Henri Rousseau
French painter (1844–1910)
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- Artists rank#249
FranceA toll collector who picked up a brush in middle age and painted jungles he'd never seen — so strange and flat that critics laughed, so singular that Picasso kept one on his wall.
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Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was born on 21 May 1844 in France and spent decades as a customs officer, a job that earned him the nickname Le Douanier. He didn't take painting seriously until his early forties, working in a self-taught style that would later be called Naïve or Primitive. At 49 he retired to paint full-time, turning out work that critics ridiculed for its technical awkwardness and childlike flatness. He died on 2 September 1910, still largely dismissed. Only afterward did the art world reverse itself, recognizing him as a self-taught genius whose odd, dream-dense canvases influen…
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