Auguste Herbin
Auguste Herbin (born April 29, 1882 in Quiévy near Cambrai , † January 31, 1960 in Paris ) was a French painter of classical modernism .
Life
The craftsman's son from the small town of Quiévry on the Franco-Belgian border studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lille from 1899 to 1901 and settled in Paris on a long-term basis in 1901 . From 1901 he also stayed in Bruges repeatedly and made artistic contacts there. He exhibited his works for the first time in the Salon des Indépendants in 1905. Two years later he took part in the Salon d'Automne together with the Fauves , but after meeting Juan Gris he turned to Cubism the following year and in 1909 moved to the Bateau-Lavoir , where for example Juan Gris, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso had their studios. In 1916 he signed a contract with the Léonce Rosenberg gallery in Paris. There he had solo exhibitions in 1918, 1921 and 1924.
Herbin co-founded the artist group Abstraction-Création in Paris in 1931, together with Georges Vantongerloo and other artists . In the same year he also became co-editor of the magazine abstraction, création, art non figuratif .
He was also involved in founding the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles after the Second World War , and from 1955 also became its president.
Herbin, who suffered from paralysis of the right half of his body from 1953 and had to switch his activities and especially his painting to the left hand, died surprisingly on January 31, 1960 in Paris.
He left an unfinished picture that he named himself: Fin (French for "end").
Auguste Herbin trained his niece, the artist Geneviève Claisse (1935–2018), in painting.
Exhibitions
- 1905: Participation in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, first exhibition of Herbins works
- 1907: Participation in the Salon d'Automne in Paris, together with the Fauvists
- 1955: Participation in the documenta I in Kassel
- 1959: Participation in the documenta II in Kassel
- Posthumously
- 1967: Kestner Society Hanover
- 1972: Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Individual Mythologies department
- 1979: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York
- 1987: Exhibition of Positions of Independent Art in Europe around 1937 in Düsseldorf in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen .
- 2012: retrospective at the Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis
- 2014: Auguste Herbin - from the Lahumière collection, Haus Konstruktiv , Zurich
plant
In Paris, the artist initially devoted himself to impressionism . A little later he temporarily joined the Fauves , and from 1908 his works are influenced by Cubism .
After 1926, Herbin's pictures are characterized by the use of elementary basic forms such as triangles, circles, segments of circles, rectangles or trapezoids in pure colors. From now on his pictures are pure abstraction .
From 1946 onwards, Herbin developed a compositional system called alphabet plastique , which is based on a letter structure. In 1949 he published his own color theory (which is linked to Goethe's theory of colors ) in his font L'art non-figuratif non-objectif .
Works
- 1925: Joueurs de boules , oil on canvas, 146 × 114 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne in the Center Georges-Pompidou , Paris
- 1943: Adam et Eve (Adam and Eve), oil on canvas, 81 × 64 cm, LWL Museum for Art and Culture , Münster
literature
- Auguste Herbin , with notes by Wieland Schmied , exhibition catalog, Kestner Society, Hanover 1967
- Dictionnaire de la peinture française . Larousse, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-03-740011-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Auguste Herbin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Auguste Herbin in the documenta archive
- Peter Kropmanns: A Life for Color , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 23, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herbin, Auguste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quiévy , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1960 |
| Place of death | Paris |