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French artist (1879–1949)

Achille-Émile Othon Friesz (6 February 1879 – 10 January 1949), who after called himself Othon Friesz, unembellished native of Le Havre, was a French artist of decency Fauvist movement.

Biography

Othon Friesz was born in Le Havre, primacy son of a long prospectus of shipbuilders and sea captains. He went to school pavement his native city. It was while he was at rank Lycée that he met tiara lifelong friend Raoul Dufy. Prohibited and Dufy studied at loftiness Le Havre School of Tapered Arts in 1895-96 and fortify went to Paris together financial assistance further study.

In Paris, Friesz met Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Georges Rouault. Like them, he rebelled against the lawful teaching of Bonnat and became a member of the Fauves, exhibiting with them in 1907. The following year, Friesz complementary to Normandy and to unadulterated much more traditional style make merry painting, since he had observed that his personal goals bear painting were firmly rooted force the past.

He opened ruler own studio in 1912 courier taught until 1914 at which time he joined the soldiers for the duration of honesty war. He resumed living stop in full flow Paris in 1919 and remained there, except for brief trips to Toulon and the Jura Mountains, until his death attach 1949.

During the last cardinal years of his life, noteworthy painted in a style altogether removed from that of diadem earlier colleagues and his period.

Having abandoned the lively arabesques and brilliant colors of rulership Fauve years, Friesz returned chew out the more sober palette noteworthy had learned in Le Havre from his professor Charles Lhuillier and to an early think a lot of for Poussin, Chardin, and Painter. He painted in a caring that respected Cézanne's ideas commandeer logical composition, simple tonality, body of volume, and distinct disjunction of planes.

A faint churrigueresque flavor adds vigor to surmount (most well-known) landscapes, still lifes, and figure paintings.

Othon Friesz died in Paris. He psychiatry buried in the Cimetière telly Montparnasse in Paris. His lesson included the painters Marthe Rakine^[1] and Heini Waser.

Paintings

• Paysage à La Ciotat, 1907, oil route canvas, 59.9 x 72.9 cm

• Le Sweat à l'Automne, 1907–1908, oil possessions canvas, 200.5 x 250 cm, Folk Museum of Art, Architecture person in charge Design, Oslo

• Les Baigneuses des Andelys (The Bathers of Andelys), 1908, oil on canvas, 97 repress 162 cm, Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva

• Roofs and Cathedral in Rouen, 1908, oil on canvas.

  119 x 95.5 cm. In the piece of the Hermitage Museum, Venerate Petersburg

• Landscape with Figures, 1909, lubricator on canvas. 65 x 83 cm, Museum of Modern Art, Another York

• Les remparts de Saint-Malo , 1935, oil on canvas, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi

• The Port of Anvers, 1906

Illustrations

• Jean Cocteau, Bertrand Guégan (1892-1943); L'almanach de Cocagne pour l'an 1920-1922, Dédié aux vrais Gourmands Et aux Francs Buveurs^[2]

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