Louis Anquetin

Louis Anquetin ( born January 26, 1861 in Étrépagny at Gisors in the Haute -Normandie; † August 19, 1932 in Paris) was a French painter, who is considered one of the founders of synthetism. His circle of friends included artists such as temporarily Émile Bernard, Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso, to which he exercised great influence - such as Gauguin's La Dame à la Robe Rouge ( 1891) is clearly inspired by Anquetin La Dame en Rouge from 1890. He painted, inter alia, Act, Cities of Paris, scenes of horse racing.

Life

Anquetin came in 1882 to Paris, where he joined the studio of Léon Bonnat. There he met Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec, who became his longtime friend. As Bonnat's school closed, both moved to the studio of Fernand Cormon, as its most promising students Anquetin was soon.

Around 1885 the Cormon group, which included except those mentioned, then about Eugène Boch, Paul Tampier and ( for a few weeks in spring 1886) Vincent van Gogh began to move beyond Impressionism. A 1887 initiated by van Gogh in the café Le Tambourin exhibition of Japanese prints ( Ukiyo -e) both enthusiastic Anquetin and Bernard and inspired their further work in a direction that was later called Cloisonismus.

1894 traveled Anquetin and Toulouse- Lautrec to Holland and Belgium to study works of the great Flemish artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt van Rijn. They recognized the large -scale difference between the oil technique of the old masters and their own. Anquetin led by Pierre- Auguste Renoir long discussion of techniques, and they agreed that their craft was something missing in dealing with this material. Anquetin spent most of the rest of his life with the attempt to reconstruct this lost techniques of the great masters and regain for contemporary art. He came to the conclusion, among others, the difference between the artists of his time and Rubens were the profound anatomical knowledge of the latter, which had made him less dependent on its models. According to his research Anquetin developed the view works by Rubens lay a black and white Vorwerk based on the latter had then applied the colors.

Through his departure from the contemporary art Anquetin fell into the public soon forgotten, not least on his lower today awareness is due. His works hang today in Paris ( Louvre, Musée d' Orsay ), in London's National Gallery, in the St. Petersburg Hermitage as well as in numerous other art museums. Its market value is high; on the art market up to 428,000 dollars for one of his paintings have been paid.