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Biography of Frans Masereel - Painter
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Frans Masereel (Blankenberge, Belgium 1889 -
France 1972) was a Flemish painter and one of the
greatest woodcut artist of the twentieth-century.
He was educated by the Ghent painter Jean Delvin
at the Ghent Academy of Fine Art. He settled in
France in 1910, then moved to Switzerland in 1914
then in 1921 to Paris and later Berlin where his
closest creative friend was George Grosz. After
the World War II|Second World War, Masereel lived
in Avignon and Nice, France.
There is now a Frans Masereel Center ('Frans
Masereel Centrum for Graphix') in the small
village of Kasterlee in Belgium.
His greatest work is generally said to be the
worldless graphic novel Mon Livre d'Heures
(Passionate Journey). His work has strongly
influenced the work of Clifford Harper.
==External link==
*http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/art/indexmasereel.
html Images and biography
*http://bugpowder.com/lexikon/masereel.html Comix
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