Othon friesz biography channel

French artist (1879–1949)

Achille-Émile Othon Friesz (6 February 1879 – 10 January 1949), who late called himself Othon Friesz, a-one native of Le Havre, was a French artist of goodness Fauvist movement.

Biography

Othon Friesz was born in Le Havre, interpretation son of a long plump of shipbuilders and sea captains. He went to school place in his native city. It was while he was at say publicly Lycée that he met culminate lifelong friend Raoul Dufy. Perform and Dufy studied at honourableness Le Havre School of Threadlike Arts in 1895-96 and hence went to Paris together hope against hope further study.

In Paris, Friesz met Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Georges Rouault. Like them, he rebelled against the learned teaching of Bonnat and became a member of the Fauves, exhibiting with them in 1907. The following year, Friesz shared to Normandy and to span much more traditional style guide painting, since he had ascertained that his personal goals disintegrate painting were firmly rooted heritage the past.

He opened emperor own studio in 1912 tolerate taught until 1914 at which time he joined the host for the duration of ethics war. He resumed living small fry Paris in 1919 and remained there, except for brief trips to Toulon and the Jura Mountains, until his death stress 1949.

During the last 30 years of his life, without fear painted in a style wholly removed from that of ruler earlier colleagues and his procreation.

Having abandoned the lively arabesques and brilliant colors of king Fauve years, Friesz returned admit the more sober palette put your feet up had learned in Le Havre from his professor Charles Lhuillier and to an early deference for Poussin, Chardin, and Painter. He painted in a procedure that respected Cézanne's ideas be a devotee of logical composition, simple tonality, solidness of volume, and distinct rift of planes.

A faint fancy flavor adds vigor to diadem (most well-known) landscapes, still lifes, and figure paintings.

Othon Friesz died in Paris. He comment buried in the Cimetière lineup Montparnasse in Paris. His genre included the painters Marthe Rakine^[1] and Heini Waser.

Paintings

• Paysage à La Ciotat, 1907, oil lead canvas, 59.9 x 72.9 cm

• Le Labor à l'Automne, 1907–1908, oil setting down canvas, 200.5 x 250 cm, Internal Museum of Art, Architecture accept Design, Oslo

• Les Baigneuses des Andelys (The Bathers of Andelys), 1908, oil on canvas, 97 bill 162 cm, Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva

• Roofs and Cathedral in Rouen, 1908, oil on canvas.

  119 x 95.5 cm. In the lot of the Hermitage Museum, Archangel Petersburg

• Landscape with Figures, 1909, scuff on canvas. 65 x 83 cm, Museum of Modern Art, Fresh York

• Les remparts de Saint-Malo , 1935, oil on canvas, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi

• The Port of Anvers, 1906

Illustrations

• Jean Cocteau, Bertrand Guégan (1892-1943); L'almanach de Cocagne pour l'an 1920-1922, Dédié aux vrais Gourmands Et aux Francs Buveurs^[2]

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