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Born March 8, 1945 (age 81) • Germany
Awards And Honors Praemium Imperiale (1999)
Notable Works “The Language of the Birds”
Movement / Style Neo-Expressionism
Georg Baselitz: Armalamor
Georg Baselitz
German artist
Heckel, Erich: Portrait of a Man
Erich Heckel
German artist
Sigmar Polke: Girlfriends (Freundinnen)
Sigmar Polke
German artist
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
Julian Schnabel wearing yellow-tinted glasses and a dark shirt with a blue collar at the Oscar Luncheon in Los Angeles.
Julian Schnabel
American painter, printmaker, sculptor, and filmmaker
Elaine and Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Dutch-born American painter
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
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Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
German artist Max Ernst stands indoors in a casual jacket with one hand on his hip, looking toward the camera, circa 1955 in France.
Max Ernst
German artist
Runge, Philipp Otto: Red Currant
Philipp Otto Runge
German artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich
German painter
Nolde, Emil: Cows in the Lowland
Emil Nolde
German artist
Memory, etching on wove paper by Max Klinger, 1894; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 27.62 × 15.24 cm.
Max Klinger
German artist
Self-Portrait with the Image of Death, oil on canvas by Lovis Corinth, 1896; in the Stadtische Galerie in Lembachhaus, Munich, Germany.
Lovis Corinth
German painter
Pechstein, Max: Sunlight
Max Pechstein
German artist
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: Self-Portrait with Monocle
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
German artist

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