Schiele was a prominent figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is cited for its vigor and its natural sexuality and self-portraits the painter created, including nude self-portraits.

Gustav Klimt was born in 1862 in Austria. He was a symbolist painter and one of the most notable members of the Vienna Secession movement.

René François Ghislain Magritte, known as Rene Magritte, was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became recognized for making a number of humorous and thought-provoking pictures.

Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American artist. During the 1960s, together with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist, he became a leading figure in the new pop art movement.

William Blake was known as an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Vastly unrecognized during his lifetime.

Gerhard Richter is a German painter artist. Richter has created abstract and photorealistic paintings. He also experimented with photography and sculpture glass installations.

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist and painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and artworks motivated by nature and relics of Mexico.

Caspar David Friedrich was the ultimate figure of the German Romantic style in painting. He was a man who had uncovered the mystery of landscape, and a painter of loneliness and despair.

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French painter who explored sculpture and writing. He was associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.

Nicolas Poussin was the foremost painter of the classical French Baroque style.