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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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Lubin Baugin Documented profileFrance
Lubin Baugin became a master painter in Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1629 and later joined the artistic institutions of Paris, entering the royal academy in 1651. His training remains p…
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Luc Didier Documented profileCountry to be documented
Artsper describes him as famous for his images of landscapes in the process of disappearing. Born in 1954 in Gœulzin, in the Nord, near Douai, he first studies with his father. From…
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Luc Tuymans Documented profileBelgium
Born in 1958 in Mortsel, Belgium, Luc Tuymans lives and works in Antwerp. His figurative paintings generally take pre-existing images as their starting point, including photographs a…
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Luca Cambiaso Documented profileCountry to be documented
Luca Cambiaso (1527–1585), born in Moneglia, ranks among the leading painters of the Genoese Renaissance. Trained by his father Giovanni, he collaborated with him on the decoration o…
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Lucas Cranach the Elder Documented profileGermany
Lucas Cranach the Elder was a major painter and printmaker of the German Renaissance. Portraits and religious compositions document his presence in Vienna at the beginning of the six…
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Lucas Franchoys the Younger Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter and printmaker Lucas Franchoys the Younger, also known as Lucas Franchoys II, was born and died in Mechelen, in 1616 and 1681. The son of the painter Lucas Franch…
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Lucebert Documented profileNetherlands
Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk (Amsterdam, 15 September 1924 – Alkmaar, 10 May 1994), known as Lucebert, was a Dutch artist, poet, painter and draughtsman. A member of CoBrA, he also to…
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Luciano Bartolini Documented profileItaly
Italian painter Luciano Bartolini, born in Fiesole in 1948 and deceased in 1994, turned to artistic creation after studying languages rather than through formal art training. He made…
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Lucien Adrion Documented profileFrance
Painter and watercolorist Lucien Philippe Adrion (1889–1953), born in Strasbourg and died in Paris, initially pursues a professional career in drawing. He begins as a technical draft…
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Lucien Génin Documented profileFrance
Lucien Genin (1894–1953), a French painter born in Rouen and who died in Paris, takes Parisians and their everyday lives as his subject. His scenes lead, among other places, into the…
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Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Documented profileFrance
Born in Algiers and died in Le Vésinet, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer—also known as Lucien Lévy—was a French Symbolist painter, sculptor and ceramicist whose career brought together the practi…
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Lucien Neuquelman Documented profileFrance
An oil on canvas entitled “Départ des pêcheurs à Douarnenez” provides a documented example: signed at lower right and bearing the inscription “À Douarnenez” on the reverse, it measur…
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Lucio Fontana Documented profileArgentina · Italy
The Italian-Argentine sculptor, painter and theorist Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) is associated with the Manifiesto blanco and Spatialism, two reference points mentioned in his biograph…
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Lucio Muñoz Documented profileSpain
The Spanish painter Lucio Muñoz Martínez (1929–1998), born and deceased in Madrid, worked with burnt paper, wood and canvas. Perforations, tears, folds and incisions were among the w…
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Ludovic Vallée Documented profileFrance
French pointillist painter Ludovic Vallée was born in Paris in 1864 under the name Joseph Louis Marie Vallée and died there in 1939. Louise Hervieu describes a body of work in which…
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Ludvig Jacobsen Documented profileCountry to be documented
Danish painter and illustrator Ludvig Jacobsen is also described as a landscape painter. He is best known for his colourful, cheerful figure scenes in the genre painting tradition. A…
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Ludvík Kuba Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ludvík Kuba (1863–1956), a Czech artist born in Poděbrady, Bohemia, and who died in Prague, pursued several activities alongside one another: he was a landscape painter, musician, wr…
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Ludwig Bock Documented profileGermany
Ludwig Bock (1886–1971), born and deceased in Munich, was a German painter and graphic artist. He began training with Heinrich Knirr, then studied landscape with Bernhard Buttersack…
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Ludwig Correggio Documented profileGermany
Ludwig Correggio, born in Munich in 1846, belonged to a family of painters. His father Josef gave him his first lessons, and his younger brother Max also became a painter. Ludwig con…
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Ludwig Dill Documented profileCountry to be documented
Known as Ludwig Dill, Wilhelm Franz Karl Ludwig Dill studied architecture at the Polytechnic Institute from 1872, before joining the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1874. There he…
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Ludwig Egidius Ronig Documented profileGermany
Ludwig Egidius Ronig was a painter associated with the artistic life of Cologne. After a brief period at the Weimar academy, he studied in Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, subsequently maki…
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Ludwig Gedlek Documented profilePoland
The Polish painter Ludwig Gedlek, born in Kraków in 1847 and died in Vienna in 1904, devotes a significant part of his oeuvre to the horse: almost all of his paintings depict one. Hi…
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Ludwig Halauska Documented profileGermany
Ludwig Halauska (1827–1882), an Austrian painter born in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, studied at the Vienna Academy from 1847 to 1850 under Thomas Ender and Franz Steinfeld. He joined the…
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Ludwig Hans Fischer Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Austrian landscape painter, printmaker, etcher and ethnologist Ludwig Hans Fischer (1848–1915) developed a practice that combined painting and printmaking with the observation an…
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Ludwig Hartmann Documented profileCountry to be documented
The dossier situates Ludwig Hartmann through “Bauern und Pferde auf dem Feld”, a scene whose title brings together peasants and horses in a field. Described as an oil on canvas measu…
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Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel Documented profileAustria
Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel (Wunsiedel, 1881–Vienna, 1965) was a painter and printmaker associated with Viennese modernism, particularly noted for his animal subjects. Following train…
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Ludwig Klimek Documented profileFrance · Poland
Ludwig Klimek, also known as Ludwik, was a French painter of Polish origin, born in Skoczów in 1912. He died in 1992. After studying fine art in Kraków, he travelled to Paris on a sc…
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Ludwig Knaus Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ludwig Knaus (1829–1910), born in Wiesbaden and deceased in Berlin, was a German genre painter and portraitist. Throughout his career he maintained close ties with his native city, w…
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Ludwig Koch Documented profileAustria
Ludwig Koch, an Austrian painter, sculptor and illustrator born and deceased in Vienna, devoted a significant part of his work to horses and military history, while also depicting Vi…
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Ludwig Lange Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ludwig Lange (1808–1868) worked as an architect, draughtsman and painter. Following architectural training, he became Carl Rottmann’s pupil in 1830 and accompanied him to Greece in 1…
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Ludwig Lincke Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ludwig Lincke is presented as a landscape painter, burin engraver and etcher, thus combining painting with printmaking practices. He studied at the Academy in Berlin, where a notice…
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Ludwig Meidner Documented profileGermany
Ludwig Meidner (1884–1966) trained in Breslau before settling in Berlin in 1905. A stay in Paris in 1906–1907 brought him to the Académie Julian. Back in Berlin, he developed apocaly…
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Ludwig Muller Cornelius Documented profileGermany
The Munich painter Ludwig Müller-Cornelius is described as having been self-taught since his youth: after an apprenticeship, he becomes director of the Munich company Conrad. His rep…
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Ludwig Richter Documented profileCountry to be documented
Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803–1884), a painter and printmaker from Dresden, received his first lessons from his father, the draughtsman Karl August Richter, before studying at the city…
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Ludwig Rubelli von Sturmfest Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ludwig Rubelli von Sturmfest developed a body of work in which the maritime world has a prominent place. His service in the imperial and royal navy began in 1861 and ended two years…
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Ludwig Sander Documented profileUnited States
American painter Ludwig Sander, also known as Ludwig R. Sander, was born in 1906 and died in 1975. The Art Institute of Chicago lists an untitled work dated 1960. Another untitled pa…
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Ludwig Stutz Documented profileGermany
The German painter and illustrator Ludwig Stutz (1865–1917) is also described as a caricaturist. A caricature by him, titled « Schauerliche Folgen des Katholizismus », appears in the…
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Luigi Amato Documented profileItaly
Born in 1898 in Spezzano Albanese, Calabria, Luigi Amato received his first lessons in drawing and geometry from his father. At the age of fourteen, he received a scholarship that to…
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Luigi Brignoli Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Luigi Brignoli, born in Palosco in 1881 and died in Bergamo in 1952, trained at the Accademia Carrara under Cesare Tallone and Ponziano Loverini, then attended cl…
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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…
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Luigi Loir Documented profileFrance
Aloys François Joseph Loir, known by the artist’s name Luigi Loir, had a career spanning painting, decoration and illustration. After his family settled in the Duchy of Parma in 1847…
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Luigi Pompignoli Documented profileCountry to be documented
Luigi Pompignoli, a 19th-century Italian painter associated with Neoclassicism and Romanticism, is reported to have been born in Forlì in 1814 and to have died in Florence in 1883; h…
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Luigi Steffani Documented profileCountry to be documented
Luigi Steffani went to Milan in 1844 and studied there without attending an academy. Travel subsequently became important to his development and repertoire. Following his debut at th…
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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