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Honore Daumier
| French graphic artist, painter and sculptor Date of Birth: Country: France |
Biography of Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier was a French graphic artist, painter, and sculptor.
He was born in Marseille in and moved to Paris with his family when he was still a child.
Early in his career, Daumier worked various jobs, including being a messenger for a lawyer, a bookseller, and a lithographer.
He took drawing lessons and studied antique sculpture at the Louvre. He also worked in the workshop of Eugène Budin.
In , Daumier's first lithographs caught the attention of Charles Philipon, the publisher of the liberal political journal "Caricature." Daumier began publishing his lithographs in the journal under the pseudonym "Rogelin." One of his caricatures, depicting Louis-Philippe as Gargantua, landed him in prison for six months.
When "Caricature" was banned in , Philipon started another humorous journal called "Charivari," and Daumier consistently published h