Notable Alumni of Academy of Fine Arts, Munich [Sorted List]

1. Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski

1849-1915 (aged 66)

painter

Alfred Jan Maksymilian Kowalski was a Polish painter and representative of the Munich School.

2. Władysław Czachórski

1850-1911 (aged 61)

painter

Władysław Czachórski was a Polish painter in the Academic style.

3. Otto Ubbelohde

1867-1922 (aged 55)

painter exlibrist draftsperson landscape painter illustrator

Otto Ubbelohde was a German painter, etcher and illustrator.

4. Gabriel von Seidl

1848-1913 (aged 65)

architect

Gabriel von Seidl was a German architect and a representative of the historicist style of architecture.

5. Piotr Stachiewicz

1858-1938 (aged 80)

illustrator painter

Piotr Stachiewicz was a Polish painter and illustrator.

6. Alberto da Veiga Guignard

1896-1962 (aged 66)

painter draftsperson

Alberto da Veiga Guignard also known as Alberto Guignard or Guignard was a Brazilian painter who became renowned for his depictions of the landscapes of Minas Gerais.

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7. Edward Henry Potthast

1857-1927 (aged 70)

painter illustrator artist

Edward Henry Potthast was an American Impressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of people at leisure in Central Park, and on the beaches of New York and New England.

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8. Anna Stainer-Knittel

1841-1915 (aged 74)

painter

Anna Stainer-Knittel was an Austrian portrait and flower painter. An incident from her life served as the basis for the novel The Vulture Maiden by Wilhelmine von Hillern.

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9. Peter von Hess

1792-1871 (aged 79)

painter battle painter graphic artist

Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess was a German painter, known for historic paintings, especially of the Napoleonic Wars and the Greek War of Independence.

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10. Simon Hollósy

1857-1918 (aged 61)

painter

Simon Hollósy was a Hungarian painter. He was considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th-century Naturalism and Realism.

11. Konstantinos Volanakis

1837-1907 (aged 70)

teacher painter

Konstantinos Volanakis was a Greek painter. He is known as one of the greatest Greek seascape painters. Another notable seascape painter was Ioannis Altamouras.

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12. Viktor Oliva

1861-1928 (aged 67)

painter editing staff typographer visual artist illustrator

Viktor Oliva was a Czech painter and illustrator.

13. Osip Braz

1873-1936 (aged 63)

painter visual artist draftsperson

Osip Emmanuilovich Braz was a Russian-Jewish painter during the Modernist period, best known for his portraits.

14. Hans am Ende

1864-1918 (aged 54)

draftsperson graphic artist sculptor painter etcher

Leutnant Hans am Ende was a German Impressionist painter.

15. Paul Flora

1922-2009 (aged 87)

caricaturist graphic artist author illustrator postage stamp designer

Paul Flora was an Austrian caricaturist, graphic artist, and illustrator, known for his black ink line drawings. "Flora was one of Europe's most profiled illustrators since the 1960s. He worked for British newspapers The Times and The Observer as well as for Germany's Die Zeit".

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16. Wilhelm Trübner

1851-1917 (aged 66)

landscape painter painter genre painter history painter university teacher

Wilhelm Trübner was a German realist painter of the circle of Wilhelm Leibl.

17. Thomas Theodor Heine

1867-1948 (aged 81)

graphic artist caricaturist writer painter sculptor

Thomas Theodor Heine was a German painter, illustrator and cartoonist. Born in Leipzig, Heine established himself as a gifted caricaturist at an early age, which led to him studying art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and, briefly, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

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18. Friedrich von Gärtner

1791-1847 (aged 56)

university teacher architect general contractor

Friedrich von Gärtner was a German architect.

19. Octav Băncilă

1872-1944 (aged 72)

painter activist

Octav Băncilă was a Romanian realist painter and left-wing activist. He was the brother of Sofia Nădejde, a feminist journalist, and the brother-in-law of Ioan Nădejde (an atheist and socialist thinker, editor of the magazine Contemporanul).

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20. Theodor Pallady

1871-1956 (aged 85)

painter

Theodor Pallady was a Romanian painter.

21. John Henry Twachtman

1853-1902 (aged 49)

graphic artist painter

John Henry Twachtman was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American Impressionism to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation. He was a member of "The Ten," a loosely-allied group of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who...

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22. Stefan Szczesny

1951-. (aged 75)

ceramicist painter sculptor photographer

Stefan Szczesny is a German painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is best known for co-founding the Neue Wilde movement in the early 1980s.

23. Hallgrímur Helgason

1959-. (aged 67)

screenwriter painter writer caricaturist playwright

Hallgrímur Helgason is an Icelandic painter, novelist, translator, and columnist.

24. Frank Duveneck

1848-1919 (aged 71)

painter university teacher

Frank Duveneck was an American figure and portrait painter.

25. Nikiforos Lytras

1832-1904 (aged 72)

academic painter

Nikiforos Lytras was a Greek painter. He was born in Tinos and trained in Athens at the School of Arts. In 1860, he won a scholarship to Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Munich. After completing these studies, he became a professor at the School of Arts in 1866, a position he held for the rest of his life. He...

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26. Maksymilian Gierymski

1846-1874 (aged 28)

painter landscape painter

Maksymilian Dionizy Gierymski was a Polish painter, specializing mainly in watercolours. He was the older brother of painter Aleksander Gierymski.

27. Walter Trier

1890-1951 (aged 61)

writer illustrator editorial cartoonist advertising illustrator painter

Walter Trier was an illustrator, best known for his work for the children's books of Erich Kästner and the covers of the magazine Lilliput. He was born in Bohemia, later moved to Germany and then emigrated to Canada. He also lived for a time in the United Kingdom.

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28. Georgios Jakobides

1853-1932 (aged 79)

painter medalist university teacher curator

Georgios Jakobides was a Greek painter and medallist, one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the Munich School. He founded and was the first curator of the National Gallery of Greece in Athens.

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29. Günther Förg

1952-2013 (aged 61)

university teacher illustrator draftsperson graphic artist watercolorist

Günther Förg was a German painter, graphic designer, sculptor and photographer. His style was influenced by American abstract painting.

30. Lucian Bernhard

1883-1972 (aged 89)

university teacher type designer photographer sculptor interior designer

Lucian Bernhard was a German graphic designer, type designer, professor, interior designer, and artist during the first half of the twentieth century.

31. Elisabet Ney

1833-1907 (aged 74)

artist sculptor

Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Ney was a German-American sculptor who spent the first half of her life and career in Europe, producing portraits of famous leaders such as Otto von Bismarck, Giuseppe Garibaldi and King George V of Hanover. At age 39, she immigrated to Texas with her husband, Edmund Montgomery, and became a pioneer in the development of art there....

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32. Karl von Piloty

1826-1886 (aged 60)

painter lithographer teacher university teacher

Karl Theodor von Piloty was a German painter, noted for his historical subjects, and recognised as the foremost representative of the realistic school in Germany.

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33. Franz Defregger

1835-1921 (aged 86)

painter teacher professor

Franz Defregger was an Austrian artist known for producing genre art and history paintings set in his native county of Tyrol.

34. Fritz von Uhde

1848-1911 (aged 63)

painter university teacher history painter military personnel genre painter

Fritz von Uhde was a German painter of genre and religious subjects. His style lay in-between Realism and Impressionism, he was once known as "Germany's outstanding impressionist" and he became one of the first painters to introduce plein-air painting in his country.

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35. Gyula Benczúr

1844-1920 (aged 76)

university teacher painter artist draftsperson graphic artist

Gyula Benczúr was a Hungarian painter and art teacher. An "outstanding exponent of academicism", he specialized in portraits and historical scenes. He is "considered one of the greatest Hungarian masters of historicism".

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36. Fernando Fader

1882-1935 (aged 53)

painter

Fernando Fader was a French-born Argentine painter of the Post-Impressionist school.

37. Eugeniusz Kazimirowski

1873-1939 (aged 66)

painter iconographer

Eugeniusz Marcin Kazimirowski was a Polish painter, and member of the realism movement. He is best known for the first depiction of the Divine Mercy image in 1934, based on a request from Faustyna Kowalska and her confessor Michael Sopoćko.

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38. Ulrike Ottinger

1942-. (aged 84)

photographer filmmaker film director painter cinematographer

Ulrike Ottinger is a German filmmaker and photographer.

39. Eduard von Grützner

1846-1925 (aged 79)

teacher painter

Eduard Theodor Ritter von Grützner was a German painter and professor of art. He was especially noted for his genre paintings of monks. He also repeatedly depicted Falstaff.

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40. Karl Amadeus Hartmann

1905-1963 (aged 58)

composer

Karl Amadeus Hartmann was a German composer. A major figure of the musical life of post-war Germany, he has been described as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century.

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41. Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

1800-1882 (aged 82)

painter

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim was a German painter who is often regarded as the first Jewish painter of the modern era. His work was influenced by his cultural and religious roots at a time when many of his German Jewish contemporaries chose to convert to Christianity. Oppenheim is considered by the scholar Ismar Schorsch to be in sympathy with the ideals...

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42. Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov

1881-1952 (aged 71)

painter sculptor

Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov was a Soviet sculptor-monumentalist of Greek-Armenian descent. He was a People's Artist of the USSR in visual arts, an academic at the Soviet Academy of Arts, and director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts from 1944 to 1949. Merkurov was considered the greatest Soviet master of post-mortem masks. He was the sculptor of the three biggest...

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43. Thomas Demand

1964-. (aged 62)

sculptor visual artist photographer

Thomas Cyrill Demand is a German sculptor and photographer. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, and teaches at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg. He makes photographs of three-dimensional models that look like real images of rooms and other spaces, often sites loaded with social and political meanings. Demand thus describes himself not as a photographer,...

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44. Franz Hanfstaengl

1804-1877 (aged 73)

visual artist painter lithographer photographer

Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl was a Bavarian painter, lithographer, and photographer.

45. Teodor Axentowicz

1859-1938 (aged 79)

graphic artist painter

Teodor Axentowicz was a Polish-Armenian painter and university professor. He was also the rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. As an artist, Axentowicz was famous for his portraits and scenes of Hutsul life, set in the Carpathians.

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46. László Mednyánszky

1852-1919 (aged 67)

graphic designer painter

Baron László Mednyánszky, also known by his Latinized name Ladislaus Josephus Balthasar Eustachius Mednyánszky, was a Slovak–Hungarian painter and philosopher, considered one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of Hungarian art. Despite an aristocratic background, he spent most of his life moving around Europe working as an artist. Mednyánszky spent considerable periods in seclusion but mingled with people...

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47. Vardges Sureniants

1860-1921 (aged 61)

graphic artist linguist art theorist translator painter

Vardges Sureniants was an Armenian painter, sculptor, illustrator, translator, art critic, and theater artist. He is considered the founder of Armenian historical painting. His paintings feature scenes from Armenian fairy-tales and various historical events. Although Sureniants had only one exhibition dedicated to his works in his lifetime, he was admired by many of his contemporaries who include many well-known figures...

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48. Yannoulis Chalepas

1851-1938 (aged 87)

sculptor

Yannoulis Chalepas was a Greek sculptor and a significant figure of Modern Greek art.

49. Julian Fałat

1853-1929 (aged 76)

landscape painter teacher painter traveler watercolorist

Julian Fałat was one of the most prolific Polish watercolorists, one of the country's foremost landscapists, and a leading impressionist.

50. Ludwig Emil Grimm

1790-1863 (aged 73)

painter printmaker illustrator university teacher

Ludwig Emil Grimm was a German painter, art professor, etcher and copper engraver.

51. Mykhaylo Boychuk

1882-1937 (aged 55)

painter

Mykhailo Lvovych Boychuk was a Ukrainian monumentalist and modernist painter. He is considered a representative of the generation of the Executed Renaissance.

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52. Józef Brandt

1841-1915 (aged 74)

painter

Józef Brandt was a Polish painter best known for his paintings of battles in Polish history.

53. Nicolae Tonitza

1886-1940 (aged 54)

painter caricaturist lithographer art critic graphic artist

Nicolae Tonitza was a Romanian painter, engraver, lithographer, journalist and art critic. Drawing inspiration from Post-Impressionism and Expressionism, he had a major role in introducing modernist guidelines to local art.

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54. Wilhelm Leibl

1844-1900 (aged 56)

painter draftsperson graphic artist

Wilhelm Maria Hubertus Leibl was a German realist painter. He became famous for his portraits and depictions of scenes of peasant life.

55. Solomon Joseph Solomon

1860-1927 (aged 67)

visual artist painter engineer illustrator

Solomon Joseph Solomon RA RBA was a British painter, a founding member of the New English Art Club and member of the Royal Academy.

56. Cuno Amiet

1868-1961 (aged 93)

draftsperson printmaker pastellist etcher engraver

Cuno Amiet was a Swiss painter, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor. As the first Swiss painter to give precedence to colour in composition, he was a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland.

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57. Max Slevogt

1868-1932 (aged 64)

exlibrist graphic artist watercolorist painter etcher

Max Slevogt was a German Impressionist painter and illustrator, best known for his landscapes. He was, together with Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann, one of the foremost representatives in Germany of the plein air style.

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58. Nikolaos Gyzis

1842-1901 (aged 59)

university teacher teacher painter art educator visual artist

Nikolaos Gyzis is considered one of Greece's most important 19th century painters. He was most famous for his work Eros and the Painter, his first genre painting. It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928. He was the major representative of the Munich School, the major 19th-century Greek art movement.

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59. Christian Schad

1894-1982 (aged 88)

painter collagist artist graphic artist photographer

Christian Schad was a German painter and photographer. He was associated with the Dada and the New Objectivity movements. Schad's portraits are regarded as emblematic of the decadence of Vienna and Berlin after the First World War.

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60. Pál Szinyei Merse

1845-1920 (aged 75)

painter politician

Pál Szinyei Merse was a Hungarian painter and art educator.

61. Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach

1851-1913 (aged 62)

painter

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach was a German painter and social reformer. Regarded as the "forefather of alternative movements", he championed Lebensreform (lit. 'life-reform'), Freikörperkultur (a kind of naturism), and pacifism. His rural commune Himmelhof (in Ober Sankt Veit near Vienna, 1897–1899) inspired his student Gustav Gräser to found the Monte Verità settlement (near Ascona). As a painter, Diefenbach worked within Symbolism.

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62. Franz Roubaud

1856-1928 (aged 72)

university teacher painter watercolorist

Franz Roubaud was a Russian painter of French origin who created some of the largest and best known panoramic paintings. He created circular paintings, exposed on a cylindrical surface and viewed from the inside at a lookout point. His paintings were often believed to reproduce the original scene with high fidelity.

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63. Stanisław Witkiewicz

1851-1915 (aged 64)

writer painter art critic architect

Stanisław Witkiewicz was a Polish painter, art theoretician, and amateur architect, known for his creation of "Zakopane Style".

64. Aleksander Gierymski

1850-1901 (aged 51)

painter

Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski was a Polish painter of the late 19th century, the younger brother of Maksymilian Gierymski. He was a representative of Realism as well as an important precursor of Impressionism in Poland.

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65. Franz von Lenbach

1836-1904 (aged 68)

university teacher painter photographer

Franz Seraph Lenbach, after 1882, Ritter von Lenbach, was a German painter known primarily for his portraits of prominent personalities from the nobility, the arts, and industry. Because of his standing in society, he was often referred to as the "Malerfürst" (Painter Prince).

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66. Otl Aicher

1922-1991 (aged 69)

graphic designer sculptor designer university teacher typographer

Otto "Otl" Aicher was a German graphic designer and typographer. Aicher co-founded and taught at the influential Ulm School of Design. He is known for having led the design team of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, and for overseeing the creation of its prominently used system of pictograms. Aicher also developed the Rotis typeface.

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67. Philip de László

1869-1937 (aged 68)

painter sculptor

Philip Alexius László de Lombos MVO RBA, known professionally as Philip de László, was an Anglo-Hungarian painter known particularly for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages. In 1900, he married the Anglo-Irish socialite Lucy Guinness, and he became a British subject in 1914. László's patrons awarded him numerous honours and medals. He was invested with the Royal Victorian Order...

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68. Józef Chełmoński

1849-1914 (aged 65)

painter

Józef Marian Chełmoński was a Polish painter, known for his realistic paintings of landscapes, rural scenes and genre scenes presenting historical and social contexts of the late Romantic period in partitioned Poland. He is renowned for monumental paintings, which are now in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw. National Museum in Kraków, the Sukiennice National Art Gallery in...

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69. Zofia Stryjeńska

1891-1976 (aged 85)

muralist watercolorist visual artist graphic artist draftsperson

Zofia Stryjeńska was a Polish painter, graphic designer, illustrator, stage designer, and a representative of art deco. Along with Olga Boznańska and Tamara de Lempicka, she was one of the best-known Polish women artists of the interwar period. In the 1930s she was nominated for the prestigious Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature, but declined the offer.

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70. Otto Mueller

1874-1930 (aged 56)

painter lithographer university teacher teacher illustrator

Otto Mueller was a German painter and printmaker of the Die Brücke expressionist movement.

71. Elmyr de Hory

1906-1976 (aged 70)

art forger painter

Elmyr de Hory was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger. It is claimed he was responsible for producing over a thousand forgeries that were sold to reputable art galleries all over the world. His activities garnered celebrity from a Clifford Irving book, Fake (1969), and a documentary essay film by Orson Welles, F for Fake (1974).

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72. Leonid Pasternak

1862-1945 (aged 83)

painter visual artist printmaker

Leonid Osipovich Pasternak was a Russian painter. He was the father of the poet and novelist Boris Pasternak.

73. Ștefan Luchian

1868-1916 (aged 48)

painter pastellist watercolorist

Ștefan Luchian was a Romanian painter, famous for his landscapes and still life works.

74. William Merritt Chase

1849-1916 (aged 67)

photographer painter

William Merritt Chase was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later became the Parsons School of Design.

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75. Franz Stuck

1863-1928 (aged 65)

illustrator sculptor architect exlibrist teacher

Franz Ritter von Stuck, born Franz Stuck, was a German painter, sculptor, printmaker, and architect. Stuck was best known for his paintings of ancient mythology, receiving substantial critical acclaim with The Sin in 1892. In 1906, Stuck was awarded the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and was henceforth known as Ritter von Stuck.

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76. Albert Chmielowski

1846-1916 (aged 70)

painter religious

Albert Chmielowski - born Adam Hilary Bernard Chmielowski - was a Polish Franciscan tertiary, painter, and disabled veteran of the Uprising of 1863. He was founder of both the Albertine Brothers and Albertine Sisters who are servants of the homeless and destitute.

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77. Wojciech Kossak

1856-1942 (aged 86)

painter typographer graphic artist

Wojciech Horacy Kossak was a Polish painter and member of the celebrated Kossak family of artists and writers. He was the son of painter Juliusz Kossak, and twin brother of freedom fighter Tadeusz Kossak, and the father of two highly talented literary daughters, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska and Magdalena Samozwaniec and of a painter son, Jerzy Kossak.

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78. John Collier

1850-1934 (aged 84)

painter screenwriter writer

John Maler Collier OBE ROI RP was an English painter and writer. He was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both of his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was educated at Eton College, and he studied painting in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and at the Munich Academy starting in 1875.

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79. Josef Albers

1888-1976 (aged 88)

printmaker university teacher designer artist educator

Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States. Born in 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, into a Roman Catholic family with a background in craftsmanship, Albers received practical training in diverse skills like engraving glass, plumbing, and wiring during his childhood. He later worked...

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80. Theodor Kittelsen

1857-1914 (aged 57)

painter illustrator cartoonist

Theodor Severin Kittelsen was a Norwegian artist. He is one of the most popular artists in Norway. Kittelsen became famous for his nature paintings, as well as for his illustrations of fairy tales and legends, especially of trolls.

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81. Lovis Corinth

1858-1925 (aged 67)

university teacher theatre designer painter lithographer etcher

Lovis Corinth was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.

82. Wassily Kandinsky

1866-1944 (aged 78)

illustrator lawyer designer architectural draftsperson printmaker

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Born in Moscow, he began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

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83. Edvard Munch

1863-1944 (aged 81)

architectural draftsperson painter draftsperson graphic artist printmaker

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of the most iconic and acclaimed images in all of Western art.

84. Alphonse Mucha

1860-1939 (aged 79)

university teacher jewelry designer painter lithographer illustrator

Alfons Maria Mucha, known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, he was widely known for his distinctly stylised and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, as well as designs, which became among the best-known images of the period.

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85. Giorgio de Chirico

1888-1978 (aged 90)

scenographer jewelry designer writer painter sculptor

Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His best-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective. His imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and...

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86. Franz Marc

1880-1916 (aged 36)

printmaker painter illustrator graphic artist visual artist

Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.

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87. Jan Matejko

1838-1893 (aged 55)

painter university teacher

Jan Alojzy Matejko was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings such as Stańczyk (1862), Rejtan (1866), Union of Lublin (1869), Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873), or Battle of Grunwald (1878). He was the author of numerous portraits, a gallery...

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88. Benjamin Heisenberg

1974-. (aged 52)

screenwriter novelist film director editor visual artist

Benjamin Heisenberg is a German film director and screenwriter. He has directed sixteen films since 1995. His film Schläfer was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film, The Robber, was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

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89. Ernst von Bandel

1800-1876 (aged 76)

sculptor painter architect

Joseph Ernst von Bandel was a German architect, sculptor and painter. He is best known for his 37 years of work on the monumental Hermannsdenkmal near Detmold, honoring Arminius' victory over Roman troops in 9 AD.

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90. Gottfried Keller

1819-1890 (aged 71)

novelist painter writer chancery manager poet

Gottfried Keller was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel Green Henry (German: Der grüne Heinrich) and his cycle of novellas called Seldwyla Folks (Die Leute von Seldwyla), he became one of the most popular narrators of literary realism in the late 19th century.

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91. Paul Klee

1879-1940 (aged 61)

draftsperson printmaker university teacher designer lithographer

Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism.

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92. Eilif Peterssen

1852-1928 (aged 76)

painter draftsperson

Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was a Norwegian painter. He is most commonly associated with his landscapes and portraits. He gained early recognition for the history painting Christian II signing the Death Warrant of Torben Oxe and established himself as one of Norway's foremost portrait painters, with portraits of, among others, Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Grieg. He also became known for...

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93. Joža Uprka

1861-1940 (aged 79)

painter graphic designer folklorist graphic artist visual artist

Joža Uprka was a Czech painter and graphic artist whose work combines elements of Impressionism and Art Nouveau to document the folklife of Southern Moravia.

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94. Ivan Mrkvička

1856-1938 (aged 82)

painter poet teacher

Ivan Mrkvička was an Austrian Empire-born painter and an active contributor to the artistic life of newly independent Bulgaria in the late 19th and early 20th century. He is regarded as one of the founders of the modern Bulgarian fine art tradition.

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95. Nicolae Teclu

1839-1916 (aged 77)

university teacher chemist architect

Nicolae Teclu; (11 October 1839, Kronstadt, Austrian Empire (today Brașov, Romania) – 13 July 1916, Vienna, Austria-Hungary) was a Romanian chemist, who gave his name to the worldwide-used "Teclu burner". He studied engineering and architecture, and then chemistry, continuing his career by becoming professor for general and analytical chemistry in Vienna. He also contributed substantially to the worldwide development of...

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96. Rihard Jakopič

1869-1943 (aged 74)

painter art theorist

Rihard Jakopič was a Slovene painter. He was the leading Slovene Impressionist painter, patron of arts and theoretician. Together with Matej Sternen, Matija Jama and Ivan Grohar, he is considered the pioneer of Slovene Impressionist painting.

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97. Katarina Ivanović

1811-1882 (aged 71)

painter

Katarina Ivanović was a Serbian painter from the Austrian Empire. She is regarded as the first Serbian female painter in modern art history.

98. Anton Ažbe

1862-1905 (aged 43)

painter art educator

Anton Ažbe was a Slovene realist painter and teacher of painting. Ažbe, crippled since birth and orphaned at the age of eight, learned painting as an apprentice to Janez Wolf and at the Academies in Vienna and Munich. At the age of 30, Ažbe founded his own school of painting in Munich that became a popular attraction for Eastern European...

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99. Gabriel von Max

1840-1915 (aged 75)

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Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max was a Prague-born Austrian-German painter, and professor of history painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He was also a collector of anthropological artifacts. His collection included between 60.000 and 80.000 objects from Zoology, Anthropology, Ethology, and Prehistory. The collection is displayed in the Reiss Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim.

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100. Mihály Munkácsy

1844-1900 (aged 56)

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Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.