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Robert Genn
1936-05-15 – 2014-05-27
Life & Legacy
Robert Douglas Genn (May 15, 1936 – May 27, 2014) was a Canadian artist, who gained recognition for his style, which is in the tradition of Canadian landscape painting. He ran a painters' website, which sends out twice weekly newsletters to 135,000 artists. In 2005, Genn campaigned against the Chinese website arch-world.com, which was selling thousands of high-resolution images of around 2,800 artists' work illegally without permission. He succeeded to an extent.
Occupation & Career
artist
Education
Mount Douglas Secondary School
Legacy Highlights
Education & Institutions
Mount Douglas Secondary School
Sources & Provenance
- Wikidata population candidate Q7344708 — wikidata View source
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