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Born January 3, 1887 • Germany
Died September 26, 1914 (aged 27) • France
Movement / Style Der Blaue Reiter
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
Painting by Franz Marc showing two white Siberian dogs standing in a snowy landscape, rendered in loose, expressive brushstrokes.
Franz Marc
German artist
Portrait of a Young Woman, oil on canvas by Gabriele Münter, 1909.
Gabriele Münter
German artist
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
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Paul Klee
Swiss-German artist
Braque, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1956
Georges Braque
French artist
Henri Rousseau: Myself: Portrait-Landscape
Henri Rousseau
French painter
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Georges Rouault
French artist
Goncharova, Natalya: Religious Composition; Archangel Michael
Natalya Goncharova
Russian artist
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Maurice de Vlaminck
French artist
Portrait of a Girl, oil painting by Alexey von Jawlensky, 1909; in the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Alexey von Jawlensky
Russian painter
Kees van Dongen painting
Kees van Dongen
Dutch-born French painter and printmaker
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André Derain
French painter
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Lyonel Feininger
American artist
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Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov
Russian artist
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
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Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
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Matthias Grünewald
German artist
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Rudolf Bauer
German-born artist

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