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César Cui

Cesarius Benjaminus Cui

Russian Empire

1835 – 1918 (83 years old)

Russian composer of 'The Five', imperial military engineer who attained the rank of General, and biting music critic who vigorously championed the Russian nationalist school.

Petrograd, Soviet Russia

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Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt

Austria

14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918 (55 years old)

Austrian Symbolist master and founding president of the Vienna Secession, renowned for his dazzling 'Golden Phase'—above all The Kiss and the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I—blending erotic sensuality, Byzantine gold leaf, and decorative mosaic patterns.

Vienna, Austria

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François-Auguste-René Rodin

Auguste Rodin

France

12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917 (77 years old)

Supreme giant of modern sculpture who resurrected the emotional and psychological vitality of Michelangelo and Donatello, creating monumental masterpieces like The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, and The Burghers of Calais.

Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine), French Third Republic

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Edgar Degas

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas

France

1834 – 1917 (83 years old)

French artist celebrated for his innovative pastel drawings and oil paintings capturing Parisian dancers, bathers, and racehorses.

Paris, France

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Umberto Boccioni

Umberto Boccioni

Italy

1882 – 1916 (33 years old)

Italian painter and sculptor who was the theoretical and visual leader of Futurism, celebrated for capturing dynamism, speed, and motion in dynamic bronze and fractured paint.

Chievo (Verona), Italy

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Bertrand-Jean Redon

Odilon Redon

France

1840 – 1916 (76 years old)

French Symbolist painter and printmaker whose visionary charcoals ('Noirs') and radiant late pastels ('The Cyclops', 'Ophelia') unlocked the surreal landscape of the subconscious.

Bièvres, France

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Vasily Ivanovich Surikov

Василий Иванович Суриков

Russian Empire

1848 – 1916 (68 years old)

Premier Russian historical painter whose monumental crowd canvases—such as 'Morning of the Streltsy Execution' and 'Boyarynya Morozova'—captured epic historical tragedies.

Moscow, Russia

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Marie Bracquemond

Marie Bracquemond

Kingdom of France

1840 – 1916 (75 years old)

French Impressionist painter acclaimed by Gustave Geffroy as one of the 'Three Great Ladies' of Impressionism alongside Cassatt and Morisot, master of sun-drenched outdoor light.

Sèvres, France

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August Macke

August Macke

Germany

1887 – 1914 (27 years old)

German Expressionist painter of Der Blaue Reiter whose lyrical works fused French Cubism and Orphism with radiant, luminous color harmonies before his tragic death in WWI.

Perthes-lès-Hurlus, France

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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Lourens Alma Tadema

Kingdom of the Netherlands

1836 – 1912 (76 years old)

Dutch-born British Victorian painter whose dazzlingly realistic depictions of gleaming Roman white marble, azure Mediterranean seas, and 'The Roses of Heliogabalus' defined classical luxury.

London, United Kingdom

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Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov

Валентин Александрович Серов

Russian Empire

1865 – 1911 (46 years old)

Premier Russian portraitist and painter whose luminous 'Girl with Peaches' (1887) heralded Russian Impressionism and whose aristocratic portraits captured the twilight of the Romanov Empire.

Moscow, Russia

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Hishida Shunso

菱田 春草

Japan

1874 – 1911 (36 years old)

Meiji-era Japanese painter who co-founded modern Nihonga and pioneered the 'morotai' (vague/blind) technique, eliminating sharp outlines to capture atmosphere and light, painted the masterpiece Black Cat.

Tokyo, Japan

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler

Czech Republic

7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911 (50 years old)

Austro-Bohemian visionary composer and legendary conductor who declared 'a symphony must be like the world: it must embrace everything', pioneering 20th-century modernism with his nine epic symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde.

Vienna, Austria

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William Holman Hunt

William Holman Hunt

Kingdom of Great Britain

1827 – 1910 (83 years old)

Co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who remained faithful to its hyper-realistic, moral principles for life, painting 'The Light of the World' and traveling to Palestine for 'The Scapegoat'.

London, United Kingdom

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Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi

Архип Иванович Куинджи

Russian Empire

1841 – 1910 (69 years old)

Pontic Greek-Russian landscape painter whose breathtaking optical effects of glowing moonlight in 'Moonlit Night on the Dnieper' caused spectators to weep in darkened exhibition rooms.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Mily Balakirev

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

Russian Empire

1837 – 1910 (73 years old)

Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who formed and led 'The Five' (Mighty Handful), inspiring Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin, and composing the virtuosic 'Islamey'.

Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire

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Henri-Edmond Delacroix

Henri-Edmond Cross

France

1856 – 1910 (53 years old)

French Neo-Impressionist master whose mosaic-like blocks of vibrant Mediterranean color in Saint-Clair bridged Pointillism and the birth of Fauvism.

Le Lavandou, France

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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel

Михаил Александрович Врубель

Russian Empire

1856 – 1910 (54 years old)

Genius of Russian Symbolism and Art Nouveau whose fractured, crystalline brushwork and haunting series of 'The Demon' anticipated Cubism and modernism.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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