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A. R. Penck Documented profileGermany · Germany
The Art Institute of Chicago lists an untitled 1981 woodcut from the eight-piece portfolio Eight Experiences, as well as a Portrait of Writer Sascha Anderson, dated circa 1980. An au…
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Aboudia Documented profileCôte d’Ivoire
Aboudia’s painting draws on graffiti made by young residents in the working-class neighbourhoods of Abidjan, particularly Abobo, Yopougon and Treichville. It focuses on everyday life…
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Abraham Rademaker Documented profileCountry to be documented
Dutch painter, draughtsman, engraver and print dealer Abraham Rademaker develops a body of work in which topographical drawings and painted landscapes sit side by side. He produces l…
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Abraham Willaerts Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born around 1603 in Utrecht, where he died on 18 October 1669, Abraham Willaerts was a painter of the Northern Netherlands, known especially as a marine painter and for his depiction…
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Adam Pynacker Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Lempertz catalogue lists, under the name Adam Pynacker, Hirten in südlicher Landschaft mit Ruinen, an oil painting on panel measuring 36 × 45.8 cm, whose published provenance is…
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Adam van Noort Documented profileCountry to be documented
The painter and draughtsman Adam van Noort, based in Antwerp, was born there in 1562 and died there in 1641. He learned to paint from his father, Lambert van Noort, until his father’…
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Adelsteen Normann Documented profileNorway
Adelsteen Normann paints Norwegian fjords, including the Sognefjord, the Nærøyfjord and the Romsdalfjord. His practice combines working in direct contact with the landscape, from a b…
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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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Adolf Seel Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Prussian painter Adolf Seel, born in Wiesbaden in 1829 and deceased in Dillenburg in 1907, developed a body of work shaped by his travels and his interest in architecture. He con…
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Adolf Senff Documented profileCountry to be documented
German painter who lived from 1785 to 1863, Adolph Senff appears under several forms of his name, including Carl Adolf, Karl Adolph and Adolf Karl Senff. Images listed under his name…
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Adolfo Carducci Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Adolfo Carducci, born in 1901 and died in 1984, is documented here through works whose titles evoke street scenes, places for walks and landscapes. Paris appears…
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Adolphe Hervier Documented profileFrance
The work of Adolphe Hervier brings together painted landscapes and printmaking: his depictions of the countryside and ports in oil or watercolour are complemented by his practice of…
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Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli Documented profileFrance
In some of his personal works, colour takes up a space that extends beyond the subject: Françoise Lempert notes warm tones, heavily impasted paint and effects of radiant light, as if…
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Adolphe Pierre Leleux Documented profileFrance
Adolphe Pierre Leleux, also known as Adolphe-Pierre Leleux, was a French painter born in Paris in 1812 and died in the same city in 1891. He was the brother of the painter Armand Lel…
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Adriaan Keus Documented profileCountry to be documented
Adriaan Keus’s career combines botanical studies in London with attendance at the academy in The Hague from 1896 to 1899. He gradually devoted himself to painting. He settled in Putt…
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Adriaen Brouwer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Adriaen Brouwer, a painter and draughtsman from the Southern Netherlands, is thought to have been born in Oudenaarde around 1605 or 1606; he died in 1638 and was buried in Antwerp on…
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Adrianus Eversen Documented profileNetherlands
The Dutch painter Adrianus Eversen, born in Amsterdam in 1818 and died in Delft in 1897, specialised in street scenes. His work combines a realistic treatment with street scenes and…
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Adrien Moreau Documented profileFrance
The French painter Adrien Moreau, born in Troyes in 1843 and deceased in Paris in 1906, made history painting and evocations of the past the core of his practice. His subjects span a…
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Adrien Seguin Documented profileFrance
Adrien Seguin, a French painter born in Pau in 1926 and deceased in Montpellier in 2005, spent his childhood in Senegal and remained in Africa until the age of eighteen. His father,…
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Aelbert Cuyp Documented profileNetherlands
Born and died in Dordrecht, Albert Cuyp developed a practice there encompassing landscape, marine painting, animal painting, still life and portraiture, with landscape occupying a pa…
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Aert van der Neer Documented profileCountry to be documented
The seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painter Aernout van der Neer—also known as Aert or Artus—is associated with winter landscapes and nocturnal scenes. From the mid-1640s, he dev…
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Afro Basaldella Documented profileItaly
Afro Basaldella (1912–1976) develops his pictorial language from expressionist and post-Cubist explorations towards abstraction, to which he turns after the Second World War. His car…
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Agostino Bonalumi Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter, draughtsman and sculptor Agostino Bonalumi develops the idea of «pittura – oggetto», or «object-painting»: a form of painting conceived to go beyond the frame of…
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Ahmed Louardiri Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Salé in 1928, Ahmed Louardiri began painting at the age of 31, after working as a gardener. His career as a self-taught painter thus took shape after he had spent a long time…
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Al Held Documented profileUnited States
Al Held (1928–2005), whose full name is Alvin Jacob Held, is presented as an American artist. The Art Institute of Chicago’s directory associates Flemish II (1972), Untitled (1958/59…
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Alain Bonnefoit Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris on 18 May 1937, Alain Bonnefoit has an artistic practice encompassing painting, sculpture, lithography and drawing. A painter of nudes, he works notably in oil and sumi…
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Alain Jacquet Documented profileFrance
French artist Alain Jacquet (1939–2008) develops a body of work in which fragmentation into dots and circular framing feature in several documented works. Before devoting himself to…
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Alan Davie Documented profileUnited Kingdom
British painter, lithographer and jazz musician Alan Davie (James Alan Davie, 1920–2014) attended the Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1930s and began exhibiting with the Society…
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Albert André Documented profileFrance
Albert André’s path leads from training as an industrial draughtsman to a practice of painting in which colour helps construct volume. Before leaving for Paris, he trained as an indu…
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Albert Bligny Documented profileFrance
Albert Bligny specialises in military subjects, which form the focus of his artistic practice. He attends secondary school at the Collège de Château-Thierry and exhibits at the Salon…
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Albert Emil Kirchner Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Saxon painter Albert Emil Kirchner was born in Leipzig on 12 May 1813 and died in Munich on 4 June 1885. From 1828, he studied drawing and anatomy under Friedrich Brauer at the L…
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Albert Gleizes Documented profileFrance
Self-taught, Albert Gleizes began painting around 1901 in the Impressionist tradition. At the 1911 Salon des Indépendants, he took part in the collective presentation of the Cubists…
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Albert Goodwin Documented profileUnited Kingdom
The British artist Albert Goodwin (1845–1932) is notably documented by a watercolour entitled «Fribourg». Executed in watercolour and opaque colours, signed at the lower right and ti…
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Albert Hennig Documented profileGermany
The German photographer, painter and graphic artist Albert Hennig (1907–1998) developed a practice that moved from photography to painting after his training at the Bauhaus. Born in…
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Albert Lebourg Documented profileFrance
Winter landscapes and sites by the water are among Albert Lebourg’s preferred subjects. Neige à Pont-du-Château, painted in oil on canvas in 1885, is held at the Musée d’art Roger-Qu…
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Albert Marquet Documented profileFrance
Albert Marquet, also known as Pierre Albert Marquet, was born in 1875 and died in 1947. The works listed under his name by the Art Institute of Chicago feature subjects related to th…
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Alberto Salietti Documented profileItaly
The Italian artist Alberto Salietti, born in Ravenna in 1892 and died in Genoa in 1961, devoted himself to landscape painting after the First World War. Having moved to Milan with hi…
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Alcide Théophile Robaudi Documented profileFrance
The French painter Alcide Théophile Robaudi (1850–1928) is represented, among other things, in an auction entry by a watercolour on paper. Entitled «Mädchen mit Katze und Hund», the…
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Aldo Rossi Documented profileItaly
The Italian architect Aldo Rossi, born in 1931 and deceased in 1997, developed a practice encompassing architectural design, writing, teaching and product design. He studied at the P…
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Alessandro Lupo Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Alessandro Lupo was born and died in Turin. His work belongs to the tradition of late nineteenth-century Piedmontese naturalism. His landscapes are described as i…
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Alex Katz Documented profileUnited States
In Alex Katz’s work, painting from nature, which he practised from his formative years, coexists with an activity that extends from printmaking to interventions in public space. He s…
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Alexander Adriaenssen Documented profileCountry to be documented
A Flemish still-life painter, Alexandre Adriaenssen is also listed as a decorative painter and watercolourist. Baptised in Antwerp on 17 January 1587, he was buried there on 30 Octob…
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Alexander Altmann Documented profileFrance
Alexandre Altmann, a Russian-French painter born in 1878 and deceased in 1932, was born in Sobolevka, Ukraine, according to a biographical source. After studying at the School of Fin…
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Alexander Archipenko Documented profileUnited States
The work of Alexandre Archipenko explores the possibilities of sculpture by combining materials, reliefs and hollow volumes. In 1912, he creates Medrano I, a painted assemblage incor…
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Alexander Brantingham Simpson Documented profileCountry to be documented
Sale notices place Alexander Brantingham Simpson as a British artist active from 1904 to 1931. The listed works attest to a practice that included watercolour, oil on panel and, in a…
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Alexander Calder Documented profileUnited States
The documented singularity of Alexander “Sandy” Calder lies in particular in a practice in which wire, used as a means of “drawing”, extends into articulated abstract sculptures. An…
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Alexander Koester Documented profileGermany
Alexander Koester devotes a significant part of his work to landscapes and water birds: geese, swans and ducks appear alone or in groups. The subjects thus range from an individual a…
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Alexander Mollinger Documented profileNetherlands
The Dutch painter Alexander Mollinger, also known as Gerrit Alexander Godart Philip Mollinger, is listed as having been born in Utrecht in 1836 and having died in 1867. Documented wo…
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Alexander Rau Documented profileGermany
“Holländische Hafenszene”, dated around 1920, is an oil on canvas, signed lower right, measuring 40 × 31 cm. Another painting, described as a Dutch market in a harbour, is also a sig…
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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