Edouard Joseph Goerg - Artist Info

About Edouard Joseph Goerg

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Edouard Joseph Georg, Edward Joseph Goerg
  • Biography

    Édouard Goerg, born in Sydney (Australia) on June 9, 1893 and died in Callian (Var) on April 13, 19692, is a French expressionist painter, engraver and illustrator.

    Born in Australia3 of French parents, in a family of champagne merchants, Édouard Goerg then gained their counter in Great Britain, where he stayed a few years before settling in Paris in 1900. From then on, he traveled a lot in France as in Italy, India and Ceylon. Breaking with his bourgeois family who intended to resume trading in champagne, Goerg is moving towards painting.

    He became a pupil of Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis at the Ranson Academy in Paris where he studied from 1913 to 1914. There he met the painter from Bordeaux Georges ...

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