- Birthday
- 1893-06-09
- Deathday
- 1969-04-13
- Place of Birth
- Sydney, Australia
Édouard Goerg
ActingBiography
Edouard Joseph Goerg (1893-1969), was born in Australia, in Sydney, where his parents, French, were champagne merchants. He moved to Paris in 1900 and intended to paint, while traveling a lot, in Italy, India, Ceylon. He was a pupil of Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis at the Ranson Academy between 1913 and 14. From the 1920s, he established himself as one of the figureheads of expressionism and will remain one of its most brilliant representatives. He also flirts with surrealism. Until the early 1930s, the work of Edouard Goerg denounced the failings of the bourgeois society from which he came...
