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European Modernism 1860 - 1990

Editor's note: it is impossible to definitively categorize these painters given that so many of them worked in different styles and countries over the course of their artistic careers. Does one group by Paris versus Munich? The Fauves versus Cubists versus Surrealists? After much debate, I am taking the easy way out and grouping by nationality at birth. This page is best viewed with Internet Explorer

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Belgium
René Magritte 1898 - 1967
Britain
Lucian Freud 1922 -
France
Henri Matisse 1869 - 1954
Georges Rouault 1871 - 1958
Émile-Othon Friesz 1879 - 1949
André Derain 1880 - 1954
Fernand Léger 1881 - 1955
Georges Braque 1882 - 1963
Marcel Duchamp 1887 - 1968
Pierre Soulages 1919 -
Germany
Lyonel Feininger 1871- 1956 (1)
Franz Marc 1880 - 1916
Hans Hoffman 1880 - 1966
Max Beckman 1884 - 1950
Josef Albers 1886 - 1976
Max Ernst 1891 - 1976
Italy
Amadeo Modigliani 1884 - 1920
Netherlands
Piet Mondrian 1872 - 1944

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Edvard Munch 1863 - 1944
Russia
Alexej von Jawlensky 1864 - 1941
Wassily Kandinsky 1866 - 1944
Marc Chagall 1887 - 1985
Chaim Soutine 1894 - 1943
Spain
Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973
Joan Miró 1893 - 1983
Salvador Dali 1904 - 1989
Switzerland
Paul Klee 1879 - 1940
Alberto Giacometti 1901 - 1966

(1) Feininger was born in New York but his parents were both German.


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