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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) - Spain (Málaga)
Naive Art / Primitivism, Surrealism, Expressionism, Synthetic Cubism, Realism, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Symbolism, Abstract Art, Neo Expressionism, Analytical Cubism
Pablo Picasso (/pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæsoʊ/ Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso] 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, t...... |
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Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918) - Austria (Baumgarten)
Art Nouveau, Symbolism, Realism, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism
What follows is an illustrative list of Gustav Klimt's main paintings and represents a chronological excursus on his main pictorial production. The arrangement is ordered by year and title, with brief comments and showing the Austrian painter's progress in artistic development. More...... |
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Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918) - Croatia (Tulln An Der Donau)
Expressionism, Art Nouveau
Egon Schiele (German: [ˈʃiːlə] ( listen) 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body sh...... |
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Nicholas Roerich (1874 - 1947) - Russia (Saint Petersburg)
Art Nouveau, Symbolism, Realism, Byzantine Art
Nicholas Roerich (/ˈrɜːrɪx/ October 9, 1874 – December 13, 1947) – known also as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (Russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Ре́рих) – was a Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, perceived by some in Russia as an enlightener, philosopher, and public figure, who in his youth was influenced by a movement in Russia...... |
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Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (1878 - 1927) - Russia (Astrakhan)
Realism, Art Nouveau, Naive Art / Primitivism, Socialist Realism
Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (Russian: Бори́с Миха́йлович Кусто́диев 7 March [O.S. 23 February] 1878 – 28 May 1927) was a Russian painter and stage designer. Boris Kustodiev was born in Astrakhan into the family of a professor of philosophy, history of literature, and logic at the local theological seminary. His father died young, and all financial...... |
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Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916) - France (Bordeaux)
Symbolism, Post-Impressionism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Realism, Art Nouveau
Odilon Redon (born Bertrand-Jean Redon French: [ʁədɔ̃] April 20, 1840 – July 6, 1916) was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist. Odilon Redon was born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, to a prosperous family. The young Bertrand-Jean Redon acquired the nickname "Odilon" from his mother, Odile. Redon started drawing as a child and,...... |
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Ferdinand Hodler (1853 - 1918) - Switzerland (Bern)
Symbolism, Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau, Romanticism, Renaissance, Naive Art / Primitivism
Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 – May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism he called "parallelism". Hodler was born in Bern, the eldest of six children. His father, Jean Hodle...... |
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Konstantin Somov (1869 - 1939) - Russia (St. Petersburg)
Symbolism, Realism, Art Nouveau
Konstantin Andreyevich Somov (Russian: Константин Андреевич Сомов, November 30, 1869 – May 6, 1939) was a Russian artist associated with the Mir iskusstva. Born into a family of a major art historian and Hermitage Museum curator Andrey Ivanovich Somov, he became interested in 18th-century art and music at an early age. Somov studied at the Imperial...... |
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Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (1865 - 1911) - Russia (Saint Petersburg)
Art Nouveau, Realism, Impressionism
Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (Russian: Валенти́н Алекса́ндрович Серо́в 19 January 1865 – 5 December 1911) was a Russian painter, and one of the premier portrait artists of his era. Serov was born in Saint Petersburg, son of the Russian composer and music critic Alexander Serov, and his wife and former student Valentina Serova also a composer in her...... |
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Henri De Toulouse Lautrec (1864 - 1901) - France (Albi)
Art Nouveau, Post-Impressionism
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French: [ɑ̃ʁi də tuluz lotʁɛk]), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a col...... |
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Mikhail Nesterov (1862 - 1942) - Russia (Ufa)
Art Nouveau, Symbolism, Post-Impressionism, Realism
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Не́стеров 31 May [O.S. 19 May] 1862, Ufa – 18 October 1942, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet painter associated with the Peredvizhniki and Mir Iskusstva. He was one of the first exponents of Symbolist art in Russia. He was born to a strongly patriarchal merchant family. His father was a dra...... |
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Koloman Moser (1868 - 1918) - Croatia (Vienna)
Art Nouveau, Symbolism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Realism
Koloman Moser (German: [ˈkoːloman ˈmoːzɐ] 30 March 1868 – 18 October 1918) was an Austrian artist who exerted considerable influence on twentieth-century graphic art and one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werkstätte. Moser designed a wide array of art works, including books and graphic works from...... |
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Felix Vallotton (1865 - 1925) - Switzerland (Lanne)
Cloisonnism, Symbolism, Post-Impressionism, Realism, Art Nouveau
Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a Swiss/French painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. He was born into a conservative middle-class family in Lausanne, and there he attended Collège Cantonal, graduating with a degree in classical studi...... |
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Alfons Maria Mucha (1860 - 1939) - Czech Republic (Ivančice)
Art Nouveau
Alfons Maria Mucha (Czech: [ˈalfons ˈmuxa] ( listen) 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs. Alphonse Maria Mucha was born in the town of Ivančice, Moravia (curre...... |
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Richard Gerstl (1883 - 1908) - Austria (Vienna)
Expressionism, Pointillism, Art Nouveau, Post-Impressionism
Richard Gerstl (14 September 1883 – 4 November 1908) was an Austrian painter and draughtsman known for his expressive psychologically insightful portraits, his lack of critical acclaim during his lifetime, and his affair with the wife of Arnold Schoenberg which led to his suicide. Richard Gerstl was born in a prosperous civil family, Emil Gerstl, a...... |
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Nikolaos Gyzis (1842 - 1901) - Greece (Tinos)
Symbolism, Academicism, Art Nouveau, Romanticism, Realism, Orientalism
Nikolaos Gyzis (Greek: Νικόλαος Γύζης Greek pronunciation: [ni.'ko.la.os 'ʝi.zis] 1 March 1842 – 4 January 1901) was considered one of Greece's most important 19th-century painters. He was most famous for his work Eros and the Painter, his first genre painting. It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 192...... |
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Max Slevogt (1868 - 1932) - Germany (Landshut)
Impressionism, Art Nouveau
Max Slevogt (8 October 1868 – 20 September 1932) was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator, best known for his landscapes. He was, together with Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann, one of the foremost representatives in Germany of the plein air style. He was born in Landshut, Germany, in 1868. From 1885 to 1889 he studied at the Munich Acade...... |
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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872 - 1898) - United Kingdom (Brighton)
Art Nouveau
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's...... |
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Theo Van Doesburg (1883 - 1931) - Netherlands (Utrecht)
Dadaism, Cubism, Expressionism, Realism, Art Nouveau
Theo van Doesburg (Dutch: [ˈteːjoː vɑn ˈduzbɵrx], 30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl. Theo van Doesburg was born Christian Emil Marie Küpper on 30 August 1883, in Utrecht, the Netherlands, as the son of the photographer W...... |
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Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876 - 1956) - Russia (Kharkov)
Fauvism, Cubism, Socialist Realism, Realism, Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau
Pyotr Konchalovsky (Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky, Russian: Пётр Петро́вич Кончало́вский 21 February 1876 – 2 February 1956) was a Russian painter, a member of the Jack of Diamonds group. Pyotr Konchalovsky was born in the village of Slavianka, Kharkov gubernia (currently Ukraine) on 21 February 1876. His father was an art publisher. In 1889, the Kon...... |
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Aleksandra Ekster (1882 - 1949) - Belarus (Białystok)
Cubo-Futurism, Art Deco, Suprematism, Art Nouveau, Constructivism
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster (em russo: Александра Александровна Экстер, em ucraniano: Олександра Олександрівна Екстер 6 de janeiro de 1882 - 17 de março de 1949) foi uma pintora e designer franco-russa dos movimentos cubo-futurista, suprematista e construtivista. Aleksandra Ekster nasceu no dia 6 de janeiro de 1882 em Białystok, Império Russo (...... |
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Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (1871 - 1960) - Hungary (Budapest)
Socialist Realism, Post-Impressionism, Pointillism, Realism, Neoplasticism, Art Nouveau
Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (Russian: Игорь Эммануилович Грабарь, 25 March 1871 in Budapest – 16 May 1960 in Moscow) was a Russian post-impressionist painter, publisher, restorer and historian of art. Grabar, descendant of a wealthy Rusyn family, was trained as a painter by Ilya Repin in Saint Petersburg and by Anton Ažbe in Munich. He reached his pe...... |
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Leon Bakst (1866 - 1924) - Belarus (Grodno)
Art Nouveau
Léon Bakst (Russian: Леон (Лев) Николаевич Бакст, Leon (Lev) Nikolaevich Bakst) – born as Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich (later Samoylovich) Rosenberg, Лейб-Хаим Израилевич (Самойлович) Розенберг (27 January (8 February) 1866 – 28 December 1924) was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Bal...... |
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Konstantin Yuon (1875 - 1958) - Russia (Moscow)
Art Nouveau, Socialist Realism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism
Konstantin Fyodorovich Yuon or Juon (Russian: Константи́н Фёдорович Юо́н October 24 [O.S. October 12] 1875 – April 11, 1958) was a noted Russian painter and theatre designer associated with the Mir Iskusstva. Later, he co-founded the Union of Russian Artists and the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. Yuon was born in Moscow to the fami...... |
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Raphael Kirchner (1875 - 1917) - Austria (Vienna)
Art Nouveau, Symbolism, Orientalism
Raphael Kirchner (1876 - 2 August 1917) was an Austrian artist, principally a portrait painter and illustrator best known for Art Nouveau and early pin-up work, especially in picture postcard format. His work served as an early inspiration to Peruvian painter Alberto Vargas, who had a career in the United States for the film and men's magazine indu...... |
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Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876 - 1942) -
Art Nouveau
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (Russian: Ива́н Я́ковлевич Били́бин IPA: [ɪˈvan ˈjakəvlʲɪvʲɪt͡ɕ bʲɪˈlʲibʲɪn] 16 August [O.S. 4 August] 1876 – 7 February 1942) was a 20th-century illustrator and stage designer who took part in the Mir iskusstva, contributed to the Ballets Russes, co-founded the Union of Russian Painters (Russian: Сою́з ру́сских худо́жников...... |
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Heorhiy Narbut (1886 - 1920) - Ukraine (Narbutivka)
Symbolism, Art Nouveau
Heorhiy Narbut (Ukrainian: Георгій Іванович Нарбут, 25 February [O.S. 3 March] 1886 in Narbutivka — 23 May 1920 in Kiev) was the most important Ukrainian graphic designer of the twentieth century. He is known for designing the Coat of arms of Ukraine, banknotes, postage stamps, charters, and his many illustrations in books and magazines. He is also...... |
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Sergey Solomko (1867 - 1928) - Russia (Saint Petersburg)
Art Nouveau, Realism
Sergey Sergeyevich Solomko (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Соломко (22 August 1867, Saint Petersburg — 2 February 1928, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois) was a Russian painter, watercolorist, illustrator and designer. He was the son of Colonel (later, Major-General) Sergey Solomko (1835-1897), who was employed in the service of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevi...... |
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