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Born July 12, 1886 • Vienna • Austria
Died February 1, 1971 (aged 84) • Limoges • France
Notable Works “ABCD” • “Art Critic” • “Synthetisches Cino der Malerei”
Movement / Style Dada
Subjects Of Study visual arts
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
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Lenore Tawney
American artist
Dada exhibit
Hannah Höch
German artist
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John Heartfield
German artist
George Grosz.
George Grosz
German artist
Theo van Doesburg: Counter-Composition V
Theo van Doesburg
Dutch artist
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Kurt Schwitters
German artist
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Richard Hamilton
British artist
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Alex Melamid
American artist
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Vitaly Komar
American artist
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Philostratus the Younger
Greek author
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
John Ruskin
John Ruskin
English writer and 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
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
Braque, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1956
Georges Braque
French artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Painted terracotta bust of Lorenzo de' Medici, attributed to 15th or 16th-century Florentine artists, showing a stern man in a red cap and draped garment.
Lorenzo de’ Medici
Italian statesman
Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas
American mixed-media artist
Eve Babitz
Eve Babitz
American writer and artist