René Auberjonois (painter)

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René Victor Auberjonois (born August 18, 1872 in Montagny-près-Yverdon , † October 11, 1957 in Lausanne ) was a Swiss painter .

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At a young age, René Auberjonois intended to become a musician. He traveled to London in 1894 and took violin lessons. In 1895 he decided to paint and attended the Kensington School of Art. From 1897 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris . He traveled to Italy and mainly devoted himself to the Old Masters. He then returned to Paris, where he lived until the outbreak of the First World War . From 1914 until his death in 1957 he lived in Lausanne.

He made friends with the poet Charles Ferdinand Ramuz and portrayed him several times. For Rudolf Zender , the contact with him was one of the formative artist friendships. His restrained coloring and painting style earned him little recognition in Switzerland.

In 1948 he represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale . Works by René Auberjonois were exhibited at documenta I 1955 and documenta III 1964 in Kassel . Works by him can be found at the Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau, the Kunstmuseum Basel , the Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne , the Museo cantonale d'arte of Lugano ( Nature morte (soleils, table de jardin verte) , 1946), in the Kunstmuseum Thun and in the Kunsthaus Zürich .

René Auberjonois was the father of the journalist Fernand Auberjonois and the grandfather of the American actor René Auberjonois named after him .

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SURNAME Auberjonois, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Auberjonois, René Victor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Montagny-près-Yverdon
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1957
Place of death Lausanne