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Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse was a French painter, notable as a leader of Fauvism after the 1905 Salon d'Automne and for bold color in...

French 20TH Century Decorative Colorist

9.4 Excellent

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Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter, born in Dresden in 1932, became a major German painter through blurred photo-based images and abstracti...

German Contemporary 20TH Century Abstract

9.4 Excellent

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Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter, notable as a pioneer of abstract art and cofounder of Der Blaue Reiter in Munic...

Russian 20TH Century Pioneer Abstract

9.3 Excellent

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Paul Klee

Paul Klee was a Swiss born artist associated with Germany, notable for playful abstraction, teaching at the Bauhaus from...

Germany Switzerland 20TH Century Abstract

9.0 Excellent

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Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor known for monumental works confronting German history, myth, and memory a...

German 20TH Century Large Scale Historical

8.9 Great

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Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke was a German painter who co-founded Capitalist Realism in 1963 and used dots, fabric, and irony to question...

German Contemporary Conceptual 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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Max Ernst

Max Ernst was a German painter and sculptor, notable for Surrealist collage, frottage techniques, and his role in Dada i...

German 20TH Century Surrealism Dada

8.7 Great

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Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard was a French painter, born in 1867, and a founder of Les Nabis, known for color-rich interiors, domestic...

French 20TH Century Post Impressionism Colorist

8.7 Great

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Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz was a German printmaker and sculptor whose 1890s and 1900s cycles depicted workers, war, grief, and socia...

German Social 19TH Century Female

8.7 Great

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Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann was a German painter, notable for crowded triptychs and figurative works responding to Weimar Germany, exil...

German Social 20TH Century Figurative

8.6 Great

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Chaïm Soutine

Chaim Soutine was a Belarusian-born painter of the School of Paris, born in 1893, known for turbulent Expressionist port...

20TH Century Figurative Expressionism Gestural

8.4 Great

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German Expressionist painter, notable as a founder of Die Brücke in Dresden in 1905 and for...

German 20TH Century Urban Expressionism

8.3 Great

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Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz is a German painter known for upside-down figures, a device he adopted in 1969 to disrupt conventional re...

German 20TH Century Figurative Neo Expressionism

8.3 Great

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Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian Expressionist painter, notable for psychologically charged portraits and the 1914 painti...

Austrian 20TH Century Portrait Figurative

8.2 Great

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Franz Marc

Franz Marc was a German painter, notable as a cofounder of Der Blaue Reiter in 1911 and for symbolic animal paintings su...

German 20TH Century Animals Expressionism

8.2 Great

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Sonia Delaunay

Sonia Delaunay was a Ukrainian-born French painter, born in 1885, who co-founded Orphism with Robert Delaunay and applie...

France 20TH Century Abstract Ukraine

8.2 Great

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Nicolas de Staël

Nicolas de Staël was a French-Russian painter whose thickly painted abstractions and landscapes made him a major postwar...

Russia France 20TH Century Landscape

8.2 Great

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Frank Auerbach

Frank Auerbach is a German-born British painter, born in Berlin in 1931, known for thickly worked portraits and Camden T...

20TH Century British Impasto Figurative

8.1 Great

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Emil Nolde

Emil Nolde was a German Expressionist painter from Schleswig, notable for intense color, religious subjects, and members...

German 20TH Century Religious Expressionism

8.0 Great

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Milton Avery

Milton Avery was an American modernist painter known for simplified color planes and quiet figures, influencing Color Fi...

American 20TH Century Modernism Figurative

8.0 Great