Louis Marcoussis

Louis Marcoussis (born Ludwik Markus) was a Polish-born French painter and engraver who joined the Cubist circle of Picasso, Braque and Apollinaire in Paris, remaining a refined interpreter of Cubism throughout his career. He was born into a cultured Jewish family in Warsaw that had converted to Catholicism, and he is today commonly counted among Jewish artists. He fled the Nazi occupation to Cusset, where he died in 1941.