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Franz West Documented profileAustria
Franz West (Vienna, 1947–2012), an Austrian artist, developed a practice in which sculpture directly engages the body and use. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under the…
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Oskar Laske Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter and architect Oskar Laske was born in Czernowitz in 1874 and died in Vienna in 1951. A work entitled “Die Ssrjétenskaja in Odessa” combines watercolour, gouache…
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Otto Muehl Documented profileAustria
A figure of Viennese Actionism and one of its co-founders, Otto Muehl (1925–2013) developed, between 1962 and 1970, a practice that shifted painting towards gesture, material and act…
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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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Rudolf Wacker Documented profileAustria
The Austrian painter Rudolf Wacker, born in 1893 and died in 1939, brought together in his work landscapes and courtyards, self-portraits and female nudes, as well as found objects,…
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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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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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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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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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Oskar Mulley Documented profileAustria
Mountain farms and wayside chapels set against Alpine mountain ranges are among his recurring motifs. His paintings, executed with a palette knife, almost always depict landscapes wi…
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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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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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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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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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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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Maria Lassnig Documented profileAustria
The Austrian artist Maria Lassnig makes the body and its inner sensations a central subject of her painting; much of her work takes the form of self-portraits. After studying at the…
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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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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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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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Markus Prachensky Documented profileAustria
Markus Prachensky (1932–2011) is an Austrian painter. Among the documented works is *Luxor Swing*, dated 1997: executed in ink on cardboard, it measures 77 × 56.5 cm and bears the si…
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Werner Scholz Documented profileAustria · Germany
Werner Scholz’s career is marked by his beginnings in Berlin: he studied painting at the Berlin University of the Arts in 1919 and 1920, then founded a studio there in 1920. In 1937,…
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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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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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Stephan Sedlacek Documented profileAustria
Stephan Sedlacek (1868–1936) is a painter whose works combine scenes of affluent social life, elegant clothing and sumptuous interiors. The figures are depicted on a small scale, fra…
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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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Oscar Spielmann Documented profileAustria
Trained in Vienna and then in Prague under Karl Krattner, Oscar Spielmann settled in Algiers in 1930 with his wife, the painter Eugénie Tchec, after discovering Algeria. His work als…
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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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Walter Pichler Documented profileAustria
The Austrian artist Walter Pichler (1936–2012) places drawing at the foundation of his work, while also attaching major importance to space and the nature of sculpture. This interpla…
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Paul Kutscha Documented profileAustria
Initially trained at a building school, Paul Kutscha-Arend studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from the spring of 1891, under Gabriel von Hackl and, from January 1893, Joha…
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Raoul Hausmann Documented profileAustria · Germany
The Austrian photographer and sculptor Raoul Hausmann (1886–1971) is also known as «Dadasoph». A work listed by the Art Institute of Chicago, «Mécano (Mechanic)», is attributed to hi…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Robert Russ Documented profileAustria
Robert Russ’s landscape painting took shape in Vienna, in contact with academic teaching and a family already involved in the arts. Andreas Robert Russ was the son of the painter Fra…
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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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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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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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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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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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Oskar Larsen Documented profileAustria
Born in Vienna in 1882 and died there in 1972, Oskar Larsen is presented as an Austrian painter and graphic artist. A notice states that he studied at the Akademie der bildenden Küns…
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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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Nathalie Schultheiss Documented profileAustria
German painter Natalie Schultheiss is also listed as Natalie Schultheiß and Nathalie Schultheiß. The variants Natalie Schultheiss-Hampel and Natalie Hampel are also among the names a…
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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