Elisabeth Fuss-Amoré 1879-1959

Élisabeth Fuss‑Amoré, born in Paris in 1879, was a painter, intellectual, and activist. After spending part of her youth in Belgium, she returned to Paris, where she married Gustave Fuss‑Amoré in 1904. She became politically engaged early on, notably supporting the 1910 garment workers’strike, and moved within progressive literary and artistic circles. From the early 1920s, she exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants, theSalon d’Automne, and at Montparnasse cafés that became hubs for avant‑garde artists. Known for portraits and still lifes, she was connected with theintellectual bohemia of Montparnasse during Les Années Folles. Amedeo Modigliani made a famous portrait of her. Her work reflects the spirit ofexperimentation and social engagement that defined Parisian modernism of the period.