Fin de Siecle Celebrities by Image

I was famous for painting Paris's bohemian nightlife. I drew many famous posters for clubs such as the Moulin Rouge.

I painted The Scream.

I was a prolific French actress who played a wide variety of roles from Tosca to Hamlet.

I painted The Kiss.

I coined the idea of the Ubermensch and the will to power.

I wrote Salome.

I wrote The Brothers Karamazov.

I famously said "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."

I was a proto-fascist writer who influenced Mussolini. Nicknamed 'The Prophet', my novels often featured an Ubermensch.

I proposed that within crowds there forms a new psychological entity, the characteristics of which are determined by the "racial unconscious" of the crowd.

My drawings in black ink (such as The Peacock Skirt) influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic.

I coined the term "nature versus nurture."

I wrote Degeneration, which rallied against 'degenerate' or 'sick' fin de siecle art. I feared society would return to a pre-Enlightenment era.

An Irish writer, I was the central figure of the New Woman movement, which questioned the idea of marriage and the inequality of women.

I wrote social realist plays. My play "A Doll's House" depicts one woman's struggle to survive in a male-dominated society.

My notion of the power of myth in people's lives (in particular, national myth) inspired socialists, anarchists, Marxists, and fascists.

I was a famous symphonic conductor and composer. Much of my Jewish heritage can be heard in my work.

I wrote a series of beautiful and sobering letters to a young poet.

I wrote The Interpretation of Dreams

I was a socialist writer who wrote The World of The Worlds and The Time Machine.

I was an early American photographer and photojournalist whose career lasted for almost half a century.

I was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, best known for my distinct, intricate style and my images of women. My Paris posters were often stolen from the street.