Gustav-Adolf Mossa was a French Symbolist painter born January 28th, 1883 in Nice, where he died May 25th, 1971.
Gustav-Adolf Mossa is a late Symbolist painter in the wake of Gustave Moreau, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Edgar Maxence or Emile-René Ménard. Steeped in his reading, Mallarme, Baudelaire, Huysmans, he was inspired by the Quattrocento masters,...
Gustav-Adolf Mossa was a French Symbolist painter born January 28th, 1883 in Nice, where he died May 25th, 1971.
Gustav-Adolf Mossa is a late Symbolist painter in the wake of Gustave Moreau, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Edgar Maxence or Emile-René Ménard. Steeped in his reading, Mallarme, Baudelaire, Huysmans, he was inspired by the Quattrocento masters, the Pre-Raphaelites, Art Nouveau.
He produced most of his work painted until 1918. Most of his symbolist paintings are discovered only after his death.
When Gustav-Adolf Mossa died the May 25th, 1971, his work was rediscovered symbolist, obscured by himself to his family and the public who knew him primarily through his comic strip work the Nice Carnival.