René Francillon

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René Francillon (born December 28, 1876 in Lausanne ; † July 30, 1973 there ) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist .

Life

Start of studies

René Francillon began his studies in Geneva in 1895 and learned the relief printing process of woodcut from a graphic artist.

In the Ažbe school, 1899

In 1899 Francillon attended Anton Ažbe's school in Munich . True to Ažbe's style characteristics, which are particularly pronounced in his painting “In the Harem” , Francillon designed z. B. his still life from 1900, “Still life on a tiled table” . Like his teacher, he played light and dark, light and shadow, using a broad brushwork “wet-on-wet” against each other. In that year Alexej Jawlensky also attended the Ažbe school. His work from that period shows stylistic features related to those of Francillon.

Paris and Pont-Aven, 1900–1905

In 1900 Francillon went to Paris , where he had a studio. I.a. He studied at the Académie Julian and with Eugène Carrière . In 1901 he came to the pilgrimage site of modern art in Brittany . Under the impression of Gauguin's style of painting, which was still cultivated there, he gave up his realistic art and painted in Pont-Aven and the surrounding area in the style of the Gauguin students and the Nabis .

Munich and Dachau 1905–1909

Francillon came to Bavaria in 1905 and moved to the Dachau artists' colony . There he set up a joint studio for himself and the painter and graphic artist Anny Lierow . In 1909 he married the Kandinsky student Anny Lierow. During those years Francillon became known for a number of Bavarian urban landscapes.

In Munich he again attended the Ažbe school, which was continued after Ažbe's death by Paul Weinhold and Felix Eisengräber . He enriched the curriculum there with his authentic knowledge of Brittany and the style of the Pont-Aven school . He himself used a style of painting that combined Neo-Impressionism and Cloisonism . This represents z. B. his city view of "Rothenburg" , which he painted in 1906. It illustrates a mixed form of painting with lines and ticks à la Van Gogh in combination with strong dark or light contours.

Painting while traveling until old age

In the years after 1909, Francillon stayed for a long time in France, Great Britain and Italy. From 1922 to 1929 he gave painting courses in Lausanne and Paris. From 1932 to 1940 he toured the Iberian Peninsula and visited Italy again. Between 1940 and 1947 he painted variously in Paris and Lausanne. In 1953 he stayed in La Gaude in Provence . In 1965 he visited the Canary Islands . In 1971 he painted his last painting.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibition

  • 1907 Munich, Krause art salon

Group exhibitions

literature

  • Philippe Rey, René Francillon, 1876–1973, Catalog Raisonné, Servion s / Lausanne 1985, no p.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ph. R., Francillon, René; in exh. Cat .: Paths to Modernism and the Ažbe School in Munich, Museum Wiesbaden 1988, p. 115
  2. ↑ Georg Reinhardt and Paul Fink (eds.), Self-Portraits of Swiss Artists, Zurich 1918, p. 85
  3. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, In the Vorfeld des Expressionismus, Anton Ažbe and painting in Munich and Paris, Wiesbaden 1988, Fig. 3
  4. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, Jawlensky and his companions in a new light, Munich 2004, Fig. 47, p. 64
  5. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, In the run-up to Expressionism, Anton Ažbe and painting in Munich and Paris, Wiesbaden 1988, p. 26 f
  6. ^ Philippe Rey, René Francillon, 1876–1973, Catalog Raisonné, Servion s / Lausanne 1985, o. P.
  7. ↑ Hans-Christoph von Tavel (editor), Artist Lexicon of Switzerland, XX. Century, Frauenfeld 1983, p. 581
  8. ^ Philippe Rey, René Françillon, 1876–1973, Catalog Raisonné, Servion s / Lausanne 1985, cat. Nos. 96–116
  9. ↑ Diether Schmidt, Teaching-Painting-Silence, in exh. Cat .: Georg Muche Leise say, Neue Galerie, Staatliche und Städtische Kunstsammlungen Kassel 1986, p. 8, 133
  10. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, In the Vorfeld des Expressionismus, Anton Ažbe and painting in Munich and Paris, Wiesbaden 1988, fig. 33
  11. ^ Philippe Rey, René Francillon, 1876–1973, Catalog Raisonné, Servion s / Lausanne 1985, o. P.
personal data
SURNAME Francillon, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1973
Place of death Lausanne