André Lhote | |
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 André Lhote, 1925 | |
| Born | (1885-07-05)5 July 1885 Bordeaux, France |
| Died | 24 January 1962(1962-01-24) (aged 76) Paris, France |
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| Awards | Grand Prix National de Peinture 1955 |
André Lhote (5 July 1885 – 24 January 1962) was a FrenchCubist painter offigure subjects, portraits, landscapes, andstill life. He was also active and influential as a teacher and writer on art.
Lhote was born on 5 July 1885 inBordeaux, France,[1] and learnedwood carving and sculpture from the age of 12, when his father apprenticed him to a local furniture maker to be trained as a sculptor in wood. He enrolled at theÉcole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux in 1898 and studied decorative sculpture until 1904.[2]
Whilst there, he began to paint in his spare time and he left home in 1905, moving into his own studio to devote himself to painting. He was influenced byGauguin andCézanne and held his first one-man exhibition at the Galerie Druet in 1910, four years after he had moved to Paris.[3]
After initially working in aFauvist style, Lhote shifted towardsCubism and joined theSection d'Or group in 1912, exhibiting at the Salon de la Section d'Or. He was alongside some of the fathers of modern art, includingGleizes,Villon,Duchamp,Metzinger,Picabia andLa Fresnaye.
The outbreak of the First World War interrupted his work and, after discharge from the army in 1917, he became one of the group of Cubists supported byLéonce Rosenberg. In 1918, he co-foundedNouvelle Revue Française, the art journal to which he contributed articles on art theory until 1940.[citation needed]
Lhote taught at the Académie Notre-Dame des Champs from 1918 to 1920, and later taught at other Paris art schools—including theAcadémie de la Grande Chaumière and his own school, Academy André Lhote which he founded inMontparnasse in 1922.[4]
He taught dozens of younger artists who would go on to become famous, including a remarkable number of whom (considering the era) were female:Elena Mumm Thornton Wilson,Kristin Saleri,Henri Cartier-Bresson,Conrad O'Brien-ffrench,Adamson-Eric,Simon Elwes,William Crozier,William Geissler,William Gillies, Elvire Geblesco Bibesco,Kuno Veeber,Charlotte van Pallandt, Wesley E. Johnson,Sava Šumanović,[citation needed]Margaret Lefranc,Shirley Russell,Gwyneth Johnstone,Paul Kane,Julie van der Veen,Michael Wishart,Lino Spilimbergo,Amalia Nieto,Héctor Sgarbi,Tamara de Lempicka,Sárika Góth,Berthe Edersheim,Nancy van Overveldt,Pierrette Bloch,Samir Rafi,Gerda Sutton,[5]Sarah Marindah Baker,[6]Genevieve Pezet,[7]Shokouh Riazi,[8]Javad Hamidi,[8]Eren Eyüboğlu,[9]Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu,[10]Elizabeth Rivers,Mainie Jellett,Helen Stewart,Anna-Eva Bergman,[11] andHans Hartung.[11]
Lhote lectured extensively in France and other countries, including Belgium, England, Italy and, from the 1950s, also in Egypt and Brazil. In Egypt, Lhote worked withEffat Nagy using Egyptian archaeology as subject matter for their work.[12]
His work was rewarded with the Grand Prix National de Peinture for 1955, and theUNESCO commission for sculpture appointed Lhote president of the International Association of Painters, Engravers and Sculptors.
Lhote died in Paris in 1962.[13]
