Historical Archives & Public Figures

Rebeca Matte Bello

Chile

1875-10-29 – 1929-05-15 (53 years old)

Chile's first internationally acclaimed female sculptor, granddaughter of Andrés Bello, whose monumental marble and bronze masterpieces include 'Icarus and Daedalus' and the Peace Monument at The Hague.

Santiago, Chile

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Franz von Stuck

Germany

1863 – 1928 (65 years old)

Leader of the Munich Secession whose provocative Symbolist canvas 'The Sin' (Die Sünde) and magnificent self-designed Villa Stuck mentored Kandinsky and Paul Klee.

Munich, Germany

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Leoš Janáček

Austria

1854 – 1928 (74 years old)

Moravian Czech composer celebrated for his revolutionary musical style based on human speech inflections, immortalized by 'Jenůfa', 'The Cunning Little Vixen', and the 'Sinfonietta'.

Ostrava, Czechoslovakia

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Khalil Saleeby

خليل صليبي

Lebanon

1870 – 7 July 1928 (58 years old)

Pioneering Impressionist painter from Bteghrine who introduced modern plein-air painting and artistic nude studies to Lebanon.

Bteghrine, Lebanon

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Louis Paul Henri Sérusier

Paul Sérusier

France

1864 – 1927 (62 years old)

French painter and leader of Les Nabis who painted 'The Talisman' on a cigar box lid under Paul Gauguin's direct instruction at Pont-Aven, igniting the Nabis movement.

Morlaix, France

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Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin

Armand Guillaumin

France

1841 – 1927 (86 years old)

Core French Impressionist painter who participated in six Impressionist exhibitions, celebrated for his intense, saturated color palettes of the Creuse valleys and Parisian quays.

Orly, France

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Oscar-Claude Monet

Claude Monet

France

14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926 (86 years old)

Founding father of French Impressionism whose 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise gave the revolutionary movement its name, celebrated worldwide for capturing transient light across series of Haystacks, Rouen Cathedral, and the monumental Water Lilies.

Giverny (Eure), France

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Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov

Виктор Михайлович Васнецов

Russia

1848 – 1926 (78 years old)

Pioneering Russian folklorist and painter whose monumental epic canvases of epic heroes—such as 'Bogatyrs' and 'Alyonushka'—created the visual iconography of Russian fairy tales and epics.

Moscow, Russia

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Mary Cassatt

Mary Stevenson Cassatt

United States

1844 – 1926 (82 years old)

Pioneering American Impressionist painter and printmaker acclaimed for her sensitive portraits of the intimate bond between mothers and children.

Le Mesnil-Théribus, France

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Félix Édouard Vallotton

Félix Vallotton

Switzerland

1865 – 1925 (60 years old)

Swiss-French painter, woodcut genius, and member of Les Nabis whose biting black-and-white print series 'Intimités' and cool, unsparing paintings captured modern bourgeois deceit.

Paris, France

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Lovis Corinth

Russia

1858 – 1925 (66 years old)

German master painter and president of the Berlin Secession whose style dramatically evolved from robust naturalism into feverish, tragic late Expressionist masterpieces.

Stahnsdorf (Berlin), Germany

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Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie

France

1866 – 1925 (59 years old)

Eccentric French avant-garde composer and pianist whose Gymnopédies and Furniture Music anticipated minimalism and ambient sound.

Arcueil (Paris), France

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John Singer Sargent

Italy

1856 – 1925 (69 years old)

Foremost portrait painter of his generation, celebrated for dazzling bravura brushwork and the controversial Portrait of Madame X.

Brookwood, Surrey, United Kingdom

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Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini

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Giacomo Puccini

Italy

22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924 (65 years old)

Italian operatic titan regarded as the heir to Verdi, whose heart-wrenching theatrical masterworks—La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot (Nessun dorma)—rank among the most frequently performed operas in history.

Brussels, Belgium

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Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Urbain Fauré

France

1845 – 1924 (79 years old)

Refined French master of melody and harmony whose Requiem and chamber songs linked late Romanticism to 20th-century modernism.

Paris, France

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Liubov Popova

Liubov Sergeyevna Popova

Russia

1889 – 1924 (35 years old)

Pioneering Russian avant-garde artist and Constructivist who created explosive 'Painterly Architectonics' before dedicating her genius to functional Soviet textile, poster, and theater design.

Moscow, Soviet Union

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Louis Sullivan

Louis Henry Sullivan

United States

1856 – 1924 (67 years old)

American architect acclaimed as the 'Father of the Modern Skyscraper', mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and creator of the immortal architectural principle 'form follows function'.

Chicago, United States

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