biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1862–1918)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Vienna, Austria. The leading master of the Vienna Sezession, he began with a firm of decorators, painting nondescript murals for museums and theatres, but in 1900–3 he painted some murals for the University of Vienna in a new and shocking Symbolist style which caused great controversy. His portraits combine realistically painted heads with flat abstract backgrounds. |
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