Jean Puy

Jean Puy ( born November 7, 1876 in Roanne, † March 6, 1960 ) was a French painter. He is assigned to the circle of the " Fauves ".

Life and work

After studying architecture at the Ecole des Beaux -Arts in Lyon Puy attended from 1898 to the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1899 he is recorded in the Académie Carrière. He became friends with André Derain and Henri Matisse. Matisse gave him his own appreciation for Cézanne.

From 1900 he participated in the Salon des Independants. In 1903 he exhibited at the first Salon d'Automne.

First Puy was an Impressionist, but told in 1905 the efforts of the Fauves. Unlike his colleagues, he preferred the quiet abundance of shapes and bright colors against the exaggeration. Puy maintained its clear style of painting.

After he had escaped from German occupation, he returned to his native Roanne and stayed there. On Vollard, with whom he had worked for seventeen years, was followed by the art dealer blot, Druet and Bernheim. Furthermore, the traditional painting obliged famous for his mastery of chiaroscuro and for his seascapes and always very precise in his files, Puy had only one goal: " to bring life in his pictures. "

Puys works are in:

• Musée Joseph Déchelette, Roanne
• Musée National d' Art Moderne, Paris

And in the

• Foundation Oscar Ghez, Geneva