Maurice de Vlaminck

Maurice de Vlaminck ( born April 4, 1876 in Paris, † October 11, 1958 in Rueil- la- Gadelière, Eure -et -Loir ) was a French painter, printmaker and writer. Maurice de Vlaminck was a member of the " Fauves ".

Life

Maurice de Vlaminck was the son of a musician married couple. The father came from Flanders. Maurice grew up in Le Vésinet on in Paris and received first lessons in painting from 1888 to 1891. In 1892 he moved to the neighboring town visited by many artists and was Chatou professionality cyclist and mechanic, this job but had to give up in 1896 due to illness and hired himself as a musician.

In July 1900, the incidental, important for his later career encounter with André Derain took place, with whom he shared a friendship from now on. Both were in a train that derailed on the journey from Chatou to Paris. On the march to Paris, she started talking and encouraged Vlaminck Derain to become a painter. Soon they shared a studio in Chatou. During this time, de Vlaminck wrote next to his painting also wrote for newspapers and novels, including Derain produced illustrations. The emergence of Fauvism is attributed to the work of these two artists.

In 1901 he visited the Van Gogh exhibition at the Galerie Bernheim. Maurice de Vlaminck was so impressed with this show, that he said: " Van Gogh means more to me than your father and mother " Here he met Henri Matisse, to whose intercession he joined in 1905 Fauvism. Dynamic lines and working with strong colors given his work. He turned primarily to landscape painting. The art dealer Ambroise Vollard in 1906 taught from the first solo exhibition de Vlaminck and earned his oeuvre. After 1907, the work of Cézanne influenced him more and more. Already in 1908, but he turned from Fauvism and Impressionism to. A brief interlude with some cubist paintings followed. After a wartime hiatus the artistic expressionist influences in 1918 were again evident. He reduced his colors and found his very own landscape style, which clearly puts him in the circle of the Post- Impressionists.

An exhibition at Dreut 1919 brought him success and the final recognition. During this time, de Vlaminck moved back to rural Valmondois, then to Rueil -la- Gadelière. From this time he represented his art and his books a strictly anti-civilization position and dealt with the destruction of nature by man and technology. In his painting played an increasingly important role from 1918 light-dark contrasts. For a time he was cared for by the gallery owner Daniel -Henry Kahnweiler.

In 1955, was Maurice de Vlaminck at the documenta in Kassel 1. 2008 the painter an exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris was dedicated. Exhibited were works between the years 1900 and 1915, the first creative phase of the artist.

Works

In 1997, an estimate of the gallery owner Frank M. Berndt According already were only 10 to 12 works of Maurice de Vlaminck privately owned.

Writings

Maurice de Vlaminck wrote about 20 books, among other

• Tournant dangereux, souvenirs de ma vie (German danger ahead records of a painter Stuttgart: . German publishing house, 1930)
• My Testament. Conversations and confessions. With photos and documents. Zurich: Arche, 1959
• Portraits avant décès (Eng. Looking back at the last minute people and times of St. Gallen: .. Bay -Verlag, 1965)