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Johannes Borman Documented profileCountry to be documented
Johannes Borman was a Dutch still-life painter active in Leiden and Amsterdam around the middle of the seventeenth century. The precise dates of his life remain uncertain, but his ac…
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Johannes Gecelli Documented profileGermany
German painter (1925–2011), Johannes Geccelli is documented, among other sources, by a Dobiaschofsky sale, which lists under his name an untitled gouache, signed lower right and meas…
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Johannes Grützke Documented profileGermany
Johannes Grützke’s figurative painting borrows from cinema its low-angle and close-up framing, while his figures, often exaggerated with irony, play with the effects of representatio…
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Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek Documented profileNetherlands
Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek (1778–1851), born in Veere, was a Dutch marine painter and the founder of an important artistic dynasty. Trained in Middelburg by Thomas Gaal as a decorati…
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Johannes Jakob Diezler Documented profileGermany
Johannes Jakob Diezler (1789–1855), also called Jakob Ditzler, was a German landscape painter associated with the Biedermeier period. Born in Ehrenbreitstein and deceased in Andernac…
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Johannes Kahrs Documented profileGermany
Johannes Kahrs, born in Bremen in 1965, is a German artist who studied at Berlin’s Hochschule der Künste. His practice combines painting and drawing with the collection of images fro…
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Johannes Marius Ten Kate Documented profileNetherlands
Johannes Marius ten Kate (1859–1896), born in Amsterdam and deceased in The Hague, grew up in a family of painters. His father, Johan Mari Henri ten Kate, specialised in Romantic gen…
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Johannes van der Bent Documented profileCountry to be documented
Johannes van der Bent, born in Amsterdam around 1650 and deceased in 1690, was a Dutch seventeenth-century painter specialising in landscapes populated by shepherds and animals. Earl…
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John Altoon Documented profileUnited States
American painter and lithographer John Altoon (1925–1969) undertook training associated with Otis College of Art and Design, Chouinard Art Institute and Art Center College of Design.…
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John Brett Documented profileCountry to be documented
John Brett (1831–1902), a British artist, asserts an approach to nature based on scientific precision, which he often associates with moral and religious meanings. He begins taking a…
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John Cage Documented profileUnited States
American composer and artist John Cage (1912–1992), also represented by works on paper, studied composition with Richard Bühlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss and Arnold Schönberg. From…
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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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John Horace Hooper Documented profileCountry to be documented
John Horace Hooper was a nineteenth-century British landscape painter, born in Manchester, who died in 1906. He spent most of his career in the London area. Working primarily in oils…
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John Hoyland Documented profileUnited Kingdom
John Hoyland (1934–2011) was born in Sheffield and studied there before attending London’s Royal Academy Schools. Early landscapes and still lifes gave way, around 1960, to an invest…
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John O'Neil Documented profileUnited States
John O’Neil (1915–2004), born in Kansas City, earned fine arts degrees at the University of Oklahoma in 1936 and 1939. He continued studying in Colorado Springs, Taos and Rome. Durin…
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John Quincy Adams Documented profileAustria
Documented works by John Quincy Adams include, in particular, two pendant portraits of Mor and Gabriele Fekete-Schindler-Barney, executed in oil on canvas and each signed by the arti…
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John Seery Documented profileUnited States
John Seery is presented as an American artist born in 1941. A sale record documents Capital Yellow, a work signed and titled on the reverse. The provenance stated there is the Peter…
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John Virtue Documented profileUnited Kingdom
John Virtue, born in Lancashire in 1947, studied at London's Slade School of Fine Art from 1965 to 1969. Settling in Green Haworth in 1971, he made the Pennine landscape his subject.…
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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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Jonathan Lasker Documented profileUnited States
Born in 1948 in Jersey City, New Jersey, Jonathan Lasker is an American artist whose painting practice is grounded in preparatory drawings and studies. He studied at the School of Vi…
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Jonathan Meese Documented profileGermany
Jonathan Meese studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg from 1995 to 1998; according to Kunstplaza, his studies at the institution ended without a degree. This period included…
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Joos de Momper the Younger Documented profileCountry to be documented
A Flemish painter specialising in landscape, Joos de Momper the Younger developed a repertoire of mountain panoramas and expansive horizons, caves and rocky escarpments, complemented…
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Joos van Cleve Documented profileCountry to be documented
Registered as a free master of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1511, Joos van Cleve also held responsibilities there: he was appointed dean for the first time in 1519 and served a…
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Joos van Winghe Documented profileCountry to be documented
Joos van Winghe (1544–1603), a Flemish painter born in Brussels, completed his training in Italy. His travels took him to Rome and Parma, and he participated in decorating the Palazz…
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Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot Documented profileCountry to be documented
Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot’s views are often organised around a broad road, sometimes running diagonally, which draws the eye into the distance between houses, churches or city wal…
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Jörg Immendorff Documented profileGermany
Jörg Immendorff (1945–2007) was a German painter and sculptor whose work explores the relationship between art and society. In 1968, he founded the Lidl movement, bringing together c…
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Jorge Camacho Documented profileCuba
Born in Havana in 1934, Jorge Camacho devoted himself to painting as a self-taught artist during the 1950s. A journey to Mexico deepened his interest in pre-Columbian civilisations.…
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Jorge Castillo Documented profileSpain · Venezuela
Jorge Castillo, born in Pontevedra in 1933, grew up in Buenos Aires after his family emigrated to Argentina. Largely self-taught, he also worked in technical drawing. Returning to Sp…
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Jorinde Voigt Documented profileGermany
Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1977, Jorinde Voigt explores processes of inner perception. Affect, memory, imagination, scientific data and human relationships inform an analytical app…
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José Belon Documented profileFrance
The French painter and draughtsman José Belon — also known by the first name Joseph — worked at the intersection of painting, illustration and poster art. Born in Alès in 1861 and di…
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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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José Camarón y Bonanat Documented profileSpain
José Camarón Boronat, also named José Camarón Bonanat by some biographers, was a Spanish painter and printmaker born in Segorbe in 1731. His practice encompassed painting, miniature…
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José María Sicilia Documented profileSpain
José María Sicilia, born in Madrid in 1954, moved to Paris in 1980 after leaving his academic training. His early expressive landscapes gave way to an exploration of everyday objects…
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José Vela Zanetti Documented profileSpain
José Vela Zanetti (1913–1999) is identified as a painter. “Casas”, a work in watercolour and ink, signed lower right, measures 59 × 37.5 cm; the lot was estimated at CHF 2,500 and so…
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Josef Albers Documented profileGermany · United States
Josef Albers (1888–1976), also referred to by the first name Joseph, is presented as a German-American designer, painter, teacher and typographer. The Art Institute of Chicago lists…
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Josef Danilowatz Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter and draughtsman Josef Danilowatz (1877–1945), born and died in Vienna, developed a practice combining press drawing, caricature and technical illustration. His t…
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Josef Hegenbarth Documented profileGermany
Josef Hegenbarth (1884–1962), a German painter and illustrator, is approached here through a work on paper titled « Bremer Stadtmusikanten - Die Goldene Gans ». Executed in ink and s…
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Josef Herrmanstörfer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Animal subjects occupy a central place in the work of Josef Herrmanstörfer (1817–1901): from his youth, he painted horses and cows, as well as hunting scenes, landscapes animated by…
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Josef Karl Rädler Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Bohemia, porcelain painter Josef Karl Rädler (1844–1917) pursued a career in this field in Vienna. From 1852 to 1856, he learned the craft at the Haas & Czjzek manufactory in…
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Josef Kriehuber Documented profileCountry to be documented
In Vienna, Josef Kriehuber works as a lithographer for several publishing houses, including Trentsensky; his first portraits made using this technique are published in 1826. On his r…
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Josef Mikl Documented profileAustria
Josef Mikl (Vienna, 1929–2008), an Austrian artist, belongs to the post-war generation that helped move Austrian painting away from representation and develop an abstract visual lang…
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Josef Navrátil Documented profileCountry to be documented
Josef Navrátil, a decorative painter, first trained under his father and then continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His many trips abroad took him to Switzerla…
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Josef Ongenae Documented profileBelgium · Netherlands
Josef Ongenae (1921–1993) is identified as a Belgian visual artist. An untitled work from 1954 documents his practice: this square oil on panel measures 83 × 83 cm and bears a signat…
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Josef Prem Documented profileCountry to be documented
Josef Prem (1923–2000), born in Fohnsdorf in Styria and deceased in Salzburg, is documented through several works on paper in Dorotheum’s catalogues. These pieces show a repertoire i…
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Josef Rolf Knobloch Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German landscape painter Josef Rolf Knobloch, also described as a writer, was born in 1891 in Böhmisch Kamnitz, in the Sudetenland, and died in Munich in 1964. Originally from th…
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Josef Scharl Documented profileGermany · United States
German painter Josef Scharl was born in 1896 and died in 1954. A work entitled Still Life with Melon is described by Genève Enchères as a signed oil on canvas, measuring 32 × 40 cm.
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Josef Wittlich Documented profileGermany
Josef Wittlich, a German painter born in 1903, developed his work from photographs found in magazines. Soldiers, scenes of war, royal families, celebrities and portraits of women pro…
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Josef Wopfner Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter Josef Wopfner (1843–1927) is presented here through a work bearing his name. Entitled “Heuboot am Chiemsee”, it is the only work title documented in the availabl…
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Josefine Mühlen-Schmid Documented profileGermany
The painter known as Josefine Mühlen-Schmid, Josefine Maria Therese Schmid, was born in Sarching in 1888 and died in Munich in 1960. From 1908 to 1910, she studied at the Königliche…
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Josep Maria Mallol Suazo Documented profileSpain
The Catalan painter Josep Maria Mallol Suazo (1910–1986), also listed under his full name, Josep Maria Benet Agustí Ignasi Mallol Suazo, had a career marked by exhibitions and awards…
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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