French painter, sculptor, illustrator, stage designer and collector. He was a leading exponent of Fauvism. In early 1908 he destroyed most of his work to concentrate on tightly constructed landscape paintings, which were a subtle investigation of the work of Cézanne. After World War I his work became more classical, influenced by the work of such artists as Camille Corot. In his sculpture he drew upon his knowledge and collection of non-Western art....
French, 19th–20th century, male.
Born 31 December 1869, in Le Cateau-Cambrésis (Nord); died 3 November 1954, in Nice.
Painter, draughtsman, engraver, lithographer, sculptor, illustrator, theorist. Artists’ books.
Henri Matisse was born to parents who owned a grocery shop in Bohain, a small town in northern France. After his schooling in St Quentin, he began his law studies in Paris in 1887–1888. In 1889, he returned to St Quentin, where he worked as a clerk in a law firm but was soon taken ill. It was during his lengthy convalescence that he decided to turn to painting. In 1891, he returned to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian, where he studied under the painter William Bouguereau. In 1893, Matisse left the Académie and joined Albert Marquet, Georges Rouault, Charles Camoin, and Henri Manguin at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied with Gustave Moreau. From 1895, he lived at 19 Quai St Michel in Paris, an address that he kept for the rest of his life....
Belgian, 20th century, male.
Born 1887, in St Joost-ten-Node; died 1947, in Brussels.
Painter, sculptor, engraver, lithographer, illustrator. Figures, portraits, landscapes.
Ramah was a student at the school of fine art in St Joost-ten-Node, and then at the academy in Brussels. He was a member of ...