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Artist Profile. Maurice Braun. 1877-1941. Considered one of California’s preeminent impressionists, Maurice Braun spent his childhood in New York City, having moved there with his family in 1881. He attended the National Academy of Design from 1897 to 1900; he then spent a year studying with William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), followed by a ...
He began drawing at age three, and in 1897 he began a five year study period at the National Academy of Design, followed by one year with William Merritt Chase. Braun was an established portrait and figure painter in New York before moving to San Diego in 1910.
Maurice Braun was an American artist who holds a high place in the early California school of Impressionism. He was born on October 1, 1877 in Nagy Bittse, which then, was within the boundaries of Hungary and now is a resort in Czechoslovakia.
Jul 1, 1977 · In 1909 an established New York figure and portrait painter, Braun, found portrait painting too constraining artistically and came to California to escape the influence of other artists working in the area.
Braun was an established portrait and figure painter in New York before moving to San Diego in 1910. After opening a studio on Point Loma, he founded the San Diego Academy of Art in 1912 and served as its director for many years. In 1915 he was a cofounder of the San Diego Art Guild and in 1929 cofounded Contemporary Artists in San Diego.
Jul 1, 2001 · Maurice Braun’s serenity before the vexations of life and the complexities of nature impressed all who knew him. He was an artist of deep philosophical conviction for whom all expressions of life were divine.
Maurice Braun. Maurice Braun immigrated to the United States with his family when the artist was four years of age. An exceptional talent, he copied works of art at the Metropolitan Museum of art, in New York City, and in 1897 enrolled in the National Academy of Design, also in New York.
