Maurice Denis
1870-1943
French
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French painter, designer, printmaker and theorist. Although born in Normandy, Denis lived throughout his life in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, just west of Paris. He attended the Lycee Condorcet, Paris, where he met many of his future artistic contemporaries, then studied art simultaneously at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and at the Academie Julian (1888-90). Through fellow student Paul Serusier, in 1888 he learnt of the innovative stylistic discoveries made that summer in Pont-Aven by Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard. With Serusier and a number of like-minded contemporaries at the Academie Julian Related Paintings of Maurice Denis :. | Spots of Sunlight on the Terrace | Furrows under the Snow | muserna | Nazareth | The Muses | Related Artists: Edmund john niemann1814-1901 Thomas ClarkBritish-born Australian Painter, ca.1814-1883 charles burneyPeriod: Classical (1750-1819)
Country: England
Born: April 07, 1726
Died: April 12, 1814 in Chelsea
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