George Mosson (1851 - 1933)

George Mosson

George Mosson was a German painter of the late nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries of French origin. He is known as a painter, famous for his floral still lifes, landscapes and portraits.

George Mosson studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and the Weimar Art School. In 1892 he co-founded the artists' association Vereinigung der XI (Association of the Eleven), and in 1898 he became a founding member of the Berlin Secession, which was created in opposition to academic art. The master later joined the Free Secession and was a member of the German Artists' Union. Mosson actively exhibited his work in Berlin and left a significant artistic legacy.