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Maximilien Luce
Paris, Second French Empire
Archival Overview
French Neo-Impressionist painter, engraver, and anarchist whose vibrant pointillist canvases of steelworks, blast furnaces, and the Paris Commune celebrated industrial labor.
Biographical Record
Maximilien Luce (1858–1941 CE) was an apprentice wood engraver who joined the Neo-Impressionists under Pissarro and Signac in 1887.
A passionate defender of the working class, he was imprisoned during the 1894 Trial of the Thirty, producing powerful paintings of coal docks, foundry cauldrons, and urban construction workers.
Key Life Milestones
The Steelworks Series in the Borinage
Traveled to the Belgian mining basin, painting monumental nocturnal pointillist canvases of blast furnaces glowing against the night.
President of the Société des Artistes Indépendants
Elected president of the Indépendants, resigning in 1940 to protest the Vichy regime's antisemitic exclusions of Jewish artists.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialRolleboise, France