potter and ceramic artist (d. 1982) Art Frahm, American pin-up and advertising artist (d. 1981) Deaths January 8 – Theodoor Verstraete, Belgian rural realist painter and printmaker (born 1850) February 5 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876) February 11 – Christen Dalsgaard, Danish painter (born 1824) February 14 – Adolf Seel, German painter (born 1829) March 26 – Ettore Roesler Franz, Italian painter (born 1845) April 14 – James Clarke Hook, marine and historical painter (born 1819) May 5 – Şeker Ahmet Paşa, Turkish military painter (born 1841) May 11 – Edward Kemeys, American sculptor (born 1843) May 18 – Bernhard Plockhorst, German painter and graphic artist (born 1825) June 14 – Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Italian neo-impressionist painter (born 1868) July 16 – Théobald Chartran, French propaganda painter (born 1849) August 3 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American Beaux-Arts sculptor (born 1848) October 4 – Alfredo Keil, Portuguese romantic composer and painter (born 1850) October 30 – Đorđe Krstić, Serbian Realist painter (born 1851) November 10 – Alexander Zick, German painter and illustrator (born 1845) November 21 Paula Modersohn-Becker, German Expressionist painter (born 1876; embolism) Balduin Wolff, German painter and chess player (born 1819) November 23 – John F. Peto, American trompe-l'œil painter (born 1854) November 26 - Mario Raggi, Italian sculptor (born 1821) November 27 – Paul Ritter, German architectural painter (born 1829) November 28 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, painter and designer (born 1869) References Years of the 20th century in art 1900s in art