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Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) - Spain (Figueres (Girona)) Surrealism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Symbolism, Verism, Abstract Art, Expressionism
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known professionally as Salvador Dalí (/ˈdɑːli, dɑːˈli/ Catalan: [səɫβəˈðo ðəˈɫi] Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli]), was a prominent Spanish surrealist artist of Catalan ethnicity born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, bes...... |
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Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950) - Germany (Leipzig) Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Verism
Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introve...... |
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Federico Zandomeneghi (1841 - 1917) - Italy (Venice) Impressionism, Verism
Federico Zandomeneghi (Italian pronunciation: [fedeˈriːko dzandoˈmeːneɡi] June 2, 1841 – December 31, 1917) was an Italian Impressionist painter. Federico Zandomeneghi was born in Venice. His father Pietro and grandfather Luigi were neoclassic sculptors. The latter completed the monument to Titian found in the Frari of Venice. As a young man, he pr...... |
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George Grosz (1893 - 1959) - Germany (Berlin) Verism, Dadaism, Cubism, Futurism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Expressionism, Surrealism
George Grosz (July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic. He emigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Abandoning th...... |
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Otto Dix (1891 - 1969) - Germany (Untermhaus) Expressionism, Verism, Dadaism, Cubism
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈhaɪnʁiç ˈɔto ˈdɪks] 2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit. Otto D...... |
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