad Oldesloe in 1948, is a German artist who trained at several institutions, completing her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1977. Her practice encomp…
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Isaac de Moucheron Documented profileCountry to be documented
A North Netherlandish painter, draughtsman, printmaker and ornamental designer, Isaac de Moucheron produced a body of work in which architecture occupies a major place. His activity…
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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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Isao Utsumiya Documented profileJapan
Isao Utsumiya, born in Morioka in 1945, is a Japanese artist who settled in France in 1967, the year he graduated from Musashino Art University. Soon after arriving, he became known…
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Countries reflect citizenships recorded in the source and may be incomplete. Reference profiles open the indicated source and do not imply that works are available at the gallery.
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