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Louis de Caullery Documented profileCountry to be documented
A Flemish painter active at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Louis de Caullery was born around 1580 in Cambrai and worked mainly in Antwerp. Trained in that city…
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Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer Documented profileFrance
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer’s flower painting belongs both to still life and to the decorative arts: his compositions are also known through prints and tapestry cartoons. Fleurs, fruits e…
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Philippe de Champaigne Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Brussels in 1602 and deceased in Paris in 1674, Philippe de Champaigne pursued a practice that brought together religious painting, portraiture and secular decoration. In 162…
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Ludwig Dill Documented profileCountry to be documented
Known as Ludwig Dill, Wilhelm Franz Karl Ludwig Dill studied architecture at the Polytechnic Institute from 1872, before joining the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1874. There he…
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Ettore Gianni Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dobiaschofsky auction catalogue lists under his name a gouache signed at the upper left, *Strand auf Capri*, measuring 13 × 25 cm; estimated at CHF 300, it bears the notation “So…
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Franz Xaver Pieler Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter Franz Xaver Pieler, born in Vienna in 1876 and deceased in Klosterneuburg in 1952, is described as a flower painter. His work Blumen in einer Vase, listed under…
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Mario Cavaglieri Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Mario Cavaglieri (1887–1969), born in Rovigo, Veneto, developed a body of work spanning two distinct periods: the depiction of high society before the war, follow…
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Joaquim Bravo Documented profilePortugal
Portuguese painter Joaquim Bravo (1935–1990) was born in Évora and died in Lisbon. An untitled sheet from 1973, executed in oil on paper, is described as signed and dated in ink at t…
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Christopher Lehmpfuhl Documented profileGermany
The sales notice states that it is monogrammed and dated at the lower right, and bears the monogram and the number “CL/M 7276” on the reverse. Its published provenance mentions NZZ E…
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Wilhelm Amandus Beer Documented profileGermany
Wilhelm Amandus Beer (1837–1907), a German painter, is associated with the depiction of scenes from Russian folk life. His preference for these subjects is said to have earned him th…
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Henry Dieckmann Documented profileGermany
The German painter Henry Dieckmann is described as working primarily on landscapes of northern Germany and Parisian street scenes in a naive style. A work titled Brasserie, acrylic o…
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Hans Maurus Documented profileGermany
The German painter Hans Maurus, born in Munich in 1901 and deceased in 1942 in Marijanowska, on the Eastern Front, is also referred to by the first name Hanns. One notice describes h…
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Oskar Mulley Documented profileAustria
Mountain farms and wayside chapels set against Alpine mountain ranges are among his recurring motifs. His paintings, executed with a palette knife, almost always depict landscapes wi…
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Jean Puy Documented profileFrance
French painter born and deceased in Roanne, Jean Puy takes part in the emergence of Fauvism while developing a body of work that later moves away from the avant-garde and turns towar…
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Marcelle Noyon Documented profileFrance
The French painter Marcelle Noyon, born in Paris in 1886 and died in Meaux in 1980, trained with Fernand Cormon, Eugène Thirion, Humbert and Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin. She exhibite…
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Jean Marchand Documented profileFrance
Jean Hippolyte Marchand, also known as Jean Marchand and J. H. Marchand, trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Léon Bonnat’s studio from 1902 to 1906. He is also described as a pupi…
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Alfons Walde Documented profileAustria
Alfons Walde (Oberndorf, near Kitzbühel, 1891 – Kitzbühel, 1958) is associated with the mountain landscapes of Tyrol, particularly winter scenes and their inhabitants. According to t…
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Emile van Marcke Documented profileFrance
The French painter Émile Van Marcke, born in Sèvres in 1827 and deceased in Hyères in 1890, built his body of work around rural landscapes and livestock. He began his career at the M…
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Emmanuel Mané-Katz Documented profileFrance · Israel
Born in Krementchouk, then in the Russian Empire and now in Ukraine, Emmanuel Mané-Katz (Mane Leyzerovich Kats, 1894–1962) devoted a significant part of his work to the figures and t…
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Jan Frans van Bredael Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jan Frans van Bredael, also known as the Elder, was a Flemish painter born in Antwerp in 1686 and died in 1750. The eldest son of the painter Alexander van Bredael and Cornelia Sporc…
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Gustave Madelain Documented profileFrance
Gustave Madelain, a French painter born in Charly-sur-Marne in 1867 and who died in 1944, is associated with several cities where he worked. These include Paris, Rouen and Le Havre.…
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Johann Conrad Seekatz Documented profileGermany
Johann Conrad Seekatz was a history painter, genre painter and portraitist. Genre scenes came to occupy an increasingly prominent place in his work, alongside biblical and mythologic…
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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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Countries reflect citizenships recorded in the source and may be incomplete. Reference profiles open the indicated source and do not imply that works are available at the gallery.
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