Miro, Joan
(1893-1983), Spanish painter, graphic artist, sculptor and ceramist, was influenced by Cubism, Fauvism, Dadaism, and Surrealism and today is considered an important representative of Classic Modernism.
Modern Architectural Research Group,
also known as the MARS Group, was an association of British architects which was founded in 1933 to support the Modernist architects.
Moissi, Maria
née Urfus, German actress and acting tutor who worked with the Reinhardt theatres in Berlin, wife of Alexander Moissi.
Mondrian, Piet
(1972-1944), Dutch Classic Modernist painter, considered the most important representative of Dutch Constructivism and concrete art.
Moore, Henry
(1898-1986) British sculptor, was known for his large-scale abstractions of the human body.
Muche, Georg
(1895-1987), painter and graphic designer, taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau as well as at the Itten School in Berlin.
Mühsam, Erich
1878-1934, anarchist Jewish writer. Arrested on the night of the Reichstag fire and murdered in Oranienburg Concentration Camp in 1934.
Münzenberg, Willy
1889-1940, communist politician, journalist and publisher, who emigrated to Paris in 1933. Münzenberg died in unclear circumstances while escaping from an internment camp in the unoccupied South of France.
Nansen passport
An identity document for stateless refugees, introduced in 1922. It was named after Fridtjof Nansen, the League of Nations’ High Commissioner for Refugees.
Nathan, Ilse
Born in Berlin in 1909, harpist, pianist. Nothing more is known about this musician.
