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[[underline]] EDGAR DEGAS [[/underline]]
Prominent French Impressionist - 1834-1917. Degas' works have been exhibited in practically every large city of Europe and the Americas. His works are represented in all the larger art museums in America, more than twenty of them being in the permanent collection of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

* [[underline]] OTTO DIX [[/underline]] 
"Born 1891. Mordant realism is apparent in almost all Dix's work, but is accompanied by a very keen and original sense of the grotesque. He shares a deep-seated passion for the appearance of the real world with his artistic ancestors of the early 19th Century and his greater forebears of four centuries ago - Durer, Holbein, and Grunewald." 
 
Prior to 1931, Dix was represented by paintings in the museums of ten of the larger German cities. 

[[underline]] WERNER GILLES [[/underline]] 
German - born about 1890. His works are reported to have been exhibited widely in Germany. 

* [[underline]] ERICH HECKEL [[/underline]] 
"Born in Germany 1883. He gave up architecture in 1905 to form with Kirchner and Schmidt-Rottluff, the Brucke group of painters. Erich Heckel, one of the original founders of the Brucke, has as a painter little of the strength of either Schmidt-Rottluff or Kirchner, but is more varied, flexible, and sensitive." 

Prior to 1931, Heckel was represented by paintings in the museums of at least thirty of the larger German cities. 

* [[underline]] KARL HOFER [[/underline]] 
"Born at Karlsruhe 1878. He was judge at Carnegie Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1929. Hofer has developed a highly individual style, severe, thoughtful and decidedly more classical in feeling than that of any other important contemporary German painter. Hofer's reputation outside of Germany is considerable because he has succeeded in doing well what few other Germans are really interested in: composition in the tradition of Cezanne." 

Hofer is said to be represented by paintings in the museums of twenty-four or more cities of Europe and the United States, including Rome, Italy; Detroit, Michigan; and Zurich, Switzerland. 

[[underline]] ALEX JAWLENSKY [[/underline]] 
Russian - born in 1864. His works were in the permanent collections of more than twenty of the most prominent museums in Germany prior to 1933. He was associated with the group of Klee, Feininger and Kandinsky.