Émile Schuffenecker

Émile Schuffenecker ( born December 8, 1851 in Fresne -Saint- Mamès, Franche -Comté; † August 1934 in Paris) was a French painter of Neo-Impressionism.

Career

Claude Émile Schuffenecker was born the son of Nicolas Schuffenecker (1829-1854) and Anne Monnet ( 1836-1907 ). Its from Guewenheim (Alsace, Haut -Rhin) originating father, a skilled tailor, died early. Émile grew up with the mother's sister Anne and her husband Pierre Monnet Fauconnet Cornu in Paris. He attended run by the Brothers of the Christian Schools School and helped his uncle, who ran a small coffee roaster with chocolate shop in the Quartier des Halles.

In 1871 he joined the firm of exchange trader Bertin 1872 and met Paul Gauguin, with whom he became friends. In his spare time drawing lessons with Paul Baudry and Émile Carolus -Duran took. He learned Armand Guillaumin and Camille Pissarro and became effective in 1874 represented at the Paris Salon. After the stock market crash of 1882, he lost, as well as Gauguin, his work with Bertin. He took a job as an art teacher at the Lycée Michelet in Vanves State. In 1884 he was one of the founders of the Salon des Independants, 1886, he took part in the 8th and last Impressionist exhibition. In the same year he met in Concarneau the eighteen- year-old painter and poet Émile Bernard know who was on the way to Pont- Aven, which he endowed with a letter of recommendation to the twenty years older than Paul Gauguin. Schuffenecker had little appreciated by the members of the School of Pont -Aven contact, but it was his neo- impressionist style.

Work

Between 1886 and 1888 his painting Le square au Luxembourg was created (oil on canvas, 85 x 100 cm), showing his wife Louise and his two children, Jeanne and Paul playing in the Jardin du Luxembourg. This painting, in the Schuffenecker for themselves Seurat Pointillism is further developed, typical of his landscape paintings of the following year. In a poem Émile Bernard described this painting in detail.

1889 organized Schuffenecker exposure of peintres Impressionistes et Synthétistes Parisian Cafe Volpini, among others, with Gauguin, Charles Laval, Louis Anquetin and his own works. The exhibition was a " hilarity " and a complete economic failure, since no picture was sold.

1890 should Schuffenecker with his brother Amédée a number have Theo and his sister Johanna van Gogh - Bonger bought and copied his brother painting by Vincent van Gogh. Several Schuffenecker copies came in the wake of the market, and was listed in 1916 by the art historian Théodore Duret almost blind in the catalog raisonné of Van Gogh as a genuine work of the Dutchman. The researcher January Hulsker suspected collusion between van Gogh and the heirs Schuff Ecker.