Maurice de Vlaminck

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André Derain (left) and de Vlaminck, 1942

Maurice de Vlaminck (born April 4, 1876 in Paris , † October 11, 1958 in Rueil-la-Gadelière , Département Eure-et-Loir ) was a French painter , printmaker and author. Maurice de Vlaminck was a member of the " Fauves ".

Life

Maurice de Vlaminck was the son of a musician couple. The father came from Flanders . Maurice grew up in Le Vésinet near Paris and received first painting lessons from 1888 to 1891. In 1892 he moved to the neighboring village of Chatou , which was frequented by many artists, and became a professional cyclist and mechanic, but had to give up this job in 1896 due to an illness and work as a musician.

In July 1900 the chance meeting with André Derain , which was significant for his later career and with whom he became a friend, took place. Both were on a train that derailed on the way from Chatou to Paris. They started talking on the march to Paris and Derain encouraged Vlaminck to become a painter. They soon shared a studio in Chatou. During this time, de Vlaminck wrote in addition to his painting for newspapers and wrote novels for which Derain produced illustrations. The emergence of Fauvism is attributed to the work of these two artists.

In 1901 he visited the Van Gogh exhibition in the Bernheim gallery . Maurice de Vlaminck was so impressed by this exhibition that he said: "Van Gogh means more to me than father and mother!" It was here that he met Henri Matisse , through whose intermediary he joined Fauvism in 1905 . Dynamic lines and working with strong colors determined his work. He turned mainly to landscape painting. The art dealer Ambroise Vollard organized de Vlaminck's first solo exhibition in 1906 and acquired all of his works. After 1907, the work of Cézanne influenced him more and more. As early as 1908, however, he turned away from Fauvism and towards Impressionism . A short interlude with some Cubist pictures followed. After an artistic break due to the war, the expressionist influences became clearer again in 1918. He reduced his colors again and found his very own landscape style, which clearly places him in the circle of the Post-Impressionists .

Maurice de Vlaminck's tombstone in the Rueil-la-Gadelière cemetery

An exhibition at Dreut in 1919 brought him success and final recognition. During this time, de Vlaminck moved to rural Valmondois , then back to Rueil-la-Gadelière. From this point onwards he took a strictly anti-civilization standpoint with his art and his books and addressed the destruction of nature by humans and technology. In his painting technique from 1918 light-dark contrasts played an increasingly important role. For a while he was looked after by the gallery owner Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler .

In 1955 Maurice de Vlaminck was a participant in documenta 1 in Kassel . In 2008 an exhibition was dedicated to the painter in the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris . Works between 1900 and 1915, the artist's first creative phase, were exhibited.

Works

  • 1906: "Landscape near Chatou", oil on canvas, 65.5 × 81 cm, Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle
  • 1906: Landscape with red trees , oil on canvas 65.5 × 81, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris
  • around 1906: “Fields Rueil”, oil on canvas, 55 × 65 cm, Madrid , Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
  • 1907: The Chatou Bridge, oil on canvas, Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin
  • 1910: “The Flood”, original title “L'inondation”, oil on canvas, Kunstmuseum Basel
  • around 1920: “Houses”, oil on canvas, Vienna , Austrian Gallery
  • around 1932: “MeeresCOast”, original title “Côte de mer”, oil on canvas, Kunstmuseum Basel
  • ????: “Straße nach Harin”, oil on canvas, 58.5 × 71.5 cm, private collection
  • ????: “The restaurant 'La Machine' in Bougival”, oil on canvas, 60 × 81.5 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay
  • ????: Les Chaumières , Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne

In 1997, according to an estimate by the gallery owner Frank M. Berndt, only 10 to 12 works by Maurice de Vlaminck were in private ownership.

Fonts

Maurice de Vlaminck wrote about 20 books, among others

  • Tournant dangereux, souvenirs de ma vie (German. Danger ahead! Notes of a painter. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1930)
  • My will. Conversations and Confessions. With photos and documents . Arche, Zurich 1959
  • Portraits avant décès (German retrospect in the last hour. People and times. Erker-Verlag, St. Gallen 1965)

literature

  • Assouline, Pierre: The man who sold Picasso - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and his artists , Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1990, ISBN 3-7857-0579-4 .
  • Katalin von Walterskirchen: Maurice de Vlaminck. Directory of graphic works. Woodcuts, etchings, lithographs . Benteli, Bern 1974.
  • Maurice de Vlaminck - Review of the Last Hour; People and times. Erker-Verlag St. Gallen 1956. Original: Portraits avant décès , Paris, 1943.
  • The world in color - paperbacks of art: Maurice de Vlaminck . Kurt Desch, Munich, Vienna, Basel 1956.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "I am sure that without this encounter, without this fateful railway accident, I would never have thought of making a career out of painting and wanting to make a living from it" , Vlaminck in his autobiography.
  2. ^ The late impressionists (Per Amann, Berghaus Verlag)
  3. ↑ Official website of the museum (French, English, German, Spanish, Italian)
  4. ^ "Only about 10 to 12 works by the artist are in private ownership" , gallery owner Frank M. Berndt on February 13, 1997 in the Kölner Express, p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Vlaminck, Maurice de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter, printmaker and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1958
Place of death Rueil-la-Gadelière