Henri Martin (painter)
Henri Jean Guillaume Martin (born August 2, 1860 in Toulouse , France , † November 12, 1943 in Labastide-du-Vert , France) was a French impressionist painter .
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Henri Martin enjoyed great popularity as a painter during his lifetime, although his work as a neo-impressionist is not considered groundbreaking. With his works he exerted influence on various art movements and their representatives - from primitivism to divisionism to symbolism . Over time, he developed his very own style of painting, which placed the construction of the color in the foreground, with a more impressionistic brushwork, whereby he increasingly let free areas emerge when dividing the picture.
Life
Henri Martin (Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin) was the son of a Toulouse carpenter. His mother was of Italian descent. Martin managed to convince his father to become an artist and studied from 1877 at the Toulouse Art Academy ( École supérieure des beaux-arts de Toulouse ) under Jules Garipuy . In 1879, thanks to a scholarship, Henri Martin was able to go to Paris and study with Jean-Paul Laurens . Just four years later he received the first medal at the Paris Salon .
In 1885 Martin received a scholarship for a study trip through Italy , where he studied the works of old masters such as Giotto and Masaccio together with Edmond Aman-Jean and Ernest Laurent , where he developed his own style, which was characterized by short brushstrokes.
In 1886 he was able to realize his first exhibition in the Paris Salon, where he received the gold medal for a pointillist painting in 1889 . In the same year he became a member of the Legion of Honor . As a Neo-Impressionist, he painted unusually large pictures and received great acclaim in 1896 at a solo exhibition at the Mancini Gallery in Paris . He received orders for murals for the Paris City Hall (1895) and the Capitol in Toulouse (1903/1906) and won the grand prize for his work at the World Exhibition of 1900 . At that time he also became friends with Auguste Rodin . Henri Martin also gave classes at the Académie Vitti . In 1917 he was elected to succeed Gabriel Ferrier in the Académie des Beaux-Arts .
As he was a rather introverted person, Martin finally decided to move away from Paris. After years of searching for an ideal location, he bought a house in Marquayrol that overlooked La Bastide du Vert, near Cahors . It was in this new, quiet environment that he created his best works and died there in 1943.
Web links
- Le musée de Cahors Henri Martin
- Henri Martin at artcyclopedia.com (engl.)
- Selection of works in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Martin, Henri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martin, Henri Jean Guillaume (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French impressionist painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulouse , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1943 |
| Place of death | Labastide-du-Vert , France |