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Michelangelo Pistoletto Documented profileItaly
Michelangelo Pistoletto, born in Biella in 1933, places the relationship between an artwork and its surroundings at the centre of his investigations. Following early work focused on…
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Michele Cascella Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter, watercolourist and pastellist Michele Cascella was born on 7 September 1892 in Ortona a Mare and died in Milan in 1989. He was the son of Basilio Cascella and th…
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Michele Garinei Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Michele Garinei (1871–1960) is notably associated with a copy after a self-portrait by Mme Vigée-Lebrun. An inscription recorded on the reverse of a lot attribute…
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Michelle Stuart Documented profileUnited States
Michelle Stuart, born in Los Angeles in 1933, developed a practice encompassing drawing, photography, sculpture and interventions in the landscape. Her work attends to traces left by…
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Michiel Ceulers Documented profileBelgium
Michiel Ceulers, born in Waregem in 1986, studied painting at KASK in Ghent before completing a residency at Amsterdam’s Rijksakademie in 2011. His work explores painting as a materi…
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Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt Documented profileCountry to be documented
A native of Delft, where he died in 1641, Michiel van Mierevelt trained with Anthonie van Blocklandt in Utrecht. He became one of the leading portraitists of the Dutch Republic. The…
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Michiel van Huysum Documented profileCountry to be documented
Michiel van Huysum (1703–1777) was a Dutch painter and draughtsman associated with Amsterdam's artistic milieu. A half-brother of Jan van Huysum, he belonged to a family particularly…
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Mihail Chemiakin Documented profileFrance · Russia · United States
Born in Moscow in 1943, Mikhaïl Chemiakine trained at the secondary art school attached to the Leningrad Academy, then worked at the Hermitage. He organised an exhibition there with…
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Mihály Munkácsy Documented profileHungary
Mihály Munkácsy moved from scenes of the everyday lives of peasants and people living in poverty to large-scale biblical and decorative compositions, whose scale marks several stages…
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Mikhail Larionov Documented profileFrance
Michel Larionov, also known as Mikhail (1881–1964), was born in Tiraspol and trained in Moscow, where he met Natalia Goncharova. A figure in the Russian avant-garde, he combined Fauv…
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Mikko Oinonen Documented profileFinland
Mikko Oskar Oinonen, also known as Mikko Oinonen, trained in Helsinki before continuing his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris between 1908 and 1910. His meeting with Magnus Enc…
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Miklos Bokor Documented profileFrance
Miklos Bokor (1927–2019), born in Budapest, was deported to Auschwitz and subsequently other camps in 1944. During hospitalisation after the war, he began teaching himself to draw. F…
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Mikuláš Medek Documented profileCountry to be documented
Czech painter Mikuláš Medek, born in 1926 and died in 1974, worked in a context in which, according to Artsper’s biography, pressure from the communist regime in Czechoslovakia perme…
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Milan Konjović Documented profileSerbia
Milan Konjović first exhibited in 1914, showing around fifty works painted outdoors and directly from the subject, while pursuing his primary and secondary education in Sombor from 1…
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Milan Kunc Documented profileCzechia
Born in Prague on 27 November 1944, Milan Kunc studied at the Academy of Arts in Prague from 1964 to 1967. In 1969, he emigrated to Germany; ten years later, he founded the group Nor…
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Milo Reice Documented profileUnited States
Milo Reice, born in 1952, develops narrative paintings in which references to the past enter into dialogue with the present. Trained at the Tyler School of Art, he gives drawings, sk…
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Mimmo Germana Documented profileItaly
Mimmo Germana (1944–1992) is represented in the collections of the Museo MAGA in Gallarate by Angelo, a painting from 1987. Measuring 115 × 100 cm, the work is inventoried there unde…
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Mimmo Paladino Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter and sculptor Mimmo Paladino—whose name is Domenico Paladino—develops a practice that moves from painting to sculpture, installations and film. Born in Paduli in 1…
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Mino Maccari Documented profileItaly
For Mino Maccari (1898–1989), images and writing belonged to a shared critical observation of human behaviour. Born in Siena, the Italian artist combined painting and printmaking wit…
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Miquel Barceló Documented profileSpain
Miquel Barceló’s painting gradually expanded into bronze, ceramics and performance. Born in Felanitx, Mallorca, in 1957, he trained in Palma before beginning studies in Barcelona. Hi…
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Miriam Schapiro Documented profileUnited States
Miriam Schapiro (1923–2015), born in Toronto, studied at the University of Iowa, receiving her MFA in 1949. She moved to New York in 1952 with her husband, the artist Paul Brach. In…
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Miroslav Šutej Documented profileCroatia
Miroslav Šutej, a Croatian artist who lived from 1936 to 2005, explored the mechanisms of perception through painting, drawing and printmaking. After graduating from the Zagreb Acade…
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Mirta Cerra Herrera Documented profileCuba
The Cuban artist Mirta Cerra Herrera, born in Bejucal and also known as Mirta Cerra, pursues a practice that combines painting and sculpture with work as an avant-garde designer and…
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Modest Cuixart Documented profileSpain
Modest Cuixart’s career is marked by several shifts: from his adoption of Art Informel in Lyon to an expression closer to human reality in the early 1960s, and then to an exploration…
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Mohan Samant Documented profileIndia
An Indian painter associated with the Progressive Artists’ Group during the 1950s, Mohan Samant developed a visual language informed by Indian miniatures, Egyptian hieroglyphs and an…
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Moïse Kisling Documented profileFrance · Poland
Moïse Kisling (1891–1953), listed as a Polish-French artist, had a career marked by moves between several places of work and study. After serving in the French Foreign Legion in 1915…
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Moritz Stifter Documented profileCountry to be documented
Moritz Stifter (1857–1905) was an Austrian painter and a nephew of the writer and painter Adalbert Stifter. The son of an engineer, he initially pursued a military career before choo…
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Moritz von Schwind Documented profileCountry to be documented
Moritz von Schwind (1804–1871), an Austrian painter born in Vienna, develops a body of work at the intersection of decorative painting, literature and music. Trained at the Academy o…
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Moshe Gat Documented profileIsrael
Moshe Gat, born in Haifa in 1935, is an Israeli painter and printmaker. He began studying at Jerusalem’s Bezalel School in 1952, then returned to Haifa in 1955 to teach drawing. A gr…
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Moshe Gershuni Documented profileIsrael
Moshe Gershuni (1936–2017), born in Tel Aviv, holds an important place in post-war Israeli art. During the 1970s he belonged to a conceptual avant-garde concerned with the creative p…
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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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Myra Landau Documented profileMexico
Myra Landau (1926–2018) was born in Bucharest and reached Brazil with her family after fleeing Romania in 1940. Self-taught, she developed an abstraction based on moving geometric li…
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Nadia Léger Documented profileFrance
Nadia Khodossievitch Léger (1904–1982) was a painter of Belarusian origin whose career crossed several centres of the European avant-garde. Trained in Smolensk in an environment shap…
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Naftali Bezem Documented profileGermany · Israel
Born in Essen in 1924, Naftali Bezem moved to Palestine in 1939 with Youth Aliyah. He studied at Jerusalem's Bezalel School of Art, where he later taught, and worked in Paris between…
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Nam June Paik Documented profileGermany · South Korea · United States
Associated with video art, American artist Nam June Paik (1932–2006) approaches electronic media from a background in music and through experiments in which sound, image and technica…
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Nancy Graves Documented profileUnited States
The American artist Nancy Graves (1939–1995), active in several media and also known as Nancy Stevenson Graves, developed a body of work encompassing sculptural forms as well as work…
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Nancy Spero Documented profileUnited States
Nancy Spero’s work makes the image a site for taking a stand: it responds to the violence of war and, from 1974 onwards, devotes itself to representing women and advocating for their…
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Napoleone Angiolini Documented profileCountry to be documented
Napoleone Angiolini (1797–1871) was an Italian painter whose career was closely connected with Bologna. He trained at the city’s Academy of Fine Arts and received a scholarship in 18…
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Narcisse Berchère Documented profileFrance
Narcisse Berchère was a French painter specialising in Orientalist landscapes. A pupil of Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond at the École des beaux-arts in Paris, he made his Salon debut in…
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Narcisse Guilbert Documented profileFrance
Narcisse Guilbert (1878–1942) was a painter associated with the Rouen School. He received his earliest instruction from Joseph Delattre and studied under Philippe Zacharie at the art…
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Narcisse Virgilio Díaz Documented profileFrance
Narcisse Díaz de la Peña first trained in a porcelain factory, entering an apprenticeship in 1822, then studied with the painter Souchon and by copying works in the Louvre. Accepted…
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Nasser Ovissi Documented profileIran
Nasser Ovissi, born in Tehran in 1934, brings Persian visual traditions into dialogue with a modern pictorial language. He graduated in law and political science from the University…
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Natalia Dumitresco Documented profileFrance · Romania
Natalia Dumitresco (Bucharest, 1915 – Chars, 1997) was a Romanian painter and sculptor. She trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest and married Alexandre Istrati in 1939. Th…
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Natalia Goncharova Documented profileFrance
Natalia Sergeyevna Goncharova (1881–1962), also known as Natalia Goncharova and Nathalie Gontcharova, pursued a path through several strands of modern Russian painting and also worke…
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Nathalie Chabrier Documented profileFrance
The French painter, lithographer and illustrator Nathalie Chabrier, born in Paris in 1932, initially works in stained glass, tapestry, ceramics and mural painting. This practice acro…
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Nathalie Schultheiss Documented profileAustria
German painter Natalie Schultheiss is also listed as Natalie Schultheiß and Nathalie Schultheiß. The variants Natalie Schultheiss-Hampel and Natalie Hampel are also among the names a…
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Naum Gabo Documented profileUnited States
Naum Gabo (1890–1977), born Naum Pevsner in the Russian Empire, was a leading figure in Constructivism. Studies in science and engineering in Munich preceded his first constructions,…
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Nedko Solakov Documented profileBulgaria
Nedko Solakov builds narratives with words as much as with images and objects. Born in Bulgaria in 1957 and trained in Sofia and Antwerp, he developed work critically engaging with h…
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Neo Rauch Documented profileGermany
Neo Rauch, born in Leipzig in 1960, studied painting at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst with Arno Rink and subsequently Bernhard Heisig, completing his training in 1990. He l…
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Nestor Cambier Documented profileBelgium
Portraiture links the different stages of the career of Nestor Cambier, a Belgian painter and draughtsman born in Couillet in 1879. At the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, he…
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Countries reflect citizenships recorded in the source and may be incomplete. Reference profiles open the indicated source and do not imply that works are available at the gallery.
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