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Carlo Mense Documented profileGermany
The German painter Carlo Mense, born in Rheine in 1886 and died in Königswinter in 1965, is also described as a draughtsman and printmaker. After studying at the Düsseldorf Academy o…
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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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Douglas Swan Documented profileUnited States
Born in New Britain, Connecticut, Douglas Litterick Swan (1930–2000) was an American artist whose education took place mainly in Scotland, before continuing in London and Italy. His…
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Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem Documented profileCountry to be documented
Alongside Jan Both and Jan Asselijn, Nicolaes Berchem is associated with the second generation of Dutch Italianate landscape painters. He created idealised landscapes in which figure…
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Documented profileCountry to be documented
The career of Giambattista Tiepolo, a Venetian painter whose practice extended from altarpiece painting to large decorative schemes, is documented in Venice’s painters’ guild from 17…
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Gabriele Münter Documented profileGermany
The German painter Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) developed, in particular, a language of synthetic forms in the landscapes of Murnau and its surroundings: areas of vivid colour take pr…
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Carl Rottmann Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann (1797–1850) pursued landscape painting, from the mountains of Bavaria to sites in Italy and Greece. The text attributed to Charles Blanc…
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Nicolaes Molenaer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Klaes Molenaer, also known by the first names Nicolaes or Claes, was active as a painter in Haarlem from 1644 to 1676. The brother of painters Jan Miense and Bartholomeus Molenaer, h…
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Justus Juncker Documented profileGermany
The German painter Justus Juncker, born in 1703 and died in 1767, is associated with a practice shaped by the study of seventeenth-century Dutch painters. A sale notice presents Der…
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Pieter van Bloemen Documented profileCountry to be documented
Pieter van Bloemen (1657–1720), a painter born and deceased in Antwerp, is chiefly associated with Italianate landscapes, animals—especially horses—and genre scenes; he is also known…
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Christian Mali Documented profileCountry to be documented
Christian Mali’s career connects wood engraving with landscape painting and scenes populated by animals. After several years in Stuttgart as a wood engraver, he joined his brother Ja…
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Francesco Guardi Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Venetian painter Francesco Guardi was born and died in Venice (1712–1793). His elder brother Gian Antonio trained him and took over the family workshop after their father’s death…
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Antonio Scaccabarozzi Documented profileItaly
Born in Merate in 1936 and died in Santa Maria Hoè in 2008, Antonio Scaccabarozzi presented his first research works in the field of geometric abstraction in Milan. In 1959, he recei…
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Eberhard Viegener Documented profileGermany
The German painter Eberhard Viegener, born in Soest in 1890 and deceased in Bilme in 1967, initially pursued training rooted in the family trade. From 1904 to 1906, he learned painti…
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Marcel Gromaire Documented profileFrance
The French painter and decorator Marcel Gromaire (1892–1971) developed a practice spanning painting, decoration, tapestry and printmaking. After studying law, he abandoned the legal…
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Volker Tannert Documented profileGermany
Volker Tannert, a German painter, sculptor and draughtsman, was born on 19 March 1955 in Recklinghausen. A biographical note mentions New York and Paris for the years 1979–1980, as w…
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Thomas Müller Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1959, Thomas Müller has made drawing the centre of his practice since his student years in Stuttgart. According to Andreas Schalhorn, he has devoted hims…
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Fritz von Wille Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter Fritz von Wille developed a landscape practice in which the Eifel became a recurring point of reference, both in his stays there and in the titles of works held in…
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Kim En Joong Documented profileSouth Korea
Kim En Joong’s career brings together painting, a life as a Dominican, and the creation of stained-glass windows, with the project at the Basilica of Saint-Julien in Brioude serving…
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Nicola De Maria Documented profileItaly
Italian artist and painter Nicola De Maria, born in 1954 in Foglianise, lives and works in Turin. In Regno dei Fiore, dated 1983, watercolour and ink on paper — 23 × 27.5 cm — are ac…
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Max Clarenbach Documented profileGermany
Max Clarenbach’s painting initially focuses on the landscapes of the Lower Rhine, which he observes and works through drawing, painting, etching and lithography. Winter motifs occupy…
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Peter Paul Rubens Documented profileCountry to be documented
In Antwerp, he receives a humanist education, including the study of Latin and classical literature; after completing his training, he joins the Guild of Saint Luke as an independent…
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Eduard von Grützner Documented profileGermany
Eduard von Grützner is associated with Munich genre painting of the second half of the nineteenth century, alongside Carl Spitzweg and Franz von Defregger. At the Academy of Fine Art…
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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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Wilhelm Imkamp Documented profileGermany
Abstract painting is at the heart of Wilhelm Imkamp’s work: shaped by his impressions of nature and by music, it seeks, according to the biographical source, to offer the eye an expe…
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Ernesto Tatafiore Documented profileItaly
Born in 1943 in Marigliano, near Naples, Ernesto Tatafiore is an Italian artist and painter. His work “Danton”, a mixed-media work on canvas, titled within the image and measuring 35…
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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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Claude Venard Documented profileFrance
A French painter born in Paris in 1913 and deceased in 1999, Claude Venard is associated with post-Cubism and still life. Sources describe a personal post-Cubist style, built with a…
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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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Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer Documented profileFrance
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer’s flower painting belongs both to still life and to the decorative arts: his compositions are also known through prints and tapestry cartoons. Fleurs, fruits e…
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Philippe de Champaigne Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Brussels in 1602 and deceased in Paris in 1674, Philippe de Champaigne pursued a practice that brought together religious painting, portraiture and secular decoration. In 162…
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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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Ettore Gianni Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dobiaschofsky auction catalogue lists under his name a gouache signed at the upper left, *Strand auf Capri*, measuring 13 × 25 cm; estimated at CHF 300, it bears the notation “So…
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Franz Xaver Pieler Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter Franz Xaver Pieler, born in Vienna in 1876 and deceased in Klosterneuburg in 1952, is described as a flower painter. His work Blumen in einer Vase, listed under…
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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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Joaquim Bravo Documented profilePortugal
Portuguese painter Joaquim Bravo (1935–1990) was born in Évora and died in Lisbon. An untitled sheet from 1973, executed in oil on paper, is described as signed and dated in ink at t…
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Christopher Lehmpfuhl Documented profileGermany
The sales notice states that it is monogrammed and dated at the lower right, and bears the monogram and the number “CL/M 7276” on the reverse. Its published provenance mentions NZZ E…
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Wilhelm Amandus Beer Documented profileGermany
Wilhelm Amandus Beer (1837–1907), a German painter, is associated with the depiction of scenes from Russian folk life. His preference for these subjects is said to have earned him th…
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Henry Dieckmann Documented profileGermany
The German painter Henry Dieckmann is described as working primarily on landscapes of northern Germany and Parisian street scenes in a naive style. A work titled Brasserie, acrylic o…
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Hans Maurus Documented profileGermany
The German painter Hans Maurus, born in Munich in 1901 and deceased in 1942 in Marijanowska, on the Eastern Front, is also referred to by the first name Hanns. One notice describes h…
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Oskar Mulley Documented profileAustria
Mountain farms and wayside chapels set against Alpine mountain ranges are among his recurring motifs. His paintings, executed with a palette knife, almost always depict landscapes wi…
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Jean Puy Documented profileFrance
French painter born and deceased in Roanne, Jean Puy takes part in the emergence of Fauvism while developing a body of work that later moves away from the avant-garde and turns towar…
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Marcelle Noyon Documented profileFrance
The French painter Marcelle Noyon, born in Paris in 1886 and died in Meaux in 1980, trained with Fernand Cormon, Eugène Thirion, Humbert and Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin. She exhibite…
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Jean Marchand Documented profileFrance
Jean Hippolyte Marchand, also known as Jean Marchand and J. H. Marchand, trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Léon Bonnat’s studio from 1902 to 1906. He is also described as a pupi…
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Alfons Walde Documented profileAustria
Alfons Walde (Oberndorf, near Kitzbühel, 1891 – Kitzbühel, 1958) is associated with the mountain landscapes of Tyrol, particularly winter scenes and their inhabitants. According to t…
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Emile van Marcke Documented profileFrance
The French painter Émile Van Marcke, born in Sèvres in 1827 and deceased in Hyères in 1890, built his body of work around rural landscapes and livestock. He began his career at the M…
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Emmanuel Mané-Katz Documented profileFrance · Israel
Born in Krementchouk, then in the Russian Empire and now in Ukraine, Emmanuel Mané-Katz (Mane Leyzerovich Kats, 1894–1962) devoted a significant part of his work to the figures and t…
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Jan Frans van Bredael Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jan Frans van Bredael, also known as the Elder, was a Flemish painter born in Antwerp in 1686 and died in 1750. The eldest son of the painter Alexander van Bredael and Cornelia Sporc…
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Gustave Madelain Documented profileFrance
Gustave Madelain, a French painter born in Charly-sur-Marne in 1867 and who died in 1944, is associated with several cities where he worked. These include Paris, Rouen and Le Havre.…
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Johann Conrad Seekatz Documented profileGermany
Johann Conrad Seekatz was a history painter, genre painter and portraitist. Genre scenes came to occupy an increasingly prominent place in his work, alongside biblical and mythologic…
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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