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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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Maâlma Yamna

المعلمة يمنة بنت الحاج المحفوظ

Algeria

1859 – 1933 (74 years old)

Pioneering matriarch of female professional musicians (Mesemaat) in Algiers, who in the early 1900s became one of the first Algerian artists to record on Gramophone discs.

Algiers, Algeria

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J. E. H. MacDonald

James Edward Hervey MacDonald

Great Britain

1873 – 1932 (59 years old)

Founding member and elder statesman of the Group of Seven, whose radiant autumn landscape The Solemn Land captured the spiritual majesty of Algoma, and who served as Principal of OCA.

Toronto, Canada

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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

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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Habiba Msika

حبيبة مسيكة (مارغريت مسيكة)

Tunisia

c. 1903 – 1930 (27 years old)

Electrifying 1920s Tunisian Jewish vocal superstar, actress, and feminist pioneer who wrapped herself in the Tunisian national flag on stage, recorded for Baidaphon, and became a mythic martyr of artistic freedom.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Habiba Messika

حبيبة مسيكة

Tunisia

1903 – February 21, 1930 (27 years old)

Mythic Tunisian Jewish singer, stage actress, and nationalist icon whose defiant performances, theatrical magnetism, and tragic death at age 27 turned her into an enduring legend of female liberation and artistic passion.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Daoud Corm

داود قرم

Lebanon

1852 – 1930 (78 years old)

Founding pioneer of modern easel painting in Lebanon who studied in Rome and served as official court portraitist to Khedive Abbas II in Cairo.

Ghosta, Lebanon

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Franz von Stuck

Franz von Stuck

Germany

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

Leoš Janáček

Austria

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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Khalil Saleeby

خليل صليبي

Lebanon

1870 – 7 July 1928 (58 years old)

Pioneering Impressionist painter from Bteghrine who introduced modern plein-air painting and artistic nude studies to Lebanon.

Bteghrine, Lebanon

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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

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), France

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Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov

Виктор Михайлович Васнецов

Russia

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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