莫里斯·丹尼斯生于1870年11月25日在威芒的海滨小镇在诺曼底的法国区。海域和海岸线将保持最喜欢的题材整个职业生涯中，为将材料从圣经中得出。对于这样一个前卫的数字，丹尼斯有一个令人惊讶的广泛宗教连胜，在年龄十五在他的笔记本上写：“是的，这是必要的，我是一个基督徒画家，说我庆祝基督教的一切奇迹，我觉得这是必要的。 “ 丹尼斯家庭是富裕的，和年轻莫里斯出席了在巴黎高等美术学院和Académie朱利安，他在那里学习与法国人物画家和理论家朱列斐伏尔约瑟夫。
丹尼斯，一个天主教 第三，娶了他的第一任妻子，马莎Meurier，于1893年。他们有七个孩子，她会对众多丹尼斯工程。在她于1919年去世，丹尼斯画献给她的记忆教堂。两年后，他再次结婚，伊丽莎白Graterolle，并育有两个孩子。在政治上，他接近君主行动法语运动。

丹尼斯在巴黎去世，从车祸在1943年11月造成的伤害的（他的死亡日期是多方面列为第二，第三或第13位。）

在Académie他会见了画家和未来的彩蝶成员包括保罗SÉRUSIER，皮埃尔·博纳尔 ; 通过波纳尔，他还会见了未来的纳比派爱德华·维亚尔，长青春科尔-泽维尔罗素和赫尔曼-保罗。1890年，他们成立的纳比派。他们选择了“彩蝶”希伯来语为“先知” -因为他们明白，他们将创造新的表达形式。该工作组将裂开的十年结束，并会影响双方波纳尔和维亚尔的后期作品，以及像非彩蝶画家马蒂斯。

那比派之后，丹尼斯继续把重点放在宗教题材和壁画。1922年，他出版了他收集的历史和理论工作作为“新生力量理论L'河畔现代艺术，河畔L'ART圣”，也就是说，“现代和神圣的艺术新论”。

他的成熟作品的主题包括景观尤其是母亲和孩子的身影和研究。但他的主要兴趣仍然是绘画宗教科目，像“劳动的尊严”，由基督教工会国际联合会于1931年委托装饰的主楼梯中心威廉Rappard会议。

丹尼斯是最早的艺术家之一，以坚持画面，一个伟大的出发点的平整度现代主义，作为视觉艺术实践。

在他的绘画的定义，在1890年提出著名的提案，他说：“要记住，一张图片，是一个战斗马，前裸体，轶事或诸如此类的东西，基本上是铺上平坦的表面颜色按照一定的顺序组装“。

1898年，他制作创作的理论，找到了艺术的来源，在画家的性格：“那创造的艺术作品是电力和艺术家的意志。”

该了Ateliers萨克尔艺术是建立在1919年11月5日之后，第一次世界大战（1914〜1918），由丹尼斯和乔治Desvallières在欧洲拥有广泛的运动，以调和与现代文明教堂的一部分。在了Ateliers创造艺术的教堂，尤其是那些受近期战争的蹂躏。丹尼斯说，他反对学术艺术，因为它牺牲情感会议和技巧，以及反对现实主义，因为它是散文和他想要的音乐。首先，他想的美，这是神的属性。
 

Morris Dennis was born in November 25, 1870 in Weiwang seaside town in Normandy District of france. The sea and the coastline will remain the favorite theme throughout the career, as the material from the bible. For such an avant-garde figure, Denis had an extensive religious streak a surprising, at the age of fifteen in his notebook: "yes, it is necessary, I am a Christian artist, said all the miracles I celebrate Christian, I think it is necessary. "Denis's family is wealthy, and young Maurice attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris and Acad Mie, where he studied with French painter and theorist of the song of," said.
Denis, a Catholic third, married his first wife, Martha Meurier, on 1893. They have seven children, and she will work on numerous Denis projects. After her death in 1919, Denis painted her memorial church. Two years later, he married again, Elizabeth Graterolle, and had two children. Politically, he moves closer to the French movement of the sovereign.
Denis died in Paris from injuries caused by a car accident in November 1943 (the date of his death was listed as second, or third, in many ways.)In Acad Mie he met the painter and future Caidie members include Paul S e RUSIER, Pierre Bonnal; by Bonnard, he also met future Nabis Edward Vial, long youth Cole Xavier Russell and Herman Paul. In 1890, they set up the nabis. They chose the "Caidie" Hebrew "prophet" - because they understand that they will create new forms of expression. The working group will split over ten years, and later work will affect both Bonnard and Veyer, as well as non Caidie painter Matisse.
Nabis, Denis continues to focus on religious themes and murals. In 1922, he published his collection of historical and theoretical work as the "new theory of modern art sur L'ART L'Sur, Saint", that is to say, "the art of modern and sacred".
The themes of his mature works include landscapes, especially mothers and children. But his main interest is still painting religious subjects, such as "the dignity of labor," commissioned by the International Union of Christian unions in 1931 to decorate the main staircase center William Rappard conference.
Denis was one of the earliest artists to adhere to the screen, a great starting point for the smoothness of modernism, as a visual art practice.
The definition in his paintings, made famous in the 1890 proposal, he said: "remember, a picture is a battle before the horse, naked, or something anecdotes and so on, basically is paved with flat surface color according to the order of assembly".
In 1898, he produced the theory of creation, and found the source of art in the artist's character: "the work of art is created by the power and the will of the artist."
The Ateliers Thacker art is established in November 5, 1919 after the first World War (1914 ~ 1918), by Denis and George de Desvalli res in Europe has a wide range of movement, a part of the church to reconcile with modern civilization. In the Ateliers created the art of the church, especially those under the recent war ravaged. Denis said he was opposed to academic art, because it sacrifices emotional meetings and techniques, as well as against realism, as it is prose and the music he wants. First of all, he thinks of beauty, which is the attribute of god.