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Helen Twelvetrees was born Helen Marie Jurgens in Brooklyn, New York on December 25, 1908. Her interest in the theatricals was apparent at an early age. After graduating from high school. Helen embarked on a stage career. She participated in a number of plays in New York City, but gravitated toward film when she headed to the West Coast in late 1928. In 1929, Helen appeared in her first motion picture called THE GHOST TALKS. That was quickly followed by WORDS AND MUSIC and BLUE SKIES that same year. Through the early thirties, Helen appeared in a number of movies. Audiences appreciated the pixish, little blonde and the roles she played. Perhaps one of her finest roles was a June Perry in STATE'S ATTORNEY (1932) opposite John Barrymore. Helen's character was romantically involved with the district attorney and plays the part with absolute conviction. Helen continued a hectic filming pace until 1936. She filmed five movies in 1935, but played in only THOROUGHBRED in '36. In 1938, Helen went through a drought and made her last film the following year in UNMARRIED. Helen's film career had ended. Through the balance of her life there seemed to be a void. On February 13, 1958, died after she took an overdose of sedatives. She was 49.- Louis Sturz was born in 1885. He was an actor, known for The Cavell Case (1918). He died on 13 February 1958 in Florida, USA.
- Piero Carnabuci was born on 6 September 1893 in Santa Teresa di Riva, Sicily, Italy. He was an actor, known for Princess Cinderella (1941), Loves of Don Juan (1942) and I Live as I Please (1942). He died on 13 February 1958 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
- From 1885 onwards, Rouault was taught drawing in evening courses at the École des Arts Décoratifs. In the same year he began training as a glass painter, which he completed in 1890. He then attended the École Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in 1890. From 1892 he was taught by the painter Gustave Moreau, who introduced him to mysticism and religion in painting. Even in his early days, Rouault was interested in religious painting, which also testifies to his interest in medieval art. In Moreau's studio he met the painters Henri Matisse and Henri Charles Manguin. This theme initially determined the content of his images; works with Old Testament and mythological motifs were created. But Georges Rouault also turned to landscape painting. From 1895 to 1901, exhibitions in the "Salon des Artistes Francais" followed at regular intervals. The death of his teacher and mentor Gustave Moreau in 1898 marked a deep turning point in Rouault's artistic work.
He withdrew from the public art world and became curator of the Musée Moreau; He filled this position throughout his life. A change occurred in his style expression. From this point on, Georges Rouault concentrated on Expressionism, which expressed itself in strongly emphasized colors and in hard, close contrasts. He painted in the style of the Parisian Fauvists, but distinguished himself from them through his moral stance. He used fringe social figures such as prostitutes, clowns, artists and homeless people as the subject of his pictures. This is how pictures were created such as "The Harlot in front of the Mirror" from 1906 or the work entitled "Three Clowns" painted around 1917. The images of prostitutes in particular from the years 1903 to 1907 are said to be influenced by the writer Léon Marie Bloy, who describes decadent Parisian life in his novel entitled "La Femme pauvre". The French novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans also had a personal influence. From 1903 to 1908 he exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Automne. Together with Henri Matisse and Albert Marquet, he played a key role in its founding and establishment.
The work entitled "Wrestler" was created in 1905 and the following year the title "Girl with Raised Arms" was created. They are considered an example of his full-scale expressionism with the hard, erratic brushstrokes that he made with passion. This phase lasted in the two years 1905 and 1906. Georges Rouault then occupied himself with ceramic works, which allowed him to find expression from 1910 onwards. The image surface turned out to be less transparent and became less permeable. The colors in glowing tone were given a border of dark-toned contours. Between 1917 and 1927, Rouault created a series of etchings entitled "Guerre et Miserere" on the subject of war, suffering and biblical scenes, which was published in 1948 under the title "Miserere". From 1918 onwards, oil painting was again in the foreground, and biblical themes dominated his motifs. George Rouault designed the decorations for the ballet "The Prodigal Son" by the Russian ballet manager Serge Diaghilev in 1929. Since then he turned to impasto painting, which he realized in a relief-like characteristic that was exemplary for him.
From this point on, his themes were almost exclusively of a religious nature. The two large-format works entitled "The Wounded Clown" from 1932 and "Christ with the Fishermen" from 1937 are among his masterpieces. In the years 1934 to 1935, Rouault made the graphic series entitled "Passion". It was published in 1938. In 1948 he made stained glass windows for the church in Assy. Rouault's artistic work was primarily religious. With these and other works he intended to represent the experience of theological and existential areas through the expression of expressionism.
Georges Rouault died on February 13, 1958 in Paris. - Gustave Caillois was born on 15 December 1874 in Paris, France. He died on 13 February 1958 in France.
- Christabel Pankhurst was born on 22 September 1880 in Old Trafford, Manchester, England, UK. She died on 13 February 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.