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Louis Siegriest

Louis Bassi Siegriest (1899 - 1989) was active/lived in California.  Louis Siegriest is known for Modernist landscape, illustrator.

A commercial artist and fine-art painter whose styles ranged from Impressionism, Fauvism to Mixed-Media Abstraction, Louis Siegriest had a long, distinguished career including association in the 1920s with a California Bay Area group called the Society of Six.  Members rebelled against the prevalent sombre Tonalism of William Keith and the genteel Classicism of Arthur Mathews.

He was born to a father who drove the first horse-drawn streetcars in Oakland and then made a fortune in the heating oil business with acetylene gas machines for gaslights.  Louis lived his entire life in the family mansion where he was born in north Oakland and later raised his own family including a son, Lundy, who became a well-known artist.

His parents encouraged his talents, and at age fifteen, he enrolled at night in the California School of Arts and Crafts while attending high school during the day.  His early interest was cartooning, and he won a San Francisc   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4544 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

.  askART lists Louis Siegriest in 4 of its research Essays. Louis Siegriest has 42 artist signature examples available in our database.

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