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Artist: Georges Rouault
(1871-1958)
Style: German Expressionist
Georges Henri Rouault was a French German Expressionist painter born in1871.
Rouault was an integral artist in the
German Expressionist / Expressionism art movement. Georges Rouault
began his art career as
a glass painter and studied at the Ecole
des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1891 to 1898. Rouault's predominate teachers
were Elie Delauney and Gustave Moreau. In 1907 Rouault began a
series of paintings based on subject matter that focused on clowns, the
court system and prostitution. Conclusions can be made that the series of
paintings are meant to criticize social events of the time. Rouault later
began to focus his attention on spiritualism and existentialism. Social
interaction and human instinct were always topics of interest and
inspiration for Rouault's work. In the year 1910 Rouault displayed
his first works at an exhibition in the Druet Gallery. His works were
studied by German artists from Dresden, who later formed the nucleus of
expressionism. In 1917 Rouault dedicated himself to painting. In 1930
Rouault also began to exhibit his art work in foreign countries such as
England and the United States. Rouault painted perhaps his most well known
work "The Old King" In 1937 which is arguably his very finest
expressionist work. At the end of his life in 1958, Rouault unfortunately
burned 300 of his art works. Rouault died at age 87 in Paris, France
on February 13th in 1958.
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