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Marcin Maciejowski Documented profilePoland
The Polish painter Marcin Maciejowski, born in 1974, first gained international recognition as part of Grupa Ładnie (Pretty Group), alongside students from the Krakow University of T…
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Pierre Charles Comte Documented profileFrance
The painting of Pierre-Charles Comte focuses in particular on the history of the Valois: his historical scenes depict episodes and figures from this period, including Henry III and t…
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Nicola Carrino Documented profileItaly
Born in Taranto in 1932, Nicola Carrino develops a sculptural practice centred on form and space; he dies in 2018. His work is presented in a first solo exhibition when he is barely…
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Carl Ludwig Kaaz Documented profileGermany
Described as a German painter who lived from 1773 to 1810, Carl Ludwig Kaaz also appears in sources under the names Carl Ludwig Katz and Karl Ludwig Kaaz. An auction catalogue lists…
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Josep Maria Mallol Suazo Documented profileSpain
The Catalan painter Josep Maria Mallol Suazo (1910–1986), also listed under his full name, Josep Maria Benet Agustí Ignasi Mallol Suazo, had a career marked by exhibitions and awards…
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Wilhelm Thöny Documented profileAustria
Wilhelm Thöny, an Austrian painter, was born in Graz in 1888 and died in New York in 1949. A watercolour on paper entitled “Springbrunnen in Paris” is dated 1937. The sale catalogue…
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David Hockney Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Born in Bradford in 1937, David Hockney is a British artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and stage design; he dies in London in 2026. His artistic…
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Pierre Carrier-Belleuse Documented profileFrance
The French painter Pierre Carrier-Belleuse is particularly known for his portraits of Opéra dancers, his panoramas and his works created on the Opal Coast. The son of the sculptor Al…
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Adrien Manglard Documented profileFrance
A landscape and marine painter, Adrien Manglard carried out most of his work in Italy, where he settled in his youth and spent nearly fifty years. His training began with Adriaen van…
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L. S. Lowry Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976), also known as L. S. Lowry, is an English artist whose painting focuses in particular on the industrial landscapes of Salford, Manchester and other…
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Paul Uwe Dreyer Documented profileGermany
The German painter Paul Uwe Dreyer (1939–2008) is documented here by Zonenbild 4, a work that the sale notice states is signed, dated and titled on the reverse. The provenance given…
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Antonio Murado Documented profileSpain
Executed in oil, they each measure 460 × 560 mm. On the reverse, each bears a signature, the date 2001 and the inscription “NYC”. The group is associated with the exhibition Antonio…
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Felix Schwormstädt Documented profileCountry to be documented
German painter and illustrator Felix Schwormstädt was born in Hamburg in 1870 and died in Locarno in 1938. A gouache on paper catalogued under his name, “Feiern auf der Strasse”, is…
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Adolf Eberle Documented profileCountry to be documented
A German painter (1843–1914), Adolf Eberle was the son of Robert Eberle, an animal and landscape painter, and thus continued a family tradition. Trained at Karl von Piloty’s school,…
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Saul Steinberg Documented profileRomania · United States
Saul Erik Steinberg (1914–1999), a Romanian-American artist, developed a body of work spanning editorial drawing, books, mural painting and applied design. The covers, drawings and c…
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Frank Stella Documented profileUnited States
Frank Philip Stella (1936–2024), an American artist, conceives of the image as an object rather than as the representation of something. He sums up this position in a concise formula…
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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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William Aiken Walker Documented profileUnited States
The American painter William Aiken Walker, who died in 1921, is particularly associated with scenes of the lives of the rural Black population on plantations. The entry describing th…
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Jan Philip van Thielen Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jan Philip van Thielen (1618–1667), a Flemish painter born in Mechelen, specialised in flower painting. His work consists mainly of bouquets, arrangements and garlands, exploring dif…
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Pierre Soulages Documented profileFrance
French painter and printmaker Pierre Soulages, born in Rodez in 1919, makes the light arising from the surface states of black a major focus of his pictorial research. At eighteen, h…
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Hugo Ungewitter Documented profileCountry to be documented
Hugo Ungewitter’s career combines official recognition with a journey to Abyssinia: the Berlin court awarded him the title of professor in 1913, and he then travelled to Abyssinia in…
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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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Pierre Ernest Prins Documented profileFrance
French painter, printmaker and sculptor Pierre Prins (1838–1913) pursued an artistic practice whose different fields are also reflected in his career: training in drawing, learning t…
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Pol Bury Documented profileBelgium · France
Pol Bury (1922–2005), a Belgian artist, practised painting and sculpture, and created jewellery. A watercolour entitled Untitled, dated 1950, measures 465 × 290 mm; it is signed and…
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Adolf Luther Documented profileGermany
Two documented works by Adolf Luther bring together distinct materials and formats: a “Materiebild” on fibreboard and a “Linsenobjekt” composed of glass lenses. The untitled work, da…
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Salomon van Ruysdael Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch landscape painter Salomon van Ruysdael devoted his work mainly to flatland landscapes, shores, and river or canal scenes. Born around 1602 in Naarden, he died in Haarlem on…
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour Documented profileFrance
The 18th-century French painter and pastellist Maurice-Quentin de La Tour devotes most of his activity to pastel portraiture. Born and died in Saint-Quentin, in 1704 and 1788, he pur…
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Rudolf Wacker Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter Rudolf Wacker, born in 1893 and died in 1939, brought together in his work landscapes and courtyards, self-portraits and female nudes, as well as found objects,…
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Sophus Hansen Documented profileGermany
The German painter and lithographer Ernst Friedrich Sophus Hansen was born in Glücksburg in 1871 and died there in 1959; his career developed between Weimar, Hamburg and, once again,…
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Walter Gramatté Documented profileGermany
Walter Gramatté, a German painter and printmaker born in Berlin in 1897 and died in Hamburg in 1929, fought in the First World War. His artistic career unfolded over a short life, wi…
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Alessio Issupoff Documented profileItaly
The Russian painter Alessio Issupoff, born in 1889 and deceased in 1957, is also known as Aleksei Vladimirovich Issupoff and Alessio Isupov. These variants accompany a career that Pi…
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Charles François Nivard Documented profileFrance
The French painter Charles-François Nivard, born in Nancy in 1739 and deceased in Versailles in 1821, explored several areas of landscape painting: the countryside, village scenes, a…
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Walther Bötticher Documented profileCountry to be documented
Walther Bötticher belongs to German Expressionism, and his work is distinguished by a relationship with nature in which sensitive observation accords with a decorative conception of…
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Balthasar van der Ast Documented profileCountry to be documented
A painter of still lifes of flowers, fruit and shells, Balthasar van der Ast often populates his compositions with insects and lizards. The treatment of the surfaces is described as…
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Johann Jakob Serr Documented profileGermany
A portrait painter, but also a poet and musician, Johann Jakob Serr (1807–1880) is presented as a German artist born in Rhodt, in the Palatinate, and who died in Heidelberg. In Herbs…
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Anthony Law Documented profileCanada
Listed as a Canadian painter, Anthony Law (1916–1996), also known as C. Anthony Law, Charles Anthony Francis Law or Tony Law, was an official war artist for the Royal Canadian Navy d…
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Thomas Rowlandson Documented profileCountry to be documented
Thomas Rowlandson turns satirical printmaking into a space for observing social life: less concerned with politics than James Gillray, he depicts its aspects and incidents in a manne…
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Abraham Neumann Documented profilePoland
The Polish painter Abraham Neumann, born in Sierpc in 1873 and deceased in 1942, developed a body of work whose subjects and techniques reflect a varied practice. After 1911, his pai…
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Jan Thorn Prikker Documented profileNetherlands
The Dutch artist Jan Thorn Prikker, also known as Johan Thorn Prikker, Jan Thorn-Prikker, Johan Thorn-Prikker and J. Thorn Prikker, teaches Heinrich Campendonk at the School of Appli…
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Albert Ebert Documented profileGermany · Germany
The German painter Albert Ebert, born in 1906 and died in 1976, is represented here by Karneval, an oil painting on wood dated 1959. The small-format panel measures 9.2 × 6.9 cm and…
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Hiroshi Sugito Documented profileJapan
Born in Nagoya in 1970, Hiroshi Sugito is a Japanese painter who graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in 1993. The source also describes him as a former…
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Giuseppe Cesetti Documented profileItaly
Giuseppe Cesetti (1902–1990) was an Italian painter. A pair of oil paintings on canvas titled “Wild Horses”, each signed and measuring 67.5 × 67.5 cm, bears a label from the Galleria…
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Marcel Broodthaers Documented profileBelgium
Belgian visual artist Marcel Broodthaers, born in 1924 and died in 1976, initially devoted a significant part of his life to poetry: he worked mainly as a poet until 1963, before tur…
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Hans Thiemann Documented profileGermany
The German painter Hans Thiemann, born in 1910 and died in 1977, becomes a professor at the Hamburg School of Fine Arts. An auction catalogue documents an untitled work from 1933, oi…
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Almir Mavignier Documented profileBrazil
Almir Mavignier, also known as Almir da Silva Mavignier, was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1925 and died in Hamburg in 2018. He is associated with Concrete Art and Op Art. Painting, poin…
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Jutta Koether Documented profileGermany
Jutta Koether, a German painter, musician, theorist and critic born in Cologne in 1958, lives and works between Berlin and New York. In the early 1980s, she became involved in Cologn…
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Endre Tót Documented profileHungary
Born in Sümeg in 1937, the Hungarian artist Endre Tót moves from painting to a conceptual practice using a variety of forms and media, from artist’s books to actions. After studying…
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Alan Green Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Born in London in 1932 and deceased in 2003, Alan Green was a British artist whose practice encompassed painting, illustration and printmaking. He studied at the Beckenham School of…
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Frans Francken I Documented profileCountry to be documented
Frans Francken I, also known as Frans Francken the Elder, was a Flemish painter born in 1542 and died in 1616. The father of Frans II, known as the Younger, he is often confused with…
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Rafael de Ochoa Madrazo Documented profileSpain
Rafael de Ochoa y Madrazo, also referred to as Rafael de Ochoa Madrazo and Rafael De Ochoa y Madrazo, is associated with two posters listed under the titles “France / Turquie” and “P…
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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