Roger de La Fresnaye

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Self-portrait, around 1906

Roger Noël-François André de La Fresnaye (* 11. July 1885 in Le Mans ; † 27. November 1925 in Grasse ) was a French painter of Cubism .

Life

Fresnaye's father, an officer in the French army, was stationed at Le Mans at the time of his birth. The de La Fresnaye family belonged to the aristocracy whose ancestral seat, the Château de La Fresnaye, is located in Falaise .

Roger de La Fresnaye studied after finishing school in Paris . Between 1904 and 1908 he took courses at the Académie Julian , at the École des Beaux-Arts and then at the Académie Ranson , which were led by the well-known painters Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier , in particular Paul Gauguin , Paul Cézanne and the artist group Nabis had a great influence on him. In the early 1910s he studied sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière under Aristide Maillol . La Fresnaye joined the Puteaux group in 1911 and participated in Section d'Or exhibitions. In the same year he turned to Cubism and painted very colorful, large-format pictures with geometric elements, which depict people, landscapes and still lifes. His first solo exhibition took place in Paris in 1914.

When the First World War broke out , Roger de La Fresnaye volunteered for the infantry . During this time, a series of figurative drawings was created in which he depicted the life of the soldiers at the front . In 1918 he was the victim of a poison gas attack and contracted pulmonary tuberculosis . Shortly afterwards he was dismissed from the military as unfit for service . For health reasons he went to the south of France , where he died in Grasse in 1925 of complications from tuberculous meningitis.

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Individual evidence (images)

  1. ^ Museum of Modern Art , New York.
  2. ^ Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen .

Exhibitions

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