Maurice Denis

Biography

Maurice Denis (1870–1943) was a French painter, decorative artist and writer associated with the Nabis, Symbolism and later Neo-classicism. An important figure in the changing art world of the late 19th century, he wrote theories that contributed to the foundations of Cubism, Fauvism and abstraction. After the First World War he founded the Ateliers d’Art Sacré, decorated church interiors and worked for a revival of religious art.