Étienne Terrus

Bust of Étienne Terrus by Aristide Maillol, Elne.

Étienne Terrus (born September 1857 in Elne , Département Pyrénées-Orientales , † June 1922 ibid) was a French painter of Catalan origin.

Life

Vue d'Elne by Étienne Terrus (around 1900).

In the winter of 1874/75 Terrus came to Paris at the age of 17 and was a student at the École des Beaux-Arts ; u. a. he was tutored there by Alexandre Cabanel . Since he - according to his own admission - could not cope with the big city life, he returned to his hometown after a short time and hardly left this period of his life.

Friends were Terrus u. a. with André Derain , Aristide Maillol , Henri Matisse , George-Daniel de Monfreid and others from the artist group Nabis .

Almost forgotten for a long time, Elne remembered Étienne Terrus a few years ago and built a museum in his honor in 1994. In April 2018 it was announced that 82 of the 140 works exhibited there had turned out to be fakes.

literature

Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Grund, Paris 1966 ff., Vol.?, P.?.
Heinz Fuchs (Ed.): The Nabis and their friends ("Les Nabis et leurs amis") . Kunsthalle, Mannheim 1963 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, October 23, 1963 to January 6, 1964), p.
Madeleine Raynal, “Étienne Terrus”, Conflent , n ° 181, janvier-février 1993, pp. 2-6.

Individual evidence

^ Most of the pictures in Terrus-Museum forged. Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 28, 2018, accessed on April 29, 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Étienne Terrus - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Musée Terrus (French)

personal data
SURNAME	Terrus, Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French painter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elne , Pyrénées-Orientales department
DATE OF DEATH	June 1922
Place of death	Elne , Pyrénées-Orientales department

[1] Most of the pictures in Terrus-Museum forged. Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 28, 2018, accessed on April 29, 2018 .