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Károly Ferenczy
Károly Ferenczy (1862–1917) was a Hungarian painter who became a leading figure of the Nagybánya artists' colony, blending French naturalism with Hungarian subjects and helping found modern Hungarian painting.
Károly Lotz
Károly Lotz (Lotz Károly, 1833–1904) was a Hungarian painter of German birth, the leading monumental muralist whose frescoes decorate the Budapest Opera House, National Museum, and Parliament.
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai (河鍋暁斎, 1831–1889) was a Japanese painter and printmaker who trained in both the ukiyo-e and Kano-school traditions and became celebrated for satirical, comic, and ghost paintings.
Kim Gyu-jin
Kim Gyu-jin (1868–1933), known by his pen name Haegang, was a Korean calligrapher and painter celebrated for monochrome ink paintings of bamboo and orchids in the literati tradition.
Konstantin Korovin
Konstantin Korovin (Константин Коровин; 1861–1939) was a Russian painter and theater designer regarded as the leading representative of Russian impressionism and chief artist of the Bolshoi Theatre.
Konstantin Somov
Konstantin Somov, also known as Konstantin Andreyevich Somov (Константин Андреевич Сомов), was a Russian painter and founding member of Mir Iskusstva, best known for The Lady in Blue.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Lourens Alma Tadema), Dutch-born Victorian painter (1836-1912) of classical Roman and Egyptian scenes with archaeological detail; London-based, Royal Academician, knighted 1899, Order of Merit 1905.
Lovis Corinth
Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), born Franz Heinrich Louis in Tapiau, East Prussia, was a German painter and printmaker, a leader of the Berlin Secession and, with Liebermann and Slevogt, a leading German Impressionist whose late work turned Expressionist.
M. V. Dhurandhar
M. V. Dhurandhar (Mahadev Vishwanath Dhurandhar, 1867–1944) was an Indian painter and illustrator of the Bombay School, celebrated for realistic paintings, postcards, and book illustrations of Indian everyday life.
Martin Johnson Heade
Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904) was an American painter and a central figure of luminism, known for salt marsh landscapes and original still lifes pairing orchids with hummingbirds.
Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844–1926), American Impressionist painter and printmaker based in Paris, the only American to exhibit with the Impressionists (1879–1886), known for mother-and-child scenes, the 1890 Set of Ten color prints, and the 1893 Modern Woman mural.
Marzan Sharav
Marzan Sharav (1869–1939), born Baldugiin Sharav, was a Mongolian painter whose nickname means "jester." He was the first Mongolian painter to turn to contemporary subjects and laid the foundation of modern Mongolian visual art.
Maurice Denis
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) was a French painter and the chief theorist of the Nabis, known for defining a painting as a flat surface covered with colors.
Maurice Prendergast
Maurice Prendergast (1858–1924) was a Newfoundlander-born American painter and watercolorist known for mosaic-like, brightly colored scenes of leisure, and an early adopter of post-impressionism in America.
Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann (1847–1935), German-Jewish painter and printmaker born and died in Berlin; pioneer of German Impressionism with Slevogt and Corinth, founder-president of the Berlin Secession, Prussian Academy president 1920–1933, banned by the Nazis in 1933.
Mihály Munkácsy
Mihály Munkácsy (1844–1900), born Michael von Lieb, was a Hungarian realist painter based in Paris, celebrated for genre scenes and large biblical works like Golgotha.
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911) was a Lithuanian painter and composer who laid the foundations of professional Lithuanian art and music, fusing painting with musical forms like sonatas and fugues.
Mikhail Vrubel
Mikhail Vrubel was a Russian painter, graphic artist, ceramicist, and stage designer born in Omsk in 1856, a leading Symbolist known for his Demon series.
Mikoláš Aleš
Mikoláš Aleš (1852–1913) was a leading Czech painter, illustrator, and decorator who drew on Czech and Slavic history and folk life, winning the 1879 National Theatre competition.
Mir Mohsun Navvab
Mir Mohsun Navvab (Mir Möhsün Nəvvab, 1833–1918) was an Azerbaijani polymath of Shusha, active as a poet, painter, and musicologist; his treatise Vüzuhül-ərqam is a key source on the Karabakh mugham tradition.
Mykola Pymonenko
Mykola Pymonenko (Микола Пимоненко) was a Ukrainian realist painter of Ukrainian village and town life scenes; his painting Hopak won a gold medal at the 1909 Paris Salon.
Nadežda Petrović
Nadežda Petrović (Надежда Петровић, 1873–1915) was a Serbian painter regarded as the leading Serbian painter of her time and a founder of modern Serbian painting.
Nakamura Fusetsu
Nakamura Fusetsu (中村不折; 1866–1943), real name Sekitarō, was a Japanese Western-style painter and calligrapher who founded the Calligraphy Museum in Tokyo's Negishi district in 1936 to house his collection of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy.
Nicolae Grigorescu
Nicolae Grigorescu (1838–1907) was a Romanian painter, trained in Paris and Barbizon, who introduced plein-air painting to Romania and became the country's national painter with almost 4,000 works.
Nikolai Ge
Nikolai Ge, also known as Mykola Ge, was a Russian and Ukrainian painter of French descent and a founder of the Peredvizhniki, known for "The Last Supper".
Nikolai Yaroshenko
Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (Ukrainian: Микола Ярошенко, 1846–1898) was a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin who led the Peredvizhniki and retired as a major-general to paint full time.
Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon (1840–1916), French Symbolist painter and printmaker known for his black charcoal and lithograph noirs, then luminous pastels; celebrated via Huysmans's À rebours and the 2011 Grand Palais retrospective.
Oleksandr Murashko
Oleksandr Murashko (Олександр Мурашко, born Krachkovsky) was a Ukrainian painter known for psychologically acute portraits, and a co-founder of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts in Kyiv.
Orest Kiprensky
Orest Kiprensky (Орест Кипренский, 1782–1836) was a Russian painter and draftsman, regarded as the first artist of Russian Romanticism and the leading master of the Russian romantic portrait.
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), French Post-Impressionist painter of Aix-en-Provence; Mont Sainte-Victoire, Card Players, apples, bathers; constructive brushstrokes and color-built form influenced Cubism, Fauvism, Picasso, and Matisse.