Henri Le Fauconnier

Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier (* 5. July 1881 in Hesdin ; † 25. December 1946 in Paris ) was a French painter of Cubism .

Life

Le Fauconnier was born near Calais as the son of the doctor Louis Fauconnier and his wife Gabrielle Roux. He came to Paris in 1901 and was a student in the studio of J. P. Laurens and at the Académie Julian (1906). Since 1905 he called himself Le Fauconnier and exhibited in the Salon des Indépendents . In 1908 he stayed in Ploumanac'h in Brittany for a year . In 1909 Le Fauconnier came into contact with the painters Albert Gleizes and Robert Delaunay . In 1910 he became a member of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München and made a trip to Italy in 1911. In 1912 he took part in the collective exhibition at the Folkwang Museum in Hagen, and wrote the foreword for the catalog. In the same year Le Fauconnier became head of the Académie de la Palette in Paris. In 1912 he married the Russian Maroussia Barannikoff. The First World War surprised the artist in Holland, so that he stayed in the Netherlands until 1919 when he refused military service for France. In 1920 he returned to Paris. From 1923 he lived in a house in Grosrouvre in the Ile-de-France during the summer. Le Fauconnier died of a heart attack and his body was only found after about two weeks. He was buried in the Grosrouvre cemetery.

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Le Fauconnier went through various artistic phases in the course of his life. A first neo-impressionist period (1905–1907) was followed by the Breton period (1908) in the style of the Nabis and Fauves, the Cubist period (1909–1913) and the Dutch period (1914–1919) in the expressionist style. The artist was best known for his cubist and futuristic paintings shortly before the First World War. In Holland the importance of color in his paintings grew, while after the First World War there was an increased turn to sober realistic painting.

Works

Hunter , painting from 1912

Ploumanac'h , painting from 1908

• Little Schoolgirl (St. Petersburg, Hermitage), 1907, oil on canvas, 73 × 92.5 cm
• Breton girl (Bremen, Kunsthalle), 1908, 54.3 × 45.7 cm
• Breton Child (Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts ), 1908, 55 × 46 cm
• Breton landscape (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag), 1908, 73.5 × 92 cm
• Portrait of Pierre-Jean Jouvre (Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne), 1909, 81 × 100 cm
• Woman with a Fan (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag), 1909, 146 × 97 cm
• Woman with a mirror (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag), 1909, 100 × 74 cm
• Portrait of the poet Paul Castiaux (Martin J. Polak, Israel), 1910, 100 × 74 cm
• Ploumanac'h (St. Petersburg, Hermitage), 1910, 73 × 92 cm
• Landscape near Ploumanac'h (private property), 1910, 65 × 70 cm
• The island of Bréhat (private property), 1910, 90 × 71 cm
• Abundance (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag), 1910–11, 191 × 123 cm
• Bergdorf (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design), 1911, 100 × 81 cm
• Village in the Mountains (private property), 1911, 92.5 × 72.5 cm
• The Lake (St. Petersburg, Hermitage), 1911, oil on canvas, 92 × 72.5 cm
• Hunter (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag), 1911–12, 203 × 166.5 cm
• Jäger (New York, Museum of Modern Art), 1912, oil on canvas, 158.1 × 117.8 cm
• Landscape near Meulan Hardricourt (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag), 1912, 55 × 46 cm
• Baum (Haarlem, Frans Hals-Museum), 1912, 55 × 45.2 cm
• La toilette (Haags Gemeentemuseum), 1913, 159 × 117 cm
• Signal (St. Petersburg, Hermitage), 1915, oil on canvas, 80 × 99 cm
• Half nude with a bouquet of roses (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), around 1920, watercolor, charcoal on cardboard

Web links

Commons : Henri Le Fauconnier  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Henri Le Fauconnier in Artcyclopedia