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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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Joan Hernández Pijuan Documented profileSpain
Spanish painter born and deceased in Barcelona, Joan Hernández Pijuan developed a body of work whose early stages are marked by expressionist painting with existential resonance, fol…
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Robert Longo Documented profileUnited States
American artist Robert Longo, born in 1953, develops a body of work that moves from drawing to cinema and explores images in both their intensity and their duration. After studying a…
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Alexander Altmann Documented profileFrance
Alexandre Altmann, a Russian-French painter born in 1878 and deceased in 1932, was born in Sobolevka, Ukraine, according to a biographical source. After studying at the School of Fin…
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Manuel Mendive Documented profileCuba
Manuel Mendive’s work draws on Santería, a tradition present in his family, and on a recurring attentiveness to the natural world; it takes shape on a range of supports, including th…
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Albert André Documented profileFrance
Albert André’s path leads from training as an industrial draughtsman to a practice of painting in which colour helps construct volume. Before leaving for Paris, he trained as an indu…
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Silvio Poma Documented profileCountry to be documented
Silvio Poma is known for his landscapes and views of lakes, particularly in Lombardy. In the following decades, his exhibitions span much of Italy. A view of Lake Maggiore is present…
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Árpád Szenes Documented profileFrance · Hungary
French painter of Hungarian origin, Árpád Szenes develops his work from poetic intimacy towards contemplative landscapes in which figurative references become less pronounced. Pierre…
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Richard Ziegler Documented profileGermany · United Kingdom
British painter (1891–1992), Richard Ziegler is listed in the Dobiaschofsky catalogue for the pastel “Garten in Dubrovnik”. The work, measuring 28 × 41 cm, is described as monogramme…
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Marlene Dumas Documented profileNetherlands · South Africa
Marlene Dumas’s formative works combine hybrid investigations, at times abstract and at times post-conceptual, with collage and writing. Painting, less present during this period, wo…
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Heinrich von Zügel Documented profileGermany
The paintings of the German artist Heinrich Johann von Zügel (1850–1941) combine the observation of working animals with sustained attention to landscape and light. In his rural scen…
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Bernard Lignon Documented profileCountry to be documented
Trained at the École régionale des beaux-arts de Montpellier, Bernard Lignon continues his career in Paris. He settles there after his studies and exhibits at Carlier alongside Yanke…
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Ossip Zadkine Documented profileFrance
Ossip Zadkine’s work encompasses several practices: sculpture, drawing, watercolour and gouache, as well as printmaking, book illustration and designs for tapestries. Trained in Lond…
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Willem van Mieris Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter Willem van Mieris, born in 1662 and died in 1747, is represented here by a composition devoted to the story of Joseph. The painting, executed in oil on wood and mea…
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Elmyr de Hory Documented profileSpain · Hungary
Elmyr de Hory’s career is marked by a practice of copying that, after the war in Paris, became an activity in forgery: having come to try to make a living as an artist, he discovered…
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Jurgen Klauke Documented profileGermany
German photographer Jürgen Klauke, born in Cochem in 1943, placed the body and sexual identity at the heart of his early work in the 1970s, using himself as a model. He studied at th…
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Max Slevogt Documented profileGermany
The German painter and printmaker Max Slevogt works in several forms of expression, from painting to printmaking and book illustration, as well as designing costumes and sets for the…
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Georges Stein Documented profileFrance
Georges Stein painted the streets and urban landscapes of the Belle Époque. His repertoire encompasses Paris and London, as well as Melun, Vichy, Berne, Lausanne and Geneva. His scen…
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Joseph Vernet Documented profileCountry to be documented
Claude Joseph Vernet, known as Joseph Vernet (Avignon, 1714 – Paris, 1789), is distinguished by a practice of landscape and marine painting that took shape during his stay in Rome, w…
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Lesser Ury Documented profileGermany
Lesser Ury, a German painter and printmaker associated with an Impressionist manner, is particularly known for his nocturnal café scenes and rain-soaked streets. His work also includ…
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Joseph Marioni Documented profileUnited States
Joseph Marioni (1943–2024), an American artist born in Ohio who died in New York, devoted his painting to colour as luminous presence and pictorial material. He studied at the Cincin…
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Jacques Villon Documented profileFrance
The French painter Jacques Villon is particularly associated with the Section d’or, whose public presentation he helped organise. His career thus links studio practice with dialogue…
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Maria Palatini Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in 1952, Maria Palatini grew up in St. Gallen, the city where she also established her artistic practice. According to a biography published by Kunstkaufen.ch, in 1977 she chose…
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Giorgio Morandi Documented profileItaly
Still lifes occupy a central place in Giorgio Morandi’s work. He creates small paintings using ordinary objects from his collection, carefully arranging them on a table in his studio…
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Maria Lassnig Documented profileAustria
The Austrian artist Maria Lassnig makes the body and its inner sensations a central subject of her painting; much of her work takes the form of self-portraits. After studying at the…
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Hugo Mühlig Documented profileGermany
The German painter Hugo Mühlig, born in Dresden and deceased in Düsseldorf, is described by the source as Impressionist, which notes landscapes and rural scenes in his paintings. The…
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Carl Wuttke Documented profileGermany
In 1874, he set off on foot for Italy, where he stayed until 1876; from 1885, he lived in Munich. His travels took him to Andalusia in 1880, Norway in 1894, several regions of Africa…
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Sol LeWitt Documented profileUnited States
Born in Hartford in 1928 and died in New York in 2007, Sol LeWitt was an American artist whose practice brings together systems of composition and their material realisation. His wor…
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Markus Lüpertz Documented profileGermany
Markus Lüpertz’s practice spans painting and sculpture, while his activities also include university teaching and, since the 1980s, stage design. He studied at the school of fine art…
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Jacques Deperthes Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacques Deperthes, described as a Franco-Swiss painter, was born in 1936 in Suresnes, France, and lives in Geneva. His connection to Geneva is also reflected in his education: from 1…
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Simon de Vlieger Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter Simon de Vlieger was born in Rotterdam in 1601, according to one source, while another places his birth around the same year; his earliest known works date from 162…
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Bernard Stern Documented profileBelgium · France
Bernard Stern is listed as a painter who lived from 1920 to 2002 and, according to Artpeers, lived and worked in London, New York and France. Artpeers mentions works exhibited at, am…
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Paul Delvaux Documented profileBelgium
Paul Delvaux’s universe unfolds in enigmatic scenes in which female figures, clothed men, railway stations and classical architecture recur; the figures and settings alike seem suspe…
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William Callow Documented profileCountry to be documented
William Callow went to Paris in 1829 to work as an engraver alongside Charles Bentley. During this Parisian period, he also exhibited a watercolour of Richmond Hill at the Paris Salo…
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Hans von Hayek Documented profileAustria
His training takes him briefly to the School of Applied Arts in Vienna, then to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studies under Gabriel von Hackl, Wilhelm von Lindenschmit…
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Reuven Rubin Documented profileIsrael · Romania
Born in Romania in 1893, Reuven Rubin is an Israeli painter whose work includes landscapes of historical Palestine, particularly Jerusalem and Galilee. He also creates sets for the H…
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Eugenio Gignous Documented profileCountry to be documented
Italian painter born in 1850 and died in 1906, Eugenio Gignous is documented by works associated with the landscapes of Lake Maggiore. Feriolo – Lago Maggiore, attributed to the arti…
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Gustave Mascart Documented profileFrance
Gustave Mascart (1834–1914), a French painter born in Valenciennes and deceased in Paris, is associated with realistic urban landscapes, particularly views of Paris and its surroundi…
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Otakar Kubín Documented profileFrance
Othon Coubine, the artist name of Otakar Kubín, is a French-Czech artist of Moravian origin whose career links training in Central Europe, settling in France and landscapes from seve…
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André Van Schuylenbergh Documented profileCountry to be documented
His work is at this time associated with an exploration of the female silhouette: distinctive lines and a pronounced stylisation of the head construct the image of a figure described…
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Hans Dahl Documented profileNorway
The Norwegian painter Hans Dahl, born in Granvin in 1849 and deceased in Balestrand in 1937, developed a body of work associated with the Düsseldorf School of painting. Before dedica…
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Joannis Avramidis Documented profileAustria · Greece
Joannis Avramidis (1922–2016), a Greek-Austrian artist, develops a sculptural practice that takes the forms of the human body as its starting point and simplifies them towards abstra…
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Heinrich Maria Davringhausen Documented profileGermany
Born in Aachen in 1894, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen was a German painter whom sources associate with New Objectivity and Magic Realism. A major part of his work made in Germany betw…
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Georges Noël Documented profileFrance
Georges Noël builds his painting on a support combining pure pigments, sand and glue, whose surface can be raw, grainy or velvety. In his “Palimpsests”, the layering and erasure of m…
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Sebastiaen Vrancx Documented profileCountry to be documented
According to Carel van Mander, Sébastien Vrancx was apprenticed to Adam van Noort. His collaborations with Jan Brueghel the Elder distinguish the roles: Brueghel painted the landscap…
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Maria Marc Documented profileGermany
Maria Marc, née Bertha Pauline Marie Franck, was a German painter whose artistic training took her to Berlin, Munich and the artists’ colony of Worpswede. Born in Berlin on 12 June 1…
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Mario Tozzi Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Mario Tozzi was born in Fossombrone in 1895. He trained in Bologna before continuing his career in Paris. After abandoning his studies in chemistry, he enrolled a…
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Victor Vignon Documented profileFrance
The French landscape painter and printmaker Victor Alfred Paul Vignon (1847–1909), associated with the Impressionist group, devotes most of his work to landscape. He studies the old…
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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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Kajetan Sosnowski Documented profilePoland
The Polish artist Kajetan Sosnowski, born in Vilnius in 1913 and deceased in Warsaw in 1987, directed his research towards the visual dimensions of art. His interest in the developme…
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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