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Sergius Hruby Documented profileGermany
Sergius Hruby (1869–1943), an Austrian artist born in Vienna, combined graphic work, decorative arts and teaching. He studied at Vienna’s School of Applied Arts and attended August E…
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Giuseppe Palizzi Documented profileFrance
Giuseppe Palizzi was an Italian painter whose career linked Naples and France. He trained with Anton Sminck Pitloo and then Gabriele Smargiassi, exhibiting historical landscapes in a…
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Émile-René Ménard Documented profileFrance
René Ménard (1862–1930) developed a landscape painting practice bringing together references to antiquity, twilight atmospheres and a Symbolist sensibility. Born into an artistic mil…
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Riccardo Pellegrini Documented profileCountry to be documented
Riccardo Pellegrini (1863–1934) was an Italian painter born in Milan who died in Crescenzago. The Galleria Giamblanco biography places his training in Milan, followed by Rome and stu…
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Marcel Delmotte Documented profileBelgium
Visionary landscapes and large symbolic compositions occupy a central place in the work of Marcel Delmotte (1901–1984). Born in Charleroi, the Belgian painter trained at the Universi…
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John-Franklin Koenig Documented profileUnited States
Born in Seattle, John-Franklin Koenig (1924–2008) began painting in Biarritz in 1945 at the university for American military personnel. He moved to Paris in 1948 and met Jean-Robert…
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Francesco Foschi Documented profileCountry to be documented
Francesco Foschi trained with Francesco Mancini in Fano from 1726 before moving to Rome in 1729. His first known commission, in 1739, concerned illustrations for Ovid’s Metamorphoses…
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Adolphe Gaussen Documented profileFrance
Born in Marseille, Adolphe Gaussen (1871–1954) devoted much of his painting to coastal landscapes and seascapes. He trained with Jean-Baptiste Olive at the Marseille art school and b…
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Jacob Jordaens Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678) was a Flemish painter whose career unfolded chiefly in Antwerp. Trained by Adam van Noort, he became a master of the Guild of Saint Luke in 1615–1616 and i…
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Alexandre René Veron Documented profileFrance
Alexandre René Véron was a French painter who exhibited at the Salon between 1848 and 1887. His painting titles trace a geography of rural landscapes and river views, from the forest…
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Paul Madeline Documented profileFrance
Autumn in the Creuse holds an important place in the painting of Paul Madeline (1863–1920). His discovery of the region in 1894, following encounters with Maurice Rollinat and Léon D…
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Francisco Toledo Documented profileMexico
Francisco Toledo (1940–2019) worked across painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics. He began his artistic training in Mexico City at seventeen and moved to Paris after…
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Hermann Emil Pohle Documented profileCountry to be documented
Hermann Emil Pohle was a painter associated with the Düsseldorf school. The son of landscape painter Hermann Pohle, he studied under Peter Janssen at the Düsseldorf Academy between 1…
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Sigmar Polke Documented profileGermany
Sigmar Polke, born in 1941 in Oels, now Oleśnica in Poland, made experimentation a guiding principle of his work. After an apprenticeship in a stained-glass workshop, he studied at t…
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Louis-Alexandre Bouché Documented profileFrance
Louis-Alexandre Bouché (1838–1911) was a French painter born in Luzancy, where he also died. One of eight children, he worked in a tile factory as a child and later in millstone prod…
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Georges Oudot Documented profileFrance
Georges Oudot (1928–2004) combined sculpture, drawing and printmaking in a body of work often centred on the human figure. After studying at the art school in Besançon, he entered th…
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Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro Documented profileFrance
Georges Manzana-Pissarro (1871–1961) learned painting from his father and initially made Impressionist-related landscapes around Pontoise and Éragny. In 1894 he adopted the pseudonym…
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Eugène Leroy Documented profileFrance
Born in Tourcoing, Eugène Leroy (1910–2000) developed a painting practice in which the image takes shape and becomes buried within thick layers of paint. Figures, portraits, nudes an…
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Tsuguharu Foujita Documented profileFrance · Japan
Ivory grounds and delicate black outlines give the paintings of Tsugouharu Foujita (1886–1968) their distinctive character. The Japanese artist studied Western painting at the Tokyo…
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Paul Flora Documented profileCountry to be documented
Paul Flora (1922–2009) developed a drawn universe in which humour mingles with strangeness. Born in Glurns in South Tyrol, he grew up in Innsbruck and received lessons from Max von E…
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David Tremlett Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Born in St Austell, Cornwall, in 1945, David Tremlett studied in Falmouth and then Birmingham between 1962 and 1966. Wall drawing occupies a central place in his practice: his first…
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Leonardo da Vinci Documented profileCountry to be documented
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) trained in Florence in Andrea del Verrocchio’s workshop, studying drawing, painting, sculpture and goldsmithing among other practices. In Milan, working…
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Sohan Qadri Documented profileIndia
Sohan Qadri (1932–2011), an artist born in Punjab, used paper and colour to pursue an artistic inquiry connected with meditation. He studied at the Simla College of Art and subsequen…
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Alexandre Hollan Documented profileFrance · Hungary
Born in Budapest in 1933, Alexandre Hollan left Hungary in 1956 and settled in Paris, where he studied at the École des beaux-arts with Roger Chapelain-Midy. His work centres on tree…
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Sandro Botticelli Documented profileItaly
Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510), born Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, was a Florentine painter whose work encompasses religious subjects, portraits and mythological compositio…
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André Heurtaux Documented profileFrance
André Heurtaux (1898–1983) was a self-taught French painter whose development led from figuration to geometric abstraction. His early still lifes and landscapes reflect an interest i…
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Giulio Turcato Documented profileItaly
Giulio Turcato (1912–1995), born in Mantua, received his artistic training in Venice and participated in group exhibitions from 1932. During the war, he joined the antifascist resist…
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Petrus Kremer Documented profileBelgium
Pierre, or Petrus, Kremer (1801–1888) was a Belgian painter born in Antwerp, where he also died. A pupil of Guillaume Herreyns and Mathieu-Ignace Van Brée at the city’s academy, he c…
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Jonas Burgert Documented profileGermany
Jonas Burgert develops figurative painting populated by enigmatic characters and complex situations. For this German artist, born in West Berlin in 1969, the figure serves to questio…
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Juan Manuel De la Rosa Documented profileMexico
Juan Manuel de la Rosa (1945–2021), a Mexican artist from Sierra Hermosa in Zacatecas, gave paper a role extending beyond that of a simple support. A painter, printmaker and ceramici…
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Thomas Gleb Documented profileFrance · Poland
Thomas Gleb (1912–1991) trained in drawing and painting in Łódź before continuing his artistic explorations in Paris from 1932. He held his first exhibition in his studio there in 19…
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Ode Bertrand Documented profileFrance
Ode Bertrand, born in Paris in 1930, came to visual art from classical dance and developed a practice within geometric abstraction and concrete art. A niece of Aurélie Nemours, she w…
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Nicolas Vleughels Documented profileFrance
Nicolas Vleughels (1668–1737), also known as Vleugels, was a French painter born in Paris who died in Rome. The son of Flemish portraitist Philippe Vleughels, he trained with Pierre…
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Maurice Verdier Documented profileFrance
The Parisian painter and lithographer Maurice Verdier (1919–2003) entered art school in 1938 after attending evening classes in Montparnasse. With Paul Aïzpiri and Gaëtan de Rosnay,…
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Maurice Loutreuil Documented profileFrance
Maurice Loutreuil (1885–1925) was a French painter whose subjects included landscapes, portraits, nudes and still lifes. After evening classes with Jules Hervé-Mathé in Le Mans, he c…
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi Documented profileCountry to be documented
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), also known in French as Piranèse, worked as both a printmaker and an architect. Trained in Venice, he went to Rome in 1740 and developed his e…
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André Engel Documented profileFrance
André Engel, a landscape painter born in 1880, came from an Alsatian family connected with the textile industry in Mulhouse and grew up at Château de Ripaille beside Lake Geneva. His…
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Abdelkader Guermaz Documented profileAlgeria · France
Abdelkader Guermaz (1919–1996), born in Mascara, grew up in Oran. From 1941, he participated in exhibitions at Galerie Colline, working as a sign painter and later as a writer for Or…
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Ohara Koson Documented profileJapan
Known as Koson, Ohara Matao (1877–1945) devoted much of his print production to kachō-e, the genre of bird-and-flower imagery. He initially worked with publishers Akiyama Buemon and…
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Ferdinand František Engelmüller Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ferdinand Engelmüller (1867–1924) was a Czech painter and graphic artist whose work focused on landscape and architectural subjects. A pupil of Julius Mařák at the Prague Academy of…
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Stanislas Lépine Documented profileFrance
Stanislas Lépine (1835–1892) centred his work on Paris, its surroundings and the landscapes of Normandy. Living in Montmartre from 1855, he entered Corot’s studio in 1860. He had mad…
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Paul Adolf Seehaus Documented profileGermany
Paul Adolf Seehaus (1891–1919) belonged to the circle of Rhenish Expressionists around August Macke. Their close personal and artistic relationship began in 1910. In 1913 Macke helpe…
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Tom Phillips Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Tom Phillips (1937–2022) was a British artist working across painting, printmaking and collage. After studying English literature at Oxford, he trained at Camberwell, graduating in 1…
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Thomas Ender Documented profileCountry to be documented
Thomas Ender (1793–1875), an Austrian landscape painter born in Vienna, combined academic training with extensive experience of travel. After studying with Hubert Maurer and Laurenz…
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Michel Kikoine Documented profileFrance
Michel Kikoïne met Chaïm Soutine in a Minsk studio in 1905 and studied with him in Vilnius from 1908. Arriving in Paris in 1912, he continued his studies in Fernand Cormon’s studio,…
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Kenneth Armitage Documented profileUnited Kingdom
William Kenneth Armitage (1916–2002) was a British sculptor whose semi-abstract bronzes frequently retain a reference to the human figure. He studied at Leeds College of Art and then…
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Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo Documented profileNetherlands
Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, known as Corneille (1922–2010), was a Dutch artist whose practice encompassed painting, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture. Following his training i…
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Helmut Kolle Documented profileGermany
German painter Helmut Kolle (1899–1931), also known by the pseudonym Helmut vom Hügel, pursued his career between Berlin and France. Following his first Berlin exhibitions, he settle…
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Antoine Tzapoff Documented profileFrance
Antoine Tzapoff, a French artist born in 1945, developed a figurative oeuvre largely devoted to the Indigenous peoples of North America. After three years of applied arts studies, he…
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Edvard Munch Documented profileNorway
Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863–1944) made personal experience a driving force of his artistic investigation. He trained in Christiania, receiving advice from Christian Krohg, v…
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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