Bernard Buffet was a French

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 painter of Expressionism

Expressionism

Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas...

 and Member of the Anti-Abstract Art Group "L'homme Témoin [the Witness-Man]".
Buffet was born in Paris

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, France

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, and studied art there at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts

École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts

The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts is the distinguished National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France.The École des Beaux-arts is made up of a vast complex of buildings located at 14 rue Bonaparte, between the quai Malaquais and the rue Bonaparte, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Près,...

 (National School of the Fine Arts) and worked in the studio of the painter Eugène Narbonne

Eugène Narbonne

Eugène Narbonne, born 1885 died 1966, was a figurative French painter and professor at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.He is also known for his students: Maurice Boitel, Georgette Piccon, Bernard Buffet and Louis Vuillermoz....

. Among his classmates were Maurice Boitel

Maurice Boitel

Maurice Boitel Maurice Boitel Maurice Boitel (July 31, 1919 – August 11, 2007 in Audresselles (Pas-de-Calais), was a French painter.-Artistic life:Maurice Boitel belonged to the art movement called "La Jeune Peinture" ("Young Picture") of the School of Paris, with painters like Bernard Buffet, Yves...

 and Louis Vuillermoz.

Sustained by the picture-dealer Maurice Garnier, Buffet produced religious pieces, landscapes, portraits and still-lifes.