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Max Pechstein

Hermann Max Pechstein

Germany

1881 – 1955 (73 years old)

German Expressionist painter and printmaker who brought Die Brücke to broad public acclaim with his luminous, decorative compositions of bathers and Pacific island landscapes.

West Berlin, Germany

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Charles Parker Jr.

Charlie Parker

United States

29 August 1920 – 12 March 1955 (34 years old)

Legendary alto saxophonist and co-inventor of Bebop with Dizzy Gillespie, whose blistering tempos, chromatic substitutions, and soaring improvisational logic revolutionized 20th-century music.

New York City, United States

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Yves Tanguy

Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy

France

1900 – 1955 (55 years old)

French-American Surrealist painter acclaimed for his hallucinatory, boundless dreamscapes populated by enigmatic biomorphic forms, mineral stones, and infinite horizons.

Woodbury, United States

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Henri Émile Benoît Matisse

Henri Matisse

France

31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954 (84 years old)

Titan of 20th-century modern art and undisputed leader of the Fauves ('Wild Beasts') whose radiant decorative harmonies in The Dance (La Danse) and late gouache cut-outs revolutionized color and line.

Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), France

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Armando Reveron

Armando Julio Reverón Travieso

Venezuela

1889 – 1954 (65 years old)

Venezuelan post-impressionist painter and sculptor known as 'The Painter of Light', who constructed 'El Castillete' on the Caribbean coast and explored blinding blinding tropical illumination in white and sepia canvases.

Caracas, Venezuela

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Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón

Frida Kahlo

Mexico

6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954 (47 years old)

Celebrated Mexican painter renowned for uncompromising, vividly symbolic self-portraits exploring identity, chronic physical suffering, Mexican indigenous culture, and profound emotional vulnerability.

Coyoacán (Mexico City), Mexico

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Francis Picabia

Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia

France

1879 – 1953 (74 years old)

French avant-garde painter, poet, and iconoclast who bridged Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism through mechanistic portraits, radical nihilism, and stylistic mutability.

Paris, France

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Vladimir Tatlin

Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin

Russian Empire

1885 – 1953 (67 years old)

Russian avant-garde visionary and father of Constructivism, renowned for his 'corner-counter reliefs' and his colossal, kinetic design for the Monument to the Third International.

Moscow, Soviet Union

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Django Reinhardt

Jean Reinhardt

Belgium

1910 – 1953 (43 years old)

Romani-French guitar virtuoso who overcame severe hand injuries to invent Gypsy Jazz (jazz manouche).

Samois-sur-Seine, France

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Mojżesz Kisling

Moïse Kisling

🌐 Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

1891 – 1953 (62 years old)

Polish-French master of the School of Paris whose luminous porcelain nudes, expressive portraits with enormous liquid eyes, and flamboyant generosity made him the beloved center of Montparnasse.

Sanary-sur-Mer, France

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Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev

Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев

Russia

23 April 1891 – 5 March 1953 (61 years old)

Prodigious Russian and Soviet composer whose razor-sharp wit, motoric rhythms, and lyricism produced enduring masterpieces across genres—including Romeo and Juliet (Dance of the Knights), Peter and the Wolf, and the Classical Symphony.

Moscow, Russia

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Abanindranath Tagore

অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর

India

1871 – 1951 (80 years old)

Indian artist and writer who founded the influential Bengal School of Art, creating the iconic patriotic painting Bharat Mata and championing pan-Asian aesthetic indigenism against British academicism.

Kolkata, India

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg

Austria

1874 – 1951 (76 years old)

Austrian-American modern composer and pioneer of atonality and the twelve-tone serial technique.

Vienna, Austria

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Max Beckmann

Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann

Germany

1884 – 1950 (66 years old)

German painter, draughtsman, and sculptor celebrated for his monumental, enigmatic triptychs and compressed, existential figurative narratives of 20th-century life.

New York City, United States

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James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor

James Ensor

Belgium

1860 – 1949 (89 years old)

Pioneering Belgian avant-garde painter and printmaker whose grotesque carnivalesque masks, skeletons, and masterpiece 'Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889' founded Expressionism.

Mariakerke (Ostend), Belgium

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Jose Clemente Orozco

José Clemente Ángel Orozco Flores

Mexico

1883 – 1949 (65 years old)

Mexican muralist and painter of 'Los Tres Grandes', renowned for his tragic, apocalyptic expressionism depicting the horrors of war and human suffering in Guadalajara's Hospicio Cabanas.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Joaquin Torres-Garcia

Joaquín Torres-García

Uruguay

1874 – 1949 (75 years old)

Uruguayan-Spanish artist and theorist who founded Constructive Universalism and drew the iconic 'Inverted America' map, declaring South America's artistic sovereignty.

Montevideo, Uruguay

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Arshile Gorky

Vosdanig Manoug Adoian

Armenia

1904 – 1948 (44 years old)

Armenian-American painter whose lyrical biomorphic abstractions and fluid, calligraphic draughtsmanship formed the critical bridge between European Surrealism and American Abstract Expressionism.

Sherman, United States

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