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Leo Grewenig Documented profileGermany
The German painter Leo Grewenig was born in Heusweiler in 1898 and died in Bensheim in 1991. “Auf der Staffelei”, a work from 1984, is described as mixed media on paper: the sheet, m…
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Carl Ludwig Kaaz Documented profileGermany
Described as a German painter who lived from 1773 to 1810, Carl Ludwig Kaaz also appears in sources under the names Carl Ludwig Katz and Karl Ludwig Kaaz. An auction catalogue lists…
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Paul Uwe Dreyer Documented profileGermany
The German painter Paul Uwe Dreyer (1939–2008) is documented here by Zonenbild 4, a work that the sale notice states is signed, dated and titled on the reverse. The provenance given…
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Adolf Luther Documented profileGermany
Two documented works by Adolf Luther bring together distinct materials and formats: a “Materiebild” on fibreboard and a “Linsenobjekt” composed of glass lenses. The untitled work, da…
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Sophus Hansen Documented profileGermany
The German painter and lithographer Ernst Friedrich Sophus Hansen was born in Glücksburg in 1871 and died there in 1959; his career developed between Weimar, Hamburg and, once again,…
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Walter Gramatté Documented profileGermany
Walter Gramatté, a German painter and printmaker born in Berlin in 1897 and died in Hamburg in 1929, fought in the First World War. His artistic career unfolded over a short life, wi…
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Johann Jakob Serr Documented profileGermany
A portrait painter, but also a poet and musician, Johann Jakob Serr (1807–1880) is presented as a German artist born in Rhodt, in the Palatinate, and who died in Heidelberg. In Herbs…
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Albert Ebert Documented profileGermany · Germany
The German painter Albert Ebert, born in 1906 and died in 1976, is represented here by Karneval, an oil painting on wood dated 1959. The small-format panel measures 9.2 × 6.9 cm and…
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Hans Thiemann Documented profileGermany
The German painter Hans Thiemann, born in 1910 and died in 1977, becomes a professor at the Hamburg School of Fine Arts. An auction catalogue documents an untitled work from 1933, oi…
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Jutta Koether Documented profileGermany
Jutta Koether, a German painter, musician, theorist and critic born in Cologne in 1958, lives and works between Berlin and New York. In the early 1980s, she became involved in Cologn…
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Max Klinger Documented profileGermany
Max Klinger, an engraver, draughtsman and sculptor, first trained in Karlsruhe in 1874–1875, then at the Berlin Academy of Arts, where he studied under Karl von Gussow. After complet…
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Heinrich Neppel Documented profileGermany
Heinrich Neppel, a German painter born in Munich in 1874 and who died in that city in 1936, is associated with landscape painting. According to Invaluable’s biographical entry, he st…
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David Ostrowski Documented profileGermany
German painter David Ostrowski, born in Cologne in 1981, develops a body of work centred on pictorial experimentation. His painting tests gesture, accident and imperfection across va…
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Klaus Staudt Documented profileGermany
At the beginning of his career, Klaus Staudt made serial reliefs in white wood, before developing spatial and shadow reliefs, followed by two-layer reliefs. Born in 1932 in Otterndor…
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Attila Kovács Documented profileGermany · Hungary
Koordination p3-13-1975 is an acrylic painting on canvas mounted on wood, measuring 100 × 100 cm; the entry describes it as signed and dated, and as bearing the name Kovács on the re…
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Hansjörg Wagner Documented profileGermany
Hansjörg Wagner, a German sculptor, painter and draughtsman born in Berlin in 1930 and who died in Munich in 2013, developed a body of work that brings together sculpture, painting a…
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Franz Maria Jansen Documented profileGermany
Franz M. Jansen, a German painter and graphic artist, was born in Cologne on 4 February 1885. He is associated with Rhenish Expressionism, an artistic movement of the 1910s. Sources…
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Joachim Bandau Documented profileGermany
Joachim Bandau, a German painter and sculptor born in Cologne in 1936, develops a practice that combines sculpture and painting. After studying at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts…
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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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Johann Friedrich August Tischbein Documented profileGermany
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, known as “Leipziger-Tischbein”, was a German painter born in Maastricht in 1750 and died in Heidelberg in 1812. A member of the Tischbein dynasty,…
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Jochen Seidel Documented profileGermany
The German painter Jochen Seidel, also known as Hans Joachim Seidel, lived from 1924 to 1971. Two works on paper, Come Back to Ireland Where the Green Is Like the Green in Your Paint…
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Conrad Felixmüller Documented profileGermany
Conrad Felixmüller is a painter whose works often address the social realities of the Weimar Republic. Born in Dresden on 21 May 1897, he died in Berlin-Zehlendorf on 24 March 1977.…
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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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Gustav Wiethüchter Documented profileGermany
The German painter and graphic artist Gustav Wiethüchter (1874–1946) is documented in both practices, at the intersection of painting and graphic art. The works listed by MAGEDA reve…
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Werner Berges Documented profileGermany
German painter Werner Berges, born in Cloppenburg in 1941, is presented by Galerie Foxx as one of the representatives of German Pop Art. According to the gallery, the figure of the “…
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T. Lux Feininger Documented profileGermany · United States
A painter and photographer, T. Lux Feininger pursued an artistic practice shaped by his training at the Bauhaus and by interests that also extended to music and theatre. Born in Berl…
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Bruno Goller Documented profileGermany
The German painter Bruno Goller, born in 1901 and deceased in 1998, is also documented as a teacher at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. Konrad Klapheck attended his drawing class…
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Georges Roudneff Documented profileGermany · France
Born in 1933 in Faymoreau, in the Vendée, Georges Roudneff spends his childhood in Nice, in a family in which his mother was Ukrainian and his father came from an old Russian family,…
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Rebecca Horn Documented profileGermany
Rebecca Horn’s work engages the body and movement through devices that transform gesture and explore its automation. In Pencil Mask (1972), a mask made of leather straps and fitted w…
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Blinky Palermo Documented profileGermany
The German artist Blinky Palermo was the artistic name of Peter Schwarze, who became Peter Heisterkamp after his adoption. Born in Leipzig on 2 June 1943, he died in Malé on 18 Febru…
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Otto Ritschl Documented profileGermany
Komposition 1974/12 is an oil on canvas measuring 130 × 97 cm. The catalogue describes a violet signature and the date “Ritschl 74” at the lower left; on the reverse, the work is sig…
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Ina Barfuss Documented profileGermany
Born in 1949, Ina Barfuss is presented as a German textile artist. Her name also appears in the spelling Ina Barfuß. The reverse of Tanzsaal bears the inscription “Barfuss, 81, Tanzs…
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Carlo Mense Documented profileGermany
The German painter Carlo Mense, born in Rheine in 1886 and died in Königswinter in 1965, is also described as a draughtsman and printmaker. After studying at the Düsseldorf Academy o…
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Gabriele Münter Documented profileGermany
The German painter Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) developed, in particular, a language of synthetic forms in the landscapes of Murnau and its surroundings: areas of vivid colour take pr…
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Justus Juncker Documented profileGermany
The German painter Justus Juncker, born in 1703 and died in 1767, is associated with a practice shaped by the study of seventeenth-century Dutch painters. A sale notice presents Der…
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Eberhard Viegener Documented profileGermany
The German painter Eberhard Viegener, born in Soest in 1890 and deceased in Bilme in 1967, initially pursued training rooted in the family trade. From 1904 to 1906, he learned painti…
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Volker Tannert Documented profileGermany
Volker Tannert, a German painter, sculptor and draughtsman, was born on 19 March 1955 in Recklinghausen. A biographical note mentions New York and Paris for the years 1979–1980, as w…
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Max Clarenbach Documented profileGermany
Max Clarenbach’s painting initially focuses on the landscapes of the Lower Rhine, which he observes and works through drawing, painting, etching and lithography. Winter motifs occupy…
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Eduard von Grützner Documented profileGermany
Eduard von Grützner is associated with Munich genre painting of the second half of the nineteenth century, alongside Carl Spitzweg and Franz von Defregger. At the Academy of Fine Art…
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Wilhelm Imkamp Documented profileGermany
Abstract painting is at the heart of Wilhelm Imkamp’s work: shaped by his impressions of nature and by music, it seeks, according to the biographical source, to offer the eye an expe…
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Christopher Lehmpfuhl Documented profileGermany
The sales notice states that it is monogrammed and dated at the lower right, and bears the monogram and the number “CL/M 7276” on the reverse. Its published provenance mentions NZZ E…
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Wilhelm Amandus Beer Documented profileGermany
Wilhelm Amandus Beer (1837–1907), a German painter, is associated with the depiction of scenes from Russian folk life. His preference for these subjects is said to have earned him th…
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Henry Dieckmann Documented profileGermany
The German painter Henry Dieckmann is described as working primarily on landscapes of northern Germany and Parisian street scenes in a naive style. A work titled Brasserie, acrylic o…
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Hans Maurus Documented profileGermany
The German painter Hans Maurus, born in Munich in 1901 and deceased in 1942 in Marijanowska, on the Eastern Front, is also referred to by the first name Hanns. One notice describes h…
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Johann Conrad Seekatz Documented profileGermany
Johann Conrad Seekatz was a history painter, genre painter and portraitist. Genre scenes came to occupy an increasingly prominent place in his work, alongside biblical and mythologic…
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Johannes Grützke Documented profileGermany
Johannes Grützke’s figurative painting borrows from cinema its low-angle and close-up framing, while his figures, often exaggerated with irony, play with the effects of representatio…
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Otmar Alt Documented profileGermany
Born in Wernigerode in 1940, Otmar Alt is a German artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and design, among other fields. After an apprenticeship as…
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Julius Paul Junghanns Documented profileGermany
Julius Paul Junghanns is represented by Bauer mit Pflug, an oil on canvas measuring 28.5 × 45 cm, signed lower left “Jul. P. Junghanns”. The published provenance of the work lists a…
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Manfred Mohr Documented profileGermany
Born in 1938 in Pforzheim, Germany, Manfred Mohr is an artist whose career is closely connected to computer art. His first solo exhibition takes place in 1968 at Galerie Daniel Templ…
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Paul Paede Documented profileGermany
The German painter Paul Paede was born in Berlin in 1868 and died in Munich in 1929. Works documented in auction notices include female nudes, reclining or standing. Liegender weibli…
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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