Lucien Simon

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Self-Portrait (1883)
Lucien Simon -
in the portrait by Ramon Casas
MNAC , Barcelona
Nausicaa (1915)

Lucien Joseph Simon (born July 18, 1861 in Paris , † October 13, 1945 in Sainte-Marine in Brittany ) was a French painter , watercolorist and lithographer .

Live and act

Lucien Simon was born in Paris in the 6th arrondissement in 1861 as the son of a doctor and his wife, who came from a family of merchants and lawyers. After attending the Lycée Louis-le-Grand , he attended the École polytechnique . After completing his bachelor's degree, he became friends with the painter George Desvallières (1861–1950) during the following military service. Simon received his artistic training in the studio of Jules Didier (1831-1914) and from 1881 to 1885 with Tony Robert-Fleury and William Adolphe Bouguereau at the Académie Julian .

He participated for the first time in 1881 and then regularly from 1885 in exhibitions in the Salon des Artistes Français as well as in the Salon of the artists' association Société nationale des beaux-arts (SNBA). During a trip to the Netherlands he was influenced by the works of Frans Hals . In 1890 he joined the SNBA association.

In 1890 he married Jeanne Dauchez, a portrait painter and sister of the Breton painter André Dauchez (1870–1948). He discovered this landscape for himself through frequent visits to her parents' house in Brittany. In 1901 the couple bought a house for the family in Sainte-Marine near Combrit , a building that had previously served as a sémaphore ( telegraph station ). The landscape and the rural life of Brittany now determined his life and work.

The painter Charles Cottet (1863–1925) was the initiator of a small group founded in 1895, called "La Bande Noire" because of the general dark tonality of their work. The term, or (more rarely) "the Nubians" stood in contrast to the Nabis painters. In addition to Lucien Simon and his brother-in-law André Dauchez, members of the group included Edmond Aman-Jean (1858–1936), Xavier Prinet (1861–1946) and René Ménard (1862–1930).

In 1902 Simon was one of the first teachers at Martha Stettler's Académie de la Grande Chaumière and also taught at the Académie Colarossi , and he also had private students . He taught at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1923 and was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts (chair 11 of the painting section) in 1929 . From 1937 to 1943 he was the director (curator) of the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris. Simon was a corresponding member of the Munich Secession .

Lucien Simon went on numerous trips abroad. These took him to the Netherlands and Belgium in 1880 (and again in 1896), to Algeria in 1882, to Spain in 1891 and 1900, to Italy in 1899 and 1907, again to Algeria in 1908, to London in 1909, and in 1911/12/13 Italy, 1922 to the USA, 1927 to Morocco, 1931 to South America - Argentina and Brazil - and 1937 to Luxembourg.

Lucien Simon's oeuvre mainly comprised Breton landscapes, portraits and religious processions, it showed the everyday life of fishermen and farmers. He was the painter of the Bigoudenland (pays bigouden). Lucien Simon died in Sainte-Marine in 1945, he was buried in the Combrit cemetery.

family

Her marriage to Jeanne Dauchez (1869–1949) had four children:

  • Paul Simon (1892–1979), a sculptor, married to Élisabeth Derrien since 1926.
  • Lucienne Boyer (1896–1970), a musician, married to André Boyer since 1920.
  • Charlotte Aman-Jean (1897–1994), a painter, married since 1917 to François Aman-Jean, a son of Edmond Aman-Jean.
  • Pauline de La Jarrige (1909–1991), a glass painter, married to Bernard de La Jarrige since 1935.

Honors, prizes

Works (selection)

  • Procession à Penmarc'h. (1900, oil on canvas, 136 × 175.5 cm), Musée d'Orsay
  • Les Courses. (1917), National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne
  • Jour d'été, portrait de mes enfants. (1905), Musée d'Orsay
  • L'atelier de l'artiste. Musée d'Orsay
  • La récolte de fries de terre. (1907), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper
  • La Chapelle de la Joie à Penmarc'h. (1913), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper
  • Bretons. (1907), Hermitage (Saint Petersburg)
  • Les enfants du peintre. Hermitage (Saint Petersburg)
  • Wrestling matches in Brittany. (1898), Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent
  • Jésus guérissant les malades. (1894), Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • La mess you soldier. and Le Sacrifice. Paris, L'église Notre-Dame-du-Travail-de-Plaisance - la chapelle des Défunts
  • La Moselle. (1936, oil on canvas, 397 × 312.5 cm), National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg (city)
  • La Sure. (1936, oil on canvas, 396 × 313 cm), National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg (city)
  • The procession dansante d'Echternach. (1937, oil on canvas, 400 × 630 cm), Echternach, St. Willibrord's Basilica

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1881: Salon des Artistes Francais
  • from 1895: regularly at the salons of the Société nationale des beaux-arts
  • 1896: Munich (Secession)
  • 1902: Berlin (Secession)
  • 1905: Barcelona
  • 1925: in Buenos Aires
  • 2006: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper

student

literature

Web links

Commons : Lucien Simon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of teachers and students at the Académie Julian - Lucien Simon
  2. ↑ Institut de France, 1913–2013 (PDF; 2.2MB)
  3. ↑ Member directory of the Association of Visual Artists Munich e. V. "Secession" 1931, p. 29
  4. ↑ a b Personal and Studio News. In: Art for everyone. ( ISSN  1435-7461 ) 16th year 1900/1901, ( No. 16, p. 410 ) - ( No. 23, p. 553 - digitized version of Heidelberg University)
  5. ↑ Honorary members and honorary senators (PDF; p. 11) ADBK
  6. ↑ a b Fig. St. Willibrord's Basilica, Echternach ( Memento from June 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ a b c Fig.Musée d'Orsay
  8. ↑ a b c d The dimensions of the pictures are given in height × width.
  9. ↑ Fig. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
  10. ↑ a b Fig. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper
  11. ↑ Fig. Hermitage Saint Petersburg
  12. ↑ Fig. Hermitage Saint Petersburg
  13. ↑ Fig. Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gent
  14. ↑ Fig. Philadelphia Museum of Art
  15. ↑ Fig. Paris, Église-Notre-Dame-du-Travail
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Lucien
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simon, Lucien Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter, watercolorist and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1945
Place of death Sainte-Marine , France