Eugene Delacroix
French Romantic Painter, 1798-1863
For 40 years Eugene Delacroix was one of the most prominent and controversial painters in France. Although the intense emotional expressiveness of his work placed the artist squarely in the midst of the general romantic outpouring of European art, he always remained an individual phenomenon and did not create a school. As a personality and as a painter, he was admired by the impressionists, postimpressionists, and symbolists who came after him.
Born on April 28, 1798, at Charenton-Saint-Maurice, the son of an important public official, Delacroix grew up in comfortable upper-middle-class circumstances in spite of the troubled times. He received a good classical education at the Lycee Imperial. He entered the studio of Pierre Narcisse Guerin in 1815, where he met Theodore Gericaul Related Paintings of Eugene Delacroix :. | Scenes of the Massacres of Scio;Greek Families Awaiting Death or Slavery (mk05) | The Women of Algiers | Decoration of the west wall | Moroccan Landscape near Tangiers | Christus auf dem See Genezareth | Related Artists: Benjamin C.BrownAmerican,is best remembered for his Impressionist renderings of the Sierra Mountains and poppy-filled spring meadows.1865-1942 Harold HerbertAustralian, 1892-1945 Louis Carrogis CarmontelleAugust 15, 1717?CDecember 26, 1806,was a French dramatist, painter and architect; author of little pieces under the name of Proverbes.
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