Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession) movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches and other art objects, many of which are on display in the Vienna Secession gallery.

Stéphane Mallarmé, and through it Mallarmé exerted considerable influence on the work of a generation of writers (see below). His earlier work owes a great deal to the style established by Charles Baudelaire. His "fin-de-siècle" style, on the other hand, anticipates many of the fusions between poetry and the other arts that were to blossom in the Dadaist, Surrealist, and Futurist schools, …

Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the "fin de siècle" in international and French poetry.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (November 24, 1864 - September 9, 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the decadent and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an "oeuvre" of provocative images of modern life.

Anatole France was the pen name of French author Jacques Anatole François Thibault. He was born in Paris, France, and died in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France.

Satie and furniture music: not all of Satie's music is "furniture music". In the strict sense the term applies only to five of his compositions, which he wrote in 1917, 1920, and 1923. For the first public performance of "furniture music" see Entr'acte. Satie as precursor: the only "precursor" discussion Satie was involved in during his lifetime was whether or not he was a precursor of Claude Debussy, but many would follow.

Peter Altenberg was a writer and poet from Vienna, Austria. His was born Richard Engländer on March 9, 1859. The nom de plume, Altenberg, came from a small town on the Danube River. Allegedly, he chose the surname to honor a woman with whom he was in unrequited love. Although he grew up in a middle class Jewish family, Altenberg eventually separated himself from his family of origin by dropping out of both law and medical school, …

Paul Morand was a French diplomat, novelist, playwright and poet, considered an early Modernist. He was a member of the Académie française (there was only once a controversy about his candidature, which de Gaulle opposed in 1958. He was finally elected 10 years later). He was a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (better known as Sciences Po). During the pre-war period, he wrote many short books which are noted for their elegance of style, erudition, …

Eugène Anatole Carrière was a French Symbolist, "Fin de siècle" artist. His work is best known for its brown monochrome palette. He was a close friend of the sculptor Rodin and his work influenced Matisse and Picasso (some see traces of Carrière's monochrome style in Picasso's Blue period). He was born at Gournay (Seine et Marne) and studied at Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and later under Cabanel.

Leon Spilliaert (Oostende, 1881, Brussels, 1946) was a Belgian painter influenced by the symbolist art movement and the fin de siecle spirit, but with a very personal style. He often made use of Indian ink, pastel and watercolor.

Florence Farr was a West End leading actress and one time mistress of George Bernard Shaw, acting head of a famed magical order, women's rights journalist, divorcee, educator, singer, musician, and author of the novel, "The Dancing Faun." She was a friend and collaborator with William Butler Yeats, Aubrey Beardsley, Pamela Colman Smith, Arthur Edward Waite, Annie Horniman and many other literati of London's "Fin de siècle" era, …

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, frequently referred to as just Steinlen, was a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker.

Fyodor Sologub was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of "fin de siècle" literature and philosophy into Russian prose.

Mateiu Ion Caragiale (also credited as Matei; Mateiŭ is an antiquated version; March 25, 1885-January 17, 1936) was a Romanian poet and prose writer, best known for his novel "Craii de Curtea-Veche", which portrays the milieu of boyar descendants before and after World War I. In addition to his literary contributions, he was a heraldist and graphic artist.

Martin Andersen Nexø was a Danish writer. He is the first author writing about the working class and the first great Danish communist writer. He was born to a large family in a very poor area of Copenhagen, Denmark. His family moved to Nexø (which he later adopted as a last name), Denmark in 1877. As a young man he overcame tuberculosis. After a short career as a worker, he attended a folk high school; later, he worked as a journalist.

Professor Berghahn has laboured long among Stone's papers and in the archives of the Ford Foundation. His careful research is not always matched by an adequate apparatus of footnotes and references however. Among others, many participants in CCF committees are mentioned in the text but not referenced in the index.

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian painter and composer and perhaps the most famous Lithuanian artist of all time. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau and was representative of the fin de siécle epoch. During his short life he composed about 250 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings. The majority of his paintings are housed in the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Joseph Trumbull Stickney was an American classical scholar and poet. His style has been characterised as "fin de siècle" and he is known for his sonnets in particular. He was born in Geneva and spent much of his life in Europe.. He attended Harvard University from 1891 to 1895. He then studied for a doctorate at the Sorbonne. He wrote there two dissertations, one on Ermolao Barbaro, and the other on "Les Sentences dans la Poésie Grècque".

Ronald Blythe is an English writer and editor, best known in his native England for his "Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village" (1969), a portrait of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s. As editor of Penguin Classics for more than 20 years, Blythe has edited modern editions of works by writers such as Thomas Hardy, Henry James and William Hazlitt. He has also prepared a number of compilations, …

Sir John Richard Gray Drummond CBE (25 November 1934, London - 6 September 2006) was an English arts administrator who spent most of his career at the BBC. He was the son of a master mariner in the British India line and an Australian "lieder" singer. He was educated at Canford School and, after his National Service in the Navy, read History at Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he was a member of the Marlowe Society, …

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a British author and cartoonist, born in Paris, France. He studied art in Paris, and moved to Antwerp, Belgium, where he lost vision in his left eye. He consulted an oculist in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he met his future wife, Emma Wightwick. He followed her family to London, where he married Emma in 1863. He became a member of the staff of the satirical magazine "Punch" in 1865, drawing two cartoons a week.

Jack Perrin was an American actor specializing in westerns. He was born Lyman Wakefield Perrin in Three Rivers, Michigan; his father worked in real estate and relocated the family to Los Angeles, California shortly after the turn of the century. Perrin served in the U.S. Navy during World War I. Following the war, he returned to Los Angeles and started acting for Universal Studios. Initially Perrin did bit parts and supporting roles, …

Spencer Penrose was a philanthropist in and around Colorado Springs at the turn of the 20th century. Penrose started as a ladies-man and an adventurer who made a huge fortune in the gold fields of nearby Cripple Creek in the 1890s. He married Julie Villiers Lewis McMillan and settled down.

Peyo Yavorov (born Peyo Totev Kracholov, Пейо Тотев Крачолов; January 1, 1878–October 17, 1914)) was a Bulgarian Symbolist poet, considered to be one of the finest poetic talents in the "fin de siècle" Kingdom of Bulgaria. He was a prominent member of the Misul group. Part of his life and work are closely connected with the liberation movement Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in Macedonia.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, in Denmark always called Johannes V. Jensen was a Danish author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944. One of his sisters, Thit Jensen, was also a well-known writer and a very vocal, and occasionally controversial, early feminist. He was born in Farsø, a village in North Jutland, Denmark, …

Leonetto Cappiello (b. 1875 in Livorno, Italy; d. 1942 in Cannes, France) was an Italian poster art designer who lived in Paris. He is now often called "the father of modern advertising." Cappiello had no formal training in art. The first exhibition of his work was in 1892, when a painting was displayed at the municipal museum in Florence. Cappiello started his career as a caricaturist illustrating in journals like Le Rire, "Le Cri de Paris", "Le Sourire", …

Cooper Seay (born on December 7, 1965 as Elizabeth Cooper Seay) was a member of the rock bands Ellen James Society and Viva la Diva. She recently released a solo album, "Fin de Siecle", on Moksha Records, as "E. Cooper Seay". In the past, she was romantically linked with Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. She also works as a Bikram and Sivananda yoga instructor in Northampton, Massachusetts. She continues to perform live, most recently in Atlanta, Georgia, at Dad's Garage, …

Arthur Paunzen was born in fin de siecle Vienna where he studied with Ludwig Koch. He also studied in FranceAcademie Julian under Jean Pierre Laurens and traveled Italy studying art and architecture which was very common for his time. Paunzen created a number of works that make bold symbolic attempts to convey music as images.

Ian Fletcher was a British professor who specialized in Victorian literature. He edited definitive editions of the works of John Gray and Lionel Johnson, as well as publishing studies on such seminal fin-de-siècle figures as Aubrey Beardsley and Walter Pater. He spent the last six years of his life teaching at Arizona State University. His collected poems were published in 1998, ten years after his death. Fletcher was born in a Streatham nursing home in 1920, …

Ella D'Arcy was an author of novels and short stories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Born in London, she also spent time living in the Channel Islands. Her works are associated with the "New" fiction of the fin-de-siècle, characterized by an attitude of aestheticism, changing social attitudes and psychological realism. She was a contributor to the Yellow Book, …

Theodore William Graf Wratislaw (1871-1933), Count of the Holy Roman Empire, was a British poet. He entered his father's office and in 1893 passed his solicitor's final exams. He had to work to earn his living as a solicitor at Somerset House, describing life there as "penal servitude". In 1892 he published at his own expense two slim volumes of poems - "Love's Memorial" and "Some verses". In 1893 he published "Caprices" (now available unexpurgated).

Vance Thompson was an American literary critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Very much an aesthete, Thompson, along with his good friend James Huneker, helped bring fin-de-siècle French authors to the attention of the American public. Thompson also authored several books on healthy living, such as 1914's "Eat and Grow Thin" and 1916's "Drink and Be Sober".

Henry Gauthier-Villars or Willy, his nom-de-plume, was a French fin-de-siecle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the mentor and first husband of Colette. Born on August 8, 1859 in Villiers-sur-Orge into a bourgois Catholic family, he attended the Lycee Fontanes and later the Jesuit College Stanislas in Paris. He becam fluent in Latin and German.

Allen Norton was an American poet and literary editor of the 1910s and 20s. He and his wife Louise Norton edited the little magazine "Rogue", published from March to September 1915. The periodical, partly financed by Walter Conrad Arensberg, served as an early showcase for the work of Arensberg himself, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, and Alfred Kreymborg. Norton's 1914 volume of verse, "Saloon Sonnets With Sunday Flutings", …