Lucien Adrion

Lucien Adrion (born May 25, 1889 in Strasbourg , † August 9, 1953 in Paris ) was a French painter who dedicated himself in particular to landscape painting and still life .

Life

At the age of eighteen he left his hometown Strasbourg and went to Paris, where he found employment as a fashion illustrator. Adrion traveled to London, Munich and Frankfurt. He was there when the First World War broke out and had to go to Berlin, where he was demobilized. Adrion then studied in the studio of Hermann Struck , who was also Chagall's teacher . He stayed in Berlin until the end of the First World War. At the age of 30 he started making signed lithographs . Soon after his return to Paris, the dealer Chéron exhibited it in a solo exhibition in February 1921. Adrion took up a studio in the Montparnasse district of Paris and began to associate with young Eastern European painters such as Chaim Soutine , Krémègne and Kikoine . The critic Galtier-Boissière wrote of Adrion's lively style : "Il a le sens du mouvement des foules, du mouvement de la vie." ("He has a sense of the movement of people in a crowd, of the movement of life." ) Adrion bored his life in Paris, he left his agent Chéron and Paris to go to Normandy, the landscapes of which became his favorite subject. Adrion had immediate success and became very popular with these landscapes. In 1926, at the age of 37, Adrion had his exhibition debut at the Salon des Indépendants and from 1940 he also exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the following year at the Salon des Tuileries . Lucien Adrion belonged to a generation for whom the concept of citizenship or nation was ambiguous. He must have felt equally German and French, which was probably true for many Alsatians at the time. He was German for the first 29 of his 64 years, but is named in all comments as a French artist, although in France himself he did not always receive this recognition. Its deeper roots lay in Germany, more precisely in the Black Forest. His great-great-grandfather Johann Jakob was born 145 years before his birth in Frutenhofen near Freudenstadt. His ancestors moved from Frutenhofen to Strasbourg.