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Nadia Léger Documented profileFrance
Nadia Khodossievitch Léger (1904–1982) was a painter of Belarusian origin whose career crossed several centres of the European avant-garde. Trained in Smolensk in an environment shap…
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Ludwig Klimek Documented profileFrance · Poland
Ludwig Klimek, also known as Ludwik, was a French painter of Polish origin, born in Skoczów in 1912. He died in 1992. After studying fine art in Kraków, he travelled to Paris on a sc…
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Paul Ranson Documented profileFrance
Paul-Élie Ranson (1861–1909), born in Limoges and deceased in Paris, developed a distinctive voice within the Nabis. After training in applied art and at the Académie Julian, he help…
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Pippo Oriani Documented profileItaly
Pippo Oriani (Turin, 1909 – Rome, 1972) was an Italian painter associated with Futurism. He began by studying architecture before turning to painting. His career developed within the…
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Bernd Zimmer Documented profileGermany
Born in Planegg near Munich in 1948, Bernd Zimmer is a German painter associated with the Neue Wilde. He first worked in publishing, training at Hanser before taking on graphic desig…
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Francisco Bajen Documented profileSpain
Francisco Bajén (San Clemente, 1912–Albi, 2014) was a Spanish painter whose artistic career developed in France’s Tarn region. A former Republican army officer, he went into exile in…
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David Malkin Documented profileRussia
David Malkin (1910–2002) was a painter and sculptor of Jewish origin, born in Akkerman, Bessarabia, now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in Ukraine. His career took him from Eastern Europe to P…
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Alexandre Roubtzoff Documented profileFrance
Alexandre Roubtzoff (Saint Petersburg, 1884–Tunis, 1949) was a Russian-born painter whose work became closely associated with Tunisia. He trained under Dmitry Kardovsky at the Imperi…
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Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel Documented profileAustria
Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel (Wunsiedel, 1881–Vienna, 1965) was a painter and printmaker associated with Viennese modernism, particularly noted for his animal subjects. Following train…
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Diet Sayler Documented profileGermany · Romania
Diet Sayler, born in Timișoara, Romania, in 1939, works within geometric abstraction and Concrete Art. Between 1956 and 1961, he studied civil engineering in Timișoara and, in parall…
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Atul Dodiya Documented profileIndia
Atul Dodiya, born in Bombay in 1959, is an Indian artist whose work brings different visual traditions into dialogue. He graduated from the Sir J. J. School of Art in 1982 and contin…
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Marko Pernhart Documented profileCountry to be documented
Markus Pernhart (1824–1871), also known as Marko Pernhart, was a Carinthian landscape painter whose work belongs to both Austrian and Slovenian art history. His paintings depict lake…
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Jo Delahaut Documented profileBelgium
Jo Delahaut (Vottem, 1911–Schaerbeek, 1992) was a leading figure in Belgian geometric abstraction. He studied under Auguste Mambour at the Liège academy between 1928 and 1934 and ear…
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Francesco Lojacono Documented profileCountry to be documented
Francesco Lojacono (Palermo, 1838–1915) was a leading figure in nineteenth-century Sicilian landscape painting. Initially trained by his father Luigi and Salvatore Lo Forte, he conti…
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Wilhelm Kray Documented profileCountry to be documented
Wilhelm Kray (Berlin, 1828 – Munich, 1889) was a German painter of portraits, genre scenes and marine subjects. After working as a goldsmith, he began studying at the Berlin Academy…
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Paolo Veronese Documented profileCountry to be documented
Paolo Caliari, known as Veronese (Verona, 1528–Venice, 1588), was a leading painter of the Venetian Renaissance. Trained in his native city under Antonio Badile, he settled in Venice…
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Ernest Pignon-Ernest Documented profileFrance
Born in Nice in 1942, Ernest Pignon-Ernest is a French artist associated with the beginnings of urban art. In 1966, on the Albion plateau, he created a stencil intervention inspired…
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Charles Maussion Documented profileFrance
Charles Maussion (1923–2010) was a French painter born in Nantes whose work explores space, light and an increasingly economical use of line. After moving to Paris in the aftermath o…
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阿尔弗雷德·库宾 Documented profileAustria
Alfred Kubin (1877–1959) was an Austrian draughtsman, illustrator and writer, born in Leitmeritz, now Litoměřice, in Bohemia. He moved to Munich to study art in 1898 and developed a…
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Yannis Spyropoulos Documented profileGreece
The Greek painter Yánnis Spyrópoulos, born in 1912 and deceased in 1990, developed his painting from naturalism towards abstraction, before shifting his interest to the image itself…
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Robert Pilot Documented profileCanada
Born in Saint-Jean, Newfoundland, in 1898, Robert Wakeham Pilot made the territory of Quebec a favourite subject: his landscapes are set in places including the Laurentians, the Baie…
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Leopold Gottlieb Documented profileFrance · Poland
Léopold Gottlieb began his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he studied painting from 1896 to 1902 under Jacek Malczewski and Théodor Axentowicz. At the end of th…
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Geldorp Gortzius Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish history painter and portraitist Gortzius Geldorp, born in Leuven in 1553, is distinguished by a practice in which the two genres converge: his history paintings, in the D…
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Patrick Procktor Documented profileUnited Kingdom
British artist Patrick Procktor, born in 1936, developed a painting in which realism is combined with imagination. His early works, figurative and highly colourful, later gave way to…
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Popo Iskandar Documented profileIndonesia
Popo Iskandar, an Indonesian painter born in Garut in 1927 and who died in Bandung in 2000, pursued a career encompassing painting, teaching, essay writing and criticism. He began tr…
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Arthur Luiz Piza Documented profileBrazil
Arthur Luiz Piza’s work unfolds in a continuous dialogue between painting and printmaking, two practices that mutually nourish one another in the studio. His artistic research spans…
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Joachim Beuckelaer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Joachim Bueckelaer is distinguished by his market and kitchen scenes, in which food stalls and domestic utensils occupy a central place. Most of the works associated with him are dat…
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José Benlliure y Gil Documented profileSpain
José Benlliure y Gil, also known in Catalan as Josep Benlliure i Gil, was a Spanish painter born in Valencia in 1855 and died in that city in 1937. Born into a family of artists, he…
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Federico Zandomeneghi Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Federico Zandomeneghi, born in Venice and deceased in Paris, developed a career spanning the Florentine Macchiaioli scene and the Parisian milieu, which he joined…
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Fritz Schaefler Documented profileGermany
The German painter and graphic artist Fritz Schaefler (1888–1954), associated with Expressionism, was born in Eschau, in the Spessart, and died in Cologne. His training in Munich beg…
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela Documented profileFinland
The Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela, born Axel Waldemar Gallén, first trained in Helsinki, where he attended the drawing school of the Academy of Fine Arts from 1878. He contin…
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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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Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Documented profilePortugal
The Portuguese painter Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso develops a practice that explores Expressionism and, in his later works, collage and other forms of visual expression; in 1916, he pres…
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Alexandre Jacovleff Documented profileFrance
As a painter and draughtsman, Alexandre Iacovleff pursued a career combining work for the press with travel and the production of drawings related to expeditions. His name is also tr…
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Bénigne Gagneraux Documented profileFrance
Trained in Dijon under François Devosge, Bénigne Gagneraux continued his career in Rome. Born in Dijon in 1756 and died in Florence in 1795, he won the first Prix de Rome for paintin…
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Judith Leyster Documented profileCountry to be documented
Judith Jans Leyster (1609–1660), a Dutch painter born in Haarlem and deceased in Heemstede, left a body of work that includes genre scenes, still lifes and portraits. Around 1630–163…
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Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Documented profileFrance
The French painter and draughtsman Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, born in Cluny in 1758 and died in Paris in 1823, trained in Dijon before embarking on a career marked by public and imperial…
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Claude Bornet Documented profileFrance
Painter, engraver and print dealer, Claude Bornet (1733–1804) is also described as a miniature portraitist. Born in Paris, where he died in 1804, he worked in several complementary a…
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Shibu Natesan Documented profileCountry to be documented
The catalogue attributes to Shibu Natesan the work “Nirvikalpasamadhi,” executed in oil on canvas in 2006 and measuring 180 × 230 cm. On the reverse are the inscription “NIRVIKALPA S…
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Norbert Tadeusz Documented profileGermany
German figurative painter Norbert Tadeusz was born in Dortmund in 1940 and died in Düsseldorf in 2011. He studied painting at the Werkkunstschule in Dortmund with Gustav Deppe from 1…
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Eugen Schönebeck Documented profileGermany
Eugen Schönebeck, a German painter, was born in 1936 in Heidenau, in the Dresden district. He was the son of Paul Schönebeck, a decorative painter, and Gerda. The documentation empha…
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Otto Patzig Documented profileGermany
The German painter and photographer Otto Patzig (1822–1885) is recorded as having been born in Hintergersdorf and having died in Klingenberg am Main. The documented works include por…
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Francesco Podesti Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Francesco Podesti, born in Ancona in 1800 and deceased in Rome in 1895, was associated with academic circles and took part in Italian artistic life in the first h…
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Omar Ba Documented profileSenegal
Born in Senegal in 1977, Omar Ba develops a painting practice that engages with contemporary political and social questions. His work addresses inequalities of wealth and power, migr…
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Victor-Jean Nicolle Documented profileFrance
The French painter and draughtsman Victor-Jean Nicolle devotes a substantial part of his work to cityscapes and ruins: his travels to Rome provide him in particular with the subjects…
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Ermanno Leinardi Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ermanno Leinardi’s (1933–2006) field of research focuses on the perception of space and time; light and colour give his work a lyrical character. His personal collection, assembled o…
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Pierre Clayette Documented profileFrance
French painter born in 1930 and died in 2005, Pierre Clayette was also a lithographer, illustrator and scenographer. After his secondary education, he undertook training at the Acadé…
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Óscar Domínguez Documented profileSpain · France
Óscar Domínguez’s career encompasses Surrealist painting, illustration and objects presented in exhibitions. His first Surrealist paintings date from 1932; his works also include the…
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Bernard Dufour Documented profileFrance
Bernard Dufour’s career brings together a scientific education and an artistic practice that began while he was still working as an engineer: after graduating as an agricultural engi…
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Curt Ehrhardt Documented profileGermany
German painter Curt Ehrhardt, born in Saxony in 1895 and deceased in Schwarz, Hesse, in 1972, situated his work within a quest that he wanted to be both spiritual and social. He inte…
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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