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Naguib el-Rihani
Arts & Music
10
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Naguib el-Rihani

ู†ุฌูŠุจ ุงู„ุฑูŠุญุงู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1889 โ€“ 1949 (60 years old)

Pioneering 'Father of Modern Arab Comedy', creator of the satirical rural archetype 'Kish-Kish Bey', and playwright whose humanist stage satires laid the foundation for 20th-century Arab theatrical arts.

Cairo, Egypt
Arshile Gorky
Arts & Music
31
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Arshile Gorky

Vosdanig Manoug Adoian
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Armenia
1904 โ€“ 1948 (44 years old)

Armenian-American painter whose lyrical biomorphic abstractions and fluid, calligraphic draughtsmanship formed the critical bridge between European Surrealism and American Abstract Expressionism.

Sherman, United States
Manuel Ponce
Arts & Music
32
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Manuel Ponce

Manuel Marรญa Ponce Cuรฉllar
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico
1882 โ€“ 1948 (65 years old)

Mexican composer and pianist revered as the father of Mexican musical nationalism, world-famous for the romantic song Estrellita and his guitar masterworks composed for Andres Segovia.

Mexico City, Mexico
Kurt Schwitters
Arts & Music
32
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Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
1887 โ€“ 1948 (60 years old)

German avant-garde polymath who created 'Merz'โ€”a total art philosophy utilizing street detritus, ticket stubs, and discarded refuse to construct visionary collages and walk-in architectural installations.

Kendal, United Kingdom
Aissa Djermouni
Arts & Music
16
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Aissa Djermouni

ุนูŠุณู‰ ุงู„ุฌุฑู…ูˆู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1886 โ€“ 1946 (60 years old)

Legendary Chaoui folk poet and vocalist from the Aurรจs mountains who became the first African artist to headline the prestigious Olympia theater in Paris in 1937.

Aรฏn Beรฏda, Algeria
Emily Carr
Arts & Music
5
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Emily Carr

Emily Carr
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1871 โ€“ 1945 (73 years old)

Monumental West Coast painter and author who overcame decades of isolation to paint the towering totem poles and cedar rainforests of British Columbia, winning the Governor General's Award for Klee Wyck.

Victoria (British Columbia), Canada
Lhaj Belaid
Arts & Music
8
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Lhaj Belaid

ุงู„ุญุงุฌ ุจู„ุนูŠุฏ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
c. 1875 โ€“ c. 1945 (~70 years old)

The founding patriarch and undisputed master of modern Amazigh (Soussi) poetry and music, whose virtuosity on the single-stringed ribab and philosophical Tamazight verses transformed Moroccan folk culture.

Tiznit, Morocco
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky
Arts & Music
37
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 970

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky

ะ’ะฐัะธะปะธะน ะ’ะฐัะธะปัŒะตะฒะธั‡ ะšะฐะฝะดะธะฝัะบะธะน
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
16 December 1866 โ€“ 13 December 1944 (77 years old)

Visionary Russian painter and Bauhaus master universally recognized as the pioneer of pure non-objective abstract art, who linked visual color and geometry to musical synesthesia in his landmark treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art.

Neuilly-sur-Seine (Paris), France
Rachid Ksentini
Arts & Music
15
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Rachid Ksentini

ุฑุดูŠุฏ ู‚ุณู†ุทูŠู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1887 โ€“ 1944 (56 years old)

Trailblazing pioneer of Algerian musical comedy and chansonnier who composed over 600 satirical songs in Algerian Darija, performing across the Maghreb and Europe.

Algiers, Algeria
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