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Born January 9, 1894 • Warsaw • Poland
Died June 10, 1988 (aged 94) • Warsaw • Poland
Movement / Style Constructivism • abstract art • Abstraction-Création • Cercle et Carré
László Moholy-Nagy
Hungarian artist
Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
El Lissitzky cover
El Lissitzky
Russian artist
Jean Arp, c. 1960.
Jean Arp
French artist
Eiffel Tower, an oil painting on canvas by Robert Delaunay from 1910–11, is on display at the Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland. The painting was one of Delaunay's contributions to the art movement called cubism.
Robert Delaunay
French painter
Jean Hélion
French painter
Eduardo MacEntyre
Argentine artist
Paul Klee
Paul Klee
Swiss-German artist
Rudolf Bauer
German-born artist
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint
Swedish artist
Pierre Soulages
Pierre Soulages
French painter and printmaker
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova
Russian artist
Carmen Herrera
Carmen Herrera
American painter
Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova
Russian artist
Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhailovich
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko
Russian artist
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster
Russian artist
Joaquín Torres-García
Uruguayan painter

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