Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

31,194 artists in the collection

Dóra Maurer

Dóra Maurer

Dóra Maurer (11 June 1937 – 14 February 2026) was a Hungarian visual artist associated with conceptual art and geometric abstraction whose career spanned more than five decades. Working across drawing, printmaking, photography, film, painting, installation, and performance, Maurer developed systems-based artworks exploring transformation, seriality, and the perception of movement and time. Maurer first gained recognition in the 1970s through experimental works associated with the Central and Eastern European neo-avant-garde. Her later practice increasingly focused on geometric painting and rule-based visual systems derived from mathematical structures. She was professor emerita at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest and also worked as a curator and organizer within Hungary’s experimental art scene. A major retrospective of her work was held at Tate Modern in London from 2019 to 2020.

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Doran, Walter

American

American, active c. 1935

Dorazio, Piero

Dorazio, Piero

Italian

Italian, born 1927

Piero Dorazio (Rome, June 29, 1927 — Perugia, May 17, 2005) was an Italian painter. His work was related to color field painting, lyrical abstraction and other forms of abstract art.

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Dörbaum, Martin

German

German, born 1971

Doré, Gustave

Doré, Gustave

French

French, 1832 - 1883

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (UK: DOR-ay, US: dor-AY; French: [ɡystav dɔʁe]; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature, especially those for the Vulgate Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy. These achieved great international success, and he became renowned for printmaking, although his role was normally as the designer only; at the height of his career some 40 block-cutters were employed to cut his drawings onto the wooden printing blocks, usually also signing the image. He created over 10,000 illustrations, the most important of which were copied using an electrotype process using cylinder presses, allowing very large print runs to be published simultaneously in many countries. Although Doré's work was popular with the general public during his life, it was met with mixed reviews from contemporary art critics. His work has been more widely celebrated in the centuries following his death. Among his admirers were writers H. P. Lovecraft and Théophile Gautier.

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Dorfman, David

American

American, c. 1898 - 1959

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Dorgeloh, Marguerite Redman

American

American, 1890 - 1944

Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh (1890–1944) was an American printmaker. She took part in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Born on December 14, 1890, in Watsonville, California, Dorgeloh studied at the California School of Fine Arts and the State Teachers College at San Jose. She went on to work for the San Francisco Fine Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Dorgeloh died by suicide on March 18, 1944, in Pasadena, California.

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Doria, Alvin J.

American

American, 1899 - 1977

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Dorian Allworthy

Dorigny, Michel

Dorigny, Michel

French

French, 1617 - 1665

Michel Dorigny (1616 – 20 February 1665) was a French painter and engraver.

Dorigny, Nicolas

Dorigny, Nicolas

French

French, 1652 or 1658 - 1746

Sir Nicolas Dorigny was a French engraver, the youngest son of Michel Dorigny, and was born in Paris in 1652 or 1658. His education prepared him for the legal field, and he followed that profession until he was thirty years of age, when, as a result of deafness, he turned to the arts. He died in 1746.

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Dori (Hahn) Altshuler