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Julius Seyler Documented profileGermany
Julius Seyler’s career connects plein-air painting around Lake Ammersee with stays in North America, where the Blackfeet and their history occupy an important place in his painting.…
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Julius Zimmermann Documented profileGermany
Julius Zimmermann, born in Augsburg in 1824, came from a family closely connected with art education. His father, Clemens von Zimmermann, taught at the Munich Academy, where Julius h…
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Juliusz Joniak Documented profilePoland
Juliusz Joniak (1925–2021) was a Polish painter and printmaker born in Lwów, now Lviv. After beginning his artistic education there, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków,…
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Jun'ichi Dobashi Documented profileJapan
Japanese abstract painter Jun’ichi Dobashi lived in Paris from 1953 to 1969. On March 15, 1960, he was among the Japanese figures present during Shotaro Akiyama’s visit to Pierre Sou…
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Jurgen Klauke Documented profileGermany
German photographer Jürgen Klauke, born in Cochem in 1943, placed the body and sexual identity at the heart of his early work in the 1970s, using himself as a model. He studied at th…
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Jürgen Partenheimer Documented profileGermany
Jürgen Partenheimer is a German artist born in 1947. Ohne Titel (90 VA 7), dated 1990, combines watercolour, pencil and paper collaged on cardboard, measuring 107 × 77 cm; the work i…
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Justus Juncker Documented profileGermany
The German painter Justus Juncker, born in 1703 and died in 1767, is associated with a practice shaped by the study of seventeenth-century Dutch painters. A sale notice presents Der…
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Justus Sustermans Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter Justus Sustermans (1597–1681), originally from Antwerp, spent much of his life in Florence, where he became official portraitist at the Medici court. According to…
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Jutta Koether Documented profileGermany
Jutta Koether, a German painter, musician, theorist and critic born in Cologne in 1958, lives and works between Berlin and New York. In the early 1980s, she became involved in Cologn…
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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…
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Kajetan Sosnowski Documented profilePoland
The Polish artist Kajetan Sosnowski, born in Vilnius in 1913 and deceased in Warsaw in 1987, directed his research towards the visual dimensions of art. His interest in the developme…
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Karel Appel Documented profileNetherlands
Karel Appel (1921–2006), a Dutch painter, sculptor and poet, belonged to CoBrA, the group founded in 1948. Within this context, spontaneous expression and emotional intensity took a…
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Karin Kneffel Documented profileGermany
Karin Kneffel, born in Marl in 1957, develops figurative paintings that combine photorealistic precision with a complex construction of space. People, families and everyday scenes pr…
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Karl Cartier Documented profileFrance
The French painter and museum curator Karl Cartier trained under Carolus-Duran, Gustave Boulanger and Jean-Léon Gérôme. Several painting titles refer to Moret: L’Entrée de Moret par…
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Karl Daubigny Documented profileFrance
Karl Daubigny, a French painter born in 1846 and died in 1886, is also referred to as Carl (Charles Pierre) Daubigny, Karl Charles-Pierre Daubigny and Karl Pierre Daubigny. The Art I…
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Karl Eduard Biermann Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Prussian painter Karl Eduard Biermann (1803–1892), born and deceased in Berlin, is also listed in the shortened form Eduard Biermann. After an apprenticeship at the Royal Porcela…
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Karl Einhart Documented profileGermany
The German painter Karl Einhart, born and deceased in Constance, devoted a significant part of his work to the landscapes of Lake Constance and its region. By his own estimate, he pr…
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Karl Fred Dahmen Documented profileGermany
German artist Karl Fred Dahmen, born in Stolberg in 1917 and deceased in Bavaria in 1981, is represented by works shown in exhibitions in Europe, Asia and the United States. In 1958,…
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Karl Friedrich Lessing Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German history and landscape painter Carl Friedrich Lessing first distinguished himself through dark and imaginative Romantic landscapes, which often feature castle ruins and aba…
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Karl Hagemeister Documented profileGermany
The German painter Karl Hagemeister, born and deceased in Werder, returns there after several years of training and travel. The town becomes the setting for his work, where he gradua…
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Karl Hermann Haupt Documented profileGermany
The German painter, graphic artist, photographer and designer Karl Hermann Haupt (1904–1983) trained in Halle before taking courses at the Bauhaus from 1923 to 1924 with several of i…
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Karl Horst Hödicke Documented profileGermany
Karl Horst Hödicke (1938–2024) pursued a career closely connected with Berlin’s artistic life. Settling in the city in 1957, he studied with Fred Thieler from 1959 before moving away…
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Karl Hubbuch Documented profileGermany
Titled Doppelporträt Martha, this work is executed in pencil on medium-weight chamois-coloured board, measures 60.8 × 43.2 cm and bears the blind stamp “WATT”; the sales notice descr…
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Karl Kaufmann Documented profileCountry to be documented
Wikidata identifies Karl Kaufmann as an Austrian painter born in 1843. The entry associates several name variants with him, including F. Gilbert, Henri Carnier, Charles Marchand and…
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Karl Korab Documented profileAustria
Karl Korab studied with Sergius Pauser at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1957 to 1964. While still a student, he began participating in exhibitions in Austria and abroad. Hi…
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Karl Langhammer Documented profileGermany
The German painter Carl Langhammer — also known as Karl — worked primarily in landscape painting, while his practice also extended to decorative painting and illustration. Born in Be…
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Karl Meisenbach Documented profileGermany
The painter Karl Meisenbach, born in Nuremberg in 1898 and deceased in Munich in 1976, develops an artistic practice that leads him early towards expressive abstraction. His approach…
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Karl Mücke Documented profileGermany
Karl Emil Mücke, also known as Carl Mücke and Karl Muecke, was a German painter born and died in Düsseldorf, in 1847 and 1923 respectively. He was the son of the painter Heinrich Müc…
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Karl Otto Götz Documented profileGermany
The German painter Karl Otto Götz, born in Aachen in 1914 and deceased in Niederbreitbach in 2017, developed an abstract painting practice in which automatism, spontaneous gesture an…
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Karl Philipp Fohr Documented profileCountry to be documented
Carl Philipp Fohr (1795–1818), born in Heidelberg, gained the support of Princess Wilhelmine Luise of Hesse after his initial drawing instruction. His watercolours combine landscapes…
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Karl Plattner Documented profileItaly
Karl Plattner is listed as a painter, decorative painter, genre painter, landscape painter and still-life painter. Bergdorf is listed in the Karl Plattner Archives in Bolzano under r…
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Karl Reille Documented profileFrance
Karl Reille (1886–1975), born in Paris and deceased in Cerelles, was a French animal painter particularly associated with hunting on horseback with hounds. His familiarity with this…
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Documented profileGermany
Born in Rottluff, near Chemnitz, in 1884, Karl Schmidt adds the name of his birthplace to his own and becomes known as Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. He dies in Berlin in 1976. Enrolled in a…
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Karlo Kacharava Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in 1964 in Samtredia and died in 1994 in Tbilisi, Karlo Kacharava was a Georgian artist whose practice brought together art-making, writing and research in art history. After st…
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Katharina Grosse Documented profileGermany
Katharina Grosse’s practice combines studio painting with large-scale in situ interventions: painting is not limited to the canvas but can also cover built or natural environments. I…
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Käthe Kollwitz Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born Käthe Schmidt in Königsberg in 1867, Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist whose practice encompassed printmaking, drawing and sculpture. She studied copper engraving with Rudolf M…
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Kay Rasmus Nielsen Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Danish illustrator, painter and stage designer Kay Nielsen made storytelling a space for visual invention. Born in 1886, he died in 1957. He studied in Paris before working for t…
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Kees van Dongen Documented profileFrance · Netherlands
Born in 1877, Kees van Dongen trained in decorative arts in Rotterdam before moving to Paris in 1897. In Montmartre he worked for the satirical press and became known for his caricat…
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Keith Haring Documented profileUnited States
Keith Haring (1958–1990), whose full name was Keith Allen Haring, was an American artist and social activist. The works documented here offer a range of formats and supports: an unti…
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Keith Vaughan Documented profileUnited Kingdom
The British painter Keith Vaughan (also known as John Keith Vaughan, 1912–1977) developed a body of work centred on the male nude, landscape—particularly that of Essex—and still life…
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Keizo Morishita Documented profileJapan
Settling in Milan in 1963 to study art, Keizo Morishita attended Marino Marini’s classes at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera on a scholarship, graduating in 1968. Although he spe…
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Ken Grimes Documented profileUnited States
Ken Grimes was born in New York in 1947 and grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut. He works almost exclusively with black and white acrylic on canvas or hardboard. Informed by science fic…
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Kenneth Armitage Documented profileUnited Kingdom
William Kenneth Armitage (1916–2002) was a British sculptor whose semi-abstract bronzes frequently retain a reference to the human figure. He studied at Leeds College of Art and then…
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Kenneth Martin Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Born in Sheffield in 1905, Kenneth Martin studied in his home city and then at London's Royal College of Art, where he met Mary Balmford, later Mary Martin. Together they developed a…
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Kenneth Noland Documented profileUnited States
American artist Kenneth Noland (1924–2010) is represented in the collections listed by the Art Institute of Chicago by works spanning several decades. These include Plum (1959), Midm…
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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…
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Ker-Xavier Roussel Documented profileFrance
François Xavier Roussel, known as Ker-Xavier Roussel, trained in Paris before joining the Nabis circle. He studied at the Lycée Condorcet from 1882 to 1885, then entered the Maillart…
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Kim Donaldson Documented profileZimbabwe
Kim Donaldson is presented as an advocate for conservation, committed to the subjects he depicts; his practice pays particular attention to animal habitats and anatomy. According to…
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Kim En Joong Documented profileSouth Korea
Kim En Joong’s career brings together painting, a life as a Dominican, and the creation of stained-glass windows, with the project at the Basilica of Saint-Julien in Brioude serving…
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Kimber Smith Documented profileUnited States
Kimber Smith (1922–1981), born in Boston, studied at the Art Students League in New York after the Second World War. He exhibited with Joan Mitchell at the New Gallery in 1951 and mo…
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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