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Klaus Fußmann Documented profileGermany
Titled Ohne Titel, this watercolour on card, signed and dated « Fußmann ’91 », measures 84 × 70 cm. The work’s provenance is listed as a private collection in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Klaus Jürgen Schoen Documented profileGermany
Klaus Jürgen Schoen (1931–2018) was a German painter born in Königsberg. He studied in Berlin-Weißensee and subsequently at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Berlin-Charlottenbur…
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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…
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Konrad Klapheck Documented profileGermany
Born and died in Düsseldorf (1935–2023), Konrad Klapheck began developing an oeuvre attentive to the ordinary objects of modernity in 1955. That year, in reaction to the abstract exp…
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Kosta Alex Documented profileCountry to be documented
Kosta Alex developed his sculpture between the United States, Paris and Geneva. Born Kosta Alexopoulos in Elizabeth in 1925 to Greek immigrant parents, he learned carving, casting an…
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Kostia Terechkovitch Documented profileFrance
Kostia Terechkovitch’s work spans several genres: dancers, landscapes, portraits, equestrian scenes and family subjects, alongside his work as an illustrator through lithography. He…
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Koulbak Victor Documented profileFrance
Victor Koulbak, born in Moscow in 1946, is a Russian-born painter and draughtsman. Trained in his native city, he began working in commercial drawing and illustration. He left the So…
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Krisztián Frey Documented profileHungary
Krisztián Frey (1929–1997) is represented by an untitled mixed-media work on paper, measuring 700 × 500 mm, whose entry notes three continuous horizontal folds and three continuous v…
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Kumi Sugai Documented profileJapan
The Japanese painter, sculptor and printmaker Kumi Sugai (also transcribed as Kumi Sugaï) was born and died in Kobe, in 1919 and 1996. Her practice also includes printmaking, which i…
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Kurt Craemer Documented profileGermany
Kurt Craemer (1912–1961), born in Saarbrücken, studied applied arts in Cologne with Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann and subsequently attended the Düsseldorf Academy. His first visit to I…
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Kurt Kranz Documented profileGermany
Kurt Kranz (1910–1997), a German painter, is documented here through two works dated 1969. The Art Institute of Chicago lists Natural History. A drawing titled Zu Hände is described…
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Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt Documented profileGermany
The German illustrator and painter Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt develops a practice that turns towards animal engraving. Born in Leipzig in 1895, he dies in Munich in 1977. He studies at the…
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Kurt Schwitters Documented profileGermany · United Kingdom · Norway
Born in Hanover, the German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) transformed ordinary fragments into artistic material under the name Merz. Newspaper clippings, timetables and advertis…
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L. S. Lowry Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976), also known as L. S. Lowry, is an English artist whose painting focuses in particular on the industrial landscapes of Salford, Manchester and other…
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Ladislas Kijno Documented profileFrance
The French painter of Polish origin Ladislas Kijno combines an exploration of materials with subjects drawn from spirituality, poetry, music and contemporary history. His education e…
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Lajos Kassák Documented profileHungary
Self-taught, Lajos Kassák turned to avant-garde movements and identified himself as a proletarian artist, a position he upheld throughout his life. In 1909, while working as a labour…
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Lajos Kolozsváry Documented profileHungary
Lajos Kolozsváry, a Hungarian artist born in 1871 and deceased in 1937, is presented as a genre painter. The works recorded include group scenes centred on objects or subjects of stu…
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Lajos Markos Documented profileHungary · United States
Trained in Budapest, Lajos Markos initially worked in Italy, developing a practice as a portrait painter. His move to New York with his wife in 1952 opened an American career combini…
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Larry Rivers Documented profileUnited States
Larry Rivers (1923–2002) pursued a career in which painting, music and writing intersected. Initially a jazz saxophonist, he began painting in 1945 after encountering a work by Georg…
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Lars Laurits Larsen Haaland Documented profileCountry to be documented
Lars Laurits Larsen Haaland paints fishing activities, ships, dwellings, landscapes and the lives of coastal populations around the turn of the 20th century; this range of subjects a…
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László Moholy-Nagy Documented profileHungary · United States
László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), born in Hungary, made experimentation a shared principle across painting, photography, film and design. Settling in Berlin in 1920, he embraced Constr…
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László Neogrády Documented profileHungary
The Hungarian painter László Neogrády (1896–1962), born and died in Budapest, is associated with snow-covered forests and winter scenes of the Tatras. INVESTinART describes these com…
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Lauritz Haaland Documented profileNorway
Lauritz Haaland (1855–1938) was a Norwegian marine painter born on Kvitsøy, where he also died. Trained in shipbuilding in Bergen, he attended Knud Bergslien's painting school and th…
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Lavinia Fontana Documented profileItaly
Lavinia Fontana, a painter born in Bologna in 1552 and who died in Rome in 1614, also known as Lavinia Zappi, pursued a practice that combined portraiture with religious painting. In…
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Lazare Bruandet Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris in 1755, Lazare Bruandet belonged to a generation of landscape painters who explored the woods of the Île-de-France while studying Dutch masters. Ruisdael, the Van Osta…
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Leandro Bassano Documented profileCountry to be documented
Leandro Bassano, also known as Leandro dal Ponte, was born in Bassano del Grappa in 1557 and died in Venice on 15 April 1622. Trained with his brothers in his father’s workshop, he w…
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Leberecht Lortet Documented profileFrance
A painter chiefly devoted to mountain landscapes, Leberecht Lortet—also referred to by the variant name Lortel—draws his subjects from several regions: Switzerland, the south of Fran…
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Lena Vandrey Documented profileFrance
Lena Vandrey (1941–2018), born in Breslau, now Wrocław, moved to Paris in 1958 and near Barjac in 1967. A painter, sculptor and poet, she formed ties with Monique Wittig, Niki de Sai…
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Leo Erb Documented profileGermany
For Leo Erb (1923–2012), a German artist born in St. Ingbert and deceased in Kaiserslautern, the line and white—rendered in all its nuances—are the two guiding threads of his work. T…
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Leo Gestel Documented profileNetherlands
The Dutch painter Leo Gestel, whose full name was Leendert Gestel, lived from 1881 to 1941. A sales catalogue lists under his name Haus im Grünen, a gouache on composite paper dated…
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Leo Grewenig Documented profileGermany
The German painter Leo Grewenig was born in Heusweiler in 1898 and died in Bensheim in 1991. “Auf der Staffelei”, a work from 1984, is described as mixed media on paper: the sheet, m…
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Léon Arthur Tutundjian Documented profileFrance
Léon Tutundjian’s career is marked by clear shifts in visual language: after figurative, Cubist and collage-based explorations, he turns to geometric and organic abstraction, before…
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Léon Auguste Mellé Documented profileFrance
Léon Auguste Mellé (1816–1889) was a French landscape painter whose subjects encompassed natural settings and the outskirts of Paris. Trained by Jules Coignet and Charles-Caius Renou…
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Léon Augustin Lhermitte Documented profileFrance
Born in Mont-Saint-Père in the Aisne in 1844, Léon Augustin Lhermitte retained a deep attachment to rural life. Before gaining recognition at the Salon during the 1870s, he supported…
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Léon Bonnat Documented profileFrance
Léon Bonnat (1833–1922), born in Bayonne, discovered Spanish painting at the Prado during his adolescence in Madrid. He studied with the Madrazos and later in Léon Cogniet’s Paris st…
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Léon Charles Cannicioni Documented profileFrance
Léon-Charles Cannicioni, a French painter born in 1879 and deceased in 1957, is also described as a landscape and genre painter. In October and November 1910, a work listed under the…
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Léon de Bastard Documented profileFrance
Léon de Bastard (1855–1925), born in Paris and deceased in Auvers-sur-Oise, was a French painter, etcher and lithographer. A pupil of Antoine Guillemet and Henri Lefort, he worked pa…
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Léon de Smet Documented profileBelgium
Léon de Smet (1881–1966), Gustave’s younger brother, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. He subsequently shared a studio with young artists including Frits Van den Berghe a…
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Léon Detroy Documented profileFrance
Léon Detroy developed much of his career around Gargilesse and the landscapes of the Creuse valley. Following training in Paris, he settled in the village, renting a house that he bo…
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Léon Duval-Gozlan Documented profileFrance
Léon Duval-Gozlan was a Parisian painter, born in 1853 at 29 rue Saulnier, in the 9th arrondissement. The son of the architect Charles Duval and grandson of the novelist Léon Gozlan,…
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Léon Félix Georges Bonhomme Documented profileFrance
The French painter Léon Félix Georges Bonhomme (1870–1924) trained with Jean-Jacques Henner at the École des beaux-arts in Paris, then attended Gustave Moreau’s studio, where he form…
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León Ferrari Documented profileArgentina
León Ferrari (1920–2013), born in Buenos Aires, developed a practice in which graphic experimentation meets political criticism. In the early 1960s, his drawings explored networks of…
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Léon Gischia Documented profileFrance
Léon Gischia, a painter born in Dax in 1903 and died in Venice in 1991, moved from the study of art history and archaeology to a practice that evolved over the decades from figuratio…
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Léon Greffe Documented profileFrance
The artists’ directory lists Léon Greffe for the years 1881–1949. The published provenance for a painting cites the Walter Hadorn collection in Bern, followed by private ownership in…
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Léon Herbo Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter Léon Herbo, born in Templeuve and died in Ixelles, moved from genre scenes and historical subjects to portraiture, which occupies a central place in his work. He…
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Léon Hornecker Documented profileGermany · France
Léon Hornecker began his training in Strasbourg as an apprentice in the Ott brothers’ glass workshop while attending evening drawing classes. He later taught drawing, painting and an…
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Léon Jean Pétua Documented profileFrance
Identified under the names Léon Jean or Léon-Jean Pétua, the painter is described as a genre and portrait painter, and records state that he studied in Paris. The works that the Kuns…
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Leon Joubert Documented profileFrance
Born in Quimper and deceased in Paris, Léon Joubert (1851–1928) devoted much of his painting to landscape. He trained with Léon Germain Pelouse and Fernand Cormon and is associated w…
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Léon Printemps Documented profileFrance
The French painter Léon Printemps, born and died in Paris (1871–1945), pursued a career that encompassed Symbolist painting, commissioned portraits and landscapes, the latter remaini…
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Léon Richet Documented profileFrance
A French painter associated with the Barbizon School, Léon Richet pursued a career centred on landscape painting, as attested by works listed under his name. His paintings were exhib…
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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