Historical Archives & Public Figures

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky

Russian Empire

1890 – 1941 (51 years old)

Russian avant-garde designer, architect, and typographer whose 'Proun' compositions and revolutionary graphic designs bridged Suprematism, Constructivism, and European modernism.

Moscow, Soviet Union

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Amrita Sher-Gil

अमृता शेरगिल

Austria-Hungary

1913 – 1941 (28 years old)

Pioneering Indian-Hungarian painter celebrated as the 'Indian Frida Kahlo', whose sensuous, melancholic oil portraits of rural Indian women revolutionized modern South Asian painting.

Lahore, Pakistan

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Robert Delaunay

France

1885 – 1941 (56 years old)

French modern painter who co-founded Orphism with Sonia Delaunay, celebrated for his vibrant circular color disks, kaleidoscopic Eiffel Towers, and pioneering abstraction.

Montpellier, France

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Jelly Roll Morton

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe

United States

1890 – 1941 (50 years old)

New Orleans pianist, composer, and bandleader who was the first true arranger and theorist of jazz, celebrated for his Red Hot Peppers recordings and Library of Congress oral history.

Los Angeles, United States

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Alexej von Jawlensky

Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky

Russian Empire

1864 – 1941 (76 years old)

Russian Expressionist painter and key member of Der Blaue Reiter, acclaimed for his mystical portrait heads and meditative, spiritual explorations of the human countenance.

Wiesbaden, Germany

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Maximilien Luce

Second French Empire

1858 – 1941 (82 years old)

French Neo-Impressionist painter, engraver, and anarchist whose vibrant pointillist canvases of steelworks, blast furnaces, and the Paris Commune celebrated industrial labor.

Rolleboise, France

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Silvestre Revueltas

Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez

Mexico

1899 – 1940 (40 years old)

Mexican composer and violinist celebrated for Sensemaya and La noche de los mayas, whose rhythmically ferocious, anti-romantic orchestral scores captured modern Mexican street energy and indigenous ritual.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Paul Klee

Ernst Paul Klee

Switzerland

1879 – 1940 (60 years old)

Swiss-German painter and Bauhaus master whose whimsical, poetic visual language synthesized Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism.

Bern, Switzerland

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Jean-Édouard Vuillard

Édouard Vuillard

France

1868 – 1940 (71 years old)

French Nabis painter and master of 'Intimism' whose layered, wallpaper-patterned domestic interiors and portraits of Parisian literary salons created a cozy, psychological modernism.

Paris, France

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Peter Behrens

Germany

1868 – 1940 (71 years old)

German architect and pioneer of corporate identity who designed the monumental AEG Turbine Factory and mentored Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier.

Berlin, Germany

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Robert Johnson

Robert Leroy Johnson

United States

1911 – 1938 (27 years old)

Mythic Delta blues singer and guitarist whose 29 recordings shaped rock and roll and spawned the crossroads legend.

Morgan City, Mississippi, United States

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Pedro Figari

Pedro Figari Castro

Uruguay

1861 – 1938 (77 years old)

Uruguayan post-impressionist painter, lawyer, and educational reformer celebrated for his colorful, rhythmic canvases portraying Afro-Uruguayan candombe dances and colonial salon life.

Montevideo, Uruguay

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Germany

1880 – 1938 (58 years old)

German Expressionist painter and printmaker who was a founding figure of Die Brücke, renowned for his jagged, psychologically charged depictions of modern Berlin street life.

Frauenkirch, Switzerland

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Marie-Clémentine Valadon

Suzanne Valadon

France

1865 – 1938 (72 years old)

Pioneering French painter, circus acrobat, and artist's model who was championed by Degas, became the first woman admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and mothered Maurice Utrillo.

Paris, France

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Joseph Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel

France

7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937 (62 years old)

French composer and supreme orchestral wizard celebrated for his precision craftsmanship, Basque-Spanish elegance, and dazzling sonic imagination in Boléro, Pavane pour une infante défunte, and Daphnis et Chloé.

Paris, France

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