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Jerry Zeniuk Documented profileUnited States
Jerry Zeniuk’s painting explores the relationships between colours and space: his compositions move from layered monochromatic surfaces to arrangements of contrasting planes, and the…
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Robert Combas Documented profileFrance
Born in Lyon in 1957, Robert Combas develops a figurative practice that takes shape from his earliest years of training. After a year at the Beaux-Arts in Sète, where he meets Hervé…
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Jean Messagier Documented profileFrance
Jean Messagier (1920–1999), a French artist, is documented here by a work offered for sale. Titled « Abstrakte Komposition », this watercolour is signed at the lower right and measur…
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Damien Hirst Documented profileUnited Kingdom
English sculptor and installation artist Damien Hirst, born in 1965, develops a body of work in which the relationship between art, life and death occupies a central place. He studie…
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Katharina Grosse Documented profileGermany
Katharina Grosse’s practice combines studio painting with large-scale in situ interventions: painting is not limited to the canvas but can also cover built or natural environments. I…
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Otto Eduard Pippel Documented profileGermany
Otto Eduard Pippel was a German painter, born in Lodz in 1878 and died in Munich in 1960. His artistic training is stated to have taken place at the universities of Strasbourg, Karls…
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Paul Müller-Kaempff Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter and lithographer Paul Müller-Kaempff (1861–1941) developed a practice extending from painting to several other techniques and disciplines. After studying at the Dü…
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Bernard Aubertin Documented profileFrance
Bernard Aubertin (1934–2015), a French visual artist, makes monochrome red and material central elements of his work: from 1958, he creates textured surfaces using tools such as spat…
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Jan Miense Molenaer Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter Jan Miense Molenaer, born and deceased in Haarlem, focused mainly on genre scenes, while also painting portraits and, more rarely, religious subjects. Trained in Fr…
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Marcel Mouly Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris in 1918 and died in Clamart in 2008, Marcel Mouly found the subject for his first drawings early on, in 1931, in the port of Le Havre. That same year, he left school an…
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Dimitrie Berea Documented profileRomania
The Romanian painter Dimitrie Berea, also known by the pseudonym Demetre de Berea, draws attention as a portraitist; the biographical notice presents him in this capacity as an offic…
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Duilio Barnabè Documented profileItaly
Duilio Barnabè, an Italian painter, was born in Bologna on 1 February 1914 and died in Rome on 8 May 1961; he lived from 1914 to 1961. Philob reports that he attended the Academy of…
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Fritz Grebe Documented profileGermany
Known as Fritz Grebe, Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig Grebe trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cassel; August Bromeis is associated with this period of study, dated between 1872 and 18…
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Georges Jeannin Documented profileFrance
Georges Jeannin, a French painter born and deceased in Paris, made floral compositions the focus of his practice. He trained with Victor Vincelet. Admitted to the Société des artiste…
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Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart Documented profileGermany · Netherlands
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart builds a geometric language from simple elements: his compositions bring together verticals and horizontals, primary colours and greys, followed by di…
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Serge Lifar Documented profileFrance
Serge Lifar (1905–1986) is a figure in dance whose career combines choreographic creation and the reform of technique. He studies dance in Kyiv with Bronislava Nijinska, then works i…
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Josefine Mühlen-Schmid Documented profileGermany
The painter known as Josefine Mühlen-Schmid, Josefine Maria Therese Schmid, was born in Sarching in 1888 and died in Munich in 1960. From 1908 to 1910, she studied at the Königliche…
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Karl Hubbuch Documented profileGermany
Titled Doppelporträt Martha, this work is executed in pencil on medium-weight chamois-coloured board, measures 60.8 × 43.2 cm and bears the blind stamp “WATT”; the sales notice descr…
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Eberhard Günther Willikens Documented profileGermany
German painter Ben Willikens, born in 1939, is also known as Günther Eberhard Willikens. He was one of Heinz Trökes’s students. Among his documented works is “Raum 477”, an acrylic o…
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Edgar Ende Documented profileGermany
The German painter Edgar Ende (1901–1965), associated with Surrealism, was also the father of the writer Michael Ende. The work Krippenfechte, dated 1951, is catalogued as a gouache…
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Eduard Boehm Documented profileCountry to be documented
Eduard Boehm was an Austrian painter who lived from 1830 to 1890. A sale catalogue attributes Partie aus Steiermark to him, depicting a fisherman seated at the edge of a pond, at the…
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Georg Anton Rasmussen Documented profileNorway
Georg Anton Rasmussen is presented as a Norwegian painter (1842–1914). A lot from Lempertz describes a “Norwegian Fjord Landscape” as oil on relined canvas, 42 × 68 cm, signed lower…
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Felix Heuberger Documented profileAustria
Born in Vienna in 1888, Felix Heuberger initially trained as an engineer and obtained a degree in civil engineering from the Technische Hochschule in 1914. A painter and printmaker a…
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Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot Documented profileCountry to be documented
Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot’s views are often organised around a broad road, sometimes running diagonally, which draws the eye into the distance between houses, churches or city wal…
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Yannis Kounellis Documented profileGreece · Italy
Born in Piraeus in 1936 and died in Rome in 2017, Jannis Kounellis left Greece in 1956 to study art in Rome. He held his first solo exhibition there in 1960, at the La Tartaruga gall…
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Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann Documented profileCountry to be documented
Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann (1815–1893), a German painter, trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Julius Schnorr, Heinrich Maria von Hess and Clemens von Zimmermann. H…
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Alphonse Mucha Documented profileCountry to be documented
Alphonse Mucha develops a practice that connects theatre posters, decorative publishing and the creation of official documents. The commission for Gismonda in 1894 marks a turning po…
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Carl Ebert Documented profileGermany
Carl Ebert (1821–1885), a German landscape painter born in Stuttgart and deceased in Munich, devoted himself especially to forest scenes. After the early death of his parents, relati…
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Pierre Letellier Documented profileFrance
Pierre Letellier, a French painter born in 1928 and who died in 2000, developed a practice that moved from painting to illustration and printmaking, and also extended to photography…
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Pieter Bout Documented profileCountry to be documented
Pieter Bout is primarily concerned with landscape, which he develops through views of cities, villages, harbours, beaches and rivers. His paintings often include lively scenes, such…
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Angelos Giallinas Documented profileGreece
The Greek painter Angelos Giallinas, born and deceased in Corfu, is best known for his watercolours and is considered one of the last representatives of the Ionian Islands School. Af…
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Roelant Savery Documented profileCountry to be documented
Roelant Savery, a painter and engraver, was born in Kortrijk in 1576 and died in Utrecht in 1639. He trained with his elder brother Jacob Savery and Hans Bol. Around 1604, he travell…
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Elizabeth Cope Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in County Kildare in 1952, Elizabeth Cope is an Irish artist whose painting and drawing take people, places and objects alike as their subjects. She lives and works today in Cou…
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Robert Michel Documented profileGermany
The German artist Robert Michel (1897–1983) developed a practice combining collage, typography and graphic arts. He is regarded as a pioneer of collage, drawing on the principles of…
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Christian Caillard Documented profileFrance
The French painter Christian Caillard was born in Clichy in 1899 and died in Paris in 1985. He divided his life between his Paris studio and numerous stays far afield. After his firs…
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Andreas Jawlensky Documented profileGermany
Presented as a German painter, Andreas Jawlensky was born in Prely, Latvia, in 1902 and died in Barga in 1984. Among the documented works is Landschaft, a 1929 drawing in coloured pe…
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Ferdinand Leeke Documented profileGermany
Ferdinand Leeke is a German painter known in particular for his illustrations of scenes from Richard Wagner’s operas. Around 1889, Siegfried Wagner commissioned him to create a serie…
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Antonio Saura Documented profileSpain
Antonio Saura Atarés (1930–1998), a Spanish artist born in Huesca, developed an autodidactic body of work organised around recurring series: the Ladies, the Crucifixions, the Faces,…
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Stefan Szczesny Documented profileGermany
Born in Munich in 1951, Stefan Szczesny’s career traces a movement from abstract painting towards figuration, which he associates with an art «in search of a connection with life». D…
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Ella Bergmann-Michel Documented profileGermany
Ella Bergmann-Michel’s career brings together documentary film, graphic design and painting: she made five documentary films between 1931 and 1933, worked as a graphic designer in Lo…
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Henryk Hayden Documented profileFrance · Poland
Henri Hayden, also known as Henryk Hayden-Wurcel, was a French painter and lithographer of Polish origin, born in Warsaw in 1883 and died in Paris in 1970. From 1902, he pursued tech…
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Mario Schifano Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter and collagist Mario Schifano (1934–1998), born in Khoms, Libya, and who died in Rome, developed a practice that extends beyond painting: his work also encompassed…
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Henry Schouten Documented profileBelgium
A painter of landscapes and, above all, animals, Henri Schouten depicts cattle, sheep, horses, poultry and dogs, as well as animals in the fields. He exhibits at the art society L’Un…
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Adrianus Eversen Documented profileNetherlands
The Dutch painter Adrianus Eversen, born in Amsterdam in 1818 and died in Delft in 1897, specialised in street scenes. His work combines a realistic treatment with street scenes and…
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Armand Henrion Documented profileBelgium · France
Belgian painter Armand François Joseph Henrion was born in Liège on 30 May 1875 and is listed as having died in 1958. After exhibiting in Belgian salons, he settled in Paris and took…
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Alexei Kostroma Documented profileCountry to be documented
“Notenpersonen”, signed at the lower right and titled in Russian on the verso, measures 37 × 38 cm; the other work, signed, titled in Cyrillic and dated on the verso, measures 64 × 5…
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Enzo Esposito Documented profileItaly
Born in Benevento in 1946, the Italian painter Enzo Esposito began bringing his painting into gallery spaces in 1977: his first installations were painted directly onto the walls. Th…
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Andreas Schulze Documented profileGermany
Born in Hanover in 1955, the German painter Andreas Schulze develops a form of figuration in which rounded forms create a register that is both playful and humorous. From 1978 to 198…
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Abraham Rademaker Documented profileCountry to be documented
Dutch painter, draughtsman, engraver and print dealer Abraham Rademaker develops a body of work in which topographical drawings and painted landscapes sit side by side. He produces l…
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Paul Thek Documented profileUnited States
Paul Thek’s career is marked by the Technological Reliquaries, which were the subject of three solo exhibitions at the Stable Gallery and Pace Gallery in New York between 1964 and 19…
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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