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Adolf Baumgartner-Stoiloff Documented profileAustria
Described as a Bulgarian-Austrian painter, Adolf Baumgartner-Stoiloff is also associated with the names Constantin Stoiloff and Stoiloff-Baumgartner, used in particular for his Russi…
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Adolf Helmberger Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter Adolf Helmberger (1885–1967), born and deceased in St. Gilgen, is particularly associated with the landscapes of the Salzkammergut, which he painted mainly after…
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Alexander Rothaug Documented profileAustria
A drawing catalogued under the name of Alexander Rothaug, “Sitzender weiblicher Akt”, depicts a seated female nude executed in heightened chalk. Signed lower right and measuring 28.7…
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Alexander Scherban Documented profileAustria
Austrian painter Alexander Scherban, born in Vienna in 1886 and died in Nuremberg in 1964, worked in landscape, still life and cityscape, while also addressing industrial subjects. B…
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Alfons Walde Documented profileAustria
Alfons Walde (Oberndorf, near Kitzbühel, 1891 – Kitzbühel, 1958) is associated with the mountain landscapes of Tyrol, particularly winter scenes and their inhabitants. According to t…
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Alfred Hrdlicka Documented profileAustria
Born and died in Vienna, Alfred Hrdlicka (1928–2009) was an Austrian sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker and painter. The diversity of his artistic practices accompanies a body of work…
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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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Alois Binder Documented profileAustria · Germany
Popular genre scenes occupy a central place in Alois Binder’s painting, alongside Bavarian landscapes, scenes in traditional dress, portraits and still lifes. Born in 1857 in Hausman…
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Arik Brauer Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter, architect, poet, dancer and singer Arik Brauer (1929–2021) develops a multifaceted artistic practice. Born in Vienna, he embarks on long bicycle journeys across…
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Arnulf Rainer Documented profileAustria
The Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer (1929–2025), born in Baden, made overpainting a central method in his work: from 1952, he superimposed brushstrokes on existing works or photographs…
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August Stimpfl Documented profileAustria
Austrian painter August Stimpfl, born and deceased in Imst, pursued a practice ranging from painting to works integrated into architecture. He attended the School of Applied Arts in…
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Camilla Friedländer Documented profileAustria
An Austrian painter born and died in Vienna (1856–1928), Camilla Friedländer devoted most of her work to small-format still lifes and miniatures painted in oil on wood. In these, she…
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Carl Krenek Documented profileAustria
Painter and printmaker Carl Krenek, also listed as Karl Krenek, is given as 1880–1948. A watercolour over an ink pen drawing, Altes Paar im winterlichen Dorf, signed lower left and m…
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Christian Ludwig Attersee Documented profileAustria
Christian Ludwig Attersee pursues an activity that extends beyond the visual arts: a musician, writer, object maker, designer, scenographer and filmmaker, he also owes his pseudonym…
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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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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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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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Ernst Fuchs Documented profileAustria
Ernst Fuchs, an Austrian artist born and deceased in Vienna (1930–2015), was one of the founders of what would become known as the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. At the Academy…
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Erwin Lang Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter Erwin Lang (1886–1962) is represented here by a charcoal drawing entitled “Rückenakt”. The framed work, measuring 330 × 200 mm, bears his signature at the bottom…
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Felix Heuberger Documented profileAustria
Born in Vienna in 1888, Felix Heuberger initially trained as an engineer and obtained a degree in civil engineering from the Technische Hochschule in 1914. A painter and printmaker a…
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Franz Beer Documented profileAustria
Franz Beer, an Austrian abstract painter born in Vienna in 1929, studied architecture, painting, restoration and printmaking at the city’s Academy of Fine Arts from 1944 to 1950, bef…
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Franz Grabmayr Documented profileAustria
In the work of Franz Grabmayr, an Austrian painter born in 1927 in Pfaffenberg, near Obervellach, landscape emerges from prolonged observation of the subject and takes shape through…
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Franz Kamlander Documented profileAustria
The recurring presence of animals, and especially cows, distinguishes the work of Franz Kamlander, produced at the Haus der Künstler in Gugging over nearly twenty years. He often dre…
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Franz Kernbeis Documented profileAustria
Franz Kernbeis (1935–2019), an Austrian artist, was the youngest in a family of seven children. After eight years of primary school, he worked in his parents’ agricultural concern. H…
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Franz Probst Documented profileAustria
Franz Probst, an Austrian painter born in Litzlberg in 1903 and deceased in Vienna in 1980, is documented by a work entitled “Schiffe”. This pastel on paper, signed at the lower righ…
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Franz von Zülow Documented profileAustria
The works by Franz von Zülow listed by the Art Institute of Chicago cover a range of uses, from clothing to paper and furnishings, between 1910/12 and 1927. “Narcissus”, dated 1910/1…
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Franz Xaver Pieler Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter Franz Xaver Pieler, born in Vienna in 1876 and deceased in Klosterneuburg in 1952, is described as a flower painter. His work Blumen in einer Vase, listed under…
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser Documented profileAustria · New Zealand
The Austrian painter and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser developed, from the mid-1950s onwards, an artistic practice that he called “transautomatism”, a theory he presented as…
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Gottfried Helnwein Documented profileAustria
Born in Vienna in 1948, Gottfried Helnwein develops a practice combining drawing, painting and photography, at times linked to performance. Pain, injury and violence are recurring th…
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Gottfried Salzmann Documented profileAustria
At the intersection of several media, Gottfried Salzmann combines drawing, printmaking and photography with watercolour; he also sometimes paints on his photographs, and his practice…
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Günter Brus Documented profileAustria
The Austrian artist Günter Brus, born in 1938 and deceased in 2024, was one of the founding members of Viennese Actionism. In the early 1960s, his work was associated with the emerge…
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Gunter Damisch Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter Gunter Damisch, born in Steyr in 1958 and deceased in Vienna in 2016, developed a practice encompassing painting, drawing and the graphic arts, which turned incr…
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Hanns Kobinger Documented profileAustria
Hanns Kobinger’s career begins with a dual activity: while employed by the Oberösterreichische Landesbank in Linz, he also attends classes at Matthias May’s art school. From 1919, he…
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Hans Krenn Documented profileAustria
Hans Krenn’s career combines training as an architect with a documented practice of painting, printmaking, mixed media and small-scale sculpture. His work is situated within the arti…
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Hans Staudacher Documented profileAustria
Titled Ohne Titel, this oil on canvas mounted on wood measures 198 × 198 cm. The catalogue entry describes it as signed and dated, with a partially illegible inscription transcribed…
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Hans von Hayek Documented profileAustria
His training takes him briefly to the School of Applied Arts in Vienna, then to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studies under Gabriel von Hackl, Wilhelm von Lindenschmit…
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Hans Wulz Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter Hans Wulz, born in Landeck, Tyrol, in 1909 and deceased in Vienna in 1985, developed a practice that combined painting, drawing and sculpture. From 1924 to 1928,…
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Hans Zatzka Documented profileAustria
Hans Zatzka, an Austrian painter who lived from 1859 to 1945, is associated with academically grounded and religious painting, whose repertoire includes sacred figures as well as all…
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Herbert Bayer Documented profileAustria · United States
Herbert Bayer was born in Austria in 1900 and died in the United States in 1985; his practice encompassed typography, photography, design, painting, architecture and sculpture. This…
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Hermann Nitsch Documented profileAustria
The Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch, born in Vienna in 1938 and deceased in 2022, made the Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries a central concern of his work from 1957 onwards. He conceive…
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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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Joannis Avramidis Documented profileAustria · Greece
Joannis Avramidis (1922–2016), a Greek-Austrian artist, develops a sculptural practice that takes the forms of the human body as its starting point and simplifies them towards abstra…
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Johann Hauser Documented profileAustria · Czechia
A figure of art brut, Johann Hauser was born in 1926 in Pressburg, now Bratislava, and died in 1996 in Klosterneuburg, near Vienna. Admitted in 1949 to the Maria Gugging psychiatric…
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Johann Korec Documented profileAustria
Austrian Art Brut artist Johann Korec (1937–2008), born in Vienna and died in Klosterneuburg, works from printed images that he reuses and transforms. Executed in Indian ink and wate…
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Johann Nepomuk Geller Documented profileAustria
Austrian painter Johann Nepomuk Geller, born in 1860 and deceased in 1954, practised landscape painting and veduta in particular. His subjects include views of the Wachau and Vienna:…
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John Quincy Adams Documented profileAustria
Documented works by John Quincy Adams include, in particular, two pendant portraits of Mor and Gabriele Fekete-Schindler-Barney, executed in oil on canvas and each signed by the arti…
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Josef Danilowatz Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter and draughtsman Josef Danilowatz (1877–1945), born and died in Vienna, developed a practice combining press drawing, caricature and technical illustration. His t…
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Josef Wopfner Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter Josef Wopfner (1843–1927) is presented here through a work bearing his name. Entitled “Heuboot am Chiemsee”, it is the only work title documented in the availabl…
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Lois Weinberger Documented profileAustria
Born in Stams, Tyrol, in 1947 and died in Vienna in 2020, Lois Weinberger was an Austrian artist whose practice took ruderal plants, often referred to as “weeds”, as its starting poi…
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Ludwig Koch Documented profileAustria
Ludwig Koch, an Austrian painter, sculptor and illustrator born and deceased in Vienna, devoted a significant part of his work to horses and military history, while also depicting Vi…
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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