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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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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Documented profileSpain
The work of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo brings together genre scenes and religious painting: episodes from the life of Christ, images of the Virgin and Child and of the Immaculate Conc…
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Heijo Hangen Documented profileGermany
German painter Heijo Hangen (1927–2019) is cited among the German artists in Jan Kubíček’s international circle. Among the documented works is an untitled canvas from 1982, executed…
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Attilio Pratella Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Attilio Pratella, born in Lugo in 1856 and deceased in Naples in 1949, spent most of his life in the latter city. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologn…
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Moritz von Schwind Documented profileCountry to be documented
Moritz von Schwind (1804–1871), an Austrian painter born in Vienna, develops a body of work at the intersection of decorative painting, literature and music. Trained at the Academy o…
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Herbert Böttger Documented profileGermany
Herbert Böttger, a German painter born in Krefeld in 1898 and deceased in Büderich in 1954, is documented through catalogued works and several exhibitions devoted to New Objectivity.…
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Leberecht Lortet Documented profileFrance
A painter chiefly devoted to mountain landscapes, Leberecht Lortet—also referred to by the variant name Lortel—draws his subjects from several regions: Switzerland, the south of Fran…
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Heinrich Bürkel Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Bavarian painter of genre scenes and landscapes Heinrich Bürkel (1802–1869) studied in Munich. In 1830, he exhibited at the Brussels Salon A Landscape with Figures, a Traveller H…
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Felix Droese Documented profileGermany
Felix Droese, also known as Kalus Felix Droese, is a German artist born in 1950. A work entitled “Ohne Titel”, offered at auction under his name, combines watercolour, ink and collag…
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Serge Charchoune Documented profileFrance
Serge Charchoune’s practice unfolds between two documented orientations: purist paintings and, in parallel, a return to ornamental painting in the series *Elastic Landscapes*. In Par…
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Alain Bonnefoit Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris on 18 May 1937, Alain Bonnefoit has an artistic practice encompassing painting, sculpture, lithography and drawing. A painter of nudes, he works notably in oil and sumi…
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Willy Moralt Documented profileGermany
Wilhelm Karl Paul Moralt (1884–1947), known as Willy Moralt, was a German genre and landscape painter. Beginning in 1903, he studied at the Munich Academy under Karl Raupp. An auctio…
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Jacob El Hanani Documented profileIsrael
Jacob El Hanani’s drawings take shape through the accumulation of thousands of lines or tiny letters, according to a plan defined in advance. This plan may determine the number or le…
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Constantin Guys Documented profileFrance
The French draughtsman and painter Constantin Guys uses drawing and lithography as means of creating a visual chronicle of his time. The subjects found in his work range from events…
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Eugène Verboeckhoven Documented profileBelgium
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, also known as Eugène Verboeckhoven, develops a body of work devoted primarily to animal painting and animated landscapes. He is first trained by his fath…
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Anton Henning Documented profileGermany
This oil on canvas, monogrammed and dated “AH 96”, measures 182 × 152 cm. The entry associates it with the exhibition “Anton Henning, Too much of a good thing...”, and cites Kunstver…
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Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis Documented profileLatvia
The Latvian painter Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis, born in Ventspils in 1897 and who died in Toronto in 1964, developed a body of work spanning a wide range of subjects, from portraits…
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Karl Kaufmann Documented profileCountry to be documented
Wikidata identifies Karl Kaufmann as an Austrian painter born in 1843. The entry associates several name variants with him, including F. Gilbert, Henri Carnier, Charles Marchand and…
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Roger Montané Documented profileFrance
The figurative painter Roger Montané, born in Bordeaux in 1916 and deceased in Castelmaurou in 2002, combined academic training with a practice shaped by observing everyday life. He…
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Charles Jones Way Documented profileCountry to be documented
Identified as a British painter and watercolourist, Charles Jones Way lived from 1834 to 1919. An auction catalogue lists the watercolour *Das Matterhorn* under his name, signed at t…
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Yves Brayer Documented profileFrance
The French painter Yves Brayer’s practice brings painting together with copper engraving and lithography, as well as illustration and the decorative arts. He produces prints and illu…
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Heinz Mack Documented profileGermany
Born in 1931 in Lollar, Hesse, Heinz Mack studied fine art in Düsseldorf, then philosophy at the University of Cologne until 1956; he earned a state qualification in both disciplines…
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Jo Niemeyer Documented profileGermany
Jo Niemeyer’s practice brings together geometric composition and the study of nature. A German artist born in 1946 in Alf, Rhineland-Palatinate, he explores space, time, distances an…
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Marcel Masson Documented profileCountry to be documented
Associated with the pseudonym Antoine Blanchard, Marcel Masson is presented through scenes of Paris during the Belle Époque. The walls of Montmartre and the suburbs are among his pre…
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Cesar Klein Documented profileGermany
The German painter, graphic artist and stage designer César Klein (1876–1954) developed a practice spanning the applied arts, interior decoration and film. According to the biographi…
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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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Vincent Manago Documented profileFrance
Vincent Manago is associated with Mediterranean landscapes and Orientalist subjects, two directions that place his work at the intersection of regional motifs and themes related to N…
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Klaus Fußmann Documented profileGermany
Titled Ohne Titel, this watercolour on card, signed and dated « Fußmann ’91 », measures 84 × 70 cm. The work’s provenance is listed as a private collection in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Charles Kuwasseg Documented profileFrance
Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg is particularly associated with landscapes, seascapes and views of continental and Mediterranean cities, often crossed by waterways. The coastal landscapes…
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Walter Schmögner Documented profileAustria
Born in 1943, Walter Schmögner is an Austrian painter and sculptor. Among the documented works is the watercolour « Aufgeklapptes Brotbuch mit Strickzeug », signed and dated 1973, me…
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Justus Sustermans Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter Justus Sustermans (1597–1681), originally from Antwerp, spent much of his life in Florence, where he became official portraitist at the Medici court. According to…
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Frans de Hulst Documented profileCountry to be documented
Dune or river landscapes, often dominated by fortified towers, characterise Frans de Hulst’s painting. His early works evoke the technique of Salomon van Ruysdael; this resemblance h…
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Hermine David Documented profileFrance
Hermine David works in landscape and portraiture; one biographical source describes her as post-Impressionist. She studies at the Académie Julian, in Jean-Paul Laurens’s studio, from…
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Filippo Palizzi Documented profileCountry to be documented
Filippo Palizzi (1818–1899), an Italian painter born in Vasto and died in Naples, brings landscape together with close observation of animals in their natural environment. His intere…
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Maurice Blum Documented profileFrance
The French painter and engraver Maurice Blum (1832–1909) is documented by a work painted on wood, which here attests to his activity as a painter. Entitled « Fürstliches Interieur mi…
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Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange Documented profileFrance
The French painter Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange, born and deceased in Paris, situated her work within Neo-Impressionism. Flowers and gardens hold a prominent place in her painting. S…
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Otto Schauer Documented profileGermany
Born in Stuttgart in 1923 and died in Paris in 1985, Otto Schauer, also known as Friedrich Otto Schauer, is described as a German painter who worked in France from 1950 onwards. He s…
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Milan Konjović Documented profileSerbia
Milan Konjović first exhibited in 1914, showing around fifty works painted outdoors and directly from the subject, while pursuing his primary and secondary education in Sombor from 1…
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Adam Pynacker Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Lempertz catalogue lists, under the name Adam Pynacker, Hirten in südlicher Landschaft mit Ruinen, an oil painting on panel measuring 36 × 45.8 cm, whose published provenance is…
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Michel Majerus Documented profileGermany · Luxembourg
Painting is Michel Majerus’s preferred medium, but it is interwoven with digital media and a repertoire of images that spans popular culture as much as art history. Video games, cine…
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Mihály Munkácsy Documented profileHungary
Mihály Munkácsy moved from scenes of the everyday lives of peasants and people living in poverty to large-scale biblical and decorative compositions, whose scale marks several stages…
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Ernst Mollenhauer Documented profileGermany
Executed in oil on paper, this sheet measuring 47 × 61.8 cm bears the signature and date “Mollenhauer 60” in pencil at the lower right; its provenance is listed as private ownership…
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Aelbert Cuyp Documented profileNetherlands
Born and died in Dordrecht, Albert Cuyp developed a practice there encompassing landscape, marine painting, animal painting, still life and portraiture, with landscape occupying a pa…
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Richard Müller Documented profileGermany
The German painter Richard Müller, who was also an engraver and draughtsman, first trained at the painting school of the Meissen porcelain manufactory before studying at the Dresden…
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Wilhelm Hempfing Documented profileGermany
The German painter Wilhelm Hempfing, born in Schönau in 1886 and deceased in Karlsruhe in 1948, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Friedrich Fehr. He also learned…
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Ludwig Gedlek Documented profilePoland
The Polish painter Ludwig Gedlek, born in Kraków in 1847 and died in Vienna in 1904, devotes a significant part of his oeuvre to the horse: almost all of his paintings depict one. Hi…
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Hugo Darnaut Documented profileAustria
Austrian painter Hugo Darnaut, born in Dessau in 1851 and died in Vienna in 1937, also known as Darnaut-Fix, trained across several artistic centres in Central Europe. After spending…
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Wilhelm Trübner Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German artist Wilhelm Trübner, who lived from 1851 to 1917, is represented here, among other works, by Bildnis Fräulein St., an oil-on-canvas portrait dated around 1910. Measurin…
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Erwin Kettemann Documented profileGermany
Erwin Kettemann is presented as a German painter, born in 1897 and died in 1971. An oil on canvas entitled “Winterliche Gebirgslandschaft mit Bauernhäusern” is signed and bears the i…
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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