Achille Laugé

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Achille Laugé (born August 29, 1861 in Arzens , Département Aude , † June 2, 1944 in Cailhau , Département Aude) was a French pointillist painter .

Live and act

Laugé came from an old farming family. He received his first artistic lessons during his school days and with the support of his teachers he was able to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse from 1876 . During this time he also made the acquaintance of Antoine Bourdelle , Henri Marre and Henri Martin . At the same time he tried to train as a pharmacist, but very soon decided to paint.

In 1881 he left the EBA in Toulouse and went to Paris . The following year he became a student of Alexandre Cabanel at the EBA there , and later also of Jean-Paul Laurens . Through his friend Bourdelle, he also met Aristide Maillol , with whom he shared a studio ( Rue de Sèvres ).

In 1891 Laugé married Marie Agnès Boyer in Paris and had four children with her: Pierre (* 1892), Juliette (* 1894), Jeanne (* 1896) and Julien (* 1900).

Friends and colleagues who were rejected by the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture founded the Société des Artistes Indépendants in the summer of 1894 and held their own exhibitions (→ Salon des Indépendants). Achille Laugé was able to present some of his works at the first exhibition and was favorably discussed by the press.

Achille Laugé died on June 2, 1944 in Cailhau and found his final resting place there.

Honors

  • The Rue de Achille Laugé in Carcassonne was named after him

Works (selection)

Portrait de femme 1894
  • Portrait de femme 1894.
  • Devant la fenêtre . 1900.
  • Route de Cailhau . 1910.
  • Le verger en fleurs . 1917.
  • Printemps in un verger . 1920.
  • Les amandiers . 1927.

literature

  • Achille Astre: Souvenirs d'Art et de littérature. Gustave Geffroy, Louis Legrand, Georges du Feure, Achille Laugé . Édition du Cygne, Paris 1930.
  • Emmanuel Bénézit (term): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, vol. 8 . New edition Grund, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-7000-3078-8 .
  • Bertrand Beyern: Guide de tombes d'hommes célèbres Le Cherche Midi, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-86274-523-5 .
  • Jean Girou: Peintre du Midi . Hattier, Paris 1939.
  • Charles Pornon: Achille Laugé et ses amis Bourdelle et Maillol . Musée des Augustins, Toulouse 1961.
  • Nicole Tamburini (ed.): Achille Laugé (1861-1944). Portraits pointillistes . Saint Tropez 1990 (also catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Musée de l'Annonciade, April 7 to June 11, 1990).
  • Nicole Tamburini (Ed.): Achille Laugé. Le point, la ligne, la lumière . Silvana Editorale, Carcassonne 2009, ISBN 978-88-366-1440-0 (also catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Musée des Beaux-Arts, October 16, 2009 to January 16, 2010).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bertrand Beyern: Guide de tombes d'hommes célèbres , p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Laugé, Achille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pointillist painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Arzens , Aude department
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1944
Place of death Cailhau , Aude department