1900
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Visual arts
The The Road to Hell[1] is a 1900 drawing by Alfred Kubin that depicts a tunnel, at the end of the tunnel is a woman, between this woman's legs disappear rectangular boxes speeding towards her.
Literature
- Sigmund Freud — The Interpretation of Dreams
- La Ronde (1900) - Arthur Schnitzler
Births
- Oskar Fischinger
- Pierre Molinier
- George Antheil
- January 5 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
- February 4 - Jacques Prévert, French lyricist and author (d. 1977)
- February 11 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (d. 2002)
- February 22 - Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director (d. 1983)
- March 23 - Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (d. 1980)
- July 4 - Robert Desnos, French poet (d. 1945)
Deaths
- Henry Spencer Ashbee
- January 20 - John Ruskin, English writer and social critic (b. 1819)
- June 5 - Stephen Crane, American author (b. 1871)
- August 25 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer (b. 1844)
- November 30 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
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