Charles Maurin

Charles Maurin ( born April 1, 1856 in Le Puy -en -Velay, Auvergne, † July 22, 1914 in Grasse, Alpes- Maritimes) was a French painter and printmaker.

Life

In 1875 Charles Maurin won the Prix Crozatier which allowed him to study in Paris to attend the École des Beaux -Arts under Jules Joseph Lefebvre and at the Académie Julian, where he later taught. Among his best known students were Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec, and Félix Vallotton.

In 1882, Maurin's first exhibition took place at the Salon des artistes français, where he regularly participated in the follow- up to 1890; 1889 and 1900 he received the Gold Medal at the Paris World Exhibitions.

Fascinated by Japanese woodcuts, whose style influenced his own graphical elements Create sustainable, Maurin became the great protagonists of the black and white woodcut. The scenes shown he characterized in sharp outline or in silhouette shapes, laconic formulaic captions recorded on facts that are apparently not paintable. In his prints, he was the master of the woodcut of German Expressionism in his paintings forerunner of the New Objectivity.