Robert Antoine Pinchon
Robert Antoine Pinchon (born July 1, 1886 in Rouen , † January 9, 1943 in Bois-Guillaume ) was a post-impressionist painter of the second generation of the Rouen School.
His father, a librarian and writer, was friends with Guy de Maupassant , among others . As a child, Robert Antoine grew up in contact with high culture. Very early on he was given a paint box with oil paints and began to paint as a self-taught artist at the age of twelve. At the age of 14 he showed his picture in the window of a photo shop not far from the Hotel du Dauphin et d'Espagnie, where well-known painters exhibited their works. The art critic Georges Dubosc wrote an article about Pinchon's painting in Le Journal de Rouen on March 16, 1900. Around 1903, the art lover François Depeaux enabled the young artist to converse with Albert Lebourg , Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet .
Robert Antoine Pinchon attended the Lycée Corneille in Rouen. Two other students in his class also became famous artists and long-term friends: Marcel Duchamp and Pierre Dumont . Drawing was taught in the Lyceum by Philippe Zacharie, who was later appointed professor at the de Académie du Peinture et de Dessin. The academy was later renamed the École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.
In addition to the academic training of the Beaux-Arts, Pinchon attended the Académie libre, which from 1895 to 1896 by Joseph Delattre (1858–1912) became a meeting place for independent artists of the new generation who founded the l ' École de Rouen . In 1905 he had his first solo exhibition in the Legrip Gallery, where he presented 24 paintings to the public.
In 1907 Pinchon founded the "Groupe des Trente" (Group of Thirty, XXX) with Pierre Dumont, which joined independent artists and writers such as André Derain , Raoul Dufy , Henri Matisse and Maurice de Vlaminck .
Mobilized during the First World War , Pinchon was wounded in the Battle of the Marne and was taken prisoner during the Battle of Verdun. He managed to escape from the prison camp near Leipzig. Through Switzerland and Italy, Pinchon reached his home town of Rouen on December 20, 1918.
On January 24, 1921, he married Elise Louise Joséphine Bance. Around 1931 Pinchon became a member of the Société des Artistes Français (SAF). On July 1, 1932, Pinchon was elected a member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen.
literature
- Almanach pour 1908, Édition du Groupe des XXX (trente), Paris, Rouen, décembre 1907
- Georges Dubosc: L'École de Rouen: ses peintres et ses ferronniers, 1914
- Pierre Chirol: Cathédrales et Eglises Normandes: H. Defontaine, Illustrations de Robert Pinchon, Éditions et Impressions Paul Duval, Elbeuf-Paris, 1936
- François Lespinasse: L'École de Rouen, Fernandez, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, 1980
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Claire Maingon, Laurent Salomé: A city for Impressionism - Monet, Pissarro, and Gauguin in Rouen (catalog) . Ed .: Laurent Salomé. 1st edition. Skira Flammarion / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Paris / Rouen 2010, ISBN 978-2-08-124399-6 , p. 354-358 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pinchon, Robert Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French post-impressionist landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rouen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1943 |
| Place of death | Bois-Guillaume |