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Carlo Brancaccio Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Carlo Brancaccio, who lived from 1861 to 1920, is represented here by a work titled “Wäscherinnen am Dorfbrunnen”. This oil painting on canvas laid down on cardbo…
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Pieter de Neyn Documented profileCountry to be documented
Pieter de Neyn, also known as Pieter de Nijn, Pieter de Neyen or Deneyn, is a painter whose career, as recounted in a biography published by a gallery, brought together craft trainin…
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Cornelius Van Leemputten Documented profileBelgium
The landscapes of Corneille Van Leemputten combine the countryside of Brabant and the Campine with scenes of herds and poultry. His compositions often feature a low horizon, vegetati…
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Luigi Loir Documented profileFrance
Aloys François Joseph Loir, known by the artist’s name Luigi Loir, had a career spanning painting, decoration and illustration. After his family settled in the Duchy of Parma in 1847…
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Willi Sitte Documented profileGermany · Germany
The German painter Willi Sitte, born in 1921 in Kratzau (now Chrastava), grew up in a Czech family whose father was of German origin. In 1944, while serving in the Wehrmacht in Italy…
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Henri Goetz Documented profileFrance
Henri Goetz, a French painter and engraver of American origin, was born in New York in 1909 under the name Harry Bernard Goetz and died in Nice in 1989. He settled in Paris in 1930,…
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Marc Sterling Documented profileFrance
Born in Minsk under the name Mordkha Sterling, Marc Sterling (1895–1976) was a French painter and draughtsman of Russian origin whose practice encompassed oil painting, gouache, draw…
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Fritz Bamberger Documented profileGermany
The German painter Fritz Bamberger (1814–1873) taught in Munich; August Christian Geist studied under him for two years from 1853. “Blick auf die Sierra Nevada” is an oil on canvas m…
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Eduard Hildebrandt Documented profileCountry to be documented
Presented as a German landscape painter, Eduard Hildebrandt first apprenticed with his father, a house painter in Danzig, before settling in Berlin, where he trained under Wilhelm Kr…
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Aert van der Neer Documented profileCountry to be documented
The seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painter Aernout van der Neer—also known as Aert or Artus—is associated with winter landscapes and nocturnal scenes. From the mid-1640s, he dev…
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Claude Schürr Documented profileFrance
Claude Alfred Schürr, a French painter born in Paris in 1921 and deceased in Cannes in 2014, developed a body of work in which the subject emerges from relationships between colours…
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Eugène Baboulène Documented profileFrance
The figurative painter and lithographer Eugène Louis Baboulène, born and deceased in Toulon (1905–1994), devoted a significant part of his work to seascapes and Provençal landscapes,…
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Herbert Helmert Documented profileGermany
German painter Herbert Helmert, born in Dresden in 1924 and deceased in Munich in 1997, followed a path of training and work that took him from Saxony to Berlin and then to Munich. A…
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Nicolaes Maes Documented profileCountry to be documented
Nicolas Maes’s work moves successively from religious scenes to genre scenes, then to portraiture, in which he tended to specialise from around 1660. In works from his early period,…
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Franz Marc Documented profileCountry to be documented
A journey to France, particularly to Paris, in 1903 fostered his interest in Impressionism; according to one source, he also discovered Japanese art there. His first solo exhibition…
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Franz de Paula Ferg Documented profileUnited States
The Austrian painter, draughtsman and etcher Franz de Paula Ferg, also known as Francis Paul Ferg, was born on 2 May 1689. His work focuses mainly on scenes of everyday life: markets…
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Edward Harrison Compton Documented profileGermany
The German painter and illustrator of British origin Edward Harrison Compton was born in Feldafing on 11 October 1881 and died on 6 March 1960. He was the second son of the painter E…
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Peter Dreher Documented profileGermany
The German artist Peter Dreher, born in Mannheim in 1932, devotes his principal series, Tag um Tag guter Tag (“Day after day, a good day”), to the repeated depiction of the same glas…
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Callum Innes Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Born in Edinburgh in 1962, Callum Innes studied drawing and painting at Gray’s School of Art from 1980 to 1984, before completing a postgraduate degree at Edinburgh College of Art in…
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Ludwig Muller Cornelius Documented profileGermany
The Munich painter Ludwig Müller-Cornelius is described as having been self-taught since his youth: after an apprenticeship, he becomes director of the Munich company Conrad. His rep…
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Bruno Müller-Linow Documented profileGermany
The German painter Bruno Müller-Linow (1909–1997) is also described as a graphic artist and university teacher. The available biographical information links his career to Technische…
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Albert Gleizes Documented profileFrance
Self-taught, Albert Gleizes began painting around 1901 in the Impressionist tradition. At the 1911 Salon des Indépendants, he took part in the collective presentation of the Cubists…
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Jean Jansem Documented profileFrance
Born in 1920 and deceased in 2013, Jean Jansem trained in Paris from 1936 under Maurice Brianchon, Raymond Legueult and Roland Oudot at the École des arts décoratifs, where he receiv…
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Henri Manguin Documented profileFrance
The French painter and printmaker Henri Manguin (1874–1949) practised both painting and printmaking: etchings, drypoints and lithographs form another facet of his work. After leaving…
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Hubert Berke Documented profileGermany
The German painter Hubert Berke, born in 1908 and deceased in 1979, develops a body of work that includes both abstract paintings and book illustrations. He studies philosophy and ar…
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Enrico Castellani Documented profileItaly
Enrico Castellani’s research makes relief a principle of composition: the deformations of the canvas, arranged as projections and recesses, alter the light and establish a rhythm in…
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Heinrich Siepmann Documented profileGermany
An untitled work from 1993, signed and dated “Siepmann 93”, is painted in oil on painting board and measures 104 × 129 cm. Its provenance is given as a private collection in North Rh…
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Adriaen Brouwer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Adriaen Brouwer, a painter and draughtsman from the Southern Netherlands, is thought to have been born in Oudenaarde around 1605 or 1606; he died in 1638 and was buried in Antwerp on…
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Jean Fautrier Documented profileFrance
A painter, printmaker and sculptor, Jean Fautrier works the material in thick layers in the Otages series: Spanish white, oil and glue form a precisely documented pictorial process.…
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Philips Wouwerman Documented profileCountry to be documented
A painter from the Northern Netherlands, Philips Wouwerman is mentioned in a contract concluded in 1706 between the Antwerp art dealer Jacob de Witte and Jan Frans van Bredael and Jo…
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Alfred Zoff Documented profileAustria
Austrian painter Alfred Zoff (1852–1927) is represented in an auction catalogue by a work entitled “Sonnige Waldpartie mit Bach”. It is described as oil on canvas mounted on panel, s…
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Geneviève Asse Documented profileFrance
Geneviève Asse’s painting moves from still life towards abstraction as the objects depicted become indistinct. Blue, in several shades, takes on a prominent place in her work and is…
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Jan van Goyen Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter and draughtsman Jan van Goyen makes the sky a major element of his landscapes. From the 1630s onwards, he works in a more subdued palette, with light tones and mono…
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Jean Dubuffet Documented profileFrance
The career of Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985), born in Le Havre and died in Paris, is marked by several returns to artistic practice, interspersed with periods devoted to commerce. After t…
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Oswald Achenbach Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Prussian painter Oswald Achenbach, born and deceased in Düsseldorf, devoted a significant part of his work to the Italian landscape, whose colourful views and play of light infor…
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Helmut Middendorf Documented profileGermany
Born in 1953 in Dinklage, Germany, Helmut Middendorf took part in the founding of Galerie am Moritzplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg in 1977. He is associated with the New Fauves (Neue Wilde…
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Berto Ferrari Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in 1887 and died in 1965, Berto Ferrari is described by Artsper as an Italian painter. The paintings listed include « La rivièra, Nervi » (29 × 39.5 × 0.5 cm), marked as sold, a…
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Jacob Philipp Hackert Documented profileGermany
The Prussian neoclassical landscape painter Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737–1807) built a career that took him from the academies and travels of northern Europe to Italy, where he became…
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Antoni Tàpies Documented profileSpain
A painter, sculptor, essayist and art theorist working in Catalan, Antoni Tàpies developed a practice in which material plays a role equal to that of the painterly gesture. After his…
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Karl Hagemeister Documented profileGermany
The German painter Karl Hagemeister, born and deceased in Werder, returns there after several years of training and travel. The town becomes the setting for his work, where he gradua…
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Franz Courtens Documented profileBelgium
Franz Courtens, also known as Frans Courtens, was a Belgian painter born in Termonde in 1854 and died in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode in 1943. His work, associated with Belgian Impressionis…
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Friedrich Gauermann Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Austrian painter Friedrich August Matthias Gauermann, associated with the Biedermeier landscape, whose name is also written Mathias, was born in Scheuchenstein in 1807 and died i…
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Émile Lambinet Documented profileFrance
Émile Charles Lambinet (1815–1877), a French painter born in Versailles and who died in Bougival, devoted himself primarily to landscape painting. The biographical entry identifies h…
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Ladislas Kijno Documented profileFrance
The French painter of Polish origin Ladislas Kijno combines an exploration of materials with subjects drawn from spirituality, poetry, music and contemporary history. His education e…
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Félix Planquette Documented profileFrance
The French painter Félix Planquette, born in Arras in 1873 and died in Paris in 1964, devotes a significant part of his work to landscape and animal painting. He depicts, in particul…
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Carl Rabus Documented profileGermany
The German painter and illustrator Carl Johann Rabus published his work in several periodicals, including Eulenspiegel, Der Orchideengarten and Jugend. This publishing activity, carr…
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Edmund Kesting Documented profileGermany · Germany
The German painter, graphic artist, photographer and art educator Edmund Kesting (1892–1970) developed a practice that brought together several media and explored the organisation of…
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Robert Franz Curry Documented profileUnited States
Robert Franz Curry was born in Boston in 1872 and died in Riederau in 1955. He studied at Harvard University and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. A painter of portraits, l…
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Jan Wildens Documented profileCountry to be documented
Trained from a very young age under Pierre Verhulst, Jan Wildens entered the profession through apprenticeship: he was ten when he began studying painting. Enrolled as an apprentice…
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Ferdinand Brütt Documented profileGermany
The German painter Ferdinand Brütt, associated with the Düsseldorf School of Painting, developed a body of work that includes both genre scenes and history paintings. After his first…
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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