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Marcel Masson Documented profileCountry to be documented
Associated with the pseudonym Antoine Blanchard, Marcel Masson is presented through scenes of Paris during the Belle Époque. The walls of Montmartre and the suburbs are among his pre…
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Cesar Klein Documented profileGermany
The German painter, graphic artist and stage designer César Klein (1876–1954) developed a practice spanning the applied arts, interior decoration and film. According to the biographi…
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Dieter Krieg Documented profileGermany
The work is signed and dated on the reverse and also bears a handwritten note from Galerie Timm Gierig in Frankfurt am Main on the reverse; its provenance then indicates a private co…
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Vincent Manago Documented profileFrance
Vincent Manago is associated with Mediterranean landscapes and Orientalist subjects, two directions that place his work at the intersection of regional motifs and themes related to N…
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Klaus Fußmann Documented profileGermany
Titled Ohne Titel, this watercolour on card, signed and dated « Fußmann ’91 », measures 84 × 70 cm. The work’s provenance is listed as a private collection in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Charles Kuwasseg Documented profileFrance
Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg is particularly associated with landscapes, seascapes and views of continental and Mediterranean cities, often crossed by waterways. The coastal landscapes…
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Walter Schmögner Documented profileAustria
Born in 1943, Walter Schmögner is an Austrian painter and sculptor. Among the documented works is the watercolour « Aufgeklapptes Brotbuch mit Strickzeug », signed and dated 1973, me…
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Justus Sustermans Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter Justus Sustermans (1597–1681), originally from Antwerp, spent much of his life in Florence, where he became official portraitist at the Medici court. According to…
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Frans de Hulst Documented profileCountry to be documented
Dune or river landscapes, often dominated by fortified towers, characterise Frans de Hulst’s painting. His early works evoke the technique of Salomon van Ruysdael; this resemblance h…
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Hermine David Documented profileFrance
Hermine David works in landscape and portraiture; one biographical source describes her as post-Impressionist. She studies at the Académie Julian, in Jean-Paul Laurens’s studio, from…
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Filippo Palizzi Documented profileCountry to be documented
Filippo Palizzi (1818–1899), an Italian painter born in Vasto and died in Naples, brings landscape together with close observation of animals in their natural environment. His intere…
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Maurice Blum Documented profileFrance
The French painter and engraver Maurice Blum (1832–1909) is documented by a work painted on wood, which here attests to his activity as a painter. Entitled « Fürstliches Interieur mi…
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Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange Documented profileFrance
The French painter Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange, born and deceased in Paris, situated her work within Neo-Impressionism. Flowers and gardens hold a prominent place in her painting. S…
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Otto Schauer Documented profileGermany
Born in Stuttgart in 1923 and died in Paris in 1985, Otto Schauer, also known as Friedrich Otto Schauer, is described as a German painter who worked in France from 1950 onwards. He s…
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Milan Konjović Documented profileSerbia
Milan Konjović first exhibited in 1914, showing around fifty works painted outdoors and directly from the subject, while pursuing his primary and secondary education in Sombor from 1…
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Adam Pynacker Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Lempertz catalogue lists, under the name Adam Pynacker, Hirten in südlicher Landschaft mit Ruinen, an oil painting on panel measuring 36 × 45.8 cm, whose published provenance is…
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Michel Majerus Documented profileGermany · Luxembourg
Painting is Michel Majerus’s preferred medium, but it is interwoven with digital media and a repertoire of images that spans popular culture as much as art history. Video games, cine…
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Mihály Munkácsy Documented profileHungary
Mihály Munkácsy moved from scenes of the everyday lives of peasants and people living in poverty to large-scale biblical and decorative compositions, whose scale marks several stages…
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Ernst Mollenhauer Documented profileGermany
Executed in oil on paper, this sheet measuring 47 × 61.8 cm bears the signature and date “Mollenhauer 60” in pencil at the lower right; its provenance is listed as private ownership…
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Aelbert Cuyp Documented profileNetherlands
Born and died in Dordrecht, Albert Cuyp developed a practice there encompassing landscape, marine painting, animal painting, still life and portraiture, with landscape occupying a pa…
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Richard Müller Documented profileGermany
The German painter Richard Müller, who was also an engraver and draughtsman, first trained at the painting school of the Meissen porcelain manufactory before studying at the Dresden…
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Wilhelm Hempfing Documented profileGermany
The German painter Wilhelm Hempfing, born in Schönau in 1886 and deceased in Karlsruhe in 1948, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Friedrich Fehr. He also learned…
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Ludwig Gedlek Documented profilePoland
The Polish painter Ludwig Gedlek, born in Kraków in 1847 and died in Vienna in 1904, devotes a significant part of his oeuvre to the horse: almost all of his paintings depict one. Hi…
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Hugo Darnaut Documented profileAustria
Austrian painter Hugo Darnaut, born in Dessau in 1851 and died in Vienna in 1937, also known as Darnaut-Fix, trained across several artistic centres in Central Europe. After spending…
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Wilhelm Trübner Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German artist Wilhelm Trübner, who lived from 1851 to 1917, is represented here, among other works, by Bildnis Fräulein St., an oil-on-canvas portrait dated around 1910. Measurin…
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Erwin Kettemann Documented profileGermany
Erwin Kettemann is presented as a German painter, born in 1897 and died in 1971. An oil on canvas entitled “Winterliche Gebirgslandschaft mit Bauernhäusern” is signed and bears the i…
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Julien Dupré Documented profileFrance
Julien Dupré paints rural life and fieldwork in a naturalistic manner, attentive to observation and light. He studies at the École des beaux-arts de Paris in the studios of Isidore P…
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Jean-Michel Folon Documented profileBelgium
From ink drawings to illustrated books, television title sequences and works in bronze, stained glass or ceramics, Jean-Michel Folon worked across a range of media. His career thus b…
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Thomas Wijck Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born around 1616 in Beverwijk, Thomas Wyck came from a family of painters and draughtsmen and learned to paint from his father. His work encompasses a range of subjects: coastal and…
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Oleg Vassiliev Documented profileUnited States
Born in Moscow in 1931, Oleg Vassiliev (1931–2013) pursued a long career as a children’s book illustrator alongside his artistic practice. From the 1950s to the 1980s, he worked in t…
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Préfète Duffaut Documented profileHaiti
Haitian painter Préfète Duffaut, born in 1923 in Cyvadier, near Jacmel, and died in 2012 in Port-au-Prince, is considered one of the pioneers of Haitian naive art. After leaving scho…
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Balthasar Denner Documented profileGermany
Balthasar Denner’s practice of portraiture is documented from his adolescence: according to a biographical note, he was already painting portraits at the age of fourteen. The Gemälde…
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Max Kaus Documented profileGermany
The German painter Max Kaus was born and died in Berlin. He also worked as a graphic artist, printmaker and lithographer. His practice is thus documented through both painting and pr…
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Sławomir Elsner Documented profilePoland
Polish painter Sławomir Elsner is represented here by PANORAMA 21 (Fiat Polski in Babylon), an oil on canvas from 2006, signed, dated and titled on the reverse, measuring 75 × 45 cm.…
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Romolo Leone Documented profileCountry to be documented
A painter associated with Naples, Romolo Leone is described as a pupil of Giuseppe Casciaro and a member of the Flegreo group. Two commercial listings give his dates as 1883–1958; on…
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Anton Braith Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Biberach in 1836 and dying in the same town in 1905, Anton Braith grew up in modest circumstances: his father, a day labourer who became a farmer, employed him as a child as…
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Consalvo Carelli Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Consalvo Carelli, born and deceased in Naples, belongs to the Neapolitan tradition of the veduta and is associated with the Scuola di Posillipo. Landscapes, city…
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Toshimitsu Imai Documented profileJapan
The career of Toshimitsu Imaï, a Japanese painter born and deceased in Kyoto, is marked by a shift from painting close to Fauvism to abstraction, followed by the return of traditiona…
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Andries Vermeulen Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter and draughtsman Andries Vermeulen was born in Dordrecht on 23 March 1763 and died in Amsterdam on 6 July 1814. He was trained by his father, Cornelis Vermeulen. He…
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Leandro Bassano Documented profileCountry to be documented
Leandro Bassano, also known as Leandro dal Ponte, was born in Bassano del Grappa in 1557 and died in Venice on 15 April 1622. Trained with his brothers in his father’s workshop, he w…
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Meindert Hobbema Documented profileCountry to be documented
Meindert Hobbema, born and died in Amsterdam (1638–1709), is chiefly associated with wooded landscapes, which he arranges around a path or a body of water. Baptised Meindert Lubberts…
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Robert Liebknecht Documented profileFrance
The urban landscapes, cafés and street scenes of Berlin-Wedding are among Robert Liebknecht’s documented subjects after he settled in the district in 1930. Born in Berlin in 1903 and…
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Bartholomeus Molenaer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Also known as Bartholomeus Meulenaer, Bartholomeus Molenaer is presented as a painter and as the brother of Klaes Molenaer. A directory places his life around 1618–1650 and associate…
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Charles Hoguet Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born and died in Berlin, Charles Hoguet (1821–1870) received training that first took him to Wilhelm Krause, a marine painter, in 1839, and then to Eugène Isabey in 1841. From 1842,…
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Jean Revol Documented profileFrance
Jean Revol, a French painter, printmaker, essayist and writer born in Lyon in 1929 and deceased in 2012, pursued artistic creation alongside reflection on art. He began drawing and p…
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Eugène Isabey Documented profileFrance
Painter, lithographer and watercolourist Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey was born in Paris on 22 July 1803. He was the son of the painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey. He exhibited at the Paris…
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André Utter Documented profileFrance
The French painter André Utter, born in Paris in 1886 and deceased there in 1948, pursued his artistic career in the circle of Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo. Introduced to pain…
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Hermann Glöckner Documented profileGermany
Born in 1889 and died in 1987, Hermann Glöckner is a German artist whom Jean Mortier places among those who, in the GDR, retreated into a form of “inner emigration”. According to thi…
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Hans Staudacher Documented profileAustria
Titled Ohne Titel, this oil on canvas mounted on wood measures 198 × 198 cm. The catalogue entry describes it as signed and dated, with a partially illegible inscription transcribed…
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Burgoyne Diller Documented profileUnited States
The American painter, sculptor and draughtsman Burgoyne A. Diller (1906–1965) moved from figurative works to an abstraction structured by orthogonal geometric forms. Early in his car…
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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