Henri Matisse
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Arts
- Subcategories: Artists, Artisans, Painting, Painters, Drawing
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, 19th Century European History, French History
Article abstract: Matisse became the leader of the French expressionists called Les Fauves, or wild beasts. When the artists of that unofficial movement dispersed, he steadfastly and daringly simplified painting to the point of abstract decoration.
Early Life
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse was born in extreme northern France at Le Cateau-Cambrésis, the town of his grandparents, but spent his youth in nearby Bohain-en-Vermandois, where his father Émile had financial interests in a drugstore and a grain elevator. Little is known of the boy’s early youth,...
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