Maurice Asselin
Maurice Asselin (born June 24, 1882 in Orléans , † September 27, 1947 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French landscape, still life and nude painter, as well as an etcher, lithographer and watercolorist.
Life
Asselin was born the son of a coachman and a tobacconist. His family moved to Paris in 1911 and to Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1925.
After graduating from the Sainte-Croix School, he worked in the textile trade. At that time he drew cityscapes as an autodidact .
He began studying painting at the College of Fine Arts in Paris with Fernand Cormon , but was under the influence of Paul Cézanne and the Impressionists in the Musée du Luxembourg and the Louvre.
He fell ill with tuberculosis and was taken to the sanatorium. Maurice Asselin visited Brittany in 1905, 1906 and 1907, where he lived in the village of Moëlan-sur-Mer and met the painter Jacques Vaillant .
He took part in the Paris Salon des Indépendents in 1906 and Salon d'Automne in 1907, and in 1910 he became a member of the jury in the Autumn Salon.
From May to October 1908 he went on a bicycle tour from Rome to Florence, Assisi and Siena. He visited Italy again in 1910, traveled from Genoa to Naples , spent the summer in Anticoli Corrado not far from Rome , where he set up a studio.
In 1910 Asselin made friends in Moëlan-sur-Mer with the writer Pierre Mac Orlan , who described him and his painter friends Ricardo Flores , Émile Jourdan and Jacques Vaillant .
The outbreak of World War I put an end to the cheerful life of the artists .
Asselin first came to London in 1912 with his individual exhibition, which took place in February 1913. He lived with the German-born painter Walter Sickert . Asselin did not return to France until after the war. On September 17, 1919, he married Mrs. Paton. The couple had three sons: Bernard in 1922, Jean in 1923 and Georges in 1925.
He visited Great Britain again in the 1920s. In 1925 he went on a study trip with the painter André Fraye along the Mediterranean coast through Marseille , Sainte-Maxime , Saint-Tropez , Le Luc , Avignon and Orange .
Maurice Asselin left Montmartre and moved to Neuilly-sur-Seine, where he built a residence with a studio based on a design by the architect Pierre Patout.
Maurice Asselin traveled south again with his wife Paton in 1927 and to Brittany in the 1930s.
After the outbreak of the Second World War , Asselin fled with his family to Chalonnes-sur-Loire in western France, where he stayed until the armistice of 1940. In 1945 he traveled to Great Britain for the last time. He was admitted to Saint-Antoine Hospital in 1947 and died five days after surgery.
Illustrated works (selection)
- Francis Carco, Rien qu'une femme , 13 etchings by Maurice Asselin, Paris, Éditions Georges Crès, 1923.
- Jules Romains , Mort de quelqu'un , 24 etchings by Maurice Asselin, Paris, Éditions Georges Crès, 1927.
- Tristan Corbière , La Rapsode foraine et le Pardon de Sainte-Anne , lithographs by Maurice Asselin, Paris, Éditions Georges Crès, 1929.
- Maurice Asselin (preface by Gaston Diehl ), dix estampes originales , Paris, Éditions Rombaldi, 1946.
literature
- Maurice Asselin, Maurice Asselin , Paris, éditions Galerie Georges Pesson, 1919.
- Raymond Escholier , Maurice Asselin, peintre et lithographe , Paris, éditions Georges Crès, 1926.
- Charlotte Adrianne, "Maurice Asselin Le Peintre de la tendresse", L'Officiel de la Mode , No. 70, 1927.
- René-Jean, M. Asselin , Crès Georges et Cie, 1928.
- Pierre Mac Orlan , Peintures de Maurice Asselin , Paris, Roger Dequoy Gallery, 1941.
- Francis Carco, Maurice Asselin , Gallimard, 1945.
- Raymond Nacenta, Maurice Asselin , éditions Galerie Charpentier, 1945.
- Marc Sandoz, Éloge De Maurice Asselin , etchings by Maurice Asselin, éditions Manuel Bruker, 1959.
- Henri Jeanson , M. Asselin. 1882–1947 , Galerie Schmidt, from February 18 to March 13, 1970.
- Gérald Schurr, Les Petits Maîtres de la peinture, valeur de demain , Vol. 1, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, 1975.
- Patrick-F. Barrer, L'histoire du Salon d'automne de 1903 à nos jours , Éditions Arts et Images du Monde, 1992.
- Jean-Jacques Lévêque, Les années folles, 1918–1939: le triomphe de l'art moderne , ACR Édition, 1992.
- André Roussard, Dictionnaire des peintres à Montmartre , Éditions André Roussard, 1999.
- Emmanuel Bénézit , Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs , Gründ, 1999.
- Georges Asselin, Pierre Mac Orlan and Catherine Puget, Maurice Asselin et la Bretagne , Musée des beaux-arts de Pont-Aven, 2002.
Web links
- Jean-Pierre Delarge, Dictionnaire des arts plastiques modern et contemporains , Gründ, 2001 (online)
- Maurice Asselin. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Asselin, Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French landscape, still life and nude painter, as well as etcher, lithographer and watercolorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orleans |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1947 |
| Place of death | Neuilly-sur-Seine |