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Facts

Born March 1, 1886 • Austria
Died February 22, 1980 (aged 93) • Switzerland
Notable Works “Dents du Midi” • “Dresden Manifesto” • “Herodotus” • “Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen” • “Orpheus und Eurydike” • “The Tempest”
Movement / Style Expressionism

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Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka: The Tempest
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Max Frisch
Max Frisch
Swiss author
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Carl Sternheim
German dramatist
Toller
Ernst Toller
German writer
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Alasdair Gray
Scottish novelist, playwright, and artist
Bahr, 1916
Hermann Bahr
Austrian writer
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Anton Wildgans
Austrian dramatist and poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch 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
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
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Thomas Gainsborough
English painter
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
French painter
Weiss, Peter
Peter Weiss
German writer
Miracle of the True Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo
Gentile Bellini
Italian painter
Canetti
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born writer
Carl Zuckmayer.
Carl Zuckmayer
German playwright
Sudermann, detail of an oil painting by Max Slevogt, 1927; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Hermann Sudermann
German writer
Augustus John, self-portrait, chalk on paper, c. 1901; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Augustus John
Welsh painter
Paul Ernst
Paul Ernst
German writer

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