Henri Manguin

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Henri and Jeanne Manguin around 1900
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Henri Manguin (born March 23, 1874 in Paris , † September 25, 1949 in Saint-Tropez ) was a French painter . He is assigned to the circle of " Fauves ".

life and work

At the age of fifteen, Manguin dropped out of school to devote himself entirely to painting. In 1894 he was accepted as a “suitor” into Gustave Moreau's studio, where Henri Matisse and Albert Marquet were his classmates. Manguin married Jeanne Carette in 1899, who became his preferred model. Their sons Claude and Pierre were born in 1900 and 1902 respectively.

The exhibitions dedicated to Cézanne and van Gogh in 1901 encouraged him to exhaust the powers of pure color. In 1902 he exhibited for the first time in the Salon des Indépendants . In the summer of 1905 he stayed in Saint-Tropez. In the Salon d'Automne that same year, the five pictures exhibited in Room VII showed a stormy and immediately expressive burst of colors. In the following year, Ambroise Vollard acquired 142 paintings by the artist, as well as pastels and drawings, for a total of 7,000 francs.

In 1908 Manguin traveled to Italy with his friend Marquet. Like his friend Marquet, he looked for motifs in the ports of Brittany and Normandy. In 1909 the Manguins moved into a house in Neuilly-sur-Seine . Manguin's first solo exhibition followed in 1910 at the renowned Parisian Galerie Druet. Manguin was also represented with a few works at the International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913. At the beginning of the war in 1914 he was released from the army. He moved with his family to Switzerland and stayed there until 1919. In 1918 the Vallotton Gallery in Lausanne dedicated an exhibition to the painter. In 1919 the artist returned with his family to the house in Neuilly-sur-Seine and from 1920 also worked in the Villa L'Oustalet in Saint-Tropez , which he bought in 1928.

In 1931 he painted numerous watercolors in Brittany. Henri and Jeanne Manguin moved from Neuilly-sur-Seine to Paris in the 8th arrondissement in 1937 . In 1940 some of Manguin's work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale. During the Second World War the artist worked in Paris, Saint-Tropez and Avignon . Shortly after celebrating their golden wedding with Jeanne in June 1949, the Manguins moved to Saint-Tropez, where Henri died three months later at the age of 75.

Manguin's works can be found in:

  • Le Golf Fondation Bemberg, Toulouse , France

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fondation de l'Hermitage : MANGUIN. The Sensuality of Color , Lausanne, 2018. German-language brochure accompanying the MANGUIN exhibition . La volupté de la couleur from June 22nd to October 28th 2018
  2. ↑ Jean-Louis Ferrier: Fauvism - Die Wilden in Paris , Editions Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, ISBN 2-87939-053-2 , p. 211

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personal data
SURNAME Manguin, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manguin, Henri Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1949
Place of death Saint Tropez