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Maurice Grün born in Reval, Russia (now Tallinn, Estonia) became a naturalised French citizen in 1910. He moved to Paris in 1890 at the age of 21 in order to continue his studies which he had begun at the Beaux-Arts in Munich. It was in Paris at the Académie Julian under the tutelage of Jules Lefebvre (1836-1911) and Benjamin Constant (1845-1902), that he received the Academy medal for his work. Following his studies, Grün travelled to the United States and then to Brazil, where he briefly settled and was appointed as a teacher at the Beaux-Arts de Salvador da Bahia. Grün later returned to France in 1896 and eventually settled in Concarneau. Grün exhibited at numerous Parisian Salons from 1906 to 1939, and his art work is held in museums and private collections internationally.