Artists by Time Period: Fauvism

Georges Braque
Georges Braque
Artists, Authors

Georges Braque was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as cubism. Georges Braque was born in...

Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
Authors, Artists

Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but...

André Derain
André Derain
Artists

André Derain was a French painter and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. André Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris....

Kees van Dongen
Kees van Dongen
Artists

Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen , usually known as Kees van Dongen or just van Dongen, was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves. He gained a reputation for his sensuous,...

Jean Metzinger
Jean Metzinger
Artists

Jean Metzinger was a French painter. Initially he was influenced by Fauvism and Impressionism, but from 1908 he was associated with Cubism. Metzinger was a member of...

Maurice de Vlaminck
Maurice de Vlaminck
Artists

Maurice de Vlaminck was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern...

Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy
Artists

Raoul Dufy was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colourful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs for ceramics, textiles and decorative schemes for public...

Georges Rouault
Georges Rouault
Authors, Artists

Georges Henri Rouault was a French Fauvist and Expressionist painter, and printmaker in lithography and etching. Rouault was born in Paris into a poor family. His mother...

Othon Friesz
Othon Friesz
Artists

Othon Friesz , a native of Le Havre, was a French artist of the Fauvist movement. Othon Friesz was born in Le Havre, the son of a long line of shipbuilders and sea captains....

Albert Marquet
Albert Marquet
Artists

Albert Marquet was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement. Marquet was born in Bordeaux. In 1890 he moved to Paris to attend the Decorative Arts School, where...

Nadežda Petrović
Nadežda Petrović
Artists

Nadežda Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Надежда Петровић) (Čačak, Kingdom of Serbia, 1873 — Valjevo, Kingdom of Serbia, 1915) is considered the most important Serbian female painter from the...

Alice Bailly
Alice Bailly
Artists

Alice Bailly was a radical Swiss painter, known for her interpretation of cubism and her multimedia wool paintings. Bailly was born in Geneva, Switzerland, where she...

Charles Camoin
Charles Camoin
Artists

Charles Camoin (23 September 1879 – 20 May 1965) was a French painter associated with the Fauves. Born in Marseille, France, Camoin met Henri Matisse in Gustave Moreau's class at the Ecole...

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