Word: othon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Othon Friesz, 69, French landscape painter; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Paris. With Matisse and Dufy, Friesz revolted against impressionism by helping to found the controversial Fauvist (freedom of expression) school of painting...
...Painters Andre Derain, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Maurice de Vlaminck, Othon Friesz, and Sculptor Charles Despiau were in disgrace as collaborationists...
...group of top-flight Left-Bank painters and sculptors (some of them formerly listed by Hitler's Kulturkammer as "degenerate artists") were touring and lecturing in Germany as guests of the Third Reich. The guests: Painters Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Cornelius van Dongen, Othon Friesz, Sculptors Paul Maximiliaen Landowski, Charles Despiau. Notably not there was the name of pre-war Paris' greatest painter, bulky Spanish-born Pablo Picasso, who presumably had had the guts to decline the invitation...