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Maurice Braun
Maurice Braun
Born	October 1, 1877; Nagy-Bittse, Arch-Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia)
Died	November 7, 1941 (aged 64); San Diego, California
Nationality	American
Known for	Painting

Maurice Braun (1877–1941) was a Kingdom of Hungary-born American painter, who became known for his Impressionist landscapes of Southern California.

Biography

Maurice Braun was born on October 1, 1877, in Nagy-Bittse, Trencsén, Arch-Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia); however, by the age of four, young Maurice and the Braun family had migrated to United States, and settled in New York City.

His professional studies took him to the National Academy of Design, where he studied the French tradition under Francis C. Jones, George W. Maynard and Edgar M. Ward.^[1] In 1901 Braun trained under the American painter William Merritt Chase.

He established himself as a figure and portrait painter in New York City, but in 1909 he left for California. One of his students was Rose Schneider.^[2]

Braun died in San Diego, California, on November 7, 1941.

Awards

Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design, 1900
Gold Medal, Panama–California Exposition, San Diego, 1915–16

Memberships

Salmagundi Club, Manhattan, New York
Laguna Beach Art Association
San Diego Fine Arts Association

Public collections

Houston Museum, Houston, Texas
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, California
Irvine Museum, Irvine, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
San Diego History Center, San Diego, California
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

References

^ Museum, Oakland; Art, Laguna Beach Museum of; Museum, Crocker Art (1981). Impressionism, the California view. Oakland Museum. p. 84. After a brief apprenticeship with a jeweler, he enrolled in 1897 at the National Academy of Design, where he studied under Francis C. Jones...
^ Hughes, Edan Milton (1989). "Schneider, Rose (1895–1976)". Artists in California, 1786-1940. Hughes Publishing Company. p. 497. ISBN 978-0-9616112-1-7.

Literature: Second Nature, Four Early San Diego Landscape Painters by Milton E. Peterson, 1991;
Literature: Artists in California, 1786-1940, by Edan Milton Hughes, 1989;
Literature: Plein Air Painters of the Southland, by Ruth Lily Westphal, 1996.

External links

Paintings by Maurice Braun, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF)
Works by Maurice Braun, WikiArt

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[1] Museum, Oakland; Art, Laguna Beach Museum of; Museum, Crocker Art (1981). Impressionism, the California view. Oakland Museum. p. 84. After a brief apprenticeship with a jeweler, he enrolled in 1897 at the National Academy of Design, where he studied under Francis C. Jones...

[Hughes-1989-2] Hughes, Edan Milton (1989). "Schneider, Rose (1895–1976)". Artists in California, 1786-1940. Hughes Publishing Company. p. 497. ISBN 978-0-9616112-1-7.

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