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Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archive is an extensive image library featuring over 40.000 high resolution images from over 500 museums and many other collections. Founded and mostly photographed by Erich Lessing, the collection covers a wide range of subjects: Fine Arts, Religion, History, Music, Archaeology, Mythology, Architecture, Landscapes, Historical Portraits and Reportage.

 

Death of Painter Amadeo Modigliani

24 January 1920

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (12 July 1884 - 24 January 1920) was an Italian artist. He worked mostly in France and became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form. Exacerbated by poverty, overworked and addicted to alcohol and narcotics, he died in Paris of tubercular meningitis.

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