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George Grosz (1893-1959)
painter, drawer, photographer, illustrator, lithographer, graphic artist, printmaker, architectural draftsperson
- Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
Lynd Ward (1905-1985)
illustrator, painter, comics artist, wood engraver
- Columbia University, Columbia University
Tove Jansson (1914-2001)
painter, illustrator, cartoonist
- Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki, Konstfack
Ben Shahn (1898-1969)
photographer, painter, designer, graphic artist, printmaker, muralist
- New York University, Art Students League of New York
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
actor, chess player, painter, sculptor, photographer, poet, librarian, designer, artist, visual artist, film director, philosopher, architectural draftsperson, printmaker, assemblage artist
- Académie Julian, Lycée Pierre-Corneille
José Martí (1853-1895)
linguist, poet, translator, military personnel, politician, essayist, journalist, painter, revolutionary
- University of Zaragoza
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)
painter, sculptor, scenographer, illustrator, jewelry designer, drawer, printmaker
- Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Athens School of Fine Arts
Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825-1894)
painter, businessperson
- Edinburgh Academy