Louis Anquetin
Louis Anquetin (born January 26, 1861 in Étrépagny near Gisors in Haute-Normandie ; died August 19, 1932 in Paris ) was a French painter who is considered to be one of the founders of Synthetism . At times his circle of friends included artists such as Émile Bernard , Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso , on whom he exerted great influence - Gauguin's La Dame à la Robe Rouge (1891) was clearly inspired by Anquetin's La Dame en Rouge from 1890. He painted u. a. Nudes, cityscapes of Paris, scenes of horse races.
Life
Anquetin came to Paris in 1882, where he joined Léon Bonnat's studio . There he met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , who became his longtime friend. When Bonnat's school closed, they both moved into Fernand Cormon's studio , whose most promising pupil Anquetin was soon to be considered.
Around 1885, the Cormon group , which, in addition to the aforementioned, included Eugène Boch , Paul Tampier and (for a few weeks in spring 1886) Vincent van Gogh , began to outgrow Impressionism . An exhibition of Japanese prints ( ukiyo-e ) initiated by van Gogh in Café Le Tambourin in 1887 delighted both Anquetin and Bernard and inspired their further work in a direction that was later referred to as cloisonism .
In 1894 Anquetin and Toulouse-Lautrec traveled to Holland and Belgium to study the works of great Flemish artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt van Rijn . They recognized the great technical difference between the oil technique of these old masters and their own. Anquetin also had long discussions about techniques with Pierre-Auguste Renoir , and they agreed that they lacked something in terms of craftsmanship when dealing with this material. Anquetin spent most of the rest of his life trying to reconstruct these lost techniques of the great masters and regain them for contemporary art. Among other things, he came to the conclusion that the difference between the artists of his time and Rubens was the profound anatomical knowledge of the latter, which had made him less dependent on his models. After his research, Anquetin developed the view that Rubens' works are based on a black and white preliminary work on which the latter then applied the colors.
Due to his turning away from contemporary art, Anquetin was soon forgotten by the public, not least because of his low level of awareness today. In 1914 he was still teaching at the Académie Vitti and lecturing at the Université populaire at 157 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine . His works are now hanging in Paris (Louvre, Musée d'Orsay), in the London National Gallery , in St St. Petersburg Hermitage as well as in numerous other art museums. Its market value is high; up to $ 428,000 in the art market was paid for one of his paintings.
literature
- John House (ed.), Mary Anne Stevens (ed.), Post-Impressionism , Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1979, ISBN 0297780344 (p. 28)
- Bernd Fäthke: Louis Anquetin and tone-in-tone painting , in Weltkunst , No. 22, November 15, 1996, p. 2977 ff.
- Beatrice von Bismarck : Anquetin, Louis . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 4, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-598-22744-2 , p. 174 f.
Web links
- Louis Anquetin in Google Arts & Culture
- Atelier Cormon ~ 1885 - group picture, including: Anquetin (with staff); left at the edge of the picture Toulouse-Lautrec; last row, second next to the plaster figure to the right, É. Bernard.
- Anquetin at Artcyclopedia
- Louis Anquetin in HeidICON
Individual evidence
- ↑ Section 14 (French)
- ^ Website of a major auction house , accessed June 1, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anquetin, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Étrépagny |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1932 |
| Place of death | Paris |