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Chaïm Soutine
Arts & Music
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Chaïm Soutine

Chaïm Soutine
🇷🇺 Russia
1893 – 1943 (50 years old)

School of Paris expressionist titan whose feverish, visceral canvases—including 'Carcass of Beef' and distorted portraits—fused Rembrandt's tradition with raw 20th-century angst.

Paris, France
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Arts & Music
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Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff

Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов
🇷🇺 Russia
1 April 1873 – 28 March 1943 (69 years old)

Russian composer, legendary virtuoso pianist, and conductor whose lush romanticism, titanic keyboard technique, and sweeping orchestral melodies produced the Second and Third Piano Concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Beverly Hills (California), United States
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Arts & Music
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Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Sophie Henriette Gertrude Taeuber
🇨🇭 Switzerland
1889 – 1943 (53 years old)

Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, and textile designer whose geometric abstractions, marionettes, and stained glass made her a paramount pioneer of Constructivism and Concrete Art.

Zürich, Switzerland
Hector Guimard
Arts & Music
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Hector Guimard

Hector Germain Guimard
🇫🇷 France
1867 – 1942 (75 years old)

French architect and industrial designer celebrated as the premier exponent of French Art Nouveau, world-famous for his sinuous cast-iron Paris Métro station entrances.

New York City, United States
El Lissitzky
Arts & Music
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El Lissitzky

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky
🇷🇺 Russia
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
Amrita Sher-Gil
Arts & Music
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Amrita Sher-Gil

अमृता शेरगिल
🇦🇹 Austria
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
Robert Delaunay
Arts & Music
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Robert Delaunay

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
Jelly Roll Morton
Arts & Music
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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
Alexej von Jawlensky
Arts & Music
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Alexej von Jawlensky

Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky
🇷🇺 Russia
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
Maximilien Luce
Arts & Music
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Maximilien Luce

Maximilien Luce
🇫🇷 France
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
Silvestre Revueltas
Arts & Music
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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
Kamal-ol-Molk
Arts & Music
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Kamal-ol-Molk

کمال‌الملک / محمد غفاری
🇮🇷 Iran
1848 – 18 August 1940 (92 years old)

Legendary Iranian master painter who introduced European academic realism to Persia, famous for 'The Mirror Hall' and founding the Sanaye-ye Mostazrafeh.

Nishapur, Iran
Jean-Édouard Vuillard
Arts & Music
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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
Peter Behrens
Arts & Music
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Peter Behrens

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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