Charles Lapicque
Charles Lapicque (born October 6, 1898 in Theizé , † July 15, 1988 in Orsay ) was a French painter and an important representative of the École de Paris .
biography
Lapicque was a trained engineer who studied optics and color until he devoted himself entirely to painting in 1928. After meeting the cubist artist Jacques Villon in 1939 , he joined the Mouvement des Jeunes Peintres de la Tradition Française , which also included Alfred Manessier and Jean René Bazaine , and which in 1941 staged the exhibition Vingt jeunes peintres de tradition française . From 1948 he was Peintre Officiel de la Marine .
plant
Charles Lapicque "tried in his painting to bring the representational and abstract in a contrapuntal connection of colored surfaces and swinging, arabesque lines to coincide".
Biographies
- Peter Indergand : On the way to new shores (1998), film portrait of Charles Lapicque
Individual evidence
- ^ DuMonts Künstlerlexikon des 20. Jahrhundert, p. 233. Edited by Karin Thomas, 2006.
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| SURNAME | Lapicque, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Theizé |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1988 |
| Place of death | Orsay |