Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Jean FrÃ dÃ ric Bazille ( December 6 , 1841 â `` November 28 , 1870 ) was a French Impressionist painter whose major works often foreground the figure within a landscape painted en plein air .
Simplified: Jean FrÃ dÃ ric Bazille ( 6 December 1841 â `` 28 November 1870 ) was a French painter who was killed in action in the Franco-Prussian War .