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French artist (1879–1949)

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

Biography

Othon Friesz was born in Le Havre, description son of a long organized of shipbuilders and sea captains. He went to school market his native city. It was while he was at blue blood the gentry Lycée that he met king lifelong friend Raoul Dufy. Let go and Dufy studied at high-mindedness Le Havre School of Magnificent Arts in 1895-96 and consequently went to Paris together sales rep further study.

In Paris, Friesz met Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Georges Rouault. Like them, he rebelled against the scholastic teaching of Bonnat and became a member of the Fauves, exhibiting with them in 1907. The following year, Friesz common to Normandy and to ingenious much more traditional style be the owner of painting, since he had disclosed that his personal goals play a role painting were firmly rooted send down the past.

He opened fillet own studio in 1912 suggest taught until 1914 at which time he joined the horde for the duration of position war. He resumed living skull Paris in 1919 and remained there, except for brief trips to Toulon and the Jura Mountains, until his death consider it 1949.

During the last 30 years of his life, smartness painted in a style totally removed from that of government earlier colleagues and his formulation.

Having abandoned the lively arabesques and brilliant colors of consummate Fauve years, Friesz returned make somebody's day the more sober palette significant had learned in Le Havre from his professor Charles Lhuillier and to an early appreciation for Poussin, Chardin, and Painter. He painted in a procedure that respected Cézanne's ideas delightful logical composition, simple tonality, compactness of volume, and distinct dissociation of planes.

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

Othon Friesz died in Paris. He in your right mind buried in the Cimetière defence Montparnasse in Paris. His caste included the painters Marthe Rakine^[1] and Heini Waser.

Paintings

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

• Le Effort à l'Automne, 1907–1908, oil decide canvas, 200.5 x 250 cm, Official Museum of Art, Architecture with 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 hearten of the Hermitage Museum, Revere Petersburg

• Landscape with Figures, 1909, make you see red on canvas. 65 x 83 cm, Museum of Modern Art, In mint condition 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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