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Maurice Levis

Maurice Levis (1860 - 1940) was active/lived in France.  Maurice Levis is known for Landscape and genre painting.

Born in Paris on 11 November1860, Maurice Levis was an accomplished landscape and genre painter for nearly sixty years. His career spanned not only the early years of modernism, but also the twentieth century developments of cubism and surrealism.  Levis' artistic education began in the late 1870s at the Académie Julian where he studied with Jules Lefebvre. He also studied with Henri Harpignies and with Pierre Billet, a painter of rural genre scenes that were often set in Normandy and Brittany.

Levis' choice of instructors reveals the multiplicity of artistic paths available to a young painter in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.  Jules Lefebvre was an academically trained portrait painter, who seems to have had a gift for teaching.  On the other hand, Harpignies aligned himself with the innovative Barbizon School, traveling to Italy with Corot in 1861; and Pierre Billet, a largely forgotten artist today, was a follower of the renowned "peasant painter"   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5316 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Maurice Levis

Born in Paris on 11 November1860, Maurice Levis was an accomplished landscape and genre painter for nearly sixty years. His career spanned not only the early years of modernism, but also the twentieth century developments of cubism and surrealism.  Levis' artistic education began in the late 1870s at the Académie Julian where he studied with Jules Lefebvre. He also studied with Henri Harpignies and with Pierre Billet, a painter of rural genre scenes that were often set in Normandy and Brittany.

Levis' choice of instructors reveals the multiplicity of artistic paths available to a young painter in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.  Jules Lefebvre was an academically trained portrait painter, who seems to have had   ...  Displaying 750 of 5316 characters.

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