Georges Lacombe (artist)

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Portrait of Georges Lacombe by unknown artist, around 1910

Georges Lacombe (born June 18, 1868 in Versailles , France , † June 29, 1916 in Alençon , Orne ) was a French painter and sculptor and member of the Nabis group of artists .

Life

Georges Lacombe was born in Versailles in 1868 as the son of well-off parents interested in art - his mother was the painter Laure Bonamour Lacombe (1834–1924). He received artistic training at the Académie Julian in Paris , and his teachers were the impressionists Alfred Philippe Roll and Henri Gervex . After joining the Nabis artists' group in 1892, he met Émile Bernard and Paul Sérusier , among others . A year later he met Paul Gauguin , whose wood carvings influenced his work, which has symbolist features. Like many artists of that time, he spent the summer months (from 1888 to 1897) in Brittany and painted in Camaret-sur-Mer .

Lacombe was called the "Le Nabi sculpteur", the "sculptor of the Nabis" and many sources only perceive him as a sculptor. Georges Lacombe died of tuberculosis on June 29, 1916 in Alençon .

  • The Bay , 1892

  • Marine bleue, Effet de vagues , 1893

  • Portrait of Paul Sérusier , 1894

  • Isis , 1895

  • Landscape , around 1894

Works (selection)

  • Les âges de la vie , Musée du Petit-Palais, Geneva
  • Forêt au sol rouge , 1891, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper, Quimper
  • Mer jaune, Camaret , around 1892, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest, Brest
  • Le nabi à la barbe rutilante (portrait of Paul Sérusier) , around 1894, Musée départemental Maurice Denis “Le Prieuré”, Saint-Germain-en-Laye
  • Marie Madeleine , 1897, wooden sculpture, Palais des beaux-arts de Lille, Lille

Literature and source

  • Joelle Ansieau: Georges Lacombe. 1868–1916 , Catalog raisonné. Somogy Editions d'Art, Paris 1998
  • Claire Frèches-Thory / Ursula Perucchi-Petry (ed.): The Nabis: Prophets of Modernism , Kunsthaus Zürich & Grand Palais, Paris & Prestel, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-791-31969-8

Web links

Commons : Georges Lacombe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georges Lacombe , all-art.org, accessed April 2, 2011
  2. ^ Georges Lacombe , christies.com, accessed April 1, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Lacombe, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Versailles
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1916
Place of death Alençon , Orne