Léonard Sarluis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Léonard Sarluis

naturalised French Symbolist painter

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1874

Place of Birth: The Hague, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1949

Profession: painter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Salomon-Léon Sarluis, known as Léonard Sarluis, (born The Hague, 21 October 1874 - died France, 1949) was a naturalised French Symbolist painter.Sarluis arrived in Paris in 1894 and became a well-known boulevardier.
He travelled widely, including to Naples, Italy and to Russia.
He was praised by Jean Lorrain and Oscar Wilde. He exhibited at the Salon de la Rose+Croix and the Salon des Artistes Français, and with Armand Point he designed the poster for the fifth salon of that group.
It depicted the Ideal in the form of Perseus holding the severed head of Émile Zola in reference to the Greek myth in which Perseus decapitated the Gorgon Medusa.
For the Symbolists, Zola exemplified in literature the oppressive Naturalism they rejected.