Louis Vivin

Louis Vivin ( born July 28, 1861 in Hadol, France, † May 28, 1936 in Paris) was a French painter.

Louis Vivin was a self-taught as a painter and a representative of naive painting.

Vivin was already excited as a kid for painting. His career choice was made, however, in an entirely different direction: He worked until 1922 as a post office clerk at a post office.

Parallel to his " bourgeois " career he practiced enthusiastically from his Naive art. Eventually, he was discovered by the German art critic Wilhelm Uhde (1874-1947), which helped him to exhibitions and a reputation as a serious artist.

The subjects of Vivins painting were still life, floral paintings, hunting objects and portraits city of Paris.

Vivin applies, together with Henri Rousseau, Camille Bombois, André Bauchant and Séraphine Louis as a "painter of the Sacred Heart " and a classic of naive painting from France.

His works were also included in the exhibition concept of the documenta 1 1955 in Kassel.

Sources and Literature

• Les Maîtres populaires de la réalités. Exposure organisée à Paris par le Musée de Grenoble. Exhibition catalog. Salle Royale; Paris 1937
• Eva Karcher, The Painters of the Sacred Heart. Bönningheim: Museum Charlotte Zander, 1996 ISBN 3-926318-23-6
• Bihalji - Merin, Oto: The Art of naive. Issues and relations; Munich 1975
• Bihalji - Merin, Oto: The naive of the world. Stuttgart [u a ] 1971
• Dallmeier, Volker: Naive art. Past and present; Bielefeld 1981
• Ehlers, Otto August: Sunday painter. The image of the simple-minded heart; Berlin [u a ] 1956
• Grochowisk, Thomas: German naïve art; Recklinghausen in 1976.