Georges Lacombe (painter)

Georges Lacombe ( born June 18, 1868 in Versailles, France, † June 29, 1916 in Alençon, Orne ) was a French painter and sculptor and a member of the artist group Les Nabis.

Life

Georges Lacombe was in 1868, the son of well-off parents and interested in art - his mother was the painter Laure Bonamour Lacombe ( 1834-1924 ) - born in Versailles. He received an artistic education at the Académie Julian in Paris, his teachers were the impressionists Alfred Philippe Roll and Henri Gervex. After he had in 1892 joined the group of artists of the Nabis, he learned, among other things Émile Bernard and Paul Sérusier know. A year later he met Paul Gauguin, whose wood carvings his work, has the symbolic characteristics influenced. Like many artists of this period, he spent the summer months ( 1888-1897 ) in Brittany and painted in Camaret -sur -Mer.

Lacombe was called ' the' Le Nabi sculpteur ", the" sculptor of the Nabis ", and many sources perceive it only as a sculptor. Georges Lacombe died on June 29, 1916 in Alençon tuberculosis.

Marine bleue, Effet de vagues, 1893

Portrait of Paul Sérusier, 1894

Isis, 1895

Landscape to 1894

Works (selection)

• Les âges de la vie, Musée du Petit-Palais, Geneva
• Forêt au sol rouge, 1891, Musée des Beaux- Arts de Quimper, Quimper
• Mer jaune, Camaret, about 1892, Musée des Beaux- Arts de Brest, Brest
• Le nabi à la barbe Rutilante ( Portrait of Paul Sérusier ), around 1894, Musée Departmental Maurice Denis " Le Prieuré ", Saint- Germain -en- Laye
• Marie Madeleine, 1897, wood sculpture, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille

Literature and source

• Joelle Ansieau: Georges Lacombe. 1868-1916, Catalogue raisonné. Somogy Éditions d'Art, Paris 1998
• Claire Frèches-Thory/Ursula Perucchi - Petry (ed.). , The Nabis: Prophets of Modernism, Kunsthaus Zurich & Grand Palais, Paris & Prestel, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-791-31969-8