Historical Archives & Public Figures

Charles Camille Saint-Saëns

France

1835 – 1921 (86 years old)

French Romantic composer, organist, and polymath celebrated for The Carnival of the Animals, Samson and Delilah, and the Organ Symphony.

Paris, France

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Fernand Khnopff

Belgium

1858 – 1921 (63 years old)

Leading Belgian Symbolist painter and founding member of Les XX whose enigmatic, melancholic masterworks like 'The Caress' and 'I Lock My Door Upon Myself' explored solipsism and silence.

Brussels, Belgium

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Errico 'Enrico' Caruso

Enrico Caruso

Italy

25 February 1873 – 2 August 1921 (48 years old)

Legendary Italian operatic tenor whose baritonal warmth, thrilling high notes, and passionate Italian delivery in Pagliacci (Vesti la giubba) made him the world's first global gramophone recording superstar.

Naples, Italy

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Max Bruch

Max Christian Friedrich Bruch

Germany

1838 – 1920 (82 years old)

German Romantic composer and conductor whose Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor and Hebrew melody 'Kol Nidrei' for cello and orchestra remain beloved staples of the concert repertoire.

Berlin, Germany

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Max Klinger

Germany

1857 – 1920 (63 years old)

German Symbolist painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose dreamlike print cycle 'A Glove' and polychrome marble monument to Beethoven pioneered modern psychological fantasy.

Naumburg, Germany

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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani

Italy

12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920 (35 years old)

Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France, universally celebrated for his portraits and nude studies characterized by elongated necks, mask-like faces, and almond-shaped melancholic eyes.

Paris, France

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

France

1841 – 1919 (78 years old)

Leading French Impressionist painter whose luminous works celebrated human warmth, sensuality, and vibrant outdoor leisure.

Essoyes, France

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Egon Schiele

Austria

1890 – 1918 (28 years old)

Austrian Expressionist painter celebrated for his raw, psychologically charged, and uncompromisingly honest figurative works.

Vienna, Austria

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Otto Wagner

Otto Koloman Wagner

Austria

1841 – 1918 (76 years old)

Austrian architect and urban planner who led the Vienna Secession toward modernism, celebrated for the Austrian Postal Savings Bank and the Vienna Stadtbahn transit system.

Vienna, Austria

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Achille-Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy

France

22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918 (55 years old)

French musical pioneer whose shimmering orchestral colors, non-functional harmony, and evocative sensuality in Clair de Lune, La Mer, and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune dissolved 19th-century tonality and opened modern music.

Paris, France

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César Cui

Cesarius Benjaminus Cui

Lithuania

1835 – 1918 (83 years old)

Russian composer of 'The Five', imperial military engineer who attained the rank of General, and biting music critic who vigorously championed the Russian nationalist school.

Petrograd, Soviet Russia

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Gustav Klimt

Austria

14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918 (55 years old)

Austrian Symbolist master and founding president of the Vienna Secession, renowned for his dazzling 'Golden Phase'—above all The Kiss and the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I—blending erotic sensuality, Byzantine gold leaf, and decorative mosaic patterns.

Vienna, Austria

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Frederick McCubbin

Australia

1855-02-25 – 1917-12-20 (62 years old)

Pioneering artist and beloved teacher of the Heidelberg School whose monumental narrative triptych 'The Pioneer' and paintings such as 'Down on His Luck' captured the quiet hardships of the Australian bush.

Caulfield South, Melbourne, Australia

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François-Auguste-René Rodin

Auguste Rodin

France

12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917 (77 years old)

Supreme giant of modern sculpture who resurrected the emotional and psychological vitality of Michelangelo and Donatello, creating monumental masterpieces like The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, and The Burghers of Calais.

Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine), France

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Edgar Degas

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas

France

1834 – 1917 (83 years old)

French artist celebrated for his innovative pastel drawings and oil paintings capturing Parisian dancers, bathers, and racehorses.

Paris, France

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Tom Thomson

Thomas John Thomson

Canada

1877 – 1917 (39 years old)

Iconic Canadian painter whose luminous, expressive masterworks The Jack Pine and The West Wind revolutionized Canadian landscape art, sparking the formation of the Group of Seven.

Leith (Owen Sound, Ontario), Canada

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Umberto Boccioni

Italy

1882 – 1916 (33 years old)

Italian painter and sculptor who was the theoretical and visual leader of Futurism, celebrated for capturing dynamism, speed, and motion in dynamic bronze and fractured paint.

Chievo (Verona), Italy

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Bertrand-Jean Redon

Odilon Redon

France

1840 – 1916 (76 years old)

French Symbolist painter and printmaker whose visionary charcoals ('Noirs') and radiant late pastels ('The Cyclops', 'Ophelia') unlocked the surreal landscape of the subconscious.

Bièvres, France

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