What is Alfred Maurer?
{{Infobox artist | name = Alfred Henry Maurer | image = arrangement.jpg | imagesize = | caption = ''An Arrangement'', 1901, oil on cardboard | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date |1868|4|21|}} | birth_place = [[New York City]] | death_date = {{death date and age |1932|8|4|1868|4|21|}} | death_place = | nationality = [[United States|American]] | field = [[Painting]] }} [[File:Alfred H Maurer - Fauve Still Life c 1908-1910.jpg|thumb|230px|[[Fauvism|Fauve]] [[still life]] by Alfred Maurer, about 1908/1910]] [[File:Alfred H Maurer - Fauve Landscape with Red and Blue, c 1908.jpg|thumb|230px|Fauve [[landscape]] by Alfred Maurer, ~1908]] '''Alfred Henry Maurer''' (April 21, 1868 &ndash; August 4, 1932) was an [[Americans|American]] [[modernism|modernist]] [[Painting|painter]]. He exhibited his work in [[avant-garde]] circles during the early 20th century. Maurer was born in [[New York City]], the son of a [[Germany|German]] [[Lithography|lithographer]]. At the age of sixteen, Maurer quit school to work at his father's lithographic firm. In 1897 Maurer left for [[Paris]], where he stayed the next four years, joining a circle of American and French artists. At the time, Maurer's style was [[Realism|realist]]. Briefly returning to New York, he was determined to show his skeptical father that he could paint. Maurer painted what arguably is his most famous painting ''An Arrangement'', using a woman next door as a [[model (person)|model]] and completing the work (on a borrowed piece of [[cardboard]]) in a matter of hours. The painting received first prize at the 1901 [[Carnegie International]] Exhibition. Other awards received by Maurer included the Inness Jr. prize of the [[Salmagundi Club]] in 1900 and a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition at [[Buffalo, New York]] in 1901. In 1905 he won the third medal at the [[Liège]] International Exposition and a gold medal at the International Exposition in [[Munich]]. At the age of thirty-six, in Paris, Mau