Today’s Telling Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Alfred H. Maurer was the first American painter to be recognized in Paris for his Fauvist landscapes. He studied with Matisse, and seemed to have a bright future. When he went broke, he left France and retreated to his father’s house in New York. What resentment lurked behind his stifled genius remains unknown, though Maurer chose a telling place to hang himself. He was found dangling in the doorway to his father’s bedroom in 1932.
Culled from: Genius and Heroin