Jean Puy
Jean Puy (born November 7, 1876 in Roanne , † March 6, 1960 ibid) was a French painter . He is assigned to the circle of " Fauves ".
life and work
After studying architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, Puy attended the Académie Julian in Paris from 1898 . In 1899 he was accepted into the Académie Carrière. He becomes friends with André Derain and Henri Matisse . Matisse conveyed his own high esteem for Cézanne .
From 1900 he took part in the Salon des Indépendants . In 1903 he exhibited at the first Salon d'Automne .
Initially, Puy was an impressionist , but from 1905 shared the aspirations of the Fauves . In contrast to his colleagues, he preferred the calm abundance of forms and luminous tones over exaggeration. Puy kept his light style of painting.
After he fled the German occupation, he returned to his native Roanne and stayed there. On Vollard , with whom he had worked for seventeen years, the art dealer followed Blot, Druet and Bernheim . Still committed to traditional painting, famous for his mastery of light and dark and for his seascapes and always extremely precise in his files, Puy had only one goal: "To bring life into his pictures."
Puy's works can be found in:
- Musée Joseph Déchelette, Roanne
- Musée National d'Art Moderne , Paris
as well as in the
- Oscar Ghez Foundation, Geneva
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean-Louis Ferrier: Fauvism - Die Wilden in Paris , Editions Pierre Terrail, Paris, 1992, ISBN 2-87939-053-2 , p. 214.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Puy, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roanne |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1960 |
| Place of death | Roanne |