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Born December 18, 1879 • Switzerland
Died June 29, 1940 (aged 60) • Locarno • Switzerland
Movement / Style Cubism • abstract art • Der Blaue Reiter • Die Blaue Vier
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
Francisco Goya
Spanish artist
George Grosz.
George Grosz
German artist
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Jacques Villon
French painter
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Henri Matisse stands in a studio wearing a painter's smock, holding a palette beside a wooden ladder, with abstract artwork visible in the background.
Henri Matisse
French artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Braque, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1956
Georges Braque
French artist
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Lyonel Feininger
American artist
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
van Dyck, Anthony
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish painter
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
Claude Lorrain: Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father
Claude Lorrain
French artist
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
Norwegian artist
Canaletto: The Doges' Palace and Piazza San Marco, Venice
Canaletto
Italian artist
Erfurth, Hugo: Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz
German artist

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