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Adriaen van Ostade Documented profileCountry to be documented
Tavern scenes and depictions of peasant life recur in the work of Adriaen van Ostade. The view of peasants’ leisure activities evolves: the early scenes emphasise excessive behaviour…
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Heinrich Vogeler Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter and printmaker Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942) developed a practice that brought painting and printmaking together with the design of interiors and the objects within…
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Rebecca Horn Documented profileGermany
Rebecca Horn’s work engages the body and movement through devices that transform gesture and explore its automation. In Pencil Mask (1972), a mask made of leather straps and fitted w…
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Blinky Palermo Documented profileGermany
The German artist Blinky Palermo was the artistic name of Peter Schwarze, who became Peter Heisterkamp after his adoption. Born in Leipzig on 2 June 1943, he died in Malé on 18 Febru…
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Stanisław Stückgold Documented profilePoland
Stanisław Stückgold, also known as Stanislaus or Stanislas Stückgold, was a painter born in 1868 and died in 1933. Before devoting himself to painting, he studied at the Polytechniku…
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Marcel Leprin Documented profileFrance
From 1926, his travels through the French countryside gave rise to a body of landscapes and urban views. Meaux and Avallon are among the places mentioned, followed in 1927 by Poitier…
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Adolf Chwala Documented profileCountry to be documented
Presented as a Czech painter who lived from 1836 to 1900, Adolf Chwala is listed in a catalogue by Dobiaschofsky Auktionen AG in connection with a work recorded under his name. Entit…
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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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Dirck Hals Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter from the United Provinces Dirck Hals is best known for his genre scenes. Born in Haarlem in 1591 and dying in the same city in 1656, he developed a body of work who…
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Arcangelo Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter and sculptor Esposito Arcangelo, known as Arcangelo, was born in Avellino in 1956. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 1976 and graduated there in…
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Francisco Bores Documented profileSpain
Born in Madrid in 1898 and died in Paris in 1972, Francisco Bores was a Spanish painter whose career unfolded between these two cities. In 1916, he entered the academy of Cecilio Pla…
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Otto Ritschl Documented profileGermany
Komposition 1974/12 is an oil on canvas measuring 130 × 97 cm. The catalogue describes a violet signature and the date “Ritschl 74” at the lower left; on the reverse, the work is sig…
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Marcel Wibault Documented profileFrance
Marcel Wibault’s painting spans several fields: alpine landscapes, the work on the Mont Blanc Tunnel, rocks and, later, portraits of children and scenes of everyday life. Born in Bes…
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Henri-Edmond Cross Documented profileFrance
Henri-Edmond Cross, the artist name of Henri Edmond Joseph Delacroix, was born in Douai in 1856 and died in Le Lavandou in 1910. He trained in Lille with Carolus-Duran and Alphonse C…
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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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Georges Trincot Documented profileCountry to be documented
The horse has been part of his imagination since childhood. After the death of his parents, he and his brother are taken in in Switzerland by an uncle who is a horseman and owns a ri…
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Georg Breitwieser Documented profileCountry to be documented
German painter and printmaker Georg Breitwieser was born in 1890 in Langstadt, near Dieburg, and died in 1938 in Darmstadt. He first trained as a glass painter, then studied with Ado…
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Louis Latapie Documented profileFrance
Louis Latapie, a French painter and printmaker born in Toulouse in 1891 and who died in Avignon in 1972, developed a body of work in which still lifes and female nudes feature in a s…
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Guglielmo Giusti Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Guglielmo Giusti, born in Naples in 1824, is associated with the Neapolitan school and described as a pupil of Théodore Duclère. A notice reports that he took par…
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Ina Barfuss Documented profileGermany
Born in 1949, Ina Barfuss is presented as a German textile artist. Her name also appears in the spelling Ina Barfuß. The reverse of Tanzsaal bears the inscription “Barfuss, 81, Tanzs…
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Jan Baptist Lambrechts Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter Jan Baptist Lambrechts, born in Antwerp in 1680, is associated with genre painting, particularly tavern scenes and festive gatherings. His half-brother Jeroom hel…
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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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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