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Wosene Worke Kosrof Documented profileEthiopia
Wosene Worke Kosrof, born in Addis Ababa in 1950, trained at his city’s fine arts school and earned an MFA at Howard University in 1980. His work centres on characters from Amharic s…
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Wout Vercammen Documented profileBelgium
Wout Vercammen (1938–2018) is identified as an artist in the available documents. The Maurice Verbaet Center includes him in its selection of artists. A work attributed to Vercammen,…
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Wouterus Verschuur Documented profileNetherlands
Wouterus Verschuur was born in Amsterdam in 1812 and died in Vorden in 1874. An animal and landscape painter, draughtsman and lithographer, he trained with Pieter Gerardus van Os and…
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Wright Barker Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Wright Barker was a British painter whose work includes animals, rural scenes and mythological subjects. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1891 and 1938 and lived for a time…
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Xenia Hausner Documented profileAustria
Xenia Hausner, born in Vienna in 1951, studied stage design in Vienna and London. She created sets for theatre and opera, including at the Royal Opera House and the Salzburg Festival…
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Yaacov Agam Documented profileFrance · Israel
In Yaacov Agam’s work, the work of art is not presented as a still image: it introduces time into form and changes with the viewer’s movement or intervention. Fragmented, abstract an…
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Yakov Feldman Documented profileCountry to be documented
Yakov Feldman was born in Vitebsk in 1969 and trained in that Belarusian city. He completed art school in 1987, then studied textile design between 1988 and 1990. He subsequently mov…
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Yan Nascimbene Documented profileFrance
Yan Nascimbene (1949–2013), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, spent his childhood between France and Italy. After working as a photographer’s assistant, he studied photography, drawing and…
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Yang Jiechang Documented profileChina
Yang Jiechang trained in Foshan and then at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1982 and teaching there until 1988. His work appeared in Magiciens de la Terre in Paris…
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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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Yannis Spyropoulos Documented profileGreece
The Greek painter Yánnis Spyrópoulos, born in 1912 and deceased in 1990, developed his painting from naturalism towards abstraction, before shifting his interest to the image itself…
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Yehudit Sasportas Documented profileIsrael
Yehudit Sasportas, born in Ashdod in 1969, is an Israeli artist whose work combines drawing, sculpture, video and sound. She develops installations responding to the architecture of…
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Yi Eungro Documented profileFrance · South Korea
Lee Ungno’s practice develops at the intersection of ink painting and calligraphy, which informs his creative process through both signs and formal elements. In 1920, he learns the f…
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Yohanan Simon Documented profileIsrael
Yohanan Simon, born in Berlin in 1905, trained in Germany and Paris before joining Kibbutz Gan Shmuel in 1936. He became an important figure in its artistic life, organising meetings…
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Yoshitomo Nara Documented profileJapan
Born in Hirosaki in 1959, Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist whose childlike figures move between defiance, unease and melancholy. Their apparent simplicity opens a space for inner…
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Yosl Bergner Documented profileIsrael
Born in Vienna and raised in Warsaw, Yosl Bergner moved to Australia in 1937 and studied in Melbourne. His urban scenes combine European memories with observation of the Australian c…
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Yue Minjun Documented profileChina
Yue Minjun, born in Daqing, China, in 1962, began studying oil painting at Hebei Normal University in 1985. Based in Beijing, he developed a recurring self-image in the early 1990s:…
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Yun Hyong-keun Documented profileSouth Korea
Yun Hyong-keun (1928–2007) was a Korean painter associated with Dansaekhwa. His life was marked by war and repeated political imprisonment. From the 1970s, he developed paintings bas…
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Yuri Kuper Documented profileUnited Kingdom · Russia
Born in Moscow in 1940, Yuri Kuper develops a body of work in which time and the traces it leaves on things occupy a central place. He studies at the Moscow Academy of Art from 1957…
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Yves Alix Documented profileFrance
French painter, printmaker and writer Yves Alix (1890–1969) joined the Académie Ranson in 1909 and began teaching drawing there in 1918. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants fr…
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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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Yves Corbassière Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris in 1925, Yves Corbassière worked across painting, engraving, lithography, poster design, decoration and sculpture. He came from an industrial family based in Montmartre…
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Yves Ganne Documented profileFrance
Born in Angers in 1931, Yves Ganne entered the École des beaux-arts in Nantes in 1946. His path continued in Paris, where he settled in 1950 and joined Fernand Léger’s studio. He sub…
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Yves Laloy Documented profileFrance
At the end of the 1950s, André Breton helped bring public attention to his work. His painting brings together two modes: geometric compositions and figurative paintings that draw on…
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Yvonne Canu Documented profileFrance
The French painter Yvonne Canu (1921–2008), born in Meknès, Morocco, developed a Neo-Impressionist practice characterised by a divided brushstroke and the arrangement of juxtaposed c…
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Zacharie Noterman Documented profileBelgium
Zacharie Noterman (1820–1890), a Belgian painter born in Ghent, continued his training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp before moving to Paris. He participated several ti…
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Zao Wou-Ki Documented profileFrance · Taiwan
The Chinese painter and printmaker Zao Wou-Ki, who became a French citizen in 1964, received a training shaped by several traditions. In 1935, he entered the École des beaux-arts de…
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Zbigniew Makowski Documented profilePoland
The Polish artist Zbigniew Makowski (1930–2019) is associated with a Surrealist practice in which signs, numbers and letters create symbolic effects, against a backdrop of fascinatio…
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Zbigniew Rogalski Documented profilePoland
Born in Dąbrowa Białostocka in 1974, Zbigniew Rogalski graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań in 1999, studying in Jerzy Kałucki’s studio. His practice combines painting,…
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Zdeněk Sýkora Documented profileCzechia
Zdeněk Sýkora made painting a field of experimentation between perception, calculation and chance. Based in Louny, he undertook postwar studies in Prague combining art, descriptive g…
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Zlatko Prica Documented profileCroatia · Hungary
Zlatko Prica (1916–2003), a Croatian painter and printmaker born in Pécs, graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts in 1940. His journey to India in 1952 preceded the Samobor cy…
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Zoma Baitler Documented profileCountry to be documented
Zoma Baitler (1908–1994), a Uruguayan artist born in Lithuania, first trained with Paul Kaufman before settling in Montevideo in 1927. There he pursued his work in contact with Joaqu…
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Zoran Mušič Documented profileItaly · Slovenia
Zoran Mušič — also referred to in sources as Zoran Music or Anton Zoran Mušič — developed a body of work in which painting and works on paper sit alongside printmaking, while several…
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Zwy Milshtein Documented profileFrance · Israel · Romania
Born in Chișinău in 1934 and deceased in 2020, Zwy Milshtein is described as an Israeli painter, printmaker and writer. His artistic training began at the Palace of Pioneers in Tbili…
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Zygmunt Waliszewski Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Polish painter Zygmunt Waliszewski was born in Saint Petersburg in 1897 and died in Krakow in 1936. A Don Quixote catalogued under his name is described as watercolour and gouach…
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Альберт Вайсгербер Documented profileCountry to be documented
Albert Weisgerber (1878–1915), born in St. Ingbert, first trained in decorative painting in Kaiserslautern before continuing his studies in Munich. At the Academy of Fine Arts he stu…
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Антон Колиг Documented profileAustria
Austrian painter Anton Kolig, born in 1886 in Nový Jičín and deceased in 1950 in Nötsch im Gailtal, is associated through his work with Expressionism and the Prague Secession. His tr…
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Вилли Якель Documented profileCountry to be documented
Willy Jaeckel (1888–1944), born in Breslau, now Wrocław, was a German painter and printmaker associated with Expressionism. He trained in Breslau and Dresden before moving to Berlin…
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Гельмут Маке Documented profileGermany
Helmuth Macke (1891–1936), born in Krefeld, began studying with Johan Thorn Prikker in 1906. A cousin of August Macke, he nevertheless developed an independent position within Rhenis…
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Генрих Цилле Documented profileGermany
Heinrich Zille (1858–1929), born in Radeburg and deceased in Berlin, was a German draughtsman, lithographer and photographer. His family moved to Berlin in 1867. He trained in lithog…
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Георг Базэліц Documented profileAustria · Germany
Born in 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Georg Baselitz is also known as Hans-Georg Kern. In 1956, he moved to East Berlin and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, from which he was expelle…
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Жорж Карс Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Czech painter Georges Kars, born in 1882 and died in 1945, is also known as George Kars and George Karpelès. The Art Institute of Chicago lists Woman with a Jug, a work dated 1930.
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Иоганн Генрих Рамберг Documented profileCountry to be documented
Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1763–1840), born and deceased in Hanover, was a German painter, draughtsman and illustrator. Following initial lessons with his father, he lived in London fr…
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Луи Легран Documented profileFrance
Louis Legrand (1863–1951), born in Dijon, attended evening classes at the local art school while working in a bank. He moved to Paris in 1884, learned printmaking from Félicien Rops…
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Пьер Видаль Documented profileFrance
Pierre Vidal, whose full name was Marie Louis Pierre Vidal, was born in Tours in 1849. A painter, draughtsman, etcher and illustrator, he was closely connected with Parisian publishi…
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Францишек Старовейский Documented profilePoland
Franciszek Starowieyski (1930–2009), born in Bratkówka, studied painting at the academies in Kraków and Warsaw, graduating in 1955. A painter, draughtsman, poster artist and stage de…
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تومی اونگرر Documented profileFrance · Ireland
Tomi Ungerer (1931–2019), born in Strasbourg, was an Alsatian draughtsman, illustrator and author. The annexation of Alsace and the war marked his childhood. Moving to New York in 19…
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سالومى Documented profileGermany
Salomé, born Wolfgang Cihlarz in Karlsruhe in 1954, is a German painter associated with the Neue Wilde. After moving to West Berlin, he studied at the Hochschule der Künste from 1974…
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فرانسيس بيكابيا Documented profileFrance
Francis Picabia (1879–1953), born and deceased in Paris, moved through the avant-garde without remaining committed to a single doctrine. After Impressionist landscapes, he explored C…
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జాన్ సింగర్ సార్జెంట్ Documented profileUnited States
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), an American painter born in Florence, grew up in a family that travelled through Europe. Following initial artistic training in Florence, he entered…
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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