George Benjamin Luks
1867 - 1933

George Luks was born on August 13, 1867 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Luks received his first art instruction from his parents who pursued
painting as a hobby. At seventeen he entered the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts. Later he went to Düsseldorf where he lived with a distant
relative, a retired lion-tamer. He abandoned Düsseldorf for the more
stimulating spheres of London and Paris. When he returned to America
he worked as an artist for Philadelphia newspapers.

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