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Petrus Kremer Documented profileBelgium
Pierre, or Petrus, Kremer (1801–1888) was a Belgian painter born in Antwerp, where he also died. A pupil of Guillaume Herreyns and Mathieu-Ignace Van Brée at the city’s academy, he c…
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Jonas Burgert Documented profileGermany
Jonas Burgert develops figurative painting populated by enigmatic characters and complex situations. For this German artist, born in West Berlin in 1969, the figure serves to questio…
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Juan Manuel De la Rosa Documented profileMexico
Juan Manuel de la Rosa (1945–2021), a Mexican artist from Sierra Hermosa in Zacatecas, gave paper a role extending beyond that of a simple support. A painter, printmaker and ceramici…
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Thomas Gleb Documented profileFrance · Poland
Thomas Gleb (1912–1991) trained in drawing and painting in Łódź before continuing his artistic explorations in Paris from 1932. He held his first exhibition in his studio there in 19…
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Ode Bertrand Documented profileFrance
Ode Bertrand, born in Paris in 1930, came to visual art from classical dance and developed a practice within geometric abstraction and concrete art. A niece of Aurélie Nemours, she w…
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Nicolas Vleughels Documented profileFrance
Nicolas Vleughels (1668–1737), also known as Vleugels, was a French painter born in Paris who died in Rome. The son of Flemish portraitist Philippe Vleughels, he trained with Pierre…
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Maurice Verdier Documented profileFrance
The Parisian painter and lithographer Maurice Verdier (1919–2003) entered art school in 1938 after attending evening classes in Montparnasse. With Paul Aïzpiri and Gaëtan de Rosnay,…
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Maurice Loutreuil Documented profileFrance
Maurice Loutreuil (1885–1925) was a French painter whose subjects included landscapes, portraits, nudes and still lifes. After evening classes with Jules Hervé-Mathé in Le Mans, he c…
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi Documented profileCountry to be documented
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), also known in French as Piranèse, worked as both a printmaker and an architect. Trained in Venice, he went to Rome in 1740 and developed his e…
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André Engel Documented profileFrance
André Engel, a landscape painter born in 1880, came from an Alsatian family connected with the textile industry in Mulhouse and grew up at Château de Ripaille beside Lake Geneva. His…
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Abdelkader Guermaz Documented profileAlgeria · France
Abdelkader Guermaz (1919–1996), born in Mascara, grew up in Oran. From 1941, he participated in exhibitions at Galerie Colline, working as a sign painter and later as a writer for Or…
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Ohara Koson Documented profileJapan
Known as Koson, Ohara Matao (1877–1945) devoted much of his print production to kachō-e, the genre of bird-and-flower imagery. He initially worked with publishers Akiyama Buemon and…
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Ferdinand František Engelmüller Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ferdinand Engelmüller (1867–1924) was a Czech painter and graphic artist whose work focused on landscape and architectural subjects. A pupil of Julius Mařák at the Prague Academy of…
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Stanislas Lépine Documented profileFrance
Stanislas Lépine (1835–1892) centred his work on Paris, its surroundings and the landscapes of Normandy. Living in Montmartre from 1855, he entered Corot’s studio in 1860. He had mad…
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Paul Adolf Seehaus Documented profileGermany
Paul Adolf Seehaus (1891–1919) belonged to the circle of Rhenish Expressionists around August Macke. Their close personal and artistic relationship began in 1910. In 1913 Macke helpe…
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Tom Phillips Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Tom Phillips (1937–2022) was a British artist working across painting, printmaking and collage. After studying English literature at Oxford, he trained at Camberwell, graduating in 1…
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Thomas Ender Documented profileCountry to be documented
Thomas Ender (1793–1875), an Austrian landscape painter born in Vienna, combined academic training with extensive experience of travel. After studying with Hubert Maurer and Laurenz…
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Michel Kikoine Documented profileFrance
Michel Kikoïne met Chaïm Soutine in a Minsk studio in 1905 and studied with him in Vilnius from 1908. Arriving in Paris in 1912, he continued his studies in Fernand Cormon’s studio,…
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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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Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo Documented profileNetherlands
Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, known as Corneille (1922–2010), was a Dutch artist whose practice encompassed painting, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture. Following his training i…
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Helmut Kolle Documented profileGermany
German painter Helmut Kolle (1899–1931), also known by the pseudonym Helmut vom Hügel, pursued his career between Berlin and France. Following his first Berlin exhibitions, he settle…
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Antoine Tzapoff Documented profileFrance
Antoine Tzapoff, a French artist born in 1945, developed a figurative oeuvre largely devoted to the Indigenous peoples of North America. After three years of applied arts studies, he…
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Edvard Munch Documented profileNorway
Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863–1944) made personal experience a driving force of his artistic investigation. He trained in Christiania, receiving advice from Christian Krohg, v…
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Charles Dufresne Documented profileFrance
Charles Dufresne (1876–1938) initially found his subjects in Parisian music halls, concert cafés and circuses, drawing on location before reworking his studies in pastel. Awarded the…
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Hugo Scheiber Documented profileHungary
Born in Budapest in 1873, Hugó Scheiber returned to the city with his family at the age of fifteen. He worked during the day and attended evening painting classes, completing his tra…
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Bruno Ceccobelli Documented profileItaly
Bruno Ceccobelli, born in Monte Castello di Vibio in 1952, is an Italian painter and sculptor who trained at Rome’s Academy of Fine Arts. In the early 1980s, he established himself i…
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Jan Mirosław Peszke Documented profileFrance · Poland
Jean Peské (1870–1949) was a French painter and printmaker who settled in France in 1891. In Paris, he worked on decorative projects and illustrations, experimented with pointillism…
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André Brasilier Documented profileFrance
Born in Saumur in 1929, André Brasilier studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris before staying at the Villa Medici in Rome from 1954 to 1957. His painting combines simplified fo…
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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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Théodore Gérard Documented profileBelgium
Théodore Gérard was a Belgian painter and printmaker who trained at the Ghent Academy of Fine Arts under Théodore Canneel and Jean Baptiste Van der Plaetsen. Travels through Alsace,…
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Achille Giroux Documented profileFrance
Achille Giroux, also known as Jean François Achille Giroux, was a French painter and lithographer who died in 1854. After drawing lessons in Saumur, he trained with Michel Martin Dro…
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Scottie Wilson Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Scottie Wilson (1888–1972), born Louis Freeman, was a Scottish artist without academic art training. After moving to Canada, where he worked as a second-hand dealer, he began drawing…
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Pierre Roy Documented profileFrance
Born in Nantes, Pierre Roy (1880–1950) constructed his paintings from precisely rendered familiar objects. Shells, fruit, seeds, eggs and ribbons come together in poetic scenes that…
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Jean Dewasne Documented profileFrance
Jean Dewasne (1921–1999), a French painter, lithographer and sculptor, approached abstraction as a field for technical as well as formal experimentation. Following a first exhibition…
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Jean Carzou Documented profileFrance
Jean Carzou (1907–2000) was the professional name of Karnik Zouloumian, who was born in Aleppo. After attending the French lycée in Cairo, a scholarship from the Armenian community e…
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Moustapha Baidi Oumarou Documented profileCameroon
Moustapha Baidi Oumarou, born in Maroua in 1997, is a Cameroonian artist who taught himself to paint. Following an early interest in drawing, he joined the visual arts club at the Un…
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Günther Uecker Documented profileGermany
Günther Uecker (1930–2025) turned the nail into a structural element of art: repetition transformed the surface and drew the viewer into an experience of light and relief. The German…
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Dobrosav Milojević Documented profileSerbia
Serbian naive painter Dobrosav Milojević, born in 1948, draws his subjects from village life and childhood memories. His biography connects his mountainous landscapes of Crni Vrh, ne…
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Carl Kreul Documented profileGermany
Carl Kreul (1804–1867) was a German painter active in Nuremberg whose career combined artistic practice with the manufacture of colours. During a stay with his father between 1825 an…
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Roger Forissier Documented profileFrance
Roger Forissier (1924–2003) placed landscape at the centre of a figurative practice that also encompassed portraits, still lifes and printmaking. Born in Feurs, he trained at the fin…
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Paul Georges Klein Documented profileFrance
French painter, draughtsman and illustrator Paul Georges Klein worked on still lifes and portraits alongside scenes of everyday life. Musicians and the world of entertainment held a…
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Alekos Fassianos Documented profileGreece
Greek painter, lithographer and poet Alékos Fassianós (1935–2022) developed a figurative art in which contemporary life takes on a mythological dimension. He studied painting with Yi…
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Alfred Pellan Documented profileCanada
Born in Québec City in 1906, Alfred Pellan received a scholarship in 1926 to continue his training at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. He also worked as a grap…
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Peter Klasen Documented profileGermany
Born in Lübeck in 1935, Peter Klasen draws on the urban environment in his work as a painter, photographer and sculptor. After studying art in Berlin from 1956 to 1959, he moved to P…
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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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Charles Joseph Beauverie Documented profileFrance
Charles Joseph Beauverie was a French painter, printmaker and illustrator whose career connected Lyon, Auvers-sur-Oise and the Forez region. He trained with Louis Guy at the Lyon art…
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Gaston Bertrand Documented profileBelgium
For Gaston Bertrand (1910–1994), simplifying forms remained connected to the experience of the visible world. The Belgian painter began with subjects including intimate interiors, th…
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René Gruau Documented profileFrance · Italy
Born in Rimini in 1909 as Renato Zavagli-Ricciardelli delle Caminate, René Gruau built a career in fashion illustration and advertising. His first drawings appeared in the Milanese m…
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Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein Documented profileCountry to be documented
Portraiture held a central place in the career of Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1788–1868). Trained first by his father, Christian Leberecht Vogel, and then at the Dresden Aca…
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Sylvain Vigny Documented profileAustria · France
Self-taught artist Sylvain Vigny came to France in 1929 after living in Vienna, then settled in Nice in 1934 following a stay in Paris. He frequented the Galerie d’art Romanin opened…
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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