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Heinrich Nauen Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter and printmaker Heinrich Nauen developed his career across several artistic centres, from Düsseldorf and Stuttgart to Laethem-Saint-Martin, Paris, Berlin and the Rh…
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Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp Documented profileCountry to be documented
Dutch painter Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp (1612–1652) is associated with genre scenes devoted to everyday life in the Netherlands, as well as portraits of historical and mythological figu…
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Oskar Schlemmer Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943), who was born in Stuttgart and died in Baden-Baden, developed an artistic practice in which the b…
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Johannes Grützke Documented profileGermany
Johannes Grützke’s figurative painting borrows from cinema its low-angle and close-up framing, while his figures, often exaggerated with irony, play with the effects of representatio…
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Gottfried Helnwein Documented profileAustria
Born in Vienna in 1948, Gottfried Helnwein develops a practice combining drawing, painting and photography, at times linked to performance. Pain, injury and violence are recurring th…
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Cornelius van Poelenburgh Documented profileCountry to be documented
Cornelis van Poelenburgh’s small-scale Italian landscapes combine biblical, mythological or literary subjects with Arcadian settings, often populated by nude figures and ruins. Paint…
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Otmar Alt Documented profileGermany
Born in Wernigerode in 1940, Otmar Alt is a German artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and design, among other fields. After an apprenticeship as…
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Julius Paul Junghanns Documented profileGermany
Julius Paul Junghanns is represented by Bauer mit Pflug, an oil on canvas measuring 28.5 × 45 cm, signed lower left “Jul. P. Junghanns”. The published provenance of the work lists a…
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Carl Rüdell Documented profileCountry to be documented
German architect and painter Carl Rüdell (1855–1939) is presented through a work devoted to the old town of Cologne. Entitled « Ansicht der Kölner Altstadt mit Groß St. Martin und sp…
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Gottfried Salzmann Documented profileAustria
At the intersection of several media, Gottfried Salzmann combines drawing, printmaking and photography with watercolour; he also sometimes paints on his photographs, and his practice…
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Mathys Schoevaerdts Documented profileCountry to be documented
Mathys Schoevaerdts’s work brings together landscapes, seascapes and genre scenes in compositions in which figures occupy an important place and stand out for their individuality and…
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Manfred Mohr Documented profileGermany
Born in 1938 in Pforzheim, Germany, Manfred Mohr is an artist whose career is closely connected to computer art. His first solo exhibition takes place in 1968 at Galerie Daniel Templ…
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Paul Paede Documented profileGermany
The German painter Paul Paede was born in Berlin in 1868 and died in Munich in 1929. Works documented in auction notices include female nudes, reclining or standing. Liegender weibli…
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Edward Cucuel Documented profileUnited States
American Impressionist painter and illustrator Edward Cucuel was born in San Francisco in 1875. His career brought press illustration and painting together at an early stage, spannin…
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Olivier Debré Documented profileFrance
For Olivier Debré, abstraction linked to landscape takes the form of “fervent abstraction”: painting symbolises the emotion felt in front of the landscape. In 1953, he abandons figur…
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Friedrich Kallmorgen Documented profileGermany
Friedrich Kallmorgen, a German painter born in Altona in 1856 and deceased in Grötzingen in 1924, trained at several academies before teaching in Karlsruhe and later in Berlin. He re…
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Felix Schlesinger Documented profileGermany
A German genre painter, Felix Schlesinger is particularly associated with images of family life in the countryside, scenes of children and domestic interiors. The biography presents…
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Roland Lefranc Documented profileFrance
The French painter and lithographer Roland Lefranc grounded a significant part of his work in Lower Normandy: the coastline occupies a prominent place, alongside ports, regattas, rur…
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Louis-Léopold Boilly Documented profileFrance
Louis-Léopold Boilly, a French painter born in La Bassée in 1761 and died in Paris in 1845, practised both painting and lithography. He began studying painting in Douai with Charles-…
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Zwy Milshtein Documented profileFrance · Israel · Romania
Born in Chișinău in 1934 and deceased in 2020, Zwy Milshtein is described as an Israeli painter, printmaker and writer. His artistic training began at the Palace of Pioneers in Tbili…
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Josef Scharl Documented profileGermany · United States
German painter Josef Scharl was born in 1896 and died in 1954. A work entitled Still Life with Melon is described by Genève Enchères as a signed oil on canvas, measuring 32 × 40 cm.
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Giovanni Paolo Panini Documented profileCountry to be documented
Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691–1765) makes Rome a subject that is both observed and reinvented: his topographical views describe the city precisely, while his capricci freely bring toge…
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Walter Leistikow Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German artist Walter Leistikow, born in 1865 and deceased in 1908, was among the pupils of the painter Hans Fredrik Gude. This information documents one aspect of his training, b…
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Günter Fruhtrunk Documented profileGermany
The German artist Günter Fruhtrunk, born and deceased in Munich, initially studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule in that city. In 1945, he began artistic training with Wi…
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James Ensor Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter James Ensor, associated with the avant-garde of the early 20th century, made the mask a recurring motif, which appeared in his work in 1883 with Les Masques scand…
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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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Edward Dwurnik Documented profilePoland
The Polish painter Edward Dwurnik, born in 1943 in Radzymin and deceased in 2018 in Warsaw, began « Hitchhiking Journeys » in 1966, a major series in his oeuvre. He studied at the Fa…
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Pierre Grisot Documented profileFrance
An auction listing records, under the name Pierre Grisot, Zwei Tänzerinnen im Tutu, an oil painting on hardboard, signed lower right and measuring 35 × 26.5 cm. The work was estimate…
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Documented profileSpain
The work of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo brings together genre scenes and religious painting: episodes from the life of Christ, images of the Virgin and Child and of the Immaculate Conc…
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Heijo Hangen Documented profileGermany
German painter Heijo Hangen (1927–2019) is cited among the German artists in Jan Kubíček’s international circle. Among the documented works is an untitled canvas from 1982, executed…
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Attilio Pratella Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Attilio Pratella, born in Lugo in 1856 and deceased in Naples in 1949, spent most of his life in the latter city. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologn…
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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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Herbert Böttger Documented profileGermany
Herbert Böttger, a German painter born in Krefeld in 1898 and deceased in Büderich in 1954, is documented through catalogued works and several exhibitions devoted to New Objectivity.…
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Leberecht Lortet Documented profileFrance
A painter chiefly devoted to mountain landscapes, Leberecht Lortet—also referred to by the variant name Lortel—draws his subjects from several regions: Switzerland, the south of Fran…
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Heinrich Bürkel Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Bavarian painter of genre scenes and landscapes Heinrich Bürkel (1802–1869) studied in Munich. In 1830, he exhibited at the Brussels Salon A Landscape with Figures, a Traveller H…
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Felix Droese Documented profileGermany
Felix Droese, also known as Kalus Felix Droese, is a German artist born in 1950. A work entitled “Ohne Titel”, offered at auction under his name, combines watercolour, ink and collag…
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Serge Charchoune Documented profileFrance
Serge Charchoune’s practice unfolds between two documented orientations: purist paintings and, in parallel, a return to ornamental painting in the series *Elastic Landscapes*. In Par…
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Alain Bonnefoit Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris on 18 May 1937, Alain Bonnefoit has an artistic practice encompassing painting, sculpture, lithography and drawing. A painter of nudes, he works notably in oil and sumi…
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Willy Moralt Documented profileGermany
Wilhelm Karl Paul Moralt (1884–1947), known as Willy Moralt, was a German genre and landscape painter. Beginning in 1903, he studied at the Munich Academy under Karl Raupp. An auctio…
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Jacob El Hanani Documented profileIsrael
Jacob El Hanani’s drawings take shape through the accumulation of thousands of lines or tiny letters, according to a plan defined in advance. This plan may determine the number or le…
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Constantin Guys Documented profileFrance
The French draughtsman and painter Constantin Guys uses drawing and lithography as means of creating a visual chronicle of his time. The subjects found in his work range from events…
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Eugène Verboeckhoven Documented profileBelgium
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, also known as Eugène Verboeckhoven, develops a body of work devoted primarily to animal painting and animated landscapes. He is first trained by his fath…
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Anton Henning Documented profileGermany
This oil on canvas, monogrammed and dated “AH 96”, measures 182 × 152 cm. The entry associates it with the exhibition “Anton Henning, Too much of a good thing...”, and cites Kunstver…
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Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis Documented profileLatvia
The Latvian painter Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis, born in Ventspils in 1897 and who died in Toronto in 1964, developed a body of work spanning a wide range of subjects, from portraits…
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Karl Kaufmann Documented profileCountry to be documented
Wikidata identifies Karl Kaufmann as an Austrian painter born in 1843. The entry associates several name variants with him, including F. Gilbert, Henri Carnier, Charles Marchand and…
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Roger Montané Documented profileFrance
The figurative painter Roger Montané, born in Bordeaux in 1916 and deceased in Castelmaurou in 2002, combined academic training with a practice shaped by observing everyday life. He…
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Charles Jones Way Documented profileCountry to be documented
Identified as a British painter and watercolourist, Charles Jones Way lived from 1834 to 1919. An auction catalogue lists the watercolour *Das Matterhorn* under his name, signed at t…
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Yves Brayer Documented profileFrance
The French painter Yves Brayer’s practice brings painting together with copper engraving and lithography, as well as illustration and the decorative arts. He produces prints and illu…
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Heinz Mack Documented profileGermany
Born in 1931 in Lollar, Hesse, Heinz Mack studied fine art in Düsseldorf, then philosophy at the University of Cologne until 1956; he earned a state qualification in both disciplines…
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Jo Niemeyer Documented profileGermany
Jo Niemeyer’s practice brings together geometric composition and the study of nature. A German artist born in 1946 in Alf, Rhineland-Palatinate, he explores space, time, distances an…
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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