Eugène Boch

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Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of Eugène Boch; «Portrait of a Poet», oil on canvas, 1888

Eugène Boch (born September 1, 1855 in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue , Normandy ; † January 3, 1941 in Monthyon , Département Seine-et-Marne ) was a French - Belgian painter , poet and founding member of the artist group " Les XX " .

Life

Eugène Boch came from a wealthy industrial family who owned the Villeroy & Boch company . He had studied with the Parisian salon painter Léon Bonnat since 1879 and then, in 1882, after the dissolution of Bonnat's private teaching institution, such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Louis Anquetin and other studio friends, switched to Fernand Cormon . From Cormon he was also friends with John Peter Russell and through him with Dodge MacKnight.

It was also MacKnight who invited Boch in April 1888 to come to him in Fontvieille near Arles . Boch traveled to Fontvieille and then met Vincent van Gogh on one of MacKnight's visits to Arles . The beginning friendship with van Gogh was probably more than just one of those fleeting artist acquaintances he knew from Paris and of which actually only the one with Émile Bernard became a more intensive relationship.

In 1891, after the death of his friend, Boch received the portrait painted in Arles as a gift from Johanna van Gogh-Bonger , which then went to the Louvre in 1944 . Boch owned two other paintings by van Gogh from the Saint-Rémy phase , one of which he had exchanged for his painting The Crachet & Pecry Pit ; he obviously acquired the other one later, perhaps together with his sister Anna . In 1892 Boch settled in Monthyon (Seine-Marne), not far from Paris. In 1909 Eugène Boch married Anne-Marie Léonie Crusfond († 1933) in Monthyon.

literature

  • Matthias Arnold: Vincent van Gogh (biography) , Kindler, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-463-40205-X , p.?.
  • Thérèse Faider-Thomas: Anna Boch and Eugène Boch. Works from the beginnings of modern art . Mettlach, Villeroy & Boch, Mettlach 1971.
  • Marina Sauer: Boch, Eugène Guillaume . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 13, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22753-1 .

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SURNAME Boch, Eugène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boch, Eugène Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Belgian painter and founding member of the artist group "Les XX"
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue , Normandy
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1941
Place of death Monthyon