Maurice Hensel - Artist Info

About Maurice Hensel

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Henri Maurice Hensel
  • Biography

    Maurice Henri Hensel was born in Montmartre, in 1890. Hensel was an artist of l'École de Montmartre and best is known as a watercolorist and painter.

    Beginning in 1920, Hensel was associated with the Salon des Artistes Indépendants. He also exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Automne*. In 1925 he held a solo show called Figures de Montmartre in Paris at Galerie Bernheim Jeune. The following year at Galerie Bernheim Jeune, he exhibited a group of paintings called Femmes du Sud-Algérien. In 1928 he exhibited at Galerie Barreiro a group of works called Femmes de Paris and Femmes d'Afrique de Nord.

    Hensel traveled to Africa shortly after World War I. In keeping with his interests in Montmartre, he...

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