Recently enriched profiles
Documented biographies recently enriched by Swiss Art Gallery, with their sources and auction references.
1’477 documented profiles
The most represented countries
Browse by initial
1’477 results
-
Giovanni Battista Vanni Documented profileCountry to be documented
Giovan Battista Vanni trained under Aurelio Lomi, Matteo Rosselli, Jacopo da Empoli, Cristofano Allori and Giulio Parigi. From 1624 to 1632, he worked in Rome, where his activity is…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
fr.wikipedia.org ↗ -
Max Klinger Documented profileGermany
Max Klinger, an engraver, draughtsman and sculptor, first trained in Karlsruhe in 1874–1875, then at the Berlin Academy of Arts, where he studied under Karl von Gussow. After complet…
3 auction references Reference profile ↗ -
Ivan Contreras-Brunet Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1927, Ivan Contreras-Brunet made his first paintings in the early 1940s; he died in Vendôme, France, in 2021. After these early works, he attended courses…
2 auction references Reference profile ↗ -
Albert Contreras Documented profileCountry to be documented
American painter Albert Contreras, born in 1933 and deceased in 2017, is represented in the available information by an abstract composition titled “Composition with Orange Circle No…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
www.geneve-encheres.ch ↗ -
Herbert Bayer Documented profileAustria · United States
Herbert Bayer was born in Austria in 1900 and died in the United States in 1985; his practice encompassed typography, photography, design, painting, architecture and sculpture. This…
6 auction references Reference profile ↗ -
Heinrich Neppel Documented profileGermany
Heinrich Neppel, a German painter born in Munich in 1874 and who died in that city in 1936, is associated with landscape painting. According to Invaluable’s biographical entry, he st…
2 auction references Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
www.invaluable.com ↗ -
David Ostrowski Documented profileGermany
German painter David Ostrowski, born in Cologne in 1981, develops a body of work centred on pictorial experimentation. His painting tests gesture, accident and imperfection across va…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
www.lu-et-cie.fr ↗ -
Richard Mudariki Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in 1985, Richard Mudariki is a full-time painter who lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. His contemporary paintings contain social commentary on various African issues.…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Léon Spilliaert Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter, draughtsman, illustrator and lithographer Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) developed a body of work in which night, empty expanses and self-portraiture occupy a centr…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Ferdinand Richardt Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Danish-American painter and illustrator Ferdinand Richardt devoted a substantial part of his work to landscapes and architectural views. His journey from Denmark to the United St…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Henri Decaisne Documented profileBelgium
Henri de Caisne, a Belgian painter born in Brussels in 1799 and died in Paris in 1852, practised history painting, genre painting and portraiture. After receiving the prize for the a…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
fr.wikipedia.org ↗ -
Regina Bogat Documented profileUnited States
Regina Bogat, an American abstract artist born in 1928, is represented by an untitled work from 1964, executed in oil and collage on cardboard. The work measures 53.5 × 38.5 cm. A de…
4 auction references Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
www.bbw-auktionen.com ↗ -
Yi Eungro Documented profileFrance · South Korea
Lee Ungno’s practice develops at the intersection of ink painting and calligraphy, which informs his creative process through both signs and formal elements. In 1920, he learns the f…
4 auction references Reference profile ↗ -
Kenneth Price Documented profileUnited States
American artist and printmaker Kenneth Price devoted most of his work to ceramic sculpture. He is particularly associated with abstract forms shaped from fired clay. His sculptures a…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
www.invaluable.com ↗ -
Roberto Fabelo Documented profileCuba
Roberto Fabelo Pérez, a Cuban artist born in 1950, is represented by works on different supports and in distinct formats. Esmeralda en el muro del malaca is a watercolour on paper, s…
5 auction references Reference profile ↗ -
Klaus Staudt Documented profileGermany
At the beginning of his career, Klaus Staudt made serial reliefs in white wood, before developing spatial and shadow reliefs, followed by two-layer reliefs. Born in 1932 in Otterndor…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Ivan Aivazovsky Documented profileCountry to be documented
Marine painting is central to Ivan Aïvazovski’s reputation: sources attribute more than 6,000 works to him, about half of them seascapes. When painting, he worked from memory, guided…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Marie Vassilieff Documented profileFrance
The painter and theatre designer Marie Vassilieff—also known as Maria Ivanovna Vassilieva—was born in Smolensk in 1884 and died in 1957. Her career brings together painting, decorati…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
awarewomenartists.com ↗www.radiofrance.fr ↗francoiselivinec.com ↗www.lempertz.com ↗ -
Allan McCollum Documented profileUnited States
Born in Los Angeles in 1944, Allan McCollum developed a body of work that was presented in solo exhibitions from the early years of his career: the first took place in 1970, and the…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Ferruccio Ferrazzi Documented profileItaly
The sale catalogue describes a signed, dated and titled oil on canvas depicting Herta Ottolenghi and her son Astolfo, measuring 126 × 151 cm. According to this catalogue, a label on…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
www.bbw-auktionen.com ↗ -
Constant-Joseph Desbordes Documented profileFrance
A portraitist and genre painter, Constant Joseph Desbordes is associated with a presumed portrait of Auguste Barre de Saint-Fare, a lieutenant in the lancers of the Royal Guard. Date…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Attila Kovács Documented profileGermany · Hungary
Koordination p3-13-1975 is an acrylic painting on canvas mounted on wood, measuring 100 × 100 cm; the entry describes it as signed and dated, and as bearing the name Kovács on the re…
2 auction references Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
www.bbw-auktionen.com ↗ -
Opy Zouni Documented profileGreece
Born in Cairo in 1941 and deceased in 2008, Opy Zouni was a Greek artist who lived and worked in Athens from 1963 onwards. According to Artsper, her family roots lie in Crete and San…
2 auction references Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
www.artsper.com ↗ -
Hansjörg Wagner Documented profileGermany
Hansjörg Wagner, a German sculptor, painter and draughtsman born in Berlin in 1930 and who died in Munich in 2013, developed a body of work that brings together sculpture, painting a…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Franz Maria Jansen Documented profileGermany
Franz M. Jansen, a German painter and graphic artist, was born in Cologne on 4 February 1885. He is associated with Rhenish Expressionism, an artistic movement of the 1910s. Sources…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Francesco Jacovacci Documented profileCountry to be documented
Francesco Jacovacci was born in Rome on 30 January 1838 and died there on 26 June 1908. He collaborates with Cesare Fracassini on the frescoes of the Basilica of Saint Lawrence outsi…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Manoucher Yektai Documented profileIran · United States
The Iranian painter Manoucher Yektai (1922–2019) is represented here by a still life dated 1973. Still Life with Cyclamens, signed and dated oil on canvas, measures 40.5 × 51 cm. The…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
www.piguet.com ↗ -
Zygmunt Waliszewski Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Polish painter Zygmunt Waliszewski was born in Saint Petersburg in 1897 and died in Krakow in 1936. A Don Quixote catalogued under his name is described as watercolour and gouach…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
www.schulerauktionen.ch ↗ -
Seund Ja Rhee Documented profileSouth Korea
She favours woodblock printing and makes her prints by hand; sometimes, she presses the carved blocks directly onto the paper. Her visual vocabulary draws on the symbols and characte…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
www.mchampetier.com ↗fr.wikipedia.org ↗www.millon.com ↗www.bbw-auktionen.com ↗ -
George Engleheart Documented profileCountry to be documented
George Engleheart is a miniature painter whose clientele includes aristocrats and numerous courtiers of the English court; he paints twenty-five portraits of George III. Having studi…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
fr.wikipedia.org ↗ -
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…
2 auction references Reference profile ↗ -
Gustave Cariot Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris on 28 June 1872, Gustave Camille Gaston Cariot is described as a French painter associated with the Pointillist movement. His work includes landscapes of Brittany and t…
3 auction references Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
fr.wikipedia.org ↗www.masterworks.com ↗www.kollerauktionen.ch ↗barnies.fr ↗ -
Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid Documented profileJordan · Turkey
Fahrelnissa Zeid’s practice is documented by large abstract canvases shown in New York in the 1950s, followed by the works titled *Paléokrystalos*, in which she incorporates painted…
2 auction references Reference profile ↗ -
Georg Tyrahn Documented profileCountry to be documented
Georg Tyrahn is described as a German painter, born in 1860 and deceased in 1917. An auction catalogue describes Der erste Geburtstag as an oil painting on canvas signed “G. Tyrahn”…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
www.bbw-auktionen.com ↗ -
Willem van de Velde the Younger Documented profileCountry to be documented
Willem van de Velde the Younger, a marine painter born in Leiden in December 1633 and who died in London in 1707, is associated first with calm maritime scenes and later with battle…
9 auction references Reference profile ↗ -
Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé Documented profileFrance
Ivan Choultsé’s painting focuses on natural motifs, with water and snow given particular prominence; winter landscapes, often Swiss, are especially frequent. Descriptions of his work…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Mikuláš Medek Documented profileCountry to be documented
Czech painter Mikuláš Medek, born in 1926 and died in 1974, worked in a context in which, according to Artsper’s biography, pressure from the communist regime in Czechoslovakia perme…
2 auction references Reference profile ↗ -
Amador Magraner Documented profileCountry to be documented
The sales catalogue places Amador Magraner in Pollença in 1957. It documents an untitled work from 1997, executed in mixed media on paper, signed and dated in pencil at the lower rig…
2 auction references Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
www.schulerauktionen.ch ↗ -
Master IW Documented profileCountry to be documented
Known as Master IW or the Monogrammist I.W., this artist is presented as a Czech or Saxon Renaissance painter, active between 1520 and 1550, mainly in north-western Bohemia; the mono…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
en.wikipedia.org ↗ -
Wilhelm Volz Documented profileGermany
The German painter and lithographer Wilhelm Volz (1855–1901) is also listed as a painter of historical, genre and landscape scenes, as well as an illustrator and etcher. These detail…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Agnolo Gaddi Documented profileCountry to be documented
A painter of the Florentine school, Agnolo Gaddi worked at Santa Croce on several painted ensembles and on the choir stained-glass windows. In the Castellani Chapel, he painted scene…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Kain Tapper Documented profileCanada · Finland
The Finnish sculptor Kain Tapper (1930–2004) is represented in the available references by public works located in several Finnish cities, from Saarijärvi to Turku and Kotka. He was…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Ercole Calvi Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ercole Calvi’s painting is distinguished by a repertoire of Romantic landscapes, in which views of lakes and landscapes of the Brianza occupy an important place. An Italian painter b…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Peter Lanyon Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Peter Lanyon’s work combines abstract values with ideas about landscape and the figure. From 1959, he took up gliding; this experience opened up new perspectives on landscape, which…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Lionel Edwards Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Lionel Dalhousie Robertson Edwards (1878–1966), a British artist born in Clifton, is associated with hunting subjects, horse racing and military subjects. In the late 19th century, h…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Luigi Conconi Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Luigi Conconi (1852–1917), born and died in Milan, combined painting and architecture. He graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic School of Milan in 1874 a…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗ -
Mary Heilmann Documented profileUnited States
United States artist Mary Heilmann, born in 1940 and died in 2026, has developed a practice in which painting is conceived both as a language to be questioned and as a pictorial expe…
2 auction references Reference profile ↗ -
Tadaaki Kuwayama Documented profileJapan
Japanese painter Tadaaki Kuwayama (桑山 忠明), born in 1932, graduated from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1958. His name is also given as Kuwayama Tadaaki. After graduating, he left fo…
1 auction reference Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
fr.wikipedia.org ↗ -
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,…
3 auction references Reference profile ↗ -
Luis Feito Documented profileSpain
Born in Madrid in 1929, Luis Feito López, known as Luis Feito, developed his painting from early figurative elements through a Cubist period and then towards abstraction, particularl…
3 auction references Reference profile ↗
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