André Lhote
André Lhote (born July 5, 1885 in Bordeaux , † January 24, 1962 in Paris ) was a French painter , sculptor , art theorist and teacher . His work can be assigned to Cubism .
Life
After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux , Lhote first turned to sculpture and finally to painting . In 1910, now married, he and his wife were accepted into the Villa Médicis libre in Orgeville ( Département Eure , Normandy ). The pioneers of his move to Paris were his friends Jacques Rivière (1886–1925), who like Lhote came from Bordeaux, and Alain-Fournier (1886–1914), with whom he had a lively correspondence between 1906/1909 and 1911 who helped him with the exhibition of his works in the Salon des Indépendants or in galleries, with the sale and with the acquisition of secondary income sources. In 1910/1911 Lhote provided woodcuts for the Paris-Journal , for which Alain-Fournier wrote the literary section. The latter also encouraged him to devote himself to art criticism. He also had a deep friendship with Gustave Tronche, who married Lhote's sister-in-law Jeanne Hayet in 1908 and who later joined the board of the Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF). Thanks to Tronche, the artist worked as an art critic for the NRF from 1918.
At the same time Lhote ran his own painting school in Paris. In 1922 he founded the prestigious Académie Lhote at Montparnasse and also taught courses at the Académie Scandinave . His students included the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka as well as Henri Cartier-Bresson , Alf Bayerle , Oswald Petersen , Fred Klein and William Klein .
André Lhote died in Paris at the age of 76 and found his final resting place in the Cimetière Montparnasse cemetery .
He was married to Marguerite Hayet (1898–1978).
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Inspired by Paul Gauguin at the beginning of his artistic career , André Lhote was greatly impressed by the large retrospective of Cézanne's works organized in 1907 , then joined the Cubists and, in particular, temporarily associated with the group of artists that had formed around Juan Gris . From the Cubists, Lhote only took over the simplification of the forms and the dissolution of the motifs into predominantly angular surfaces. When choosing the motifs and the composition of the picture, he always kept classical painting in view and made sure that his paintings remained “legible”. The later work was characterized by large wall paintings such as those in the medical faculty of Bordeaux (1957).
André Lhote was the author of several theoretical treatises. In these, as well as in his textbooks and numerous other writings, he dealt intensively with painting. He was very influential through his teaching and his books. His students included Else Hertzer , Tamara de Lempicka , Henri Cartier-Bresson , Alf Bayrle , Fred Klein and William Klein , Gerhild Diesner , Oswald Petersen and Wilfried Kirschl .
Works (selection)
- Fonts
- 1923: Portrait de Corot , 1923, Paris, Stock
- 1925: Jacques Rivière, critique et ami in La Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF) N ° 139, April 1, 1925, pp. 611–617
- 1926: Les Peintres français nouveaux , 1926, Paris, Gallimard
- 1939: Traité du paysage , 1941, Librairie Floury
- 1942: Peinture d'abord , 1942, Paris, Denoël
- 1943: Petits itinéraires à l'usage des artistes , 1943
- 1946: De la palette à l'écritoire , 1946, Corréa
- 1950: Traité de la figure , 1950, Librairie Floury
- 1954: Les chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture égyptienne , 1954, Paris, Hachette
- 1956: La peinture libérée , 1956, Paris, Grasset
- ????: Les invariants plastiques (Hermann)
- painting
- 1920: Landscape with Houses , 1920, oil on canvas, 65 × 50 cm, Moscow , Pushkin Museum
- 1923: Femme à sa toilette
Exhibitions
- 1920: Exhibition of the works of André Lhote, 1920, Paris, Galerie E. Druet, catalog with a foreword by Jacques Rivière in Bourges , Bibliothèque Municipale (Fonds Rivière, Imprimés)
Posthumously:
- 1967: Hommage à André Lhote, 1967, Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts
- 1974: André Lhote and his Yugoslav students, 1974, Belgrade , State Museum
- 1975: André Lhote, 1975, Saint-Denis de la Réunion , Musée des Beaux-arts Léon-Dierx
- 1986: La peinture, le cœur et l'esprit. Homage to André Lhote, Alain-Fournier et Jacques Rivière, Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-arts
- 2000: Retrospective of André Lhote's work, September 2000, Plaissan , Agence Galerie
literature
- Anatole Jakovsky: André Lhote . Denoël, Paris 1947.
- F. Claverie-Garcia: Catalog des œuvres d'André Lhote , habilitation thesis (art history), 1980, location: Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-arts
- Joint effort: André Lhote , catalog of the exhibition in the Musée de Valence, 2003, Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN), ISBN 2-7118-4684-9
Web links
- André Lhote at artfacts.net
- André Lhote at artnet.de
- Search for André Lhote in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- André Lhote and his friendship with Jacques Rivière and Alain-Fournier on the Mediathèque Bourges website ( Memento from January 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lhote, André |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter, sculptor, art theorist and teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1962 |
| Place of death | Paris |