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NameGustav KlimtLife Dates1862-1918CountryAustriaMovementArt Nouveau Gustav Klimt BiographyGustav Klimt was an influential Austrian painter of the late 19th Century, one of the founders and leaders of the Vienna Secession art movement, although he would later move beyond it. Klimt was born in Vienna, in 1862, into a lower middle-class family of Moravian origin. His father, Ernst Klimt, worked as a

NameGeorge GroszLife Dates1893-1959CountryGermanyMovementDada George Grosz BiographyGeorg Ehrenfried Gross was born on 26 July 1893 in Berlin into the family of Karl Ehrenfried Gross, an innkeeper, and his wife Marie Wilhelmine Luise. When the boy was only seven years old his father died. Together with his mother he lived alternately in Berlin and Stolp in Pomerania, where Georg started secondary

NameHieronymus BoschLife Dates1450-1516CountryNetherlandsMovementNorthern Renaissance Hieronymus Bosch BiographyBosch's pictures have always fascinated viewers, but in earlier centuries it was widely assumed that his diabolic scenes were intended merely to amuse or titillate, most people regarded him as "the inventor of monsters and chimeras." Philip II, though, collected his works more for educat