喬治.盧奧 GEORGES HENRI ROUAULT (b.1871-1958)
First introductions to art took place in his family. After an apprenticeship as a glass painter Georges Rouault studied under Gustave Moreau at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1891 - 1898.。After Moreau's death in 1898 Rouault was appointed curator of the Musée Moreau in 1903, in which he maintained the memory of his teacher's work. His early work was influenced by his teacher as well as by the artist's fascination for medieval art.From around 1902 the artist still made watercolours and gouaches in expressive colours, which founded his reputation as a Fauvist painter.Early subjects, such as workers and farmers reflect the French artist's strong moral engagement. Towards the end of the 1920s Rouault discovered impasto painting, a technique in which paint is applied in thick, pastose layers, which is so typical of the painter. His first one-man exhibition took place at the Galerie Drouet in 1910. Large retrospective exhibitions followed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1945 and at the Kunsthaus Zurich in 1948. Then the formerly contended artist also received national honours.Georges Rouault died at the age of 87 in Paris on 13 February 1958.