Historical Archives & Public Figures

Paul Signac

Second French Empire

1863 – 1935 (71 years old)

Co-founder of Neo-Impressionism / Pointillism alongside Georges Seurat, president of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, and author of 'From Eugène Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism'.

Paris, France

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Carlos Gardel

Charles Romuald Gardès

France

1890 – 1935 (44 years old)

The 'King of Tango' whose baritone voice, elegant charisma, and songs like 'Por una cabeza' defined Argentine tango.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Chiquinha Gonzaga

Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga

Empire of Brazil

1847 – 1935 (87 years old)

Afro-Brazilian composer, pianist, and conductor who became the first female orchestral conductor in Brazil, composed the first carnival march (O Abre Alas), and founded Brazil's society of theatrical authors.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Max Liebermann

Kingdom of Prussia

1847 – 1935 (87 years old)

Leader of German Impressionism and President of the Prussian Academy of Arts whose sun-dappled Wannsee garden canvases and working-class realism defined modern German painting.

Berlin, Germany

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst

United Kingdom

1874 – 1934 (59 years old)

English composer and educator world-renowned for his monumental orchestral suite The Planets.

Chichester, United Kingdom

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Adolf Loos

Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos

Austria

1870 – 1933 (62 years old)

Austrian architect and uncompromising polemicist who authored 'Ornament and Crime', pioneered the spatial 'Raumplan' concept, and shaped European modernist architecture.

Kalksburg (Vienna), Austria

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Bix Beiderbecke

Leon Bismark Beiderbecke

United States

1903 – 1931 (28 years old)

Pioneering American jazz cornetist and composer whose pure tone, lyrical phrasing, and Debussy-inspired harmonies created an influential alternative to Louis Armstrong's hot jazz.

Queens, New York, United States

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Ilya Repin

Илья Ефимович Репин

Ukraine

1844 – 1930 (86 years old)

Foremost Russian realist painter of the Peredvizhniki (Wanderers), renowned for Barge Haulers on the Volga and Ivan the Terrible.

Repino (Kuokkala), Russia

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Otto Mueller

Germany

1874 – 1930 (55 years old)

German Expressionist painter and lithographer celebrated for his lyrical, melancholic depictions of nudes in nature and sympathetic portrayals of Romani culture.

Breslau, Poland

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Julius Mordecai Pincas

Jules Pascin

Bulgaria

1885 – 1930 (45 years old)

Bulgarian-born School of Paris master draughtsman and painter whose delicate, shimmering pastel nudes and restless wanderings across Europe and the Americas made him a tragic legend.

Paris, France

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Franz von Stuck

Kingdom of Bavaria

1863 – 1928 (65 years old)

Leader of the Munich Secession whose provocative Symbolist canvas 'The Sin' (Die Sünde) and magnificent self-designed Villa Stuck mentored Kandinsky and Paul Klee.

Munich, Germany

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Leoš Janáček

Moravia (Austrian Empire)

1854 – 1928 (74 years old)

Moravian Czech composer celebrated for his revolutionary musical style based on human speech inflections, immortalized by 'Jenůfa', 'The Cunning Little Vixen', and the 'Sinfonietta'.

Ostrava, Czechoslovakia

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Louis Paul Henri Sérusier

Paul Sérusier

France

1864 – 1927 (62 years old)

French painter and leader of Les Nabis who painted 'The Talisman' on a cigar box lid under Paul Gauguin's direct instruction at Pont-Aven, igniting the Nabis movement.

Morlaix, France

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Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin

Armand Guillaumin

Kingdom of France

1841 – 1927 (86 years old)

Core French Impressionist painter who participated in six Impressionist exhibitions, celebrated for his intense, saturated color palettes of the Creuse valleys and Parisian quays.

Orly, France

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Oscar-Claude Monet

Claude Monet

France

14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926 (86 years old)

Founding father of French Impressionism whose 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise gave the revolutionary movement its name, celebrated worldwide for capturing transient light across series of Haystacks, Rouen Cathedral, and the monumental Water Lilies.

Giverny (Eure), French Third Republic

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Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov

Виктор Михайлович Васнецов

Russian Empire

1848 – 1926 (78 years old)

Pioneering Russian folklorist and painter whose monumental epic canvases of epic heroes—such as 'Bogatyrs' and 'Alyonushka'—created the visual iconography of Russian fairy tales and epics.

Moscow, Russia

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Mary Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt

United States

1844 – 1926 (82 years old)

Pioneering American Impressionist painter and printmaker acclaimed for her sensitive portraits of the intimate bond between mothers and children.

Le Mesnil-Théribus, France

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Félix Édouard Vallotton

Félix Vallotton

Switzerland

1865 – 1925 (60 years old)

Swiss-French painter, woodcut genius, and member of Les Nabis whose biting black-and-white print series 'Intimités' and cool, unsparing paintings captured modern bourgeois deceit.

Paris, France

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