Kees van Dongen
Kees van Dongen (born 26 January 1877 in Delfshaven in Rotterdam, † May 28, 1968 in Monte Carlo, Cornelis Theodorus Marie van Dongen actually ) was a French painter of Dutch origin, who lived and worked mainly in France. He is one of the Fauves.
Life
Kees van Dongen, the son of a brewer, studied from 1892 to 1894 at the " Academy of Fine Arts and Technical Sciences " in Rotterdam, where he met his future wife Augusta Preitinger called Guus. In 1897 he went to - to follow her - the first time for a stay of several months in Paris. In December 1899 he settled permanently in Paris, where he worked for various satirical magazines such as " L' Assiette au beurre ", 1901 Augusta married and moved into a in the Impasse Girardon in the maquis of Montmartre parked gypsy caravan in the same year. The art dealer Ambroise Vollard in 1904 gave him the opportunity for a solo exhibition at his gallery in the rue Lafitte. A year later, van Dongen participated in the Salon d' Automne, but not presented in a " cage aux Fauves " ( predator cage) famous hall VII, who gave his name to the Fauvism. After the encounter with Pablo Picasso and the birth of daughter Dolly ( b. 1905 ), the family moved in 1906 to the neighboring inhabited among others by Picasso and his companion Fernande Olivier studio barrack Bateau Lavoir in which met the Friends of the Andalusian painter, which included at that time Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire and André Salmon, and later Juan Gris and Georges Braque. However, Van Dongen joined in 1905 the " Fauves ", and received for his part in his living room in the Bateau - Lavoir, which served as a studio at the same time, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Charles Camoin and Henri Matisse.
In the years 1908-1913 he made several trips that took him to Germany, Spain, Morocco and Egypt. In 1909 he became a member of the artist group " bridge " in Dresden. Max Pechstein had van Dongen at the turn of 1907/1908 met in Paris and encouraged him to participate in a " Fauves " presentation within a " bridge " exhibition in Dresden in 1908, although his works are not the style of the "bridge" corresponded and a spiritual exchange is not offered. Probably hoped the members of an expansion of its European prospects and business connections to known gallery owners, with whom van Dongen was connected. However, it was neither the planned participation of the " Brücke" artists at the 25th exhibition of the " Société des Artistes Independants ", nor to further joint activities. In 1921 he separated from his wife.
The Fauvist came through contract work of many portraits of women in the roaring 20s to success and joined the fashionable circles that frequented the Montparnasse. In 1929 he became a French citizen.
When France was occupied during World War II by the Nazis, he took among others, along with André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck an invitation by the German sculptor Arno Breker in to visit Germany, which earned him the accusation of collaboration. After his divorce from Guus he met in 1938 Marie -Claire HUGUEN ( he married in 1953 ), 1940 their son Jean -Marie was born. Mother and child moved to Monaco in 1949, in a house, the van Dongen Villa Bateau Lavour called and where he spent the winter months. 1957 van Dongen also moved permanently to Monaco over, but he kept his studio in Paris at. In 1959 he participated in the exhibition " Le français et les fauvisme Debuts de l' impressionisme ".
Kees van Dongen died in 1968 at the age of 91 years in Monte Carlo.
Awards
Work
Van Dongens favorite motif were women. Singers, among other things, Mistinguett, and dancers stood in his first ten years of his stay in Paris model before he became a sought-after portraitist of celebrities. Characteristic of his work are the renunciation of the perspective, the simplification of forms, the bold brushwork and vibrant colors.