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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…
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Léon Tzeytline Documented profileCountry to be documented
Léon Tzeytline, also known as Léon Zeytline, is associated with the dates 1885–1962 and was born in Paris according to the available biography. His subjects include Parisian urban li…
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Léon Zack Documented profileFrance
At an early stage, painting and writing came together in Léon Zack’s work: trained in drawing and painting from adolescence, he went on to study literature in Moscow, published poetr…
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Leonaert Bramer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Known by the names Leonard Bramer and Leonaert Bramer, the artist lived from 1596 to 1674. The Kornfeld catalogue states that, after a period in France, he settled in Rome. According…
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Leonardo da Vinci Documented profileCountry to be documented
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) trained in Florence in Andrea del Verrocchio’s workshop, studying drawing, painting, sculpture and goldsmithing among other practices. In Milan, working…
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Leonello Spada Documented profileCountry to be documented
Leonello Spada, born in Bologna in 1576, trained under Cesare Baglioni before entering the artistic circle of the Carracci. His early activities included quadratura, the painting of…
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Leonhard Rausch Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German landscape painter and engraver Leonhard Rausch, associated with Romanticism, was born in Jülich in 1813 and died in Düsseldorf in 1895. His preferred subjects range from t…
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Leopold Bode Documented profileCountry to be documented
Leopold Bode (1831–1906) began studying at the Städel Institute in 1848 with Jakob Becker and Johann David Passavant. From 1851 to 1854 he worked in Eduard von Steinle’s studio, wher…
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Leopold Fertbauer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Leopold Fertbauer (1802–1875) was an Austrian painter whose life and work were closely linked to Vienna. His training at the Academy of Fine Arts is documented between 1816 and 1828.…
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Leopold Gottlieb Documented profileFrance · Poland
Léopold Gottlieb began his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he studied painting from 1896 to 1902 under Jacek Malczewski and Théodor Axentowicz. At the end of th…
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Léopold Survage Documented profileFrance
Léopold Survage’s career combines an exploration of the relationship between colour and music with projects for abstract cinema, the stage, textiles and monumental painting. Before d…
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Leopoldo Richter Documented profileColombia
Art and entomology meet in the work of Leopoldo Richter (1896–1984). Trained in mathematics and natural sciences in Germany, he developed his interest in insects through contact with…
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Lesser Ury Documented profileGermany
Lesser Ury, a German painter and printmaker associated with an Impressionist manner, is particularly known for his nocturnal café scenes and rain-soaked streets. His work also includ…
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Li Tianbing Documented profileChina
Born in Guilin in 1974, Li Tianbing, also known as Tianbing Li, develops a form of painting in which images from his childhood become material for storytelling. He settled in Paris a…
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Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux Documented profileFrance
Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux (1753–1817), born and deceased in Reims, discovered drawing through Jean-François Clermont’s classes. Settling in Paris in 1778, he earned a living from mini…
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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…
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Lionel Floch Documented profileFrance
The coast and communal life of western Brittany lie at the heart of Lionel Floch’s work. Born in Quimper, Floch (1895–1972) learned painting with Théophile Deyrolle in Concarneau bef…
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Lodewijk Johannes Kleijn Documented profileNetherlands
Lodewijk Johannes Kleijn (1817–1897), a Dutch painter, became particularly known for his depictions of winter subjects. His name also appears in several spellings, including Lodewijk…
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Lois Weinberger Documented profileAustria
Born in Stams, Tyrol, in 1947 and died in Vienna in 2020, Lois Weinberger was an Austrian artist whose practice took ruderal plants, often referred to as “weeds”, as its starting poi…
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Lorenzo Sabbatini Documented profileCountry to be documented
Lorenzo Sabbatini, known as Lorenzino da Bologna, was a sixteenth-century painter who died in Rome in 1577. A pupil of Prospero Fontana, he belonged to the Bolognese Mannerist milieu…
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Lothar Charoux Documented profileBrazil
The Brazilian painter Lothar Charoux, born in 1912 and deceased in 1987, also worked as a designer and teacher. A notice places his work between expressionism and constructivism, two…
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Lothar Quinte Documented profileGermany
The German painter Lothar Quinte, born in 1923 and deceased in 2000, developed a body of work that took shape in painting before extending to projects for architecture and the perfor…
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Lou Loeber Documented profileNetherlands
Lou Loeber (1894–1983), born in Amsterdam, developed a painting practice engaged with the avant-garde while retaining a connection to depicted objects. A reader of Kandinsky, she vis…
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Louis Aimé Japy Documented profileFrance
Associated with the Barbizon School, Louis Aimé Japy devoted his artistic activity to landscape painting. His career is documented by his exhibitions at the Salon and by works held i…
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Louis-Alexandre Bouché Documented profileFrance
Louis-Alexandre Bouché (1838–1911) was a French painter born in Luzancy, where he also died. One of eight children, he worked in a tile factory as a child and later in millstone prod…
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Louis Apol Documented profileNetherlands
Born and died in The Hague, Louis Apol was a painter and photographer; documented works attest to his interest in winter landscapes, including a Paysage d’hiver dated circa 1900 and…
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Louis Aston Knight Documented profileUnited States
Louis Aston Knight (1873–1948) was an American painter born in Paris, the son of painter Daniel Ridgway Knight. Raised in Europe, he received his first lessons from his father before…
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Louis-Auguste Lapito Documented profileFrance
The French painter Louis-Auguste Lapito developed his repertoire of landscapes through journeys that took him to the Midi, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, before his…
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Louis David Vaillant Documented profileUnited States
Louis David Vaillant is identified as an American painter. A work catalogued under the German title “Prunkstillleben mit Früchten” — a sumptuous still life with fruit — is documented…
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Louis de Caullery Documented profileCountry to be documented
A Flemish painter active at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Louis de Caullery was born around 1580 in Cambrai and worked mainly in Antwerp. Trained in that city…
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Louis Dubois Documented profileBelgium
Louis Dubois (1830–1880), born in Brussels and deceased in Schaerbeek, was an advocate of realism in Belgian painting. An admirer of Gustave Courbet, he helped found the Société libr…
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Louis Gallait Documented profileBelgium
Louis Gallait (1810–1887), a Belgian painter trained in Antwerp and Paris, settled in Brussels in 1843 after a period in Ghent. His career combined history painting with Romantic gen…
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Louis Henry Weston Klingender Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Liverpool in 1861, Louis Henry Weston Klingender was a British animal painter whose career unfolded mainly in Germany. A biographical notice states that he came from a family…
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Louis Latapie Documented profileFrance
Louis Latapie, a French painter and printmaker born in Toulouse in 1891 and who died in Avignon in 1972, developed a body of work in which still lifes and female nudes feature in a s…
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Louis-Léopold Boilly Documented profileFrance
Louis-Léopold Boilly, a French painter born in La Bassée in 1761 and died in Paris in 1845, practised both painting and lithography. He began studying painting in Douai with Charles-…
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Louis Letsch Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ludwig Andreas Letsch, known as Louis Letsch, was born in 1856 in Wolfurt, in Vorarlberg, and died in Strasbourg in 1940. An Austrian painter who worked in France, he studied paintin…
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Louis Marcoussis Documented profileFrance · Poland
Louis Marcoussis’s work spans Cubist painting, printmaking and illustration. His subjects range from still lifes and musical instruments to portraits, views of Paris and Breton lands…
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Louis Marie De Schryver Documented profileFrance
Louis Marie de Schryver (1862–1942) was a French painter born in Paris. He made his Salon debut at a very young age in 1876, exhibiting two flower still lifes. He subsequently traine…
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Louis-Mathieu Verdilhan Documented profileFrance
Louis-Mathieu Verdilhan’s career is rooted in Marseille: his family settled in the Chartreux district in 1877, and in 1895 he opened a studio in Marseille, which he kept throughout h…
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Louis-Nicolas Van Blarenberghe Documented profileFrance
Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe, born in Lille in the early eighteenth century and deceased in 1794, belonged to a family of painters. Protected by the Duke of Choiseul, he became bat…
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Louis Pastour Documented profileFrance
Louis Pastour (1876–1948) spent most of his career in Cannes, his birthplace. Initially a house painter, he moved to Paris in 1894 and attended evening classes at the decorative arts…
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Louis-Philippe Kamm Documented profileFrance
Louis-Philippe Kamm, a painter and illustrator born in Strasbourg in 1882 and who died there in 1959, was nicknamed the “master of Drachenbronn”. His connection with this village is…
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Louis Tinayre Documented profileFrance
The career of Louis Tinayre brings together drawings and photographs made on expeditions, large-scale panoramic displays and mural painting. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 14 March 186…
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Louis Toffoli Documented profileFrance
The world of work is a recurring subject in the paintings of Louis Toffoli (1907–1999), who had himself worked as a blacksmith and tailor. Born in Trieste, he attended evening art cl…
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Louis Valtat Documented profileFrance
The French painter and printmaker Louis André Valtat, born in Dieppe in 1869, first attracts attention early in his career with paintings in very vivid tones, made during his convale…
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Louis Vivin Documented profileFrance
The self-taught painter Louis Vivin (1861–1936), born in Hadol in the Vosges and deceased in Paris, developed a body of work devoted primarily to urban landscapes. The son of a schoo…
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Louis Welden Hawkins Documented profileFrance
Born in Esslingen in 1849, Louis Welden Hawkins was a British painter who became a naturalised French citizen in 1895. According to the sources, his female figures are distinguished…
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Louise Bourgeois Documented profileFrance · United States
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), born in Paris, was a French-American artist whose work explores memory, the body and family relationships. Raised in a family of tapestry restorers, she…
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Louise Nevelson Documented profileUnited States
Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) was an American artist born in present-day Ukraine. Arriving in the United States with her family in 1905, she later settled in New York and studied with…
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Lovis Corinth Documented profileGermany
Views of the Walchensee occupy an important place in the final years of Lovis Corinth (1858–1925). From 1919, the German painter and his wife owned a house in Kochel am See, and he r…
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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