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Achille-Claude Debussy
Arts & Music
40
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 985

Achille-Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
22 August 1862 โ€“ 25 March 1918 (55 years old)

French musical pioneer whose shimmering orchestral colors, non-functional harmony, and evocative sensuality in Clair de Lune, La Mer, and Prรฉlude ร  l'aprรจs-midi d'un faune dissolved 19th-century tonality and opened modern music.

Paris, France
Gustav Klimt
Arts & Music
38
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 990

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria
14 July 1862 โ€“ 6 February 1918 (55 years old)

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

Vienna, Austria
Tom Thomson
Arts & Music
2
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Tom Thomson

Thomas John Thomson
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1877 โ€“ 1917 (39 years old)

Iconic Canadian painter whose luminous, expressive masterworks The Jack Pine and The West Wind revolutionized Canadian landscape art, sparking the formation of the Group of Seven.

Leith (Owen Sound, Ontario), Canada
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov
Arts & Music
30
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Vasily Ivanovich Surikov

ะ’ะฐัะธะปะธะน ะ˜ะฒะฐะฝะพะฒะธั‡ ะกัƒั€ะธะบะพะฒ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
1848 โ€“ 1916 (68 years old)

Premier Russian historical painter whose monumental crowd canvasesโ€”such as 'Morning of the Streltsy Execution' and 'Boyarynya Morozova'โ€”captured epic historical tragedies.

Moscow, Russia
Ya'qub Sanu
Arts & Music
14
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Ya'qub Sanu

ูŠุนู‚ูˆุจ ุตู†ูˆุน (ุฃุจูˆ ู†ุถุงุฑุฉ)
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1839 โ€“ 1912 (73 years old)

Visionary Jewish-Egyptian playwright and journalist hailed as the 'Moliรจre of Egypt', who created the first modern Egyptian national theater troupe and published the satirical cartoon journal Abu Naddara.

Paris, France
Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov
Arts & Music
35
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov

ะ’ะฐะปะตะฝั‚ะธะฝ ะะปะตะบัะฐะฝะดั€ะพะฒะธั‡ ะกะตั€ะพะฒ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
1865 โ€“ 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
Hishida Shunso
Arts & Music
32
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Hishida Shunso

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๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1874 โ€“ 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
Gustav Mahler
Arts & Music
40
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 970

Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Czech Republic
7 July 1860 โ€“ 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
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi
Arts & Music
27
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi

ะั€ั…ะธะฟ ะ˜ะฒะฐะฝะพะฒะธั‡ ะšัƒะธะฝะดะถะธ
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Russia
1841 โ€“ 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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