Henri Doucet

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Henri Auguste Doucet (born December 16, 1883 in Pleumartin ( France ), † March 5, 1915 in Hooge ) was a French draftsman and painter .

The Seine at the Pont d'Austerlitz bridge (1902)

Henri Doucet came from a family of workers and farmers and began his career as a house painter. Due to his talent for drawing, he took part in the design of pavilions during the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900. He then entered the College of Fine Arts in Paris. There the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme noticed Doucet and took him into his studio. Parallel to his studies, he worked with Jean-Paul Laurens and Henri Martin , whom he supported in his work at the Capitol in Toulouse. At the end of his studies he went on a study trip to Italy .

When he returned to Paris in 1907, he joined the cultural center L'Abbaye de Créteil , founded by Georges Duhamel and Charles Vildrac (later AEAR ). There he exhibited Venetian landscapes and portraits of artist friends. After the Groupe de l'Abbaye disbanded, he moved with the painters Albert Gleizes and Maurice Drouard and the sculptor Géo Maxim into a house on 7 rue du Delta. This house, which was half in ruins, was owned by the doctor Paul Alexandre hired to found a new artist colony there. Doucet introduced Amedeo Modigliani there and Paul Alexandre became his patron. The adventure on Rue du Delta lasted until 1911.

In the summer of 1913, Doucet went on his second trip to Italy with his friend Charles Vildrac . He then settled in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon . When the First World War began in 1914 , he volunteered and fell on March 5, 1915 in Hooge (Belgium) .

On September 29, 2019, an episode of the NDR's Lieb & Teuer program was broadcast, moderated by Janin Ullmann and filmed in Reinbek Castle . In it, a painting Doucets was discussed with the painting expert Ariane Skora, which shows a lemon harvest.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Video Henri Doucet painting "Lemon Harvest" on ndr.de
personal data
SURNAME Doucet, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doucet, Henri Auguste (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Pleumartin ( France )
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1915
Place of death Hooge