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Charles Dufresne Documented profileFrance
Charles Dufresne (1876–1938) initially found his subjects in Parisian music halls, concert cafés and circuses, drawing on location before reworking his studies in pastel. Awarded 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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Bruno Ceccobelli Documented profileItaly
Bruno Ceccobelli, born in Monte Castello di Vibio in 1952, is an Italian painter and sculptor who trained at Rome’s Academy of Fine Arts. In the early 1980s, he established himself i…
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Jan Mirosław Peszke Documented profileFrance · Poland
Jean Peské (1870–1949) was a French painter and printmaker who settled in France in 1891. In Paris, he worked on decorative projects and illustrations, experimented with pointillism…
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André Brasilier Documented profileFrance
Born in Saumur in 1929, André Brasilier studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris before staying at the Villa Medici in Rome from 1954 to 1957. His painting combines simplified fo…
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Ludwig Meidner Documented profileGermany
Ludwig Meidner (1884–1966) trained in Breslau before settling in Berlin in 1905. A stay in Paris in 1906–1907 brought him to the Académie Julian. Back in Berlin, he developed apocaly…
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Théodore Gérard Documented profileBelgium
Théodore Gérard was a Belgian painter and printmaker who trained at the Ghent Academy of Fine Arts under Théodore Canneel and Jean Baptiste Van der Plaetsen. Travels through Alsace,…
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Achille Giroux Documented profileFrance
Achille Giroux, also known as Jean François Achille Giroux, was a French painter and lithographer who died in 1854. After drawing lessons in Saumur, he trained with Michel Martin Dro…
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Scottie Wilson Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Scottie Wilson (1888–1972), born Louis Freeman, was a Scottish artist without academic art training. After moving to Canada, where he worked as a second-hand dealer, he began drawing…
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Pierre Roy Documented profileFrance
Born in Nantes, Pierre Roy (1880–1950) constructed his paintings from precisely rendered familiar objects. Shells, fruit, seeds, eggs and ribbons come together in poetic scenes that…
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Jean Dewasne Documented profileFrance
Jean Dewasne (1921–1999), a French painter, lithographer and sculptor, approached abstraction as a field for technical as well as formal experimentation. Following a first exhibition…
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Jean Carzou Documented profileFrance
Jean Carzou (1907–2000) was the professional name of Karnik Zouloumian, who was born in Aleppo. After attending the French lycée in Cairo, a scholarship from the Armenian community e…
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Moustapha Baidi Oumarou Documented profileCameroon
Moustapha Baidi Oumarou, born in Maroua in 1997, is a Cameroonian artist who taught himself to paint. Following an early interest in drawing, he joined the visual arts club at the Un…
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Günther Uecker Documented profileGermany
Günther Uecker (1930–2025) turned the nail into a structural element of art: repetition transformed the surface and drew the viewer into an experience of light and relief. The German…
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Dobrosav Milojević Documented profileSerbia
Serbian naive painter Dobrosav Milojević, born in 1948, draws his subjects from village life and childhood memories. His biography connects his mountainous landscapes of Crni Vrh, ne…
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Carl Kreul Documented profileGermany
Carl Kreul (1804–1867) was a German painter active in Nuremberg whose career combined artistic practice with the manufacture of colours. During a stay with his father between 1825 an…
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Roger Forissier Documented profileFrance
Roger Forissier (1924–2003) placed landscape at the centre of a figurative practice that also encompassed portraits, still lifes and printmaking. Born in Feurs, he trained at the fin…
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Paul Georges Klein Documented profileFrance
French painter, draughtsman and illustrator Paul Georges Klein worked on still lifes and portraits alongside scenes of everyday life. Musicians and the world of entertainment held a…
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Alekos Fassianos Documented profileGreece
Greek painter, lithographer and poet Alékos Fassianós (1935–2022) developed a figurative art in which contemporary life takes on a mythological dimension. He studied painting with Yi…
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Alfred Pellan Documented profileCanada
Born in Québec City in 1906, Alfred Pellan received a scholarship in 1926 to continue his training at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. He also worked as a grap…
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Peter Klasen Documented profileGermany
Born in Lübeck in 1935, Peter Klasen draws on the urban environment in his work as a painter, photographer and sculptor. After studying art in Berlin from 1956 to 1959, he moved to P…
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Ludwig Egidius Ronig Documented profileGermany
Ludwig Egidius Ronig was a painter associated with the artistic life of Cologne. After a brief period at the Weimar academy, he studied in Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, subsequently maki…
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Charles Joseph Beauverie Documented profileFrance
Charles Joseph Beauverie was a French painter, printmaker and illustrator whose career connected Lyon, Auvers-sur-Oise and the Forez region. He trained with Louis Guy at the Lyon art…
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Gaston Bertrand Documented profileBelgium
For Gaston Bertrand (1910–1994), simplifying forms remained connected to the experience of the visible world. The Belgian painter began with subjects including intimate interiors, th…
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René Gruau Documented profileFrance · Italy
Born in Rimini in 1909 as Renato Zavagli-Ricciardelli delle Caminate, René Gruau built a career in fashion illustration and advertising. His first drawings appeared in the Milanese m…
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Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein Documented profileCountry to be documented
Portraiture held a central place in the career of Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1788–1868). Trained first by his father, Christian Leberecht Vogel, and then at the Dresden Aca…
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Sylvain Vigny Documented profileAustria · France
Self-taught artist Sylvain Vigny came to France in 1929 after living in Vienna, then settled in Nice in 1934 following a stay in Paris. He frequented the Galerie d’art Romanin opened…
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Édouard Goerg Documented profileFrance
Édouard Goerg (1893–1969), born in Sydney, was a painter, printmaker and illustrator. His experience of the First World War informed work concerned with violence and social contradic…
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Reinhoud D'Haese Documented profileBelgium
Belgian sculptor Reinhoud d’Haese, born in Geraardsbergen in 1928 and deceased in Paris in 2007, is known by his first name, Reinhoud. He studied metalwork and sculpture in Brussels…
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David Vinckboons Documented profileCountry to be documented
Trained by his father Philippe, David Vinckboons settled with his family in Amsterdam around 1591. His work combines landscape and genre painting: peasant celebrations, gatherings in…
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Narcisse Guilbert Documented profileFrance
Narcisse Guilbert (1878–1942) was a painter associated with the Rouen School. He received his earliest instruction from Joseph Delattre and studied under Philippe Zacharie at the art…
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Jacques Majorelle Documented profileFrance
Jacques Majorelle (1886–1962), born in Nancy, trained in his home city before attending the Académie Julian in Paris. Following a stay in Egypt, he arrived in Morocco in 1917 and set…
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Dorothy Iannone Documented profileUnited States
Born in Boston, Dorothy Iannone (1933–2022) began painting in 1959 after studying literature. In New York she ran the Stryke Gallery from 1963 to 1967. Her early abstract exploration…
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Adolphe Appian Documented profileFrance
Adolphe Appian (1818–1898), born Jacques Barthélemi Appian in Lyon, was a painter and printmaker of the Lyon school. He studied at the city’s fine arts school between 1833 and 1836 a…
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Gaston Chaissac Documented profileFrance
Born in Avallon in 1910, Gaston Chaissac died in La Roche-sur-Yon in 1964. The French painter and poet combined visual invention with literary writing. A self-taught artist, he worke…
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Gianni Bertini Documented profileItaly
Gianni Bertini (Pisa, 1922 – Caen, 2010) explored connections between abstract painting, photography and the reproduced image. Working in abstraction from 1947, he moved to Milan in…
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François Morellet Documented profileFrance
François Morellet (Cholet, 1926–2016) was a French artist associated with geometric abstraction. Turning to abstraction in 1950, he developed a deliberately restricted vocabulary of…
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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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Frank-Will Documented profileFrance
Frank-Will (1900–1950), born Frank William Boggs in Nanterre, was a French painter and watercolourist, and the son of the painter Frank Boggs. He abandoned architectural studies to p…
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Ceramano Documented profileBelgium
Charles Ferdinand Ceramano was a Belgian painter of animals and landscapes associated with the Barbizon school. Originally from Tielt, he attended its art academy in 1844–1845 before…
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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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Paul Neagu Documented profileUnited Kingdom · Romania
Paul Neagu (1938–2004) brought the body, geometry and sensory perception into a shared artistic enquiry. After working as an electrician and topographer, he studied at the Nicolae Gr…
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Jules-Émile Zingg Documented profileFrance
Jules-Émile Zingg (Montbéliard, 1882 – Paris, 1942) was a French painter, decorative artist and printmaker whose work focused particularly on landscape. He trained with Félix Giacomo…
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Richard Hartwell Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Born in Cambridgeshire in 1946, Richard Hartwell developed a practice concerned with how images shape perception. After studying art in Cambridge and London, he received a King Edwar…
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Claude Bellegarde Documented profileFrance
Claude Bellegarde (1927–2019) was a French painter born in Paris, where he also died. Following a stay in a sanatorium in 1951, he devoted himself to painting. His white period, from…
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Ivan Puni Documented profileFrance
Jean Pougny, also known as Ivan Puni, was a French-Russian painter who died in Paris in 1956. During his first stay in Paris, beginning in 1910, he attended the Académie Julian and e…
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Jean-Baptiste Pillement Documented profileFrance
Jean-Baptiste Pillement, also known as Jean Pillement (1728–1808), was born and died in Lyon, but built a career across Europe. His travels took him to Portugal, England and Poland,…
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Natalia Dumitresco Documented profileFrance · Romania
Natalia Dumitresco (Bucharest, 1915 – Chars, 1997) was a Romanian painter and sculptor. She trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest and married Alexandre Istrati in 1939. Th…
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Ángel Duarte Documented profileSpain
Ángel Duarte (Aldeanueva del Camino, 1930–Sion, 2007) developed a practice linking optical art, kinetic art and geometric construction. He settled in Paris in 1954 and became a found…
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Thomas Hudson Documented profileCountry to be documented
Thomas Hudson was born in Devon in 1701 and died at Twickenham in 1779. Trained in London by Jonathan Richardson, whose daughter he married, he became a sought-after portrait painter…
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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