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Jean-Yves Couliou Documented profileFrance
Jean-Yves Couliou, a French painter born in Landerneau in 1916 and deceased in Lorient in 1995, grew up near Pont-Aven, the region his parents came from. After secondary school, he t…
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Enrique Tábara Documented profileEcuador
Ecuadorian painter Enrique Tábara Zerna, also known as Luis Enrique Tábara, was born in Guayaquil in 1930. His work evolves from figures associated with urban life towards abstractio…
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Marcel Burtin Documented profileFrance
Marcel Burtin is identified as a French painter (1902–1979). The provenance given for « Les deux amies » mentions Les Deux Rives, in Cannes, under number 15, followed by a private co…
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Frédéric Marius Maniquet Documented profileFrance
Auction records identify Frédéric Marius Maniquet as an artist born in 1822 and deceased in 1896. Among the works catalogued under his name are two seascapes. The painting titled « B…
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Antonietta Brandeis Documented profileCountry to be documented
The work of Antonietta Brandeis is devoted mainly to cityscapes and the surroundings of cities. Her training takes her from Prague, where she studies with Karel Javurek, to the Acade…
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José Vela Zanetti Documented profileSpain
José Vela Zanetti (1913–1999) is identified as a painter. “Casas”, a work in watercolour and ink, signed lower right, measures 59 × 37.5 cm; the lot was estimated at CHF 2,500 and so…
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Ernst Fries Documented profileCountry to be documented
The documented corpus of Ernst Fries includes several landscapes depicting Tivoli, including a canvas that a sale catalogue entry compares with two very similar compositions. Initial…
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Roger de La Fresnaye Documented profileFrance
In the documented record, Roger de La Fresnaye’s painting is distinguished by Cubist compositions with geometrically stylized, highly coloured forms, developed into figure scenes, la…
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Yuri Kuper Documented profileUnited Kingdom · Russia
Born in Moscow in 1940, Yuri Kuper develops a body of work in which time and the traces it leaves on things occupy a central place. He studies at the Moscow Academy of Art from 1957…
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Georg Meistermann Documented profileGermany
Georg Meistermann (1911–1990), a German painter and draughtsman born in Solingen and who died in Cologne, studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1930 under Werner Heuser, Heinr…
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Max Pechstein Documented profileGermany
In 1907, the State Prize of Saxony enabled him to travel to Italy and Paris. After meeting Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Erich Heckel, he joined the artists’ group Die Brücke. In 1908, h…
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John Seery Documented profileUnited States
John Seery is presented as an American artist born in 1941. A sale record documents Capital Yellow, a work signed and titled on the reverse. The provenance stated there is the Peter…
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Hubert Salentin Documented profileCountry to be documented
Also known as Johann Hubert Salentin, Hubert Salentin was a German painter born in 1822 and died in 1910. Junge Hirtin offers a concrete point of reference in his oeuvre: this oil on…
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Hugo Kauffmann Documented profileCountry to be documented
Hugo Wilhelm Kauffmann (1844–1915), a German painter born in Hamburg and who died in Prien am Chiemsee, pursues his career across several German cities and Paris. The son of the pain…
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Gregor von Bochmann Documented profileEstonia
Landscapes and scenes of rural or market life are recurring reference points in the work of Gregor von Bochmann, whose subjects span Estonia, Holland and Belgium. After attending the…
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Jules Jacques Veyrassat Documented profileFrance
Painter and printmaker Jules Jacques Veyrassat (1828–1893), born and deceased in Paris, trained in Henri Lehmann’s studio and exhibited his first works at the Salon in 1848. He is as…
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Josef Karl Rädler Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Bohemia, porcelain painter Josef Karl Rädler (1844–1917) pursued a career in this field in Vienna. From 1852 to 1856, he learned the craft at the Haas & Czjzek manufactory in…
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Eugène Ciceri Documented profileFrance
Eugène Cicéri’s landscape practice ranges from working from nature around Fontainebleau to views circulated through prints and theatre scenery. His publications and contributions to…
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Robert Rotar Documented profileGermany
The provenance indicated for this work is Galerie Loehr, in Frankfurt am Main, where an exhibition devoted to the artist is also recorded in 1965. It was announced as intended to be…
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Alexander Rothaug Documented profileAustria
A drawing catalogued under the name of Alexander Rothaug, “Sitzender weiblicher Akt”, depicts a seated female nude executed in heightened chalk. Signed lower right and measuring 28.7…
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Sean Scully Documented profileIreland · United States
Sean Scully’s paintings are often arranged in overlapping bands or blocks of colour, distributed along horizontal and vertical axes. Their layers strike a balance between calm and vi…
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Jean Couty Documented profileFrance
Jean Couty, a French painter born in Saint-Rambert-l’Île-Barbe in 1907 and who died in Lyon in 1991, initially trained in architecture. In 1925, he entered the class of Sainte-Marie…
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Julien Gustave Gagliardini Documented profileFrance
Known as Julien Gustave Gagliardini, a pseudonym of Julien Gustave Gaillardin, this French painter was born in Mulhouse in 1846 and died in Paris in 1927. His training first took him…
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Werner Büttner Documented profileGermany
German painter Werner Büttner, born in 1954, also works in sculpture and songwriting; his work is described as suffused with humour, lucidity and poetry. His references include liter…
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Markus Prachensky Documented profileAustria
Markus Prachensky (1932–2011) is an Austrian painter. Among the documented works is *Luxor Swing*, dated 1997: executed in ink on cardboard, it measures 77 × 56.5 cm and bears the si…
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Robert Kummer Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter Robert Kummer, born in Dresden in 1810 and deceased in 1889, travelled through several regions of Europe and the Mediterranean. His travels are reflected concretel…
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René Portocarrero Documented profileCuba
Cuban painter René Portocarrero (1912–1985) works notably in cycles, with groups devoted to interiors, feasts, and a contemporary mythology. The landscapes of Havana also form a thre…
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Joos de Momper the Younger Documented profileCountry to be documented
A Flemish painter specialising in landscape, Joos de Momper the Younger developed a repertoire of mountain panoramas and expansive horizons, caves and rocky escarpments, complemented…
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Bernar Venet Documented profileFrance
French artist Bernar Venet, born in 1941 in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, develops a body of work that moves from raw materials and conceptual proposals to monumental sculptures instal…
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Servando Cabrera Moreno Documented profileCuba
Born in Havana in 1923, Servando Cabrera Moreno was a Cuban painter who lived until 1981. After graduating from the San Alejandro Academy in 1942, he continued his training at the Ar…
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James Dixon Documented profileIreland
James Dixon (1887–1970), described as an Irish landscape painter, lived on Tory Island, off the coast of Donegal. According to the source, he did not begin painting until the age of 72.
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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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Adelsteen Normann Documented profileNorway
Adelsteen Normann paints Norwegian fjords, including the Sognefjord, the Nærøyfjord and the Romsdalfjord. His practice combines working in direct contact with the landscape, from a b…
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Georges Michel Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris in 1763, the French painter Georges Bernard Michel devoted most of his work to the still-rural landscapes of Montmartre and its surroundings, where windmills are a recu…
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Wilhelm Velten Documented profileGermany
The Russian-German genre painter Wilhelm Velten was born in Saint Petersburg in 1847 and died in Munich in 1929. He began studying at the Academy of Munich in 1869 and became a pupil…
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Jonathan Meese Documented profileGermany
Jonathan Meese studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg from 1995 to 1998; according to Kunstplaza, his studies at the institution ended without a degree. This period included…
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Jules Laurens Documented profileFrance
Born in Carpentras in 1825, the painter and lithographer Jules Laurens developed a body of work ranging from Orientalist paintings and portraits of Auvergnat and Comtadin peasants to…
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Werner Scholz Documented profileAustria · Germany
Werner Scholz’s career is marked by his beginnings in Berlin: he studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts in 1919 and 1920, then founded a studio there in 1920. In 1937,…
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Alessandro Lupo Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Alessandro Lupo was born and died in Turin. His work belongs to the tradition of late nineteenth-century Piedmontese naturalism. His landscapes are described as i…
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Chu Teh-Chun Documented profileFrance · Taiwan
Chinese and French painter Chu Teh-Chun (朱德群, Zhu Dequn, 1920–2014) trained in Hangzhou under Lin Fengmian at the school of fine arts, which he entered in 1935. During his studies, h…
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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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Luc Didier Documented profileCountry to be documented
Artsper describes him as famous for his images of landscapes in the process of disappearing. Born in 1954 in Gœulzin, in the Nord, near Douai, he first studies with his father. From…
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Andro Wekua Documented profileGeorgia
Born in Georgia in 1977 and based in Berlin, Andro Wekua develops a practice spanning collage, painting, sculpture, installation and film. This diversity of media is accompanied by a…
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Thomas Heeremans Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter and art dealer Thomas Heeremans (1641–1694) is associated with a landscape practice attentive to the diversity of settings and the activities that animate them. Bor…
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Alfred de Dreux Documented profileFrance
A French portrait and animal painter, Alfred de Dreux specialized in the representation of the horse. From 1823, encouraged by his uncle, the painter Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy, he…
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Gordon Mallet McCouch Documented profileUnited States
Gordon Mallet McCouch (1885–1956), an American artist, was a painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Born in Philadelphia, he died in Locarno. From 1902 to 1905, he attended Howard Pyle…
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Edmond Marie Petitjean Documented profileFrance
The French painter and illustrator Edmond Marie Petitjean was born in Neufchâteau, in the Vosges, in 1844 and died in Paris in 1925. His work is associated in particular with landsca…
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Ida Kerkovius Documented profileLatvia
The German painter and weaver Ida Kerkovius, also described as German-Baltic, pursued a practice combining painting and textile arts. At the age of eighteen, she began training at a…
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Enzo Cucchi Documented profileItaly
In Enzo Cucchi’s work, painting opens up to a plurality of materials and forms: images combine explicit and implicit elements, while his practice extends to walls, installation, cera…
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Jean-Charles Blais Documented profileFrance
Jean-Charles Blais came to prominence in the early 1980s with paintings made on reclaimed materials, particularly torn-down posters. Cardboard, cans, drums and newspaper pages are am…
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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