Maurice Barraud

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Maurice Barraud (born February 20, 1889 in Geneva ; † November 11, 1954 there ) was a Swiss painter .

Life

Barraud was born in 1889 as the son of a waiter. The father died early. Barraud left school at the age of 14 and completed an apprenticeship as a graphic designer. At the same time he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva. There he learned from Pierre Pignolat and James Vibert . After completing his apprenticeship, he worked for two more years in his teacher's graphic studio and then went self-employed with his brother François Barraud . In 1914 the two founded the group Le Falot with Hans Berger , Emile Bressler and Gustave Buchet . In the same year he received a scholarship from the city of Geneva and was allowed to travel to England .

Barraud traveled a lot in the 1920s. He spent the summers in Buchillon near Morges on Lake Geneva . He traveled several times to Paris and Spain , visited Italy and traveled through North Africa. The light in the south fascinated him so much that in 1938 he bought a farmhouse in Cassis-sur-Mer and from then on commuted between Geneva and the Côte d'Azur . While many Swiss artists of that time orientated themselves on Ferdinand Hodler , Baurraud admired Henri Matisse , Pierre Bonnard and Paul Cézanne in particular and emulated them with an expressionistic, colorful style. While traveling through Italy he had seen Raphael's works in Rome and was inspired by them, especially for his commissioned church paintings. In 1929 he was commissioned to paint a mural in the Lucerne train station . Landscape and nudes in particular brought him great success, but his portraits of women were also popular.

In addition to painting, Barraud always worked with graphic processes, in particular lithography and drypoint etching . So he made numerous book illustrations .

literature

  • Hélène de Martino, Chantal Oederlin: Maurice Barraud. Un peintre genevois revisité . Slatkine, Geneva, 2008
  • Renée Canova, Bernard Wyder: Maurice Barraud . Marendaz, Lutry, 1979

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personal data
SURNAME Barraud, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1954
Place of death Geneva