Henri Focillon

Henri Focillon (1881-1943), Professor at the Sorbonne and later at the Collège de France, died at the age of sixty-two in the United States where he had been teaching since 1940. An art historian, he had written major works on Romanesque sculpture and 19th- and 20th-century European painting. Focillon grew up amidst artists such as Édouard Vuillard and Auguste Rodin and the early documenter of Impressionism, Gustave Geffroy.

Henri Focillon (1881-1943), Professor at the Sorbonne and later at the Collège de France, died at the age of sixty-two in the United States where he had been teaching since 1940. An art historian, he had written major works on Romanesque sculpture and 19th- and 20th-century European painting. Focillon grew up amidst artists such as Édouard Vuillard and Auguste Rodin and the early documenter of Impressionism, Gustave Geffroy. See less