Roger de La Fresnaye

Roger -Noël -François André de La Fresnaye ( born July 11, 1885 in Le Mans, † November 27, 1925 in Grasse ) was a French painter of Cubism.

Life

Fresnaye's father, an officer in the French army, was stationed at the time of his birth in Le Mans. The de La Fresnaye family belonged to the aristocracy, whose headquarters, the Château de La Fresnaye, is in Falaise.

Roger de La Fresnaye studied after school education in Paris. Between 1904 and 1908 he took courses at the Académie Julian, at the École des Beaux -Arts and at the Académie Ranson on it, which were led by the famous painters Maurice Denis and Paul Sérusier. In particular, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne and the Nabis artists exerted a great influence on him. Early 1910s, he studied sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere under Aristide Maillol. La Fresnaye joined the Puteaux Group in 1911 and participated in exhibitions of the Section d'Or. In the same year he turned to cubism and painted very colorful, large-format images with geometric elements, the people, landscapes and still life pictures. His first solo exhibition was in 1914 in Paris.

At the outbreak of World War I, Roger de La Fresnaye volunteered for the infantry. During this time a series of figurative drawings, in which he portrayed the life of a soldier on the front was created. In 1918 he was the victim of a poison gas attack and was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis. Shortly afterwards he was dismissed as unfit for service in the military. For health reasons, he went to southern France, where he died in Grasse in 1925 from the effects of tuberculous meningitis.

Exhibitions

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