Louis Eilshemius
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Beach at Apia, Samoa by Louis Eilshemius, 1905
Apparently he really did sail out to the South Pacific and came back with a stack of scenes like this one. They say almost nobody took him seriously for decades — until Marcel Duchamp, of all people, started calling him a genius, which only half stuck.
Erisava: This looks like a postcard. Is that all it needs to be?
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Mountain Landscape by Louis Eilshemius, 1914
He apparently spent decades loudly declaring himself a genius to anyone who'd listen and got nowhere — until Duchamp, of all people, picked him out of an exhibition and started championing him.
Erisava: Never heard of him. Is he famous or really considered a genius?