Epidemics & Pandemics · 1918
1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
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The deadliest pandemic in modern history killed over 50 million people (including Egon Schiele at 28) in the same year as WWI's end. The compounded grief accelerated the pivot away from prewar optimism and into Expressionism's raw confrontation with mortality.
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