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Jean-Yves Couliou Documented profileFrance
Jean-Yves Couliou, a French painter born in Landerneau in 1916 and deceased in Lorient in 1995, grew up near Pont-Aven, the region his parents came from. After secondary school, he t…
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Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange Documented profileFrance
The French painter Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange, born and deceased in Paris, situated her work within Neo-Impressionism. Flowers and gardens hold a prominent place in her painting. S…
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Jérémie Queyras Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Paris in 1997, Jérémie Queyras explores relationships between painting and music. The son of cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, he grew up among professional musicians and develope…
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Jeroen Henneman Documented profileNetherlands
Jeroen Henneman studied at the School of Applied Arts in Amsterdam and the Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He lives and works in Amsterdam. Over the years, his work has moved towa…
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Jerry Zeniuk Documented profileUnited States
Jerry Zeniuk’s painting explores the relationships between colours and space: his compositions move from layered monochromatic surfaces to arrangements of contrasting planes, and the…
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Jesús Mari Lazkano Documented profileSpain
Born in Bergara in 1960, Jesús Mari Lazkano studied fine arts at the University of the Basque Country, where he also developed teaching and research activities. His doctoral thesis,…
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Jesús Rafael Soto Documented profileFrance · Venezuela
In the work of Jesús-Rafael Soto, movement takes shape through the viewer’s own experience: his works engage the gaze and, at times, prompt the viewer to move. In 1953, he explores t…
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Jim Nutt Documented profileUnited States
Born in Pittsfield in 1938, Jim Nutt is an American artist who graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1965. He helped establish the Hairy Who group alongside Gl…
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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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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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Jo Niemeyer Documented profileGermany
Jo Niemeyer’s practice brings together geometric composition and the study of nature. A German artist born in 1946 in Alf, Rhineland-Palatinate, he explores space, time, distances an…
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Joachim Bandau Documented profileGermany
Joachim Bandau, a German painter and sculptor born in Cologne in 1936, develops a practice that combines sculpture and painting. After studying at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts…
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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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Joachim Hierschl-Minerbi Documented profileCountry to be documented
Joachim Hierschl-Minerbi, also referred to as Joachim van Hier and Joachim van Hierschl-Minerbi, is presented as an Austrian painter, born in Trieste in 1834 and died in London in 19…
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Joan Hernández Pijuan Documented profileSpain
Spanish painter born and deceased in Barcelona, Joan Hernández Pijuan developed a body of work whose early stages are marked by expressionist painting with existential resonance, fol…
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Joan Miró Documented profileSpain
The works listed under the name Joan Miró span several decades: from Portrait of Joaneta Obrador, dated 1918, to Maquette for “Miró’s Chicago”, dated 1963. Between these two mileston…
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Joannis Avramidis Documented profileAustria · Greece
Joannis Avramidis (1922–2016), a Greek-Austrian artist, develops a sculptural practice that takes the forms of the human body as its starting point and simplifies them towards abstra…
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Joaquim Bravo Documented profilePortugal
Portuguese painter Joaquim Bravo (1935–1990) was born in Évora and died in Lisbon. An untitled sheet from 1973, executed in oil on paper, is described as signed and dated in ink at t…
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Joaquín Ferrer Documented profileCuba
Born in Manzanillo, Cuba, in 1928, Joaquín Ferrer studied fine arts in Havana and began participating in the national painting salon in 1954. A scholarship enabled him to travel to F…
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Jochen Seidel Documented profileGermany
The German painter Jochen Seidel, also known as Hans Joachim Seidel, lived from 1924 to 1971. Two works on paper, Come Back to Ireland Where the Green Is Like the Green in Your Paint…
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Joe Downing Documented profileUnited States
Joe Downing, also known as Joseph Dudley Downing, was born in Kentucky in 1925 and settled in France in 1950 after studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. His painting explored rel…
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Johan Christian Dahl Documented profileNorway
Johan Christian Dahl (1788–1857) was a Norwegian Romantic landscape painter. After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Bergen, he continued his training at the Copenhagen Ac…
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Johan Jongkind Documented profileNetherlands
The Dutch painter and printmaker Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819–1891) is represented here by a group of subjects in which ports and urban landscapes feature prominently. The listed ti…
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Johan Laurentz Jensen Documented profileCountry to be documented
Johan Laurentz Jensen (1800–1856), born in Gentofte and deceased in Copenhagen, was a Danish painter specialising in flowers and still lifes. He studied with Christoffer Wilhelm Ecke…
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Johann Alexander Thiele Documented profileGermany
Johann Alexander Thiele (1685–1752), born in Erfurt and deceased in Dresden, was a German landscape painter and etcher. After working in Dresden and Arnstadt, he became court painter…
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Johann Anton Castell Documented profileGermany
The German landscape painter Johann Anton Castell lived from 1810 to 1867. A signed oil on canvas, dated 1857 and bearing the inscription “Dresden”, is listed under his name: “Abends…
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Johann Bernhard Klombeck Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German-Dutch painter Johann Bernhard Klombeck (1815–1893), originally from Kleve, set his work within the landscapes of the Lower Rhine and neighbouring Netherlands. These territ…
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Johann Conrad Seekatz Documented profileGermany
Johann Conrad Seekatz was a history painter, genre painter and portraitist. Genre scenes came to occupy an increasingly prominent place in his work, alongside biblical and mythologic…
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Johann Friedrich August Tischbein Documented profileGermany
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, known as “Leipziger-Tischbein”, was a German painter born in Maastricht in 1750 and died in Heidelberg in 1812. A member of the Tischbein dynasty,…
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Johann Garber Documented profileAustria
Johann Garber, born in Wiener Neustadt in 1947, is an Austrian artist associated with Gugging. His earliest documented drawings date from 1977, followed two years later by works in p…
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Johann Georg Pforr Documented profileGermany
Johann Georg Pforr (1745–1798) was a German painter particularly associated with animals and horses. He began working for the Kassel porcelain manufactory in 1769 and attended the ci…
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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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Johann Georg von Dillis Documented profileCountry to be documented
German painter, draughtsman and etcher Johann Georg von Dillis pursued a career combining artistic practice with responsibilities in the Bavarian collections. After studying philosop…
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Johann Hauser Documented profileAustria · Czechia
A figure of art brut, Johann Hauser was born in 1926 in Pressburg, now Bratislava, and died in 1996 in Klosterneuburg, near Vienna. Admitted in 1949 to the Maria Gugging psychiatric…
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Johann Heinrich Roos Documented profileGermany
Johann Heinrich Roos (1631–1685), originally from the Palatinate, grew up in Amsterdam after his family fled during the Thirty Years’ War. He studied history painting, landscape and…
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Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein Documented profileCountry to be documented
Painter, draughtsman, graphic artist, goldsmith, engraver and illustrator, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein is also known by the nickname “Goethe-Tischbein”. Born on 15 February 175…
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Johann Jakob Serr Documented profileGermany
A portrait painter, but also a poet and musician, Johann Jakob Serr (1807–1880) is presented as a German artist born in Rhodt, in the Palatinate, and who died in Heidelberg. In Herbs…
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Johann Julius Heinsius Documented profileFrance
Johann Julius Heinsius (1740–1812) was a German portrait painter whose career developed principally in France. Born into a family of painters, he was the son of Johann Christian Hein…
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Johann Jungblut Documented profileCountry to be documented
Johann Jungblut (1860–1912), also known as Jungbluth, was a German painter born in Saarburg who died in Düsseldorf. His work centres on landscape, particularly Dutch waterways in win…
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Johann Korec Documented profileAustria
Austrian Art Brut artist Johann Korec (1937–2008), born in Vienna and died in Klosterneuburg, works from printed images that he reuses and transforms. Executed in Indian ink and wate…
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Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern Documented profileGermany
Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern (1738–1819), born in Rudolstadt, was a painter and restorer. The son of a portraitist, he developed his practice by studying collections and working w…
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Johann Michael Baader Documented profileGermany
Johann Michael Baader was an eighteenth-century German artist whose life connects Eichstätt with Paris. A painter, watercolourist and etcher, he also supplied drawings for prints. Th…
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Johann Michael Schnitzler Documented profileCountry to be documented
Johann Michael Schnitzler (1782–1861) was a German painter from Neuburg an der Kammel. His father, Johann Nepomuk, taught him the fundamentals of drawing. He continued his training w…
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Johann Nepomuk Geller Documented profileAustria
Austrian painter Johann Nepomuk Geller, born in 1860 and deceased in 1954, practised landscape painting and veduta in particular. His subjects include views of the Wachau and Vienna:…
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Johann Schlesinger Documented profileGermany
Johann Schlesinger is listed among portrait and still-life painters. A portrait of a girl from the Kraehbiel family, dated 1825, is executed in oil on canvas mounted on plywood; the…
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Johann Stephan Decker Documented profileFrance
Originally from Colmar, Johan Stephan Decker, also known as Johann Stephan or Jean Étienne, trained in Paris under David and Jean-Jacques Karpff. Portraiture and miniature painting b…
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Johann Wilhelm Preyer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Rheydt in 1803 and died in Düsseldorf in 1889, Johann Wilhelm Preyer is described as a painter devoted exclusively to still life. The biographical note describes a meticulous…
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Johann Wilhelm Schirmer Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Prussian landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807–1863) worked in several registers of landscape painting, including the Romantic, the classical and the biblically inspire…
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Johanna Schütz-Wolff Documented profileGermany
Johanna Schütz-Wolff (1896–1965) was a German artist whose career brought together textile design, graphic work and teaching. Following studies in Weimar, she trained in Munich with…
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Johannes Bartholomäus Duntze Documented profileGermany
Johannes Duntze developed a landscape practice attentive to variations in light, from Alpine terrain to Norwegian fjords, as well as winter scenes and the valleys of the Rhine, Lahn…
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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