famous German / American people: artist Josef Albers
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist, creating in modern abstract art, inspirational art teacher (1888 – 1976)

famous American people: artist Carl Andre
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist, American sculptor, creating in Minimalism art (1935 -)

famous Dutch people: artist Karel Appel
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist of Cobra, creating expressive modern art (1921 – 2006)

famous Swiss / French people: artist Hans / Jean Arp
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist, creating in Dadaism and Surrealism; modern art (1886 – 1966)

famous Italian people: artist Giacomo Balla
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist, painter creating in Italian Futurism, art teacher (1886 – 1966)

famous American people: artist William Baziotes
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist, creating modern ‘surrealist’ art, painter in American Abstract Expressionism / New York School (1912 – 1963)

famous German people: artist Max Beckman
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - - great artist, painter creating many triptychs in German Expressionism (1884 – 1950)

famous German people: artist Joseph Beuys
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great utopian German artist of modern art and early performer; creating in Fluxus (1921 – 1986)

famous Italian people: artist Umberto Boccioni
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist; painter and sculptor, creating in Futurism (1882 – 1916)

famous French people: artist Georges Braque
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist, painter; co-founder with Picasso and creating in Cubism (1882 – 1963)

famous French people: artist André Breton
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - leading theorist, great writer, poet, creating in French Surrealism; modern art (1882 – 1963)

famous Italian people: artist Carlo Carrà
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great Italian artist; painter creating in Futurism (1881 – 1966)

famous French people: artist Paul Cézanne
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great French artist; great painter who broke Impressionism, creating many landscapes and still-lifes (1839-1906)

famous Russian people: artist Marc Chagall
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - figurative artist, great painter of Russian / Jewish origin, picturing Jewish life (1887 – 1985)

famous Italian people: artist Giorgio de Chirico
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist; painter and founder of Pittura Metafisica / creating metaphysical Painting (1888 – 1971)

famous English people: artist John Constable
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great English Romantic painter creating landscapes (1776 – 1837)

famous French people: artist Camille Corot
- his life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great French painter, creating many landscapes; Barbizon School (1796 -1875)

famous French people: artist Eugéne Délacroix
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - artist creating French Romantic art; great painter and muralist (1798 – 1863)

famous Dutch people: artist Theo van Doesburg
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - co-founder of ‘De Stijl’ , great painter creating in Neo-Plasticism with Mondrian (1883-1931)

famous French people: artist Jean Dubuffet
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - modern great painter creating and initiating ‘arte brute’ (1901 – 1985)

famous French people: artist Marcel Duchamp
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - important artist of French Surrealism, creating famous ready mades (1887 – 1968)

famous American people: woman artist Helen Frankenthaler
- her artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and her short biography - great woman painter, creating in American Abstract Expressionism / New York School, great woman painter (born 1928)

famous German people: artist Caspar David Friedrich
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great German painter creating Romantic landscape paintings (1774 – 1840)

famous Armenian / American people: artist Arshile Gorky
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - artist of American Abstract Expressionism, great painter, creating in the New York School (1900 - 1948)

famous American people: artist Adolph Gottlieb
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist of American Abstract expressionism; painter creating Color Field Painting (1903- 1974)

famous American / Canadian people: artist Philip Guston
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great painter of Abstract Expressionism / New York School, later he was creating figurative painting (1903- 1974)

famous American people: artist Marsden Hartley
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist of American modernism art, creating abstract & figurative painting (1877 - 1943)

famous English people: woman artist Barbara Hepworth
- her artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and her short biography - great sculptress creating modern abstract art, and many ‘ovals’ (1903 - 1975)

famous German / American people: artist Hans Hofmann
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great senior artist and teacher; painter creating Abstract Expressionism; New York School (1880 - 1966)

famous American people: artist Edward Hopper
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great American modern realist painter, creating his - he called personally - ‘modern Impressionism’ (1882 – 1967)

famous Russian people: artist Alexej von Jawlensky
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - artist in the ‘Blue Rider’ / Blaue Reiter, great painter and husband of Marianne Werefkin, later he was creating small ‘spiritual’ art (1864 – 1941)

famous American people: artist Jasper Johns
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great American artist, painter creating between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art (1930 - )

famous Danish people: artist Asger Jorn
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great Danish painter creating modern expressive mythical art and organizing in Cobra art movement (1914 - 1973)

famous Russian people: artist Wassily Kandinsky
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - one of the great founding artists of Blue Rider / Blaue Reiter, creating early Abstract art (1866 -1944)

famous American people: artist Ellsworth Kelly
- his artist quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great American artist; painter, creating Hard Edge painting (1923 -)

famous German people: artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist of German Expressionism, painter creating and founding in ‘Die Brücke’ / The Bridge(1880 – 1938)

famous Swiss / German people: artist Paul Klee
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist of Swiss origin , working a lot in Germany, a painter creating in a expressive / surrealist approach (1879 - 1940)

famous French people: artist Yves Klein
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great French artist; creating many monochrome paintings & ‘immaterial’ art (1928 - 1962)

famous American people: artist Franz Kline
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist of American Abstract Expressionism; painter, creating abstract paintings; New York School (1910 - 1962)

famous American / Dutch people: artist Willem de Kooning
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - leading artist in American Abstract expressionism / great painter of New York School, creating expressive abstract paintings with strong gesture (1904 - 1997)

famous American people: artist Lee Krasner
- her woman artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great woman artist in American Abstract Expressionism, creating firm abstract art; New York School (1908 - 1984)

famous French people: artist Fernand Léger
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - Cubist artist; great painter who later in his life was creating in Purism art (1908 - 1984)

famous American people: artist Roy Liechtenstein
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist, painter of modern American Pop Art (1923 - 1997)

famous Russian people: artist Kazimir Malevich
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great painter and founder of Russian Suprematism; later more figuration (1879 – 1935)

famous German people: artist Franz Marc
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist of Blue Rider and creating many animal paintings; German Expressionism (1880 – 1916)

famous Italian people: artist Filippo Marinetti
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great poet and writer; founder of Italian Futurism (1876 – 1944)

famous French people: artist Henri Matisse
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great artist, painter creating expressive colorful art and founder of French Fauvism (1869 – 1954)

famous Spanish people: artist Joan Miró
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great Spanish painter and print maker who was partly creating in Dada / Surrealism (1893 – 1983)

famous American / French people: woman artist Joan Mitchell
- her artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great American woman painter in Abstract Expressionism. creating in France later in her life (born 1926)

famous German people: woman artist Paula Modersohn-Becker
- her artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great German woman painter creating in early Expressionism; Worpswede (1876 – 1907)

famous Dutch people: artist Piet Mondrian
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great Dutch painter, co-founder of “De Stijl’ with Van Doesburg; creating early abstract art (1872 – 1946)

famous French people: artist Claude Monet
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great French painter, leading artist in Impressionism, creating many landscape paintings (1840 – 1928)

famous American people: artist Robert Motherwell
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great American painter creating Abstract Expressionism; New York School (1915 – 1999)

famous German people: woman artist Gabriele Münter
- her artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great German woman painter of The Blue Rider art movement, creating expressive landscape paintings (1877 – 1962)

famous American people: artist Barnett Newman
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and biography - great American painter creating Color Field painting (1905 -1970)

famous American people: artist Kenneth Noland
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and biography - great American Color Field painter, creating between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. (1924 -2010)

famous American people: woman artist Georgia O’Keeffe
- her artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great woman artist, creating many ‘abstract’ landscapes; American Modernism (1887 – 1986)

famous Spanish / French people: artist Pablo Picasso
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography - great Spanish artist who founded Cubism with Braque; creating painting, sculpture, graphic, drawing (1881 – 1973)

famous American people: artist Jackson Pollock
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography; great American painter in Abstract Expressionism; creating drip paintings (1912 -1956)

famous American people: artist Mark Rothko
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography; great American painter creating abstract colorful art; New York School (1903 – 1970)

famous Italian people: artist Luigo Russolo
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography- great Italian painter and musician, creating paintings in Futurism (1885 – 19478)

famous Italian people: artist Gino Severini
- his artist life quotes, inspirational art quotations and short biography- great painter, creating also sculpture; Italian Futurism (1883 - 1966)

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