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| Jules Alexandre Grun |
| 1868-1934 |
| European Artist |
| Grun was born in Paris, France. Grun was the pupil of Jean-Baptiste Lavastre, the famed theatrical decorator of the Paris Opera, and of Antoine Guillemet, a renowned landscape painter. Still life, portraits, and scenes of Parisian life were his favorite subjects. For Grun, life and art merged; he was a painter because he liked the life, and because he needed to express his clear feelings, colored, alive of people and the things around them. Grun helped transform the scenic landscape of the Parisian streets at the turn of the century. Full and powerful, almost caricatural, and when he desired, delicate and exquisite. Grun, by his love of painting, and by the diversity of his gifts and subjects, was a complete artist. . His posters, full of life and of color, contributed largely to the rebirth of the lithography. In the mid-to-late 1930s, Grun became stricken with Parkinson's disease, which served to isolate him from society, and greatly diminished his artistic abilities. |
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