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 :. | Apparition | Motherhood | The Muses | Mother and Child | The Pilgrims of Emmaus | Related Artists: Aurelio de Figueiredopainted Girl at the piano in 1892 Jules Emile SaintinFrance 1829-1894 Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeldpainted Three Marys at the Tomb of Christ in 1835
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