Amedee Ozenfant - Artist Info

About Amedee Ozenfant

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    Amedee Ozenfant (15 April 1886 - 4 May 1966) was a French-born cubist painter. He was born into a bourgeois family in Saint-Quentin, Aisne and was educated at Dominican colleges in Saint-Sébastien. After completing his education he returned to Saint-Quentin and began painting in watercolour and pastels.

    In 1904 he attended a drawing course run by Jules-Alexandre Patrouillard Degrave at the Ecole Municipale de Dessin Quentin Delatour in Saint-Quentin. In 1905 he travelled to Paris, where he studied the decorative arts, first with Maurice Verneuil and later with Charles Cottet. He also befriended Roger de La Fresnaye and André Dunoyer de Segonzac.

    Between 1909 and 1913 he travelled to Russia, Italy, ...

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