Séraphine Louis
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Séraphine Louis, known as Séraphine de Senlis, was a French painter and artist. Self-taught, she was inspired by her religious faith and by stained-glass church windows and other religious art.
Séraphine de Senlis
L'arbre de vie ("The tree of life"), 1928
Wilhelm Uhde
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Wilhelm Uhde was a German art collector, dealer, author, and critic, an early collector of modernist painting, and a significant figure in the career of Henri Rousseau.
Séraphine Louis
…day jobs, Louis painted by candlelight, largely in secret isolation, until her considerable body of work was discovered in 1912 by German art collector Wilhelm Uhde. While in Senlis, Uhde saw a still-life of apples at his neighbor's house and was astonished to learn that Louis, his housecleaner, was the artist. His…
portrait photograph, c.1910
Robert Delaunay, 1907, Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde. Robert Delaunay and Sonia Terk met through Wilhelm Uhde, with whom Sonia had been married as she said for "convenience"
Pablo Picasso, 1910, Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde, oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm, Joseph Pulitzer Collection
Helmut Kolle, ca.1930, Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde