Frans Masereel (1889-1972) was a Belgian painter, one of the greatest woodcut artist of our time. 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... A woodcut is a method of printing in which an image is carved into the surface of a piece of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with chisels. ...
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Images and biography (http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/art/indexmasereel.html)
Comix work (http://bugpowder.com/lexikon/masereel.html)
FransMasereel (Blankenberge, Belgium 1889 - France 1972) was a Flemish painter and one of the greatest woodcut artist of the twentieth-century.
He settled in France in 1910, then moved to Switzerland in 1914 then in 1921 to Paris and later Berlin where his closest creative friend was George Grosz.
There is now a FransMasereel Center ('FransMasereel Centrum for Graphix') in the small village of Kasterlee in Belgium.
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