Henri Edmond Cross

Henri Edmond Cross ( born May 20, 1856 in Douai, † May 16, 1910 in Saint -Clair (Var ); actually Henri -Edmond Delacroix) was a French painter, a leading exponent of pointillism.

Life

Henri -Edmond Delacroix 1878 student of the painter Alphonse Colas in Lille and began his career as a painter with realistic pictures in dark colors. In 1881 he continued his education as an artist in Paris with François Bonvin and Dupont- Zipcy. In 1883 he took his stage name Cross and met Paul Signac know. He always preferred more open-air painting, turned to impressionism to and discovered the French Mediterranean coast.

In 1891 he moved his residence to Cabasson in southern France, and later to Saint - Clair. In the same year, Georges Seurat died, his death awakened at Cross interest in the Neo-Impressionism. His contact with Signac deepened. After several exhibitions in France in 1898, he took along with Signac, Maximilien Luce and Theo van Rysselberghe in Berlin at the first Neo-Impressionist exhibition in Germany in part. In his later career he inspired with his deeds among other things, Rousseau.

Cross led the process of pointillism to put spots of color next to each other at the beginning strictly. The color impressions, resolved into many individual sounds should be connected only in the eye of the viewer back to a single tone. But from 1895 onwards the points of application of paint were bigger, wider, and the shades of color more vivid. From 1903, he also withdrew more and more from a pure fidelity towards decorative image issues. In 1904, he was visited by Henri Matisse, to whom he exercised great influence; anyway can be considered a precursor of Fauvism Cross by the prevalent use of primary colors.

From 1906, the watercolor slowly displaced the oil painting in Cross' work, his style became softer, the technique less dogmatic. His last years were overshadowed by rheumatism seizures from 1909 also affected his artistic work. A year later, Cross died aged 54 from cancer.

Works

  • Les îles d'or ( The Golden Islands) ( c. 1891 /92, Paris, Musee National d' Art Moderne )
  • L' air du soir ( Evening Song ) (1893 /94 Paris, Musée d' Orsay )
  • La Ranelagh ( picnic in the park) (1900, private collection)
  • La colonne fleurie ( Madame Cross) ( Blütenumrankte column ) ( 1901, private collection)
  • La plage de Saint -Clair ( beach of Saint- Clair ) (1901, private collection)
  • Les rochers from Trayas ( rock in Trayas ) (1902, Saint -Denis, Musée d'art d' histoire det )
  • Venise (Venice) (1903; Galerie Salis, Salzburg )
  • Voiles près Chioggia ( Sailing ships at Chioggia) ( 1903-05; privately owned)
  • Le Cap Layet (1904, Musée de Grenoble)
  • Étude pour faune (Study for " Faun " ) ( 1905 /06; Musée de Grenoble)
  • The Bay of Cavaliere (1906, Saint- Tropez, Musée de l' Annonciade )
  • Côte Provençale, Le Four de Maures ( Provencal coast) ( 1906-07; Douai, Musée de la Chartreuse )
  • Avant l' orage. La baigneuse ( Before the Storm bathers. ) ( 1907-08; privately owned)
  • Antibes (1908, Musée de Grenoble)
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