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Gustav-Adolf Mossa (1883 - 1971) was introduced to watercolor by his father, his only landscape teacher and professor at the Ecole nationale des Arts décoratifs in Nice. Together they traveled through Italy in 1902 and again in 1903 before returning to Nice, where Gustav-Adolf began to develop his own style, based on highly symbolic imagery.
It was his sensual pleasure and deep knowledge of a vast body of literature that inspired Mossa. Read the full biography

Gustav-Adolf Mossa (1883 - 1971) was introduced to watercolor by his father, his only landscape teacher and professor at the Ecole nationale des Arts décoratifs in Nice. Together they traveled through Italy in 1902 and again in 1903 before returning to Nice, where Gustav-Adolf began to develop his own style, based on highly symbolic imagery.
It was his sensual pleasure and deep knowledge of a vast body of literature that inspired Mossa. His library, now preserved at the Palais Masséna in Nice, shows his great interest in poets, tragic epics, classical music, but also in the new sciences of psychoanalysis.