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Eight, the

(Encyclopedia)Eight, the, group of American artists in New York City, formed in 1908 to exhibit paintings. They were men of widely different tendencies, held together mainly by their common opposition to academism....

Régnier, Henri de

(Encyclopedia)Régnier, Henri de äNrēˈ də rānyāˈ [key], 1864–1936, French poet, one of the young symbolists of the circle of Mallarmé. His early Poèmes anciens et romanesques (1891) showed skill in free ...

Pierné, Henri Constant Gabriel

(Encyclopedia)Pierné, Henri Constant Gabriel äNrēˈ kôNstäNˈ gäbrēĕlˈ pyĕrnāˈ [key], 1863–1937, French organist, conductor, and composer; pupil of Massenet and César Franck. His cantata Edith won th...

Troyat, Henri

(Encyclopedia)Troyat, Henri ŏ–rēˈ trôtäˈ [key], 1911–2007, French novelist and biographer, b. Moscow as Lev Aslanovich Tarassov. He and his family fled the Russian Revolution and settled (1911) in Paris. ...

Browere, John Henri Isaac

(Encyclopedia)Browere, John Henri Isaac brouˈər [key], 1792–1834, American sculptor, b. New York City, studied painting in New York under Archibald Robertson and sculpture in Europe. He is known for his life ma...

Breuil, Henri

(Encyclopedia)Breuil, Henri äbāˈ [key], 1877–1961, French archaeologist, paleontologist, and cleric. He taught at the Institut de paléontologie humaine, Paris, after 1910. During much of his lifetime, Breuil ...

De Coster, Charles Théodore Henri

(Encyclopedia)De Coster, Charles Théodore Henri də kŏsˈtər, Fr. shärl tāōdôrˈ äNrēˈ də kôstĕrˈ [key], 1827–79, Belgian author, b. Munich. His collected legends from Flemish folklore (1857), writt...

Riesener, Jean Henri

(Encyclopedia)Riesener, Jean Henri zhäN äNrēˈ rēzənĕrˈ [key], 1734–1806, French cabinetmaker, one of the major artists who made important contributions to the formation of the Louis XVI style in France. B...

Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri

(Encyclopedia)Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri äNrēˈ gōdyāˈ-bərzĕskäˈ [key], 1891–1915, French sculptor. He was the chief exponent of vorticism in sculpture. Mainly self-taught in England and Germany, Gaudier sho...
 

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