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Louis Marcoussis

Louis Marcoussis (1878 - 1941) was active/lived in United States, France, Italy, Poland.  Louis Marcoussis is known for Cubist painting, printmaking.

Louis Marcoussis was born Ludwig Casimir Ladislas Markus in Warsaw, on November 14, 1878.  In 1901 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts of Cracow to study painting with Jan Crzegorz Stanislawski.  In 1903 Markus moved to Paris, where he worked briefly under Jules Lefebvre at the Académie Julian* and became a friend of La Fresnaye and Robert Lotiron.  He exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne* in 1905 and at the Salon des Indépendants* in 1906, and was often represented in both salons in subsequent years.

In Paris he made his living by selling caricatures* to satirical periodicals, including La Vie Parisienne and Le Journal. He frequented the cafés, such as the Rotonde, Cirque Médrano and the Ermitage, where he met Edgar Degas about 1906 and Braque, Picasso and Apollinaire in 1910.  In 1907 Markus abandoned painting; when he began to paint again in 1910, he discarded his earlier Impressionist* style to adopt the new Cubist* idiom.&nbs   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2705 characters.]  Artist bio

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