René Schützenberger

René Schützenberger ( born July 29, 1860 in Mulhouse in Upper Alsace, † December 31, 1916 in Paris) was a French painter.

Life

He came from an Alsatian family which created the eponymous brewery Schützenberger. His father was the famous chemist Paul Schützenberger (1829-1897); his cousin was the painter Louis -Frédéric Schützenberger ( 1825-1903 ). René Schützenberger studied with Jean -Paul Laurens painting at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1891 he exhibited at the 1881 Salon des artistes founded in Paris français. From 1902 his works were appraised to be held on an annual Salon des Independants, and from 1907 he was a member of Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He was honored in 1897 by the Salon des artistes français in 1900 and at the Paris World Exhibition of 1900.

Schützenberger created mainly female nudes, but also portraits, genre paintings and landscapes. His work is influenced by Post-Impressionism and of the artist group the Nabis.

Pictures

Liseuse à la fenêtre (, Reading at the Window ', 1890)

Islands on the Rhine at Strasbourg ( 1916)

Le Screen fleuri (, Floral Print screen ', 1911)

La Coiffure ( 1911)

Le Collier de Jade (, jade necklace ', 1914)

La Partie de Dés (, Craps ', 1910)

Swell

• Jules Martin, Nos peintres et nos sculpteurs, Paris, Flammarion, 1897.
• Livret du Salon de la Société lyonnaise des beaux -arts, 1898.
• Catalogue général officiel de l'Exposition universelle de 1900, Paris.
• Catalogue du Salon de la Société des amis des arts de Nantes, in 1907.
• L'Art et les Artistes, 7ème année, n ° 75, juin 1911.
• The Julian Academy, Paris 1868-1939, Spring Exhibition, 1989, Shepherd Gallery, New York.
• Benezit, Dictionnaire des artistes, 1999.
• Dominique Lobstein, Dictionnaire des Independants (1884-1914), tome III, L' échelle de Jacob, 2003.
• Gaite Dugnat, Les catalogs of salons de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, tome III (1906-1910), L' échelle de Jacob, 2005.
• Gaite Dugnat, Les catalogs of salons de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, tome IV (1911-1920), L' échelle de Jacob, 2005.
• Dossier Paul -René Schützenberger, Documentation du Musée d' Orsay, Paris.
• Fuentes Benezit: Vol 12, pp. 566f.