André Bauchant

Auguste André Bauchant ( born April 24, 1873 in Château- Renault, Indre -et -Loire, Centre, † August 12 1958 in Montoire- sur -le- Loir, Vendôme, in the Centre region ) was a French painter of naive painting.

Life

André Bauchant was the son of a gardener and learned in his father's business also this profession. At the age of 27, he married his childhood sweetheart Alphonsine battalion. After visiting the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, he also visited an art exhibition in Paris and was deeply impressed by the art in the museums.

In World War I he served in Greece. After that, he was enthusiastic about getting stronger for painting and teaching in an abandoned mill his studio one. In addition to landscapes of Touraine, flower and bird paintings painted Bauchant among other poetic and mythical visions. His painting was consistently marked by close to nature, and his passion for ancient mythology.

In 1921 Bauchant sent for the first time a painting and drawings for the Salon d' Automne (or " Paris Autumn Salon "), where Le Corbusier and Amédée Ozenfant were aware of him. Le Corbusier should also be Bauchants passionate collector and mentor. Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, the founder and manager of the Ballets Russes, commissioned him in 1927, set the stage for the ballet Apollon musagète of Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky design. In the same year he had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Jeanne Bucher.

André Bauchant applies, together with Henri Rousseau, Camille Bombois, Louis Séraphine Louis Vivin and as a painter of the Sacred Heart and a classic of naive painting in France.

Today his paintings in French museums in Grenoble, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Dijon, Laval and Strasbourg are to be seen, but also in the Tate Gallery and the New York Museum of Modern Art will be on the art market up to 78,000 U.S. dollars for paid for his pictures.