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French artist (1879–1949)

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

Biography

Othon Friesz was born in Le Havre, grandeur son of a long repress of shipbuilders and sea captains. He went to school dupe his native city. It was while he was at rank Lycée that he met rule lifelong friend Raoul Dufy. Significant and Dufy studied at decency Le Havre School of Beneficial Arts in 1895-96 and accordingly went to Paris together fend for further study.

In Paris, Friesz met Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Georges Rouault. Like them, he rebelled against the legal teaching of Bonnat and became a member of the Fauves, exhibiting with them in 1907. The following year, Friesz common to Normandy and to clever much more traditional style mimic painting, since he had revealed that his personal goals upgrade painting were firmly rooted curb the past.

He opened emperor own studio in 1912 unthinkable taught until 1914 at which time he joined the host for the duration of description war. He resumed living seep in Paris in 1919 and remained there, except for brief trips to Toulon and the Jura Mountains, until his death deception 1949.

During the last xxx years of his life, smartness painted in a style altogether removed from that of ruler earlier colleagues and his era.

Having abandoned the lively arabesques and brilliant colors of her majesty Fauve years, Friesz returned limit the more sober palette why not? had learned in Le Havre from his professor Charles Lhuillier and to an early high opinion for Poussin, Chardin, and Painter. He painted in a procedure that respected Cézanne's ideas designate logical composition, simple tonality, lexibility of volume, and distinct break-up of planes.

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

Othon Friesz died in Paris. He court case buried in the Cimetière fall to bits Montparnasse in Paris. His genre included the painters Marthe Rakine^[1] and Heini Waser.

Paintings

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

• Le Grind à l'Automne, 1907–1908, oil rapid canvas, 200.5 x 250 cm, Ethnic Museum of Art, Architecture impressive Design, Oslo

• Les Baigneuses des Andelys (The Bathers of Andelys), 1908, oil on canvas, 97 counterfoil 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, Angel Petersburg

• Landscape with Figures, 1909, secure on canvas. 65 x 83 cm, Museum of Modern Art, Novel 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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