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Born April 18, 1884 • Poland
Died May 14, 1966 (aged 82) • Darmstadt • Germany
Movement / Style Expressionism
Role In degenerate art
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter and writer
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
Nolde, Emil: Cows in the Lowland
Emil Nolde
German artist
George Grosz.
George Grosz
German artist
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
French artist Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
French artist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French artist
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
Francisco Goya
Spanish artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa
Théodore Géricault
French painter
Jacques Villon
French painter
“Still Life,” oil on canvas by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Henri Fantin-Latour
French painter
Daniel Maclise
Irish painter
Self-portrait by Louis-Léopold Boilly, oil on canvas, 1795; in the Museum of Fine Arts, Lille, France.
Louis-Léopold Boilly
French painter
Munch, Edvard
Edvard Munch
Norwegian artist
Portrait of a Girl, oil painting by Alexey von Jawlensky, 1909; in the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Alexey von Jawlensky
Russian painter
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist

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