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Gustave Moreau (April 6, 1826 – April 18,
1898) was a France|French Symbolist
painters|Symbolist painter. He was born and died
in Paris.

Moreau's main focus was the illustration of
Christian and mythological figures. As a painter
of literary ideas rather than visual images, his
images appealed to the imagination of some
Symbolist writers and artists, who saw him as the
precursor to their movement.

He became professor at École des Beaux-Arts of
Paris in 1891 and counted among his many students
the Fauvism|fauvist painters Henri Matisse and
Georges Rouault. 

He is buried in Paris at the Cimetière de
Montmartre.

The "Musée Gustave Moreau" at 14, rue de la
Rochefoucauld (IXe arrondissement) in Paris is one
of the most extravagant in the city.  The museum
is in his former workshop, and opened to the
public in 1903.

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