Can you name the country of birth of these famous artists?

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Source: Getty Union List of Artists
Some countries no longer exist or now go by different names. Either the historically appropriate or contemporary name is accepted.
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Artist's Name	Country of Birth	Birth Year
Shen Zhou		1427
Leonardo da Vinci		1452
Albrecht Durer		1471
El Greco		1541
Peter Paul Rubens		1577
Jeong Seon		1676
Angelica Kauffmann		1741
William Blake		1757
Katsushika Hokusai		1760
Claude Monet		1840
Mary Cassatt		1844
Vincent van Gogh		1853
Alphonse Mucha		1860
Gustav Klimt		1862
Edvard Munch		1863
Camille Claudel		1864
Vassily Kandinsky		1866

Artist's Name	Country of Birth	Birth Year
Kathe Kollwitz		1867
Piet Mondrian		1872
Tom Thomson		1877
Norman Lindsay		1879
Pablo Picasso		1881
Tarsila do Amaral		1886
Marc Chagall		1887
Hassan Fathy		1900
Alberto Giacometti		1901
Salvador Dali		1904
Frida Kahlo		1907
Francis Bacon		1909
Amrita Sher-Gil		1913
Andy Warhol		1928
Yoko Ono		1933
Ana Mendieta		1948
Mona Hatoum		1952

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Artists' Birth Countries Quiz

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Created Feb 24, 2010 in History
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	triberocker:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 18:25 GMT		27 points
	this was also a good lesson in surname etymology

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	adeutsch107:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 19:12 GMT		22 points
	netherlands should be accepted for Peter Paul Rubens

	hollabackitsobi:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 19:17 GMT		37 points
	As if Theodopolous Domenicos isn't a giveaway enough.

	buckleppin:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 19:28 GMT		5 points
	Francis Bacon was born in Dublin which is in Ireland.

	Isstvan:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 20:25 GMT		6 points
	When was the Southern Netherlands a country on its own?

	D3nn1s:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 21:36 GMT		6 points
	Since 1830, it's now known as Belgium.

	TreehuggnCowgirl:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 21:40 GMT		1 point
	I'm kicking myself for missing Lindsay. I just watched Sirens a couple of months ago.

	frimbo:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 22:15 GMT		10 points
	Nice quiz, and thanks for the liberal acceptance of "almost" answers!

	ad808:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 23:26 GMT		-1 points
	I'm right there with you, Treehuggn. I was typing the answer to Lindsay when time ran out.

	TediousGit:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 23:44 GMT		7 points
	@buckleppin; the tendency in this quiz (although it's not universally followed!) seems to be that the official answer given is the national state in which the artist was born, given the political situation at the time of their birth. Dublin is indeed in Ireland, but in 1909, Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom.

	TediousGit:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 23:57 GMT		13 points
	Having said that, a little more consistency on this point might improve this excellent quiz. Hungary was not a country in 1913, and Czechoslovakia not only wasn't a country in 1860. it isn't one now, either! Both were, at those times, parts of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Also, at the time of El Greco's birth, Crete (where he was born) was governed by the Republic of Venice; when it was finally conquered by the Ottmans, the great man had been dead for 55 years.

	mellybmel:	Jun 25th, 2010 at 02:16 GMT		1 point
	Very nice quiz! Good mix of geography, art history,and history. Reminds us of all those movable borders.

	chikka2:	Jun 25th, 2010 at 03:18 GMT		2 points
	lovely quiz...I'd like to see a sample painting beside each name...

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	BJack:	Jun 25th, 2010 at 09:42 GMT		6 points
	If you think Picasso painted like a four-year-old, you're really missing out.

	multislack:	Jun 25th, 2010 at 14:34 GMT		2 points
	So glad you included Ana Mendieta!

	bookbomb:	Jun 25th, 2010 at 17:40 GMT		3 points
	Frances Bacon was Irish I typed Ireland didn't accept it?

	beerslayer:	Jun 26th, 2010 at 02:54 GMT		0 points
	Just out of curiosity, where is "Great Britian"?

	BPDunbar:	Jun 26th, 2010 at 02:58 GMT		1 point
	Austria-Hungary after 1867 was a confederation of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Empire of Austria, they had a common foreign and defence policies but otherwise were separate. So it is arguable to treat them separately. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/%C3%96sterreich-Ungarns_Ende.png Map showing the 1914 Austria and Hungary compares to the 1920 borders.

	loliver251:	Jun 26th, 2010 at 08:37 GMT		1 point
	Dunno if I did something weird, but i typed in Russia for Kathe Kollowitz, and got it right, but it shows Germany...Something to do with territorial exchange, like she was born in east prussia or something?

	Moldemort:	Jun 26th, 2010 at 12:29 GMT		1 point
	Wooo Klimt :)

	Squiffy:	Jun 27th, 2010 at 10:26 GMT		1 point
	Great mix of artists, of various degrees of fame. This was one where I really wish there were links to Wikipedia. It also shows the bias in modern 'art history' - I've got a 600-odd page art history book here which I used afterwards to look up those I'd never heard of, and 7 are not even included (Jeong Seon, Claudel, Thomson, Lindsay, Ono, Fathy and Sher-Gil)...

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	marsviking:	Jun 28th, 2010 at 23:11 GMT		-2 points
	a lot of these places weren't even countries at the time-- germany and italy weren't unified till the 20th century but belgium and the netherlands were; whats' a czech doing with a french first name?

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	theMerovingian:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 07:32 GMT		-1 points
	so many problems

	HPZ:	Jul 2nd, 2010 at 17:25 GMT		2 points
	It's a bit late for spelling corrections, but I think what beerslayer was getting at was the typo in the answer for "William Blake." It should be "Great Britain" instead of "Great Britian."

	virtuality:	Jul 15th, 2010 at 18:17 GMT		3 points
	Rubens was actually born in Siegen, Germany. Moved shortly after birth to Cologne, Germany-- and then went to the Netherlands.

	tnty4life:	Jul 27th, 2010 at 14:02 GMT		1 point
	Suggestion: Chihuly?

	WishNightmare:	Aug 1st, 2010 at 10:24 GMT		0 points
	@Squiffy: We might have the same art book :P Claudel is probably mentioned at her boyfriend August Rodin. All others, never heard about either. :)

	lichenboy:	Sep 4th, 2010 at 04:10 GMT		5 points
	@macado: here's something else you can learn. Picasso mastered every art style up to date as a boy, and and used that mastery as a starting point to create new genres. It's a common misconception that abstract art is the domain of those who can't draw. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2626_v125/ai_19622634/

	jubu97rn:	May 27th, 2011 at 18:39 GMT		1 point
	El Greco is known as El Greco. Most people wouldn't recognize his given name on its own. I didn't get him right either so El Greco isn't necessarily a giveaway.

	Riko:	Aug 21st, 2011 at 14:45 GMT		1 point
	Kicking myself for missing Hatoum. I learned about her as a Palestinian artist but forgot that her family was/is in exile. I tried every Levantine and Arabian country except the right one. Great quiz!

	feedthebirds:	Sep 10th, 2011 at 01:50 GMT		1 point
	really enjoyed this, thanks!

	saudekar:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 12:11 GMT		2 points
	Nice quiz, one flaw as far as I'm concerned. El Greco was born in Crete, which was a part of Republic of Venice at that time. The island wasn't conquered by Ottomans until 1669, that's half a century after he died.