Jacques Gachot

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Jacques Gachot (born November 1, 1885 in Strasbourg , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine ; † December 15, 1954 there ) was an Alsatian painter and lithographer .

Life

Gachot, son of the businessman Jean-Jacques Gachot and his wife Caroline, née Krauss, attended the Strasbourg School of Applied Arts , where he was taught by Georg Daubner (1865–1926) from 1904 to 1906 . He then studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy until 1910 . In Düsseldorf he was also a member of the Malkasten artists' association from 1909 to 1911 . From 1910 to 1913 Gachot was a student at the Académie Julian in Paris . He went on study trips to Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Spain and settled in Strasbourg as a painter. He had his first exhibitions in 1912 in the Alsatian Kunsthaus in Strasbourg and in 1913/1914 in other parts of the German Empire.

In 1919 he worked with other Alsatian painters - Balthasar Haug (1890–1965), Edouard Hirth (1885–1980), Martin Hubrecht (1892–1965), Luc Hueber (1888–1974), Louis-Philippe Kamm (1882–1959 ), Lisa Krugell (1893–1977) and Paul Welsch (1889–1954) - the “Groupe de Mai” ( May group ) influenced by the works of Paul Cézanne . Up until 1934, the Groupe de Mai exhibited in Paris (at Bernheim-Jeune in February 1921) and in Strasbourg.

In 1920 he married Joséphine Georgine Opalvens, a Belgian dancer with the Royal English Company, in Vichy . As a friend of the sculptor Alfred Marzolff (1867–1936), who lived in Runzenheim from 1912 , he often came to Drusenheim . This place in the Alsatian Ried , which became the subject of many of his paintings, granted him honorary citizenship.

literature

  • Isabelle Blondé, René Muller: Jacques Gachot . In: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne , Volume 12, p. 1091.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 430
personal data
SURNAME Gachot, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1954
Place of death Strasbourg , France