Historical Archives & Public Figures

Camille Claudel

France

1864 – 1943 (78 years old)

Brilliant French sculptor whose emotionally powerful bronzes and marbles overcame the shadow of Auguste Rodin.

Montfavet, France

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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

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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

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Messaoud El Médioni (Saoud l'Oranais)

مسعود المديوني (سعود الوهراني)

Algeria

1886 – 1943 (57 years old)

Legendary Jewish-Algerian master of Oranian Hawzi music, mentor of Reinette l'Oranaise, tragically murdered by the Nazis in the Sobibor death camp in 1943.

Oran (memorial), Algeria

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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

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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

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Grant Wood

Grant DeVolson Wood

United States

1891 – 1942 (50 years old)

American Regionalist painter renowned for his iconic masterpiece American Gothic and stylized Midwestern landscapes.

Anamosa, Iowa, United States

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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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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

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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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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries