André Bauchant
Auguste André Bauchant (born April 24, 1873 in Château-Renault , Indre-et-Loire , Center-Val de Loire region ; † August 12, 1958 in Montoire-sur-le-Loir , Vendôme , Center-Val de Loire region ) was a French painter of naive painting .
Life
André Bauchant was the son of a gardener and also learned this trade in his father's business. At the age of 27 he married his childhood sweetheart Alphonsine Bataillon. After visiting the gardens of Versailles Palace , he also attended an art exhibition in Paris and was deeply impressed by the art in the museums.
During the First World War he served in Greece. After that he became more and more enthusiastic about painting and set up his studio in an abandoned mill . In addition to landscapes from the Touraine , pictures of flowers and birds, Bauchant also painted poetic - mythical visions. His painting was consistently characterized by a close connection to nature and by his passion for ancient mythology .
In 1921, Bauchant first sent in paintings and drawings for the Salon d'Automne (or "Paris Autumn Salon"), where Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant became aware of him. Le Corbusier was also to become Bauchant's passionate collector and mentor . Sergei Pavlovich Djagilew , the founder and manager of Ballets Russes , commissioned him in 1927 to design the set for the ballet Apollon musagète by Igor Fyodorowitsch Stravinsky . In the same year he also had his first solo exhibition at the Jeanne Bucher gallery in Paris .
André Bauchant, together with Henri Rousseau , Camille Bombois , Louis Vivin and Séraphine Louis, is considered a painter of the sacred heart and a classic of naive painting in France .
Today his paintings can be seen in French museums in Grenoble , Villeneuve-d'Ascq , Dijon , Laval and Strasbourg , but also in the Tate Gallery and the New York Museum of Modern Art . In the art market, up to 78,000 US dollars are paid for his paintings.
literature
- Jürgen Kisters: André Bauchant. April 24, 1873 - August 12, 1958 . Edition Baus, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-926318-33-3 (text in German, English and French).
- Dina Vierny, Alain Troadec and Pierre Cabanne: André Bauchant. Catalog raisonné . Benteli, Bern; Wabern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7165-1296-8 (text in English and French).
- Dina Vierny: André Bauchant , Acatos, Lausanne 1998, ISBN 2-940033-33-1 .
Web links
- Artnet.de - André Bauchant
- André Bauchant (English)
- Images of two paintings on the Tate Gallery page
- Images of two pictures on the side of the Museum of Modern Art , New York
Individual evidence
- ^ Biography on the Tate Gallery website , accessed February 20, 2011
- ↑ Information on the website of a leading auction house , accessed on February 20, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bauchant, André |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bauchant, Auguste André (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter of naive painting |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Château-Renault , Indre-et-Loire department , Center-Val de Loire region |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1958 |
| Place of death | Montoire-sur-le-Loir , Vendôme , Center-Val de Loire region |