This list consists of photos of the graves of famous artists and thinkers that I have visited.
Alvar Aalto (1898-1976)
Finnish architect and designer
Hietaniemi Cemetery, Helsinki
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
German sociologist and philosopher
Hauptfriedhof, Frankfurt am Main
Dante Alighieri (ca 1265-1321)
Italian poet; author of the Divine Comedy
Basilica di San Francesco, Ravenna
Ivo Andrić (1892-1975)
Yugoslav writer; author of The Bridge on the Drina
Ново гробље, Belgrade
Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885-1940)
Swedish architect (the Nordic Classicism); designer of the Stockholm Public Library
Skogskyrkogården, Stockholm
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
French poet; author of The Flowers of Evil
Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Irish playwright; a key figure of the Theatre of the Absurd; author of Waiting for Godot
Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
German Classical and Romantic composer
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna
Lujza Blaha (1850-1826)
Hungarian actress
Kerepesi temető, Budapest
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
German Romantic composer; author of the Hungarian Dances
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
Russian-American poet and essayist
Cimitero di San Michele, Venice
Karel Čapek (1890-1938)
Czech writer of science fiction
Vyšehradský hřbitov, Prague
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Polish Romantic composer and pianist
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris
Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929)
Russian ballet impressario; founder of the Ballets Russes
Cimitero di San Michele, Venice
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
Influential French visual and plastic artist; author of the Bicycle Wheel
Cimetière monumental, Rouen
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)
French writer and film director
Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Czech Romantic composer; author of the New World Symphony
Vyšehradský hřbitov, Prague
Ferenc Erkel (1810-1893)
Father of Hungarian opera
Kerepesi temető, Budapest
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
French Realist novelist; author of Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education
Cimetière monumental, Rouen
Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991)
Influential French singer and songwriter
Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris
Greta Garbo (1905-1990)
Swedish-American actress in the Golden Age of Hollywood
Skogskyrkogården, Stockholm
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Italian Neo-Marxist philosopher
Cimitero acattolico, Rome
Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (1795-1829)
Russian playwright, author of Woe from Wit
Mtatsminda Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures, Tbilisi
Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872)
Influential Austrian dramatist
Hietzinger Friedhof, Vienna
Mari Jászai (1850-1926)
Hungarian actress
Kerepesi temető, Budapest
Mór Jókai (1825-1904)
Hungarian writer and revolutionary; author of The Man with the Golden Touch
Kerepesi temető, Budapest
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
Bohemian Jewish writer; author of The Trial, The Castle and The Metamorphosis
New Jewish Cemetery, Prague
Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990)
Polish painter and theatre director
Cmentarz Rakowicki, Kraków
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957)
Greek writer; author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ
Martinengo Bastion, Heraklion
John Keats (1795-1821)
English Romantic poet; author of Ode to a Nightingale and To Autumn
Cimitero acattolico, Rome
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (1884-1958)
Turkish writer and politician
Aşiyan Asri Mezarlığı, Istanbul
Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941-1996)
Polish film director (The Decalogue and the Three Colours trilogy)
Cmentarz Powązkowski, Warsaw
Danilo Kiš (1935-1989)
Serbian Jewish writer; author of A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
Ново гробље, Belgrade
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
Austrian Symbolist painter, member of Vienna Secession
Hietzinger Friedhof, Vienna
Karl Kraus (1877-1936)
Austrian satirist
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna
Ödön Lechner (1845-1914)
Hungarian Secessionist architect; designer of the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest
Kerepesi temető, Budapest
Stanisław Lem (1921-2006)
Polish writer of science fiction; author of Solaris
Cmentarz Salwatorski, Kraków
Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (1922-1993)
Russian-Jewish semiotician, founder of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School
Raadi kalmistu, Tartu
Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996)
Italian actor (La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and La Notte)
Campo Verano, Rome
Jan Matejko (1838-1893)
National painter of Poland
Cmentarz Rakowicki, Kraków
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
French writer of short stories; author of Boule de Suif, Bel-Ami, and Pierre et Jean
Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris
Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004)
Polish writer; author of The Captive Mind
Skałka, Kraków
Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920)
Italian painter of portraits and nudes
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris
Molière (1622-1673)
Father of French literature; writer of comedies such as Tartuffe and The Misanthrope
Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695)
French writer, author of Fables
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris
Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)
Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist
Vyšehradský hřbitov, Prague
Mihály Munkácsy (1844-1900)
Hungarian painter
Kerepesi temető, Budapest
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885-1967)
Austrian film director (Pandora’s Box)
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna
Milorad Pavić (1929-2009)
Serbian novelist and literary historian; author of the Dictionary of the Khazars
Ново гробље, Belgrade
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Portuguese Modernist poet and writer; author of Maritime Ode and The Book of Disquiet
Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, Lisbon
Édith Piaf (1915-1963)
French singer, one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
American Modernist poet and erudite; author of The Cantos
Cimitero di San Michele, Venice
Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
French Modernist writer; author of In Search of Lost Time
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris
Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920-2013)
German literary critic
Hauptfriedhof, Frankfurt am Main
Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977)
Italian Neorealist film director (Rome, Open City and Journey to Italy)
Campo Verano, Rome
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869)
French literary critic
Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris
Sayat-Nova (1712/1722-1795)
Armenian ashugh
Cathedral of Surp Kevork, Tbilisi
Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
Austrian composer, inventor of dodecaphony
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna
Otto Schönthal (1878-1961)
Austrian Secessionist architect; designer of Villa Vojcsik
Hietzinger Friedhof, Vienna
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
German philosopher; author of The World as Will and Representation
Hauptfriedhof, Frankfurt am Main
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Austrian Romantic composer
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna
Münir Nurettin Selçuk (1900-1981)
Turkish classical musician and singer
Aşiyan Asri Mezarlığı, Istanbul
Delphine Seyrig (1932-1990)
French-Lebanese actress, known from Last Year at Marienbad and Jeanne Dielman
Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
English Romantic poet; author of Ode to the West Wind
Cimitero acattolico, Rome
Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884)
Czech Romantic composer
Vyšehradský hřbitov, Prague
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
American writer and a leading figure of Parisian Modernism
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris
Stendhal (1783-1842)
French Realist writer; author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma
Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris
Johann Strauss I (1804-1849)
Austrian Romantic composer; author of Radetzky March
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Austrian composer of waltzes and operettas
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Influential Russian-French-American composer; author of The Rite of Spring
Cimitero di San Michele, Venice
Franz von Suppé (1819-1895)
Austrian composer of operettas; author of Light Cavalry
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna
Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012)
Polish poet
Cmentarz Rakowicki, Kraków
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901-1962)
Turkish Modernist writer; author of A Mind at Peace and The Time Regulation Institute
Aşiyan Asri Mezarlığı, Istanbul
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)
Dutch painter; author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Milkmaid, and View of Delft
Oude Kerk, Delft
Otto Wagner (1841-1918)
Austrian architect, founder of Vienna Secession, and designer of many buildings there
Hietzinger Friedhof, Vienna
Richard Wagner (1813-1888)
German composer; author of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal
Wahnfried, Bayreuth
Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016)
Polish film director; a prominent member of the Polish Film School
Cmentarz Salwatorski, Kraków
Franz Werfel (1890-1945)
Austrian writer; author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Irish writer and aesthete; author of The Picture of Dorian Gray
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris
Stanisław Wyspiański (1869-1907)
Polish writer, painter and designer
Skałka, Kraków
Miklós Ybl (1814-1891)
Hungarian architect; designer of Hungarian State Opera House and St. Stephen’s Basilica
Kerepesi temető, Budapest
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