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Wilhelm Kray Documented profileCountry to be documented
Wilhelm Kray (Berlin, 1828 – Munich, 1889) was a German painter of portraits, genre scenes and marine subjects. After working as a goldsmith, he began studying at the Berlin Academy…
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Wilhelm Kuhnert Documented profileGermany
Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert placed animals within living environments rather than treating them as an isolated repertoire of forms. The German painter and illustrator attached particul…
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Wilhelm Laage Documented profileGermany
Wilhelm Laage, born in Stellingen in 1868, trained in Hamburg and then Karlsruhe with Alfred Lichtwark's support. He subsequently followed his teacher Leopold von Kalckreuth to Stutt…
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Wilhelm Leibl Documented profileCountry to be documented
Wilhelm Leibl was a German painter and printmaker associated with realism. He trained at the Munich Academy, encountered Courbet’s painting and travelled to Paris in 1869. His move t…
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Wilhelm Morgner Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter and graphic artist Wilhelm Morgner, associated with Expressionism, was born in Soest, Westphalia, on 27 January 1891 and died in combat at Langemark, West Flanders…
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Wilhelm Sasnal Documented profilePoland
Born in 1972 in Tarnów, Poland, Wilhelm Sasnal is a Polish artist whose practice spans painting, photography, posters, illustration and film. In his paintings, photographic images dr…
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Wilhelm Theodor Nocken Documented profileGermany
Wilhelm Theodor Nocken (1830–1905), a German artist born and deceased in Düsseldorf, trained in the city before working there as a landscape painter. While still an apprentice house…
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Wilhelm Thöny Documented profileAustria
Wilhelm Thöny, an Austrian painter, was born in Graz in 1888 and died in New York in 1949. A watercolour on paper entitled “Springbrunnen in Paris” is dated 1937. The sale catalogue…
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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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Wilhelm Velten Documented profileGermany
The Russian-German genre painter Wilhelm Velten was born in Saint Petersburg in 1847 and died in Munich in 1929. He began studying at the Academy of Munich in 1869 and became a pupil…
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Wilhelm Volz Documented profileGermany
The German painter and lithographer Wilhelm Volz (1855–1901) is also listed as a painter of historical, genre and landscape scenes, as well as an illustrator and etcher. These detail…
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Wilhelm von Kobell Documented profileCountry to be documented
Wilhelm von Kobell (1766–1853), born in Mannheim, came from a family of painters and trained under his father Ferdinand. Settling in Munich during the 1790s, he studied Upper Bavaria…
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Wilhelm Wieger Documented profileGermany
The German painter and graphic artist Wilhelm Wieger, also known as Will Wieger, was born on 2 May 1890 in Hardegsen, in what is now the Landkreis Northeim. He lived in Sweden from 1…
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Willem de Klerk Documented profileNetherlands
Presented as a Dutch painter, Willem de Klerk is stated to have lived from 1800 to 1876. Sale listings attribute two winter landscapes to him: a watercolour with a cart, and a compos…
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Willem Frederiksz van Royen Documented profileCountry to be documented
Willem Frederiksz van Royen, a Dutch painter who died in 1723, spent most of his career in Brandenburg. He trained with Arnold van Ravesteyn in The Hague between 1661 and 1668 before…
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Willem Kalf Documented profileCountry to be documented
Willem Kalf (1619–1693), originally from Rotterdam, spent time in Paris before returning to the Dutch Republic. He settled in Amsterdam in 1653. His early works depict kitchens and r…
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Willem Key Documented profileCountry to be documented
Willem Key was a portraitist and painter of religious subjects active in sixteenth-century Antwerp. Trained under Pieter Coecke and Lambert Lombard, he brought these two fields toget…
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Willem van Aelst Documented profileCountry to be documented
Willem van Aelst (1627–1683) was a Dutch painter specialising in still life. Raised in Delft, he trained with his uncle Evert van Aelst and joined the Guild of Saint Luke in 1643. He…
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Willem van de Velde the Younger Documented profileCountry to be documented
Willem van de Velde the Younger, a marine painter born in Leiden in December 1633 and who died in London in 1707, is associated first with calm maritime scenes and later with battle…
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Willem van Mieris Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter Willem van Mieris, born in 1662 and died in 1747, is represented here by a composition devoted to the story of Joseph. The painting, executed in oil on wood and mea…
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Willi Baumeister Documented profileGermany
Willi Baumeister (1889–1955), a German artist born and deceased in Stuttgart, developed a practice encompassing painting, typography and theatre sets. Trained at the Royal Academy of…
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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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William-Adolphe Bouguereau Documented profileFrance
William Bouguereau, who was born in La Rochelle in 1825 and died there in 1905, was a French painter trained in the academic tradition. A student of François-Édouard Picot at the Éco…
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William Aiken Walker Documented profileUnited States
The American painter William Aiken Walker, who died in 1921, is particularly associated with scenes of the lives of the rural Black population on plantations. The entry describing th…
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William Callow Documented profileCountry to be documented
William Callow went to Paris in 1829 to work as an engraver alongside Charles Bentley. During this Parisian period, he also exhibited a watercolour of Richmond Hill at the Paris Salo…
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William Didier-Pouget Documented profileFrance
Heather, heathland and changing light provide several connecting threads through the work of William Didier-Pouget. His titles themselves evoke moonrise, morning mist and twilight. T…
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William Edward Norton Documented profileUnited States
William Edward Norton, born in Boston in 1843, built his artistic career around an early experience of the sea. Childhood excursions along the American East Coast and subsequent sea…
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William Etty Documented profileCountry to be documented
William Etty, born in York in 1787, who died in 1849, trained at the Royal Academy Schools in London. John Opie’s lectures encouraged his interest in history painting and the example…
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William Fleming Vallance Documented profileCountry to be documented
William Fleming Vallance, born in Paisley in 1827 and deceased in 1904, was a Scottish painter particularly associated with maritime subjects. He trained at the Trustees School under…
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William Gear Documented profileUnited Kingdom
The Germann Auktionshaus catalogue documents Winter Hedgerow, dated 1951: an oil painting on canvas measuring 995 × 807 mm, signed and dated, and also titled on the reverse. The work…
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William Hoggatt Documented profileUnited Kingdom
William Hoggatt (1880–1961) was born in Lancaster, where he worked for a stained-glass maker and attended the Storey Institute’s art school. He later settled on the Isle of Man, livi…
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William Kentridge Documented profileSouth Africa
William Kentridge, born in Johannesburg in 1955, develops a practice in which drawing, cinema and theatre continually inform one another. His animation technique uses charcoal drawin…
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William Lionel Wyllie Documented profileUnited Kingdom
The English painter of maritime subjects William Lionel Wyllie (1851–1931) is documented as depicting boats, shores and the people who frequent them. Born in Camden Town, London, he…
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William Stanley Haseltine Documented profileUnited States
William Stanley Haseltine trained with Paul Weber in Philadelphia before developing a landscape career divided between the United States and Europe. His views of the New England coas…
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William Tomkins Documented profileCountry to be documented
William Tomkins was an eighteenth-century British painter who died in London in 1792. He exhibited at the Free Society of Artists from 1761, and subsequently at the Society of Artist…
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William Trost Richards Documented profileUnited States
William Trost Richards (1833–1905), born in Philadelphia and deceased in Newport, was an American landscape and marine painter. Associated with the Hudson River School and the Americ…
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William Turner Dannat Documented profileUnited States
William Turner Dannat (1853–1929), also known as William T. Dannat and William Turner Dannatt, is documented by works ranging from preparatory studies to portrait painting. The Art I…
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Willy Eisenschitz Documented profileAustria · France
Willy Eisenschitz (1889–1974), born in Vienna, continued his artistic training at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. There he met the painter Claire Bertrand, who became h…
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Willy Hamacher Documented profileCountry to be documented
Willy Hamacher (1865–1909) was a German painter born in Breslau, now Wrocław, who specialised in coastal landscapes. He studied under Carl Cowen Schirm, then Eugen Dücker at the Düss…
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Willy Herrmann Documented profileGermany
Willy Herrmann (1895–1963), born in Berlin-Spandau, maintained strong ties to Berlin throughout his life. After serving in the First World War, he returned to Berlin in 1919 and sett…
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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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Willy Schlobach Documented profileBelgium
Willy Schlobach, born in Brussels and deceased in Nonnenhorn in 1951, was a painter associated with Belgian artistic life. Close to James Ensor, he developed a particular interest in…
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Willy Stieborsky Documented profileAustria
Georg Willy Stieborsky, known as Willy Stieborsky, was an Austrian painter, draughtsman and stage designer, born in Vienna in 1881 and died in 1966. Trained at the Academy of Vienna,…
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Winfred Gaul Documented profileGermany
Winfred Gaul (1928–2003), born in Düsseldorf, studied with Willi Baumeister and Manfred Henninger at Stuttgart’s academy from 1950 to 1953. He joined Gruppe 53 in 1955 and participat…
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Winston Churchill Documented profileUnited Kingdom
For Winston Churchill (1874–1965), the British statesman, painting is presented as his principal leisure pursuit; the available information does not allow his artistic practice to be…
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Władysław Jackiewicz Documented profilePoland
Władysław Jackiewicz, born in 1924 and deceased in 2016, was a Polish painter closely associated with Gdańsk. He studied under Artur Nacht-Samborski, graduated in 1952 and became an…
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Wojciech Sadley Documented profilePoland
Wojciech Sadley, born in Lublin in 1932 and deceased in 2023, was a Polish artist working across painting and textile art. Following musical studies, he trained in interior architect…
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Woldemar Hottenroth Documented profileCountry to be documented
Woldemar Hottenroth (1802–1894), born in Blasewitz near Dresden, trained at the city’s academy under Johann Friedrich Matthaei and Ferdinand Hartmann. A scholarship enabled him to tr…
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Wolf Kahn Documented profileUnited States
Wolf Kahn (1927–2020), born in Stuttgart, left Germany as a child, reached England and joined his family in New York in 1940. After studying with Stuart Davis and Hans Hofmann, becom…
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Wolfgang Mattheuer Documented profileGermany · Germany
Wolfgang Mattheuer (1927–2004), born in Reichenbach in the Vogtland, first trained in lithography before studying in Leipzig from 1946 to 1951. He taught at the Hochschule für Grafik…
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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