He was part of a group that saved thousands of artworks during the Second World War from destruction and seizure by the Nazis

Klingender’s body was found in the sea after an apparent boating accident

The dissident Belarusian artist, who once dumped manure in front of Alexander Lukashenko's office, died in prison under "unclear circumstances"

The outspoken leader of three Italian governments between 1994 and 2011 was often publicly critical of contemporary art and architecture projects in Italy

Gilot, whose distinctive figurative paintings span eight decades, infamously dumped the famous Spanish artist

Grounded in the political activism of the 1960s, he wove cultural history, social biography and labour politics into monumental installation art

The chronicler of life in the Soviet Union was known for his "total installations", including a devastated room in a Communist apartment

The film-maker and moving image artist was best known for his boundary-pushing (and, according to some, blasphemous) 1963 film “Scorpio Rising”

Beloved in Chicago, the artist worked in a small corner shop that doubled as his studio

Belgian entrepreneur in fashion, food and art, co-founded the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, in Beijing, with her husband, Guy Ullens

Belafonte cited Pablo Picasso and his artist friend Charles White among the visual and performing artists whose support of social justice movements inspired his activism

Australian comedian and actor was a passionate champion of museums, libraries and the visual arts, and a collector of late 19th-century artists and authors

The New York photographer pioneered lighting and developing techniques that helped transformed how Black figures were photographed and seen

Landau, whose discerning eye and aesthetic curiosity made her a fixture in the art world from the 1980s onward, began collecting after receiving an insurance settlement for a jewellery heist at her home

Multi-disciplinary practitioner was inspired by the 1968 Paris demonstrations to organise artist and student group protests during Indira Gandhi's Emergency rule of 1975-77

The sculptor, erudite and irreverent, was known for the power and scale of her site-specific installations

Innovative architect was at heart of rebuilding independent India, a protégé of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, and winner of the Pritzker Prize and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal

An inspirational teacher, charismatic museum director, Poussin scholar and curator, he was working to the end

Artist who taught Rachel Whiteread and Tacita Dean during a decades-long career at London's Slade School of Art, won critical recognition in her mid-sixties for her massive, site-specific installations

The Wigan-born sculptor became attuned to the modern movement in Europe after making his name with construction-based reliefs and sculptures in Britain

Uruguayan-born architect had an acute understanding of the visual arts and produced prize-winning buildings

Nearly all his more than 600 irregularly-shaped canvases capture aspects of six decades of married life

Lehr was the co-founder of the Continuum women's art collective and used her art to address the challenges of global warming and rising sea levels

After rising to prominence in New York’s AbEx scene of the 1950s, Leslie devoted much of his career to honing a style of monumental figuration that was decades ahead of its time

In a six-decade career, the British artist also composed and performed music, published books and was an expert on African art

The witty Canadian polymath caused a sensation with his 1967 underground film "Wavelength" and enjoyed public dispute over his city sculptures

Social observation was key to the work of the recently rediscovered protégée of Francesco Scavullo and Henri Cartier-Bresson

The gallerist is credited with introducing European audiences to post-war US artists

Feldman, an early supporter of artists like Joseph Beuys and Chris Burden, opened his gallery in 1971 and quickly established himself as a gallerist willing to take risks

The German-born conservative pontiff, a noted theological scholar, tried to accommodate contemporary art but became a subject of satire