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Maria Lassnig Documented profileAustria
The Austrian artist Maria Lassnig makes the body and its inner sensations a central subject of her painting; much of her work takes the form of self-portraits. After studying at the…
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Maria Marc Documented profileGermany
Maria Marc, née Bertha Pauline Marie Franck, was a German painter whose artistic training took her to Berlin, Munich and the artists’ colony of Worpswede. Born in Berlin on 12 June 1…
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Maria Moser Documented profileAustria
Maria Moser, born in Frankenburg, Upper Austria, in 1948, is an Austrian painter. She studied at Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts from 1968 to 1973 and received a scholarship for Egypt…
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Maria Palatini Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in 1952, Maria Palatini grew up in St. Gallen, the city where she also established her artistic practice. According to a biography published by Kunstkaufen.ch, in 1977 she chose…
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Mariano Bertuchi Documented profileSpain
The Spanish painter Mariano Bertuchi came from Granada and developed an essential part of his work through his relationship with Morocco. Light, landscape and life in the northern to…
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Marie Haushofer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Marie Haushofer (1871–1940) was a German painter and poet born in Munich. The daughter of writer and professor Max Haushofer, granddaughter of a landscape painter and sister of artis…
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Marie Joseph Orgiazzi Documented profileFrance
In an auction catalogue, Marie Joseph Orgiazzi is identified as having lived from 1945 to 1998 and is represented by a work entitled « A Federico Lorca ou le sang du poète ». Describ…
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Marie Laurencin Documented profileFrance
Marie Laurencin, also named Marie-Mélanie Laurencin, is described as a French painter, poet and printmaker. Works listed by the Art Institute of Chicago include Head of a Young Woman…
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Marie Raymond Documented profileFrance
Known by the names Marie Klein and Marie Raymond Klein, Marie Raymond is a French painter who also worked as an art critic. In Paris, she studied at the Académie de la Grande-Chaumiè…
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Marie Vassilieff Documented profileFrance
The painter and theatre designer Marie Vassilieff—also known as Maria Ivanovna Vassilieva—was born in Smolensk in 1884 and died in 1957. Her career brings together painting, decorati…
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Marinus Gidding Documented profileCountry to be documented
In Marinus Gidding’s Flusslandschaft, two rowing boats rest on the water, beside willows and a house on the left bank. This watercolour, signed at lower right, measures 53 × 38 cm.
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Marinus van Reymerswaele Documented profileCountry to be documented
The interior scenes associated with Marinus van Reymerswale show customs officers, tax collectors and money changers: figures connected with the activities of money and administratio…
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Mario Cavaglieri Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Mario Cavaglieri (1887–1969), born in Rovigo, Veneto, developed a body of work spanning two distinct periods: the depiction of high society before the war, follow…
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Mario Nigro Documented profileItaly
Italian painter Mario Nigro, born in Pistoia in 1917 and deceased in Livorno in 1992, brought together scientific studies, music and painting in his career. After his family moved to…
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Mario Reviglione Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter and printmaker Mario Reviglione, born in 1883 and died in 1965, studied with Giacomo Grosso and Paolo Gaidano at the Accademia Albertina in Turin from 1900 to 190…
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Mario Schifano Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter and collagist Mario Schifano (1934–1998), born in Khoms, Libya, and who died in Rome, developed a practice that extends beyond painting: his work also encompassed…
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Mario Sironi Documented profileItaly
Mario Sironi’s career combines an evolving approach to painting with a wide-ranging practice, from graphic design and stage design to architecture and mural painting, culminating in…
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Mario Tozzi Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Mario Tozzi was born in Fossombrone in 1895. He trained in Bologna before continuing his career in Paris. After abandoning his studies in chemistry, he enrolled a…
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Marion Broom Documented profileCountry to be documented
A listing identifies Marion Broom under the designation “RWS” and gives the dates 1878–1962. Two documented works are still-life watercolours: Blumenstillleben, signed lower right, m…
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Mark Francis Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Mark Francis, born in 1962 in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, trained in London at Saint Martin’s School of Art and then Chelsea School of Art, receiving his master’s degree in 1986.…
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Mark Kostabi Documented profileEstonia · United States
Mark Kostabi, born in Los Angeles in 1960 to Estonian parents, studied drawing and painting at California State University, Fullerton. Moving to New York in 1982, he joined the East…
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Marko Pernhart Documented profileCountry to be documented
Markus Pernhart (1824–1871), also known as Marko Pernhart, was a Carinthian landscape painter whose work belongs to both Austrian and Slovenian art history. His paintings depict lake…
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Markus Draper Documented profileGermany
Born in 1969, Markus Draper is identified as a German artist. A work entry documents several presentations between 2006 and 2007: “Die innere Sicherheit” at Sandroni. Rey Gallery in…
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Markus Lüpertz Documented profileGermany
Markus Lüpertz’s practice spans painting and sculpture, while his activities also include university teaching and, since the 1980s, stage design. He studied at the school of fine art…
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Markus Oehlen Documented profileGermany
Markus Oehlen, born in Krefeld in 1956, is a German painter, sculptor and musician. He studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Alfonso Hüppi. Alongside his studies, he participat…
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Markus Prachensky Documented profileAustria
Markus Prachensky (1932–2011) is an Austrian painter. Among the documented works is *Luxor Swing*, dated 1997: executed in ink on cardboard, it measures 77 × 56.5 cm and bears the si…
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Marlene Dumas Documented profileNetherlands · South Africa
Marlene Dumas’s formative works combine hybrid investigations, at times abstract and at times post-conceptual, with collage and writing. Painting, less present during this period, wo…
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Martha Grunenwaldt Documented profileBelgium
Martha Grünenwaldt (1910–2008), a Belgian artist, began drawing when she was over seventy: this late entry into artistic practice is a distinctive landmark in her career. The daughte…
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Martin Bradley Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Born in London in 1931, Martin Bradley began painting while working as a young seaman, making portraits of his shipmates. Back in London, he studied Asian languages, literature and a…
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Martin Drolling Documented profileFrance
The French painter of portraits and genre scenes Martin Drölling — also spelled Drolling — is associated with interior scenes, copies and portraits. These genres offer concrete point…
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Martin Kippenberger Documented profileGermany
The Art Institute of Chicago’s catalogue lists, among others, Untitled (Self-Portrait) (1988), Untitled (Michael Jackson) (1989) and Untitled (Emaciation of the Mastubator) (1990), f…
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Marwan Kassab-Bachi Documented profileGermany · Syria
Born in Damascus in 1934 and deceased in Berlin in 2016, Marwan Kassab Bachi, known as Marwan, developed a career closely tied to the German capital, where he arrived in 1957 and sub…
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Mary Heilmann Documented profileUnited States
United States artist Mary Heilmann, born in 1940 and died in 2026, has developed a practice in which painting is conceived both as a language to be questioned and as a pictorial expe…
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Masa Feszty Documented profileHungary
Masa Feszty, also known as Mária Feszty, was born in Budapest into an artistic family: her father was Árpád Feszty and her mother Róza Jókai. She received their guidance before conti…
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Massimo Campigli Documented profileItaly
Among them is Ritratto del pittore Achille Funi, attributed to Campigli in the CulturaItalia catalogue and dated 1931. The entry gives the dimensions as 120 × 100 cm. The work is ass…
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Master IW Documented profileCountry to be documented
Known as Master IW or the Monogrammist I.W., this artist is presented as a Czech or Saxon Renaissance painter, active between 1520 and 1550, mainly in north-western Bohemia; the mono…
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Mateus Manaure Documented profileVenezuela
Mateo Manaure (1926–2018), born in Uracoa, was a Venezuelan painter associated with the development of abstraction in his country. Moving to Paris in 1947, he joined Los Disidentes,…
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Mathys Schoevaerdts Documented profileCountry to be documented
Mathys Schoevaerdts’s work brings together landscapes, seascapes and genre scenes in compositions in which figures occupy an important place and stand out for their individuality and…
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Matt Mullican Documented profileUnited States
Matt Mullican, born in Santa Monica in 1951, investigates systems of knowledge and the relationships between perception, language and representation. The son of artists Lee Mullican…
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Mattheus Terwesten Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter Mattheus Terwesten (1670–1757), also a draughtsman and interior decorator, is particularly known for his portraits and historical allegories painted on walls and ce…
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Matthew Smith Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith, a British painter born in Halifax in 1879 and who died in 1959, developed a career that took him from the British art scene to repeated stays in France. A…
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Matthijs Naiveu Documented profileCountry to be documented
Matthys Naiveu is known for his genre scenes, but his oeuvre also includes portraits, religious subjects and still lifes. This diversity is documented alongside an activity particula…
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Mattia Moreni Documented profileItaly
Born in Pavia in 1920, Mattia Moreni trained in Turin and participated in the Resistance before entering the artistic debates of the postwar years. A member of the Gruppo degli Otto,…
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Maurice Blum Documented profileFrance
The French painter and engraver Maurice Blum (1832–1909) is documented by a work painted on wood, which here attests to his activity as a painter. Entitled « Fürstliches Interieur mi…
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Maurice Brianchon Documented profileFrance
French painter Maurice Brianchon (1899–1979) took part in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad over the following decades and received several prizes, according to an auction ca…
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Maurice de Vlaminck Documented profileFrance
Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958), a French painter, is described by Wikidata as a Fauvist and Cubist painter. These two terms place his work in distinct categories of modern painting,…
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Maurice Delcourt Documented profileFrance
Maurice Delcourt (1877–1916), born in Paris, belonged to the generation that renewed printmaking and illustration at the end of the nineteenth century. While still young he contribut…
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Maurice Denis Documented profileFrance
In 1888, he studied at the École des beaux-arts and the Académie Julian, but soon left the former. In an article-manifesto published in August 1890, he set out the artistic ideas of…
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Maurice-Elie Sarthou Documented profileFrance
Maurice-Élie Sarthou studied at the fine arts schools in Montpellier and Paris before working as a drawing teacher. Settling in Paris in 1950, he soon divided his time with Sète and…
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Maurice Estève Documented profileFrance
Maurice Estève (1904–2001), a French artist, traversed the 20th century. According to a note on the work Biclu, no preparatory drawing guided his gestures: forms and colours came to…
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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