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Louis Vivin (born 28 July 1861, Hadol, France; died 28 May 1936 in Paris) was a French primitivist painter.

Biography

Vivin was born in Hadol, France. He showed great enthusiasm for painting as a child, but his career took him in a completely different direction: he worked as a postal clerk until 1922, pursuing his art only in his spare time.[2] Once he retired in 1923, Vivin finally took up the full-time part of being an artist.[3] He moved to Paris in 1889 where he lived with his wife in the district of Montparnasse.[4][5]

He was a self-taught and a representative of naïve painting. Eventually, he was discovered by the German art critic Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), an association which helped him start exhibiting and build a reputation as a serious artist.

Works

The subjects of Vivin's paintings were still life, hunting subjects, and the city of Paris.[6] Vivin was a contemporary of Henri Rousseau, Camille Bombois, André Bauchant, and Séraphine Louis, known collectively as the "Sacred Heart Painters" and as masters of French naïve painting.[7] Vivin's works are known to have a sad and dismal theme to them. He was also known for painting from his memory. Louis Vivin was influenced by the work and details of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier’s paintings. His works depicted genre scenes, flower pieces, hunting scenes and views of Paris, "notable for their charmingly wobbly perspective effects". [8]

Louis Vivin’s first one-man exhibition was placed at the Galerie des Quatre Chemins, and it was organized by Wilhelm Uhde in 1927.[3] His later work was considered to become less dependent of the melancholy mood, and it focused more on blocks of color and form.[4][5]

Lists of his selected artworks

Southampton City Art Gallery[9]

• Venice: Canal Scene with a Church
• La main chaude
• Les Invalides
• Venice: Canal Scene with a Bridge

Auction Christie's[10]

• La place des Halles et l'eglise Saint-eustache, Paris, 1935
• Sacre coeur
• Vue de sacre coeur

Private collections[11]

• Casino de Biarritz
• The Flower Market, 1914
• Gare Montparnasse, Paris
• Luncheon on the Grass, 1925
• Paris, Eglise de la Trinité, 1925
• Paris, Montmartre: Cirque Medrano, 1925

References

На других языках

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[de] Louis Vivin

Louis Vivin (* 28. Juli 1861 in Hadol, Frankreich; † 28. Mai 1936 in Paris) war ein französischer Maler.

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- [en] Louis Vivin

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[fr] Louis Vivin

Louis Vivin est un peintre naïf français autodidacte (Hadol, Vosges, 1861 - Paris, 1936). Avec le Douanier Rousseau, Camille Bombois, Séraphine Louis et André Bauchant, il est l'un des maîtres de l'art naïf en France.

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[it] Louis Vivin

Louis Vivin (Hadol, 28 luglio 1861 – Parigi, 28 maggio 1961) è stato un pittore francese.

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