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Roni Horn Documented profileUnited States
Born in New York in 1955, Roni Horn studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale. Her work encompasses sculpture, drawing, photography and books. Since 1975, regular journey…
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Rosa Bonheur Documented profileFrance
Rosa Bonheur, a French artist born in 1822 and deceased in 1899, is represented in the collections listed by the Art Institute of Chicago by works spanning several decades. These inc…
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Rosalba Carriera Documented profileCountry to be documented
Rosalba Carriera was born in Venice in 1673 and died in 1757. She established pastel as a portrait medium sought after across Europe. Beginning with miniatures, she attracted an inte…
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Rosemarie Trockel Documented profileGermany
Born in 1952 in Schwerte, Germany, Rosemarie Trockel is a German artist whose work brings techniques and motifs associated with different domains into dialogue. In the mid-1980s, her…
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Ross Bleckner Documented profileUnited States
Ross Bleckner, born in New York in 1949, is an American painter. He graduated from New York University in 1971 and the California Institute of the Arts in 1973, emerging prominently…
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Roy Lichtenstein Documented profileUnited States
Roy Lichtenstein was a leading figure in American Pop art, which emerged in the early 1960s. He transformed images from comic books and advertisements into paintings whose black outl…
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Rubem Valentim Documented profileBrazil
Rubem Valentim, born in Salvador in 1922, who died in São Paulo in 1991, developed paintings, sculptures and prints informed by Afro-Brazilian traditions. From the 1950s, he recompos…
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Rudolf Ausleger Documented profileGermany
German painter and art teacher Rudolf Ausleger (1897–1974) first trained at the Schule Reimann, then at the Staatliche Kunstschule, where he studied with Georg Tappert and Bernhard H…
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Rudolf Bauer Documented profileUnited States
German painter born in 1889 and died in 1953, Rudolf Bauer is associated with the Berlin avant-garde movement Der Sturm. According to a biographical entry, his work became a componen…
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Rudolf Bredow Documented profileGermany
Rudolf Bredow trained at Berlin’s School of Applied Arts from 1930 to 1934 with Hans Orlowski, Harold Bengen and Max Kaus. He subsequently worked as a painter and graphic artist for…
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Rudolf Cronau Documented profileCountry to be documented
Rudolf Cronau (1855–1939) combined painting with journalism and travel writing. He began studying at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts in 1870 and also wrote for newspapers in Soli…
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Rudolf Epp Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born on 30 July 1834 in Eberbach, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Rudolf Epp first trained under Karl Ludwig Seeger, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carlsruhe. There he studied with…
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Rudolf Hellwag Documented profileCountry to be documented
Coasts and English landscapes hold an important place in the work of Rudolf Hellwag (1867–1942). Born in Innsbruck, the German marine and landscape painter studied in Munich and Karl…
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Rudolf Jahns Documented profileGermany
German painter Rudolf Jahns, born in 1896 and died in 1983, was among the members of the Abstracts of Hanover, a group founded in 1927. A work titled Abstrakter Akt, dated 1955, is a…
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Rudolf Jordan Documented profileCountry to be documented
Rudolf Jordan (1810–1887), born in Berlin and deceased in Düsseldorf, trained with Karl Wilhelm Wach before continuing his studies at Düsseldorf’s academy. A genre painter, draughtsm…
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Rudolf Levy Documented profileCountry to be documented
Rudolf Levy (1875–1944), a German Jewish painter, became friends with Walter Bondy in Munich. They moved to Paris in 1903 and frequented the Café du Dôme, which became a major meetin…
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Rudolf Négely Documented profileHungary
Rudolf Négely’s work is primarily associated with landscape, particularly urban scenes and seascapes or harbour views inspired by Italy and the Adriatic coast. Venice, sailing ships,…
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Rudolf Nissl Documented profileAustria
Rudolf Nissl (1870–1955), born in Fügen in Tyrol, spent most of his career in Munich. After attending the Innsbruck industrial school and taking lessons with Ludwig Schmid-Reutte, he…
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Rudolf Poeppel Documented profileGermany
Listed as a German painter, Rudolf Poeppel appears in the collection database of the Tokyo-Fuji Museum. It lists a work titled « 山のある風景 », translated into English as « Woody Landscap…
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Rudolf Schlichter Documented profileGermany
The German artist Rudolf Schlichter, born in 1890 and deceased in 1955, is represented here by a pencil drawing entitled Leicht bekleidete liegende Frau. Signed at the lower left and…
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Rudolf von Alt Documented profileGermany
Rudolf von Alt, born in Vienna in 1812, who died in 1905, trained with his father Jakob and at the Vienna Academy. His travels supplied subjects for landscapes and architectural view…
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Rudolf von Voigtländer Documented profileGermany
Rudolf von Voigtländer is documented as a painter of landscapes, interiors and nudes: these genres define the main fields of his practice, without requiring it to be reduced to a sin…
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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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Rudolf-Werner Ackermann Documented profileGermany
German painter Rudolf Werner Ackermann, born in 1908 and died in 1982, is notably associated with the creation of the Hermès scarf Harnais à l’Anglaise. This scarf is inspired by fou…
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Rudolf Zelenka Documented profileAustria
Rudolf Zelenka, described as an Austrian painter, was born in Jablonitz in 1875 and died in Graz in 1938. Auction catalogues list Das abendliche Lager and Waldlandschaft under his na…
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Rufino Tamayo Documented profileMexico
Pre-Columbian heritage and pictorial experiment meet in the work of the Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo (1899–1991). His employment in the ethnographic drawing department of the Nationa…
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Ruggero Panerai Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ruggero Panerai (1862–1923), born in Florence and deceased in Paris, was an Italian painter trained at Florence’s Academy of Fine Arts and subsequently with Giovanni Fattori. His tea…
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Rupprecht Geiger Documented profileGermany
Rupprecht Geiger, a German artist born in Munich in 1908 and deceased in 2009, is associated in an entry with the Zen 49 group and the Post-Painterly Abstraction movement. The fields…
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Ryszard Winiarski Documented profilePoland
A painter, creator of spatial forms and scenographer, Ryszard Winiarski makes chance a principle of visual construction, drawing in particular on probability, game theory and statist…
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Ryszard Zajac Documented profileCountry to be documented
Ryszard Zając (1929–2016) was born in Kosów and died in Warsaw. From 1948 to 1954, he studied at the Szczecin University of Technology, followed by the Faculty of Architecture at the…
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S. H. Raza Documented profileIndia
Sayed Haider Raza (1922–2016) belonged to the generation that renewed Indian art around the time of independence. A cofounder of the Progressive Artists Group in Bombay in 1947, he s…
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Sacha Zaliouk Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born Alexandre Zaliouk in Radomychl in 1887, Sacha Zaliouk is active as a painter, illustrator and sculptor. He dies in Paris in 1971. Between 1904 and 1910, he studies painting in P…
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Sadamasa Motonaga Documented profileJapan
Sadamasa Motonaga helped renew Japanese art through the Gutai group, which he joined in 1955. His enthusiasm for manga and animated forms informed an often playful abstraction. He ex…
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Sadegh Tabrizi Documented profileIran
Sadegh Tabrizi, born in Tehran in the late 1930s and deceased in London in 2017, was an Iranian painter and calligrapher associated with the Saqqakhaneh movement. Trained in miniatur…
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Salomon Rombouts Documented profileCountry to be documented
A landscape painter associated with Haarlem, Salomon Rombouts trained with his father, Gillis Rombouts, who was also a painter. He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke…
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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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Salvador Dalí Documented profileSpain
Born in Catalonia, a regional identity he asserted, Salvador Dalí developed a practice that extended well beyond painting: drawing, sculpture, theatrical set design, fashion, print a…
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Salvator Rosa Documented profileCountry to be documented
The work of Salvator Rosa encompasses landscape, history painting, allegory, portraiture and printmaking. In his landscapes, ruins and brigands make up scenes described by sources as…
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Salvatore Maldarelli Documented profileCountry to be documented
A group of five oil paintings by Salvatore Maldarelli brings together genre scenes in a Pompeian setting; according to the sales notice, one of them is signed and dated at lower righ…
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Salvo Documented profileItaly
The Italian artist Salvo (1947–2015) is known by this name. Notturno, dated 1988, is an oil on paper mounted on canvas, measuring 535 × 380 mm. Its provenance mentions Galerie Friedr…
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Sam Francis Documented profileUnited States
Born in 1923 and deceased in 1994, Sam Francis is also known as Samuel Lewis Francis. The Art Institute of Chicago entries list several of his works: Red No. 2 (1954), Another Disapp…
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Sam Gilliam Documented profileUnited States
With Sam Gilliam, painting enters the viewer's physical space. Born in Tupelo in 1933, he studied in Louisville and moved to Washington in 1962. He died there in 2022. In contact wit…
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Samuel Bernard Documented profileFrance
Samuel-Jacques Bernard, also known as Jacques-Samuel Bernard, was a painter and engraver active in seventeenth-century Paris. His father Noël provided his first training, which he co…
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Samuel Bough Documented profileCountry to be documented
Samuel Bough, also known as Sam Bough, was a British artist born in Carlisle in 1822 and died in 1878. Self-taught, he first worked as a scene painter at the Theatre Royal in Manches…
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Samuel John Stump Documented profileCountry to be documented
Samuel John Stump (c.1779–1863) was a British painter specialising in miniatures and landscapes. Trained at London’s Royal Academy Schools, he exhibited at the Academy from 1802 to 1…
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Samuel Mützner Documented profileRomania
The Romanian painter Samuel Mützner is born in Bucharest on 13 December 1884 and dies there on 2 October 1959. Samuel Mützner studies in Munich and Paris. The biographical entry refe…
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Sandor Kozeluh Documented profileCountry to be documented
An artwork catalogued under the name Sandor Kozeluh is titled Das Volkstheater in Wien. Executed in watercolour and gouache, it is signed and dated 1900; the entry also notes the ins…
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Sandra Vásquez de la Horra Documented profileChile
Born in Viña del Mar in 1967, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra is a Chilean artist who has lived in Germany since 1995. Drawing occupies a central place in her work. Human figures, often w…
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Sandro Botticelli Documented profileItaly
Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510), born Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, was a Florentine painter whose work encompasses religious subjects, portraits and mythological compositio…
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Sandro Chia Documented profileItaly
Italian painter and printmaker born in 1946, Sandro Chia is listed in the Tate directory as an artist. Works listed there include The Artifice, To the Tower, About the Unseizable, A…
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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