Auguste Chabaud
Auguste Chabaud (born October 3, 1882 in Nîmes , Gard , † May 23, 1955 in Graveson , Bouches-du-Rhône ) was a French painter and sculptor .
Life
At the age of fourteen, Chabaud joined the École des beaux-arts d'Avignon in Avignon . His teacher was the painter Pierre Grivolas (1823-1906). In 1899 he went to Paris to continue his artistic training at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux Arts . There he met Henri Matisse and André Derain . In 1900 he returned to his parents' winery in the south of France because the business there was hit by a crisis. In 1901 he was forced to leave Paris completely in order to secure his livelihood. He worked on a ship and got to know the West African coast. In the same year his father died. Chabaud and his brother inherited the property, but only the brother used it. He worked in a butcher shop. From 1903 to 1906 he did his military service in Tunisia, from where he returned with sketchbooks about life there.
In 1907, after his return to Paris, Chabaud exhibited mainly Fauvist works in the Salon des Indépendants . In the following years he got to know the Parisian nightlife and the art collectors became increasingly interested in him. In the Paris quarter of Montmartre , where he had his studio, he painted various scenes from Paris city life. Chabaud's Cubist phase began in 1911 , during which he also began sculpting. A solo exhibition with 53 paintings in the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery in Paris in 1912 was followed by numerous other exhibitions, for example in 1913 in New York , where his works were exhibited alongside those by artists such as Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck and Pablo Picasso .
After his return from the First World War in 1919, Chabaud settled in the southern French village of Graveson for the rest of his life . From 1920 he had his "blue period". He used Berlin blue as the only color in his works. Since then he has concentrated exclusively on the south of France, which he had repeatedly painted during his time in Paris. Among other things, he painted scenes of country life, the farmers, the hills and the hiking trails of the Alpilles . Auguste Chabaud died on May 23, 1955 at the age of 72 in his adopted country of Graveson. In 1992 the regional council of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region opened the Musée Auguste Chabaud in his place of residence and death in Graveson in his honor .
Footnotes
- ↑ exhibition catalog exposure Auguste Chaubaud du lundi au samedi 11 mars 23 1912 , chez MM. Bernheim-Jeune & Cie, Paris, 15 rue Richepanse.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chabaud, Auguste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nîmes |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1955 |
| Place of death | Graveson |