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| | Rouault, Georges | (French, 1871-1958) |
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| | Georges Rouault, the Expressionist and Fauvist painter and printmaker, was born May 27, 1871 in Paris, France. Although his family was quite poor, his mother encouraged his love of art from an early age, and in 1885, the fourteen-year-old Rouault began an apprenticeship as a glass painter and restorer, which lasted five years. Throughout his apprenticeship he also took art classes at night and in 1891, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. There he became the favorite student of Gustave Moreau. Upon Moreau’s death in 1898, Rouault was nominated as the curator of the Moreau Museum in Paris. Throughout his life, Rouault had many prestigious exhibits in cities all over the world, including London, New York and Chicago, as well as many Salons in Paris including the Salon d’Automne, which he helped to found. Many of his works focused on religious themes including scenes of the crucifixion and resurrection. Before his death, he burned some 300 of his pictures, a collection estimated today to be work over 90 million dollars. | | Works Cited: | |
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