Georges Dufrénoy

Georges Dufrenoy ( born June 20, 1870 in Thiais in the Marne Valley (Val de Marne), † December 9, 1943 in Salles -en- Beaujolais ) was a French Post-Impressionist painter.

Life

After the time of the Paris Commune in 1871 his parents moved to Paris on the Place des Vosges, where Dufrenoy spent his entire life. He briefly attended the Academie Julian and then learned in the workshop of Désiré Laugée. He was influenced by Claude Monet and painted still lifes and landscapes in an impressionist style. As he often visited Italy, he chose alongside Paris, also the area of Siena, Venice and Genoa as a motive. In 1912 he painted a Pieta frescoes in the chapel of St. Pancrace in the village Gram Bois in the Vaucluse. Dufrenoy often presented from in Paris in the "Salons des Artistes Independants " and the "Salon d' Automne ". His paintings were also on display at the 1910 "Exposition Universelle" in Brussels in 1921 at the Triennale in Liege and 1926 in the exhibition " Trente ans d' art indépendant " at the Grand Palais in Paris. In 1929 he was awarded for Nature morte au violon in Pittsburgh the Carnegie price. He had his last exhibition in 1939. He died in Salles in Beaujolais, where he spent part of the year. After his death, an exhibition at the Musée Galliera in Paris in 1948 and 1992 in the town hall of the 3rd district of Paris were dedicated to him.

In 1936 he became a member of the jury of the Prix de Rome. In 1938 he became an officer of the French Legion of Honour.

Jardin d'un Palais à Venise, charcoal drawing (undated)

Poster of the Salon d' Automne in 1937