Klimt's Schubert am Klavier, burned by the Nazis in 1945

Gustav Klimt's decorations for Palais Dumba -Vienna University- were his most controversial and radical paintings. These cosmic dream pictures were attacked for their eroticism and atheism in his lifetime – today they might secure his reputation as a great modernist. But together with other paintings, including Schubert at the Piano (above), they are said to have been burned by the SS in 1945.

Jules Combarieau: La musica è l'arte di pensare attraverso i suoni

• La musica è l'arte di pensare attraverso i suoni.
• Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

Duy Huynh, 1975 ~ Symbolist /Surrealist painter

Picasso: Il peggior nemico della creatività è il buon gusto

Pablo Picasso - The serenade, 1942

• Il peggior nemico della creatività è il buon gusto.
• The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Ernst Barlach | Expressionist sculptor | Degenerate Art

Ernst Barlach (1870-1938), outstanding sculptor of the Expressionist movement whose style has often been called “modern Gothic”.

Barlach also experimented with graphic art and playwriting, and his work in all media is notable for its preoccupation with the sufferings of humanity.

Fritz Klimsch | Figurative sculptor

German sculptor Fritz Klimsch (1870-1960) trained at the Königliche Akademische Hochschule für die bildenden Künste (Royal Fine Art Academy) in Berlin in the drawing class taught by the painter Ernst Hancke and in the modelling class under Albert Wolff.

From 1887-1890 he was a pupil of Fritz Schaper's.

While still a student, the young sculptor produced his first important work, winning awards and his first taste of recognition.