Edward cucuel(1875 1954) american impressionist painter (a c) (nx power-lite)

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Born in San Francisco Edward Cucuel was an Impressionist painter of genre and figures in landscapes often using his family members for models rather than professionals A specialty was using a vibrant palette and rich impasto to depict women in sun-dappled landscape settings At the age of fourteen he enrolled at the School of Design in San Francisco and three years later in 1892 he went to Paris and studied at the Academie Julian In 1893 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as a student of Jean-Leon Gerome In 1896 he returned to the United States and worked as an illustrator on the San Francisco Call and Examiner newspapers and earned enough money to return to Germany and Paris which he did over the next few years In 1907 having lived much time in Germany he moved his studio from Berlin to Munich and was much influenced there by the German Expressionists He began working with Leo Putz and developed his own Impressionist style He married Clara Lotte von Marcard in 1913 and they spent their summers in a villa on Lake Ammersee in Holzhausen near Munich In 1928 he moved to New York but traveled extensively and in 1939 he settled permanently in California He died in Pasadena in 1954

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Born in San Francisco Edward Cucuel was an Impressionist painter of genre and figures in landscapes often using his family members for models rather than professionals A specialty was using a vibrant palette and rich impasto to depict women in sun-dappled landscape settings At the age of fourteen he enrolled at the School of Design in San Francisco and three years later in 1892 he went to Paris and studied at the Academie Julian In 1893 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as a student of Jean-Leon Gerome In 1896 he returned to the United States and worked as an illustrator on the San Francisco Call and Examiner newspapers and earned enough money to return to Germany and Paris which he did over the next few years In 1907 having lived much time in Germany he moved his studio from Berlin to Munich and was much influenced there by the German Expressionists He began working with Leo Putz and developed his own Impressionist style He married Clara Lotte von Marcard in 1913 and they spent their summers in a villa on Lake Ammersee in Holzhausen near Munich In 1928 he moved to New York but traveled extensively and in 1939 he settled permanently in California He died in Pasadena in 1954