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32 results
title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
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Tristan Tzara | Tristan Tzara | none | 1963 | Romanian | avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Tzara |
Erich von Stroheim | Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim | 1885 | 1957 | Austrian | director, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Stroheim |
Maya Deren | Maya Deren | 1917 | 1961 | Ukrainian | experimental filmmaker and important promoter of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Deren |
Alice B. Toklas | Alice Babette Toklas | 1877 | 1967 | American | member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner of American writer Gertrude Stein | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_B._Toklas |
Joey Baron | Bernard Joseph Baron | 1955 | n/a | American | avant-garde jazz drummer who plays frequently with Bill Frisell and John Zorn | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Baron |
Naum Gabo | Naum Gabo | 1977 | n/a | null | influential sculptor, theorist, and key figure in Russia's post-Revolution avant-garde and the subsequent development of twentieth-century sculpture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naum_Gabo |
Rudi Gernreich | Rudolf "Rudi" Gernreich | 1922 | 1985 | Austrian | fashion designer whose avant-garde clothing designs are generally regarded as the most innovative and dynamic fashion of the 1960s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Gernreich |
Anthony Coleman | Anthony Coleman | 1955 | n/a | null | avant-garde jazz pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Coleman |
Lilya Brik | Lilya Yuryevna Brik | none | 1978 | Russian | author and socialite, connected to many leading figures in the Russian avant-garde between 1914 and 1930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilya_Brik |
Myra Melford | Myra Melford | 1957 | n/a | American | avant-garde jazz pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_Melford |
Nathan Altman | Nathan Isaevich Altman | none | 1970 | Russian | avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Altman |
Ilarie Voronca | Ilarie Voronca | 1903 | 1946 | Romanian | avant-garde poet and essayist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilarie_Voronca |
Arthur Lipsett | Arthur Lipsett | 1936 | 1986 | Canadian | avant-garde director of short collage films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lipsett |
Ilse Bing | Ilse Bing | 1899 | 1998 | German | avant-garde and commercial photographer who produced pioneering monochrome images during the inter-war era | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Bing |
Sașa Pană | Sașa Pană | 1902 | 1981 | Romanian | avant-garde poet, novelist, and short story writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sașa_Pană |
H. Bonciu | H. Bonciu, or Horia Bonciu | 1893 | 1950 | Romanian | novelist, poet, journalist and translator, noted especially as an atypical figure on his country's avant-garde scene | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Bonciu |
Kurt Kren | Kurt Kren | 1929 | 1998 | Austrian | avant-garde filmmaker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Kren |
Thomas Koppel | Thomas Koppel | 1944 | 2006 | Danish | classical music and avant-garde popular composer and musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Koppel |
Paul Păun | Paul Păun | 1915 | 1994 | Romanian | avant-garde poet and visual artist, who wrote in Romanian and French and produced surrealist and abstract drawings | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Păun |
Róbert Berény | Róbert Berény | 1887 | 1953 | Hungarian | painter, one of the avant-garde group known as The Eight who introduced cubism and expressionism to Hungarian art in the early twentieth century before the First World War | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Róbert_Berény |
Vladimir Baranov-Rossine | Wladimir Davidovich Baranoff-Rossine | 1888 | 1944 | null | Ukrainian, Russian painter of Jewish origin, avant-garde artist (Cubo-Futurism), and inventor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Baranov-Rossine |
Solomon Nikritin | Solomon Nikritin | 1898 | 1965 | Ukrainian | painter, avant-garde artist ( Neo-Primitivist, Constructivist), philosopher, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Nikritin |
Tadeusz Peiper | Tadeusz Peiper | 1891 | 1969 | Polish | poet, art critic, theoretician of literature and one of the precursors of the avant-garde movement in Polish poetry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Peiper |
Rudolf Fränkel | Rudolf Fränkel, often anglicised as Rudolf | 1901 | 1974 | German | Jewish architect who was among the leaders of the pre-war avant-garde movement in Berlin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Fränkel |
Yankev Shternberg | Yankev Shternberg | 1890 | 1973 | null | Yiddish theater director, teacher of theater, playwright, avant-garde poet and short-story writer, best known for his theater work in Romania between the two world wars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankev_Shternberg |
Armand Schwerner | Armand Schwerner | 1927 | 1999 | null | avant-garde Jewish-American poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Schwerner |
Anna Lesznai | Anna Lesznai | 1885 | 1966 | Hungarian | writer, painter, designer, and key figure in the Hungarian avant-garde | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Lesznai |
Marek Szwarc | Marek Szwarc | 1892 | 1958 | null | painter and sculptor associated with the School of Paris (École de Paris), as well as with the Yiddish cultural avant-garde movement in Poland Yung-yidish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Szwarc |
Arthur Kaufmann (artist) | Arthur Kaufmann | 1888 | 1971 | null | avant-garde German painter, who was a key figure in the Post-Expressionist and New Objectivity art movements | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kaufmann_(artist) |
Anita Rée | Anita Clara Rée | 1885 | 1933 | German | avant-garde painter during the Weimar Republic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Rée |
Isaac de Camondo | Comte Isaac de Camondo | 1851 | 1911 | null | member of the House of Camondo noted primarily as an art collector with a noteworthy interest in the then "avant-garde" artists of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_de_Camondo |
Alen Ilijic | Alen Ilijic | 1975 | n/a | null | new media avant-garde composer and polymedia artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alen_Ilijic |