Robert Genn

Robert Genn
Genn on location at Lake of the Woods, Ontario
Born
Robert Douglas Genn

(1936-05-15)May 15, 1936
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
DiedMay 27, 2014(2014-05-27) (aged 78)
Surrey, British Columbia
Known forPainter

Robert Douglas Genn (May 15, 1936 – May 27, 2014) was a Canadian artist, who gained recognition for his style, which is in the tradition of Canadian landscape painting. He ran a painters' website, which sends out twice weekly newsletters to 135,000 artists. In 2005, Genn campaigned against the Chinese website arch-world.com, which was selling thousands of high-resolution images of around 2,800 artists' work illegally without permission. He succeeded to an extent.

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