Mary Butts

Mary Butts

female, deceased (1937)
Mary Franeis Butts (December 13, 1890 - March 5, 1937) was a British modernist writer. Her work found recognition in important literary magazines...
Josef Sudek

Josef Sudek

male, deceased (1976)
Josef Sudek was a Czech photographer, best known for his haunting night-scapes of Prague. Originally a bookbinder, Sudek was badly injured during...
David Lang

David Lang

male, 52 years old
David Lang (born January 8, 1957 in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer. Together with Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, Lang co-founded...

George Tyrrell

male, deceased (1909)
Father George Tyrrell S.J. (February 6, 1861 - July 15, 1909), was a priest and Modernist Catholic scholar. His attempts to interpret Catholic...
Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset

female, deceased (1949)
Sigrid Undset was a Norwegian novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1928. Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved...
Georg Brandes

Georg Brandes

male, deceased (1927)
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (February 4, 1842 - February 19, 1927) was a Danish Jewish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian...
John Entenza

John Entenza

male, deceased (1984)
John Entenza (1903-1984) was one of the pivotal figures in the growth of modernism in California. During his editorship, the magazine ARTS &...
Florine Stettheimer

Florine Stettheimer

female, deceased (1944)
Florine Stettheimer was an American artist. She has been described as "a Deco-influenced early Modernist who’s never really gotten her due". St...

Michael Groden

male
Michael Groden is Professor of English at The University of Western Ontario. Groden received a B.A. from Dartmouth College (magna cum laude) in...
Maxwell Fry

Maxwell Fry

male, deceased (1987)
Edwin Maxwell Fry, usually known as Maxwell Fry (born 2 August 1899; died 3 September 1987) was an English modernist architect. He was trained at...