Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) - Spain (Málaga)
Naive Art / Primitivism, Surrealism, Expressionism, Synthetic Cubism, Realism, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Symbolism, Abstract Art, Neo Expressionism, Analytical Cubism
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (/pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæsoʊ/ Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso] 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist moveme......
Salvador Dali (1938 - 1989) - Spain (Figueres)
Surrealism, Cubism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Verism, Abstract Art, Expressionism
Salvador Dalí, all'anagrafe Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, 1º marchese di Dalí de Púbol (IPA: [səɫβəˈðo duˈmɛnək fəˈlip ʒəˈsin ðəˈɫi i duˈmɛnək]) (Figueres, 11 maggio 1904 – Figueres, 23 gennaio 1989), è stato un pittore, scultore, scrittore, fotografo, cineasta, designer e sceneggiatore spagnolo. Dalí fu un pittore abile e virtuosi......
Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) - France (Aix-En-Provence)
Post-Impressionism, Romanticism, Cubism
Paul Cézanne (US: /seɪˈzæn/ or UK: /sɪˈzæn/ French: [pɔl sezan] 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne's often repetitive, e......
Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) - Netherlands (Amersfoort)
Neoplasticism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Modernism
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, after 1906 Piet Mondrian (/ˈmɔːndriˌɑːn, ˈmɒn-/ Dutch: [ˈpit ˈmɔndrijaːn], later [ˈmɔndrijɑn] 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his a......
Paul Klee (1879 - 1940) - Switzerland (Münchenbuchsee Near Bern)
Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Art, Cubism
Paul Klee (German: [paʊ̯l ˈkleː] 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively his lectures Wri......
Joan Miro (1893 - 1937) - Spain (Barcelona)
Abstract Art, Abstract Expressionism, Suprematism, Surrealism, Cubism, Fauvism, Modernism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Realism
Joan Miró i Ferrà (Catalan: [ʒuˈam miˈɾo j fəˈra] 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of P......
Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) - Belarus (Liozna)
Naive Art / Primitivism, Surrealism, Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism
Marc Zakharovich Chagall (/ʃəˈɡɑːl/ shə-GAHL [nb 1] born Moishe Zakharovich Shagal 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations,......
Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) - France (Blainville-Crevon)
Expressionism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Surrealism, Dadaism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Symbolism, Op-Art, Conceptual Art
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃] 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, al......
Fernand Leger (1881 - 1955) - France (Argentan)
Cubism, Modernism, Purism, Tubism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Surrealism, Abstract Art, Suprematism, Orphism, Constructivism
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (French: [leʒe] February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunn......
Max Ernst (1891 - 1976) - Germany (Brühl)
Dadaism, Surrealism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Cubism, Expressionism, Symbolism
Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalized American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism. Max Ernst was born in Brühl, near Cologne, the third of nine children of a middle-class Catholic family. His father Ph......
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1879 - 1935) - Ukraine (Kiev Governorate Of Russian Empire)
Suprematism, Cubism, Geometric Abstract Art, Expressionism, Fauvism, Symbolism, Abstract Art, Pointillism, Cubo-Futurism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Post-Impressionism, Neo-Classicism, Realism, Constructivism
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich[nb 1] (February 23 [O.S. 11] 1879 –May 15, 1935) was a Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist, whose pioneering work and writing had a profound influence on the development of non-objective, or abstract art, in the 20th century. His concept of Suprematism sought to develop a form of expression that moved as far as......
Rene Magritte (1898 - 1967) - Belgium (Lessines)
Surrealism, Art Deco, Cubism, Post-Impressionism
René François Ghislain Magritte (French: [ʁəne fʁɑ̃swa ɡilɛ̃ maɡʁit] 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of ......
Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997) - United States (Manhattan)
Pop Art, Cubism, Abstract Art, Expressionism
Roy Fox Lichtenstein (/ˈlɪktənˌstaɪn/ October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the premise of pop art through parody. Inspired by the comic strip, Lichtenstein prod......
Giorgio De Chirico (1888 - 1978) - Greece (Volos)
Metaphysical Art, Neo-Baroque, Cubism, Neo-Classicism, Surrealism
Giorgio de Chirico (Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo deˈkiːriko] 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian artist and writer. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. After 1919, he became interested in traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Ba......
Franz Marc (1912 - 1916) - Germany (Munich)
Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Realism, Symbolism
Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 – March 4, 1916) 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. Franz Marc was born in 1880 in Munich, then the capital of the ......
Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) - France (Argenteuil)
Cubism, Synthetic Cubism, Fauvism, Analytical Cubism, Realism, Abstract Art
Georges Braque (/brɑːk/ French: [bʁak] 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most important contributions to the history of art were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1906, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque’s work between 1908 and 1912 is......
Francis Picabia (1879 - 1953) - France (Paris)
Surrealism, Dadaism, Kitsch, Expressionism, Cubism, Abstract Art, Fauvism, Divisionism
Francis Picabia (French: [fʁɑ̃sis pikabja] born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia, 22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism. His highly abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in contrasts. H......
Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957) - Mexico (Guanajuato)
Naive Art / Primitivism, Social Realism, Realism, Art Deco, Neo-Classicism, Cubism, Surrealism
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo riˈβeɾa] December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the Mexican mural movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera paint......
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 - 1938) - Germany (Aschaffenburg)
Expressionism, High Renaissance, Symbolism, Cubism
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Aschaffenburg, 6 maggio 1880 – Davos, 15 giugno 1938) è stato un pittore e scultore tedesco. In gioventù mostrò particolare interesse per l'arte primitiva e africana, la pittura tedesca del Cinquecento, le stampe giapponesi, la scultura nera e polinesiana, e per autori contemporanei come Paul Gauguin e Vincent van Gogh, di cu......
Otto Dix (1891 - 1969) - Germany (Untermhaus)
Expressionism, Verism, Dadaism, Cubism
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈhaɪnʁiç ˈɔto ˈdɪks] 2 December 1891 – 25 July 1969) was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of th......
André Derain (1880 - 1954) - France (Chatou)
Fauvism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Expressionism, Cubism, Post-Impressionism
André Derain (French: [dəʁɛ̃] 10 June 1880 – 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895 Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that meeting Vlaminck or Matisse began his efforts to paint, ......
Raoul Dufy (1877 - 1953) - France (Le Havre)
Naive Art / Primitivism, Fauvism, Cubism, Post-Impressionism
Raoul Dufy (French: [ʁa.ul dy.fi] 3 June 1877 – 23 March 1953) was a French Fauvist painter, brother of Jean Dufy. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. He was also a draftsman, prin......
Max Beckmann (1884 - 1950) - Germany (Leipzig)
Expressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Verism
Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introve......
Mario Sironi (1885 - 1961) - Italy (Sassari)
Futurism, Metaphysical Art, Cubism, Modernism, Neo-Classicism
Mario Sironi (May 12, 1885 – August 13, 1961) was an Italian modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms. He was born in Sassari on the island of Sardinia. His father was an engineer his maternal grandfather was the architect and sculp......
Roger De La Fresnaye (1885 - 1925) - France (Le Mans)
Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Symbolism
Roger de La Fresnaye (French: [ʁɔʒe də la fʁɛnɛ] 11 July 1885 – 27 November 1925) was a French Cubist painter. La Fresnaye was born in Le Mans where his father, an officer in the French army, was temporarily stationed. The La Fresnayes were an aristocratic family whose ancestral home, the Château de La Fresnaye, is in Falaise. His education was cla......
George Grosz (1893 - 1959) - Germany (Berlin)
Verism, Dadaism, Futurism, Cubism, Expressionism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Surrealism
George Grosz (German: [ɡʁoːs] born Georg Ehrenfried Groß July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic. He immigrated to the United States in 1933, and became ......
Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (1883 - 1956) - France (Nantes)
Cubism, Cubism
Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (French: [mɛtsɛ̃ʒe] 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, were influenced by the Neo-impressionism of Georges Seurat and Henri-Edmond C......
Arshile Gorky (1904 - 1948) - Turkey (Khorgom)
Post-Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Cubism
Arshile Gorky (/ˌɑːrʃiːl ˈɡɔːrkiː/ born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, Armenian: Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter, who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent most his life as a national of the United States. Along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Gorky has ......
Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876 - 1956) - Russia (Kharkov)
Fauvism, Cubism, Socialist Realism, Realism, Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau
Pyotr Konchalovsky (Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky, Russian: Пётр Петро́вич Кончало́вский 21 February 1876 – 2 February 1956) was a Russian painter, a member of the Jack of Diamonds group. Pyotr Konchalovsky was born in the village of Slavianka, Kharkov gubernia (currently Ukraine) on 21 February 1876. His father was an art publisher. In 1889, the Kon......
Gino Severini (1883 - 1966) - Italy (Cortona)
Futurism, Synthetic Cubism
Gino Severini (7 April 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classicism and the "return to order" in the decade after the First World War. During his career he worked in a variety of media, including m......
Ossip Zadkine (1890 - 1967) - Belarus (Vitsebsk)
Expressionism, Cubism, Abstract Art
Ossip Zadkine (Russian: Осип Цадкин 28 January 1888 – 25 November 1967) was a Russian-born artist who lived in France. He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs. Zadkine was born on 28 January 1888 as Yossel Aronovich Tsadkin (Russian: Иосель Аронович Цадкин) in the city of Vitsebsk, part of the Russian Empire......
Juan Gris (1887 - 1927) - Spain (Madrid)
Synthetic Cubism, Cubism, Analytical Cubism
José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris (Spanish: [ˈxwan ˈɡɾis] French: [gʀi]), was a Spanish painter and sculptor born in Madrid who lived and worked in France most of his life. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinc......
Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova (1889 - 1924) - Russia (Ivanovskoe)
Cubism, Abstract Art, Constructivism, Expressionism, Suprematism
Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova (Russian: Любо́вь Серге́евна Попо́ва April 24, 1889 – May 25, 1924) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist), painter and designer. Popova was born in Ivanovskoe, near Moscow, to the wealthy family of Sergei Maximovich Popov, a very successful textile merchant and vigorous patron of the arts......
Theo Van Doesburg (1883 - 1931) - Netherlands (Utrecht)
Dadaism, Cubism, Expressionism, Realism, Art Nouveau
Theo van Doesburg (Dutch: [ˈteːjoː vɑn ˈduzbɵrx], 30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl. He was married to artist, pianist and choreographer Nelly van Doesburg. Theo van Doesburg was born Christian Emil Marie Küpper on 30 Au......
Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956) - United States (New York City)
Cubism, Expressionism, Naive Art / Primitivism
Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germany at 16 to study and perfect his art. He started his career as a cartoonist in 1894 and met with muc......
Alexander Porfiryevich Archipenko (1887 - 1964) - Russia (Kyiv)
Cubism, Cubism
Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (also referred to as Olexandr, Oleksandr, or Aleksandr Ukrainian: Олександр Порфирович Архипенко, Romanized: Olexandr Porfyrovych Arkhypenko May 30, 1887 – February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian-born American avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist. Alexander Archipenko was born in Kiev, (Russian Empire, now Uk......
Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova (1886 - 1918) - Russia (Melenki)
Suprematism, Cubo-Futurism, Cubism, Naive Art / Primitivism
Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova (also spelled Rosanova, Russian: Ольга Владимировна Розанова) (22 June 1886 – 7 November 1918, Moscow) was a Russian avant-garde artist in the styles of Suprematism, Neo-Primitivism, and Cubo-Futurism. Olga Rozanova was born in Melenki, a small town near Vladimir. Her father, Vladimir Rozanov, was a district police office......
Nathan Altman (1889 - 1970) - Ukraine (Vinnytsia)
Cubism, Constructivism, Socialist Realism, Naive Art / Primitivism, Expressionism
Nathan Isaevich Altman (Russian: Натан Исаевич Альтман, transliterated: Natan Isayevich Altman December 22 [O.S. December 10] 1889 – December 12, 1970) was a Jewish, Russian and Soviet avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator. He was born in Vinnytsia, in the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukra......
Vladimir Tatlin (1885 - 1953) - Ukraine (Kharkov)
Cubism, Constructivism, Expressionism, Abstract Art, Post-Impressionism
Vladimir Yevgraphovich Tatlin (Russian: Влади́мир Евгра́фович Та́тлин 28 December [O.S. 16 December] 1885 – 31 May 1953) was a Soviet painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an important artist in the Constructivist movement. H......
Yiannis Moralis (1916 - 2009) - Greece (Arta)
Expressionism, Abstract Art, Realism, Cubism
Yiannis Moralis (Greek: Γιάννης Μόραλης also transliterated Yannis Moralis or Giannis Moralis 23 April 1916 – 20 December 2009) was an important Greek visual artist and part of the so-called "Generation of the '30s". Born in Arta, Greece, in 1916, Moralis moved to Athens with his parents in 1927. From the age of 15 he studied at the Athens School o......
Rose Maynard Barton (1856 - 1930) - Ireland (Rochestown)
Cubism, Cubism
Rose Mary Barton RWS (Dublin 21 April 1856 – 1929) was an Anglo-Irish artist a watercolourist who painted landscape, street scenes, gardens, child portraiture and illustrations of the townscape of Britain and Ireland. Barton exhibited with a number of different painting societies, most notably the Watercolour Society of Ireland (WCSI), the Royal Ac......