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Vuillard
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Jean-Édouard Vuillard was born in Cuiseaux in Eastern France on November 11, 1868, and at the age of ten, moved with his family to Paris.
In Paris, Vuillard studied at the Lycée Condorcet, where he met the Maurice Denis and Ker Xavier Roussel among other artists, writers and intellectuals. In 1885, he gave up his plan for a career in the military and left the Lycée Condorcet. Instead, on Roussel’s encouragement, Vuillard joined him at...
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Jean-Édouard Vuillard was born in Cuiseaux in Eastern France on November 11, 1868, and at the age of ten, moved with his family to Paris.
In Paris, Vuillard studied at the Lycée Condorcet, where he met the Maurice Denis and Ker Xavier Roussel among other artists, writers and intellectuals. In 1885, he gave up his plan for a career in the military and left the Lycée Condorcet. Instead, on Roussel’s encouragement, Vuillard joined him at the studio of artist Diogène Maillart, where his formal training as an artist began.
Two years later, after a few failed attempts, Vuillard joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Here, however, the artist soon became disenchanted with academic painting, and joined the Académie Julian instead, where he reconnected with artists like Denis and met Pierre Bonnard, with whom he later shared a studio.
Vuillard was a regular visitor at the Louvre, and was particularly interested in ancient painting and the decorative arts. He was strongly influenced by Gauguin’s work, and, in 1890, he joined Les Nabis, a group of artists who believed that art did not have to be representational and challenged the boundaries between fine arts and crafts, and counted Denis, Bonnard and Paul Sérusier amongst its members.
Living with his mother, who was a dressmaker, for most of his life, Vuillard interest in ornamentation and patterning was strengthened, and is evident in several of his intimate interior and garden scenes as well as in his portraits of her. Another event that significantly shaped Vuillard’s artistic vocabulary was his encounter with Proust, also a student of the Lycée Condorcet, in 1902.
Through his career, the artist experimented with different subjects and genres of art, varying from decorative panels, commissioned frescoes for apartment interiors, and lithographs, to theatrical set designs, stained glass windows and ceramics. In 1901 he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, following which he participated in the Salon d’Automne in 1903, and then in the Salon de la Libre Esthétique of Brussels in 1905. From 1908, Vuillard taught at the Academy Ranson, and after the First World War, continued to gain fame as a portraitist, and painted several commissioned works.
In 1937, Vuillard was elected to the Institut de France, and, a year later in 1938, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris hosted a large retrospective of his work, honoring his achievements and celebrating his successful career.
Vuillard died on June 21, 1940, in La Baule.
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Born
November 11, 1868
Cuiseaux, Saône-et-Loire
Died
June 21, 1940
La Baule, Loire-Atlantique
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