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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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Daniel Maclise Documented profileIreland
Daniel Maclise’s career brings together painting, portraiture and illustration: early in his career, he works for a bank alongside the collector and amateur sculptor George Newenham,…
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Dario Cecchi Documented profileItaly
The Italian artist and creator Dario Cecchi (1918–1992) was born in Florence and died in Rome. The son of the writer Emilio Cecchi, he worked as a painter, writer, costume designer a…
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David Hare Documented profileUnited States
The American painter and sculptor David Hare, born in New York in 1917, was active in New York’s Surrealist circles before becoming associated with action painting from 1943. In 1947…
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David Hockney Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Born in Bradford in 1937, David Hockney is a British artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and stage design; he dies in London in 2026. His artistic…
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David Ostrowski Documented profileGermany
German painter David Ostrowski, born in Cologne in 1981, develops a body of work centred on pictorial experimentation. His painting tests gesture, accident and imperfection across va…
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David Teniers the Younger Documented profileCountry to be documented
David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690), also known as David Teniers II, is associated with peasant and high-society scenes, as well as paintings of art galleries. Born in Antwerp, he…
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David Wilkie Documented profileUnited Kingdom
The Scottish painter David Wilkie, born in 1785 and died in 1841, first became known for his scenes of Scottish rural life: inns, village fairs and weddings. The National Gallery lin…
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Delphin Enjolras Documented profileFrance
Delphin Enjolras is particularly known for his intimate scenes of women, often lit by a lamp or a fire, in which pastel, oil and watercolour are used to create a range of interior li…
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Deodat Roger Documented profileGermany
A landscape painter, figure draughtsman and etcher, Deodat Roger (1726–1821) is also described as a graphic artist and portrait miniaturist. His documented practice thus brings toget…
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Desire Thomassin Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter Désiré Thomassin (1858–1933) is documented, among other works, by a winter landscape painting. Titled “Winterlandschaft mit zugefrorenem Fluss”, this oil paintin…
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Dieter Krieg Documented profileGermany
The work is signed and dated on the reverse and also bears a handwritten note from Galerie Timm Gierig in Frankfurt am Main on the reverse; its provenance then indicates a private co…
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Dieter Schwertberger Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in 1942 in Gresten, Lower Austria, Dieter Schwertberger, who signs his work De Es, first trains as an engineer in Vienna, graduating in 1962, before studying painting with Ernst…
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Dietz Edzard Documented profileGermany
Dietrich Hermann Edzard, known as Dietz Edzard, was a German painter, engraver and illustrator, born in Bremen in 1893 and died in Paris in 1963. In 1911, he worked in Berlin under t…
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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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Dirck Hals Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter from the United Provinces Dirck Hals is best known for his genre scenes. Born in Haarlem in 1591 and dying in the same city in 1656, he developed a body of work who…
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Domenico De Bernardi Documented profileItaly
The Italian artist Domenico De Bernardi (1892–1963), born and died in Besozzo, is documented here through two works mentioned in separate entries and catalogues. The MuseiD-Italia en…
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Dominique Paul Peyronnet Documented profileFrance
French painter born in Talence in 1872 and died in Paris in 1943, Dominique-Paul Peyronnet is often classified among the naïve painters, a designation that informs the reading of his…
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Dominique Rozier Documented profileFrance
A French painter associated with flowers and still life, Dominique Rozier pursued his work in a genre in which the observation of plant motifs and objects forms the core of pictorial…
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Donald Baechler Documented profileUnited States
American artist Donald Edward Baechler, born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1956 and who died in Manhattan in 2022, lived in New York. The institutions associated with his education ar…
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Donald Judd Documented profileUnited States
Born in 1928 and died in 1994, Donald Clarence Judd, also known as Don Judd, is identified as an American minimalist artist. The Art Institute of Chicago’s catalogue lists, among oth…
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Dorothea Sharp Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Dorothea Sharp’s career was marked by an Impressionist outlook, which she retained after discovering the works of Claude Monet and other Impressionists in Paris. The biographical sou…
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Douglas Swan Documented profileUnited States
Born in New Britain, Connecticut, Douglas Litterick Swan (1930–2000) was an American artist whose education took place mainly in Scotland, before continuing in London and Italy. His…
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Drago J. Prelog Documented profileAustria
Drago J. Prelog’s work brings together experimentation with writing, the invention of a printing technique that engages sight and touch, and a conception of painting as a process unf…
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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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Duncan Cameron Documented profileCountry to be documented
Identified as a painter, Duncan Cameron (1837–1916) is documented in particular by a work entitled “On the Allan water”. The Piguet auction catalogue describes it as an oil on canvas…
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Duncan Grant Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Duncan Grant (1885–1978) pursued his career through collective initiatives: he was one of the founders of the Camden Town Group in 1911, then founded the Omega Workshops with Roger F…
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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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Eberhard Viegener Documented profileGermany
The German painter Eberhard Viegener, born in Soest in 1890 and deceased in Bilme in 1967, initially pursued training rooted in the family trade. From 1904 to 1906, he learned painti…
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Edgar Degas Documented profileFrance
In *Dopo il bagno, Nudo femminile*, Edgar Degas depicts a nude woman drying herself after a bath, against a blue background. Executed around 1886 in pastel on cardboard, the work mea…
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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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Edgard Pillet Documented profileFrance
The French painter Edgard Pillet (1912–1996) is represented in documented collections by a work listed in Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago lists Terra-cotta, a work dated 1959.…
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Edmé-Émile Laborne Documented profileFrance
The French painter and draughtsman Edmé-Émile Laborne, born and died in Paris, devoted his work to urban views and landscapes, with a preference for the coasts of Normandy and the Lo…
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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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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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Édouard Cortès Documented profileFrance
Édouard Cortès’s work focuses primarily on Parisian scenes, observed through changes in the time of day, light and weather conditions, as well as the passing of the seasons. This att…
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Édouard Detaille Documented profileFrance
The French painter and illustrator Édouard Detaille made the depiction of modern warfare a major focus of his work, with the stated ambition of replacing its conventional image with…
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Édouard Pail Documented profileFrance
The French painter Édouard Pail, born in Corbigny, made the landscapes of the Nivernais the principal subject of his work. His plein-air practice and affiliation with the Crozant Sch…
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Édouard Pignon Documented profileFrance
Among the recorded works by Édouard Pignon is the landscape Landscape with Terraced Hills, dated 1957 by the Art Institute of Chicago. The sales notice for Nature morte aux poissons…
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Édouard Vuillard Documented profileFrance
Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940), identified by the Art Institute of Chicago catalogue as Édouard Jean Vuillard, was a French painter. The museum also lists several variants of his name,…
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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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Eduard Freiherr von Handel-Mazzetti Documented profileCountry to be documented
His education first takes him to secondary school in Vienna and Feldkirch, and then to the Technical Military Academy; from 1921 to 1923, he studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mu…
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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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Eduard von Grützner Documented profileGermany
Eduard von Grützner is associated with Munich genre painting of the second half of the nineteenth century, alongside Carl Spitzweg and Franz von Defregger. At the Academy of Fine Art…
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Eduardo Dalbono Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born and died in Naples, Eduardo Dalbono (1841–1915) pursued a career in which the study of nature outdoors went hand in hand with history painting, and which took him from Naples to…
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Edward Bird Documented profileCountry to be documented
Edward Bird gives a prominent place to scenes of family life, a feature clearly documented in his choice of subjects. Before settling in Bristol in 1794 with the intention of establi…
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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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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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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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Egge Sturm-Skrla Documented profileAustria
The fresco provides continuity in Egge Sturm-Skrla’s career: after learning this technique from Murr and Bellatti during trips to South Tyrol and Italy, he worked with Anton Faistaue…
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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