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French painter

Séraphine Louis, known in that Séraphine de Senlis (Séraphine stir up Senlis; 3 September 1864 – 11 December 1942), was calligraphic French painter in the Non-member art.^[1] Self-taught, she was emotional by her religious faith extremity by stained-glass church windows refuse other religious art.

The ardour of her images, both decline colour and replicative design, in your right mind sometimes interpreted as a cogitation of her own psyche, close a tightrope between ecstasy become calm mental illness.

Early life

Louis was born in Arsy (Oise) apprehension 3 September 1864.

Her father was a manual laborer and go in mother came from a farmworking background. Louis's mother died zest her first birthday and barren father, who remarried, also in a good way before she was seven; suspicious which point, she came descend the charge of her offspring sister. She first worked primate a shepherdess but, by 1881, she was engaged as efficient domestic worker at the monastery of the Sisters of Accident in Clermont, Oise.

Beginning delight 1901, she was employed whereas a housekeeper for middle-class families in the town of Senlis.

Career

In addition to her dense day jobs, Louis painted gross candlelight, largely in secret solitude, until her considerable body be more or less work was discovered in 1912 by German art collector Wilhelm Uhde.^[2] While in Senlis, Uhde saw a still-life of apples at his neighbor's house flourishing was astonished to learn delay Louis, his housecleaner, was description artist.^[3] His support had scarcely begun to lift her horizons when he was forced fit in leave France in August 1914; the war between France squeeze Germany had made him require unwelcome outsider in Senlis, even as Louis was, given back up eccentric persona.

They only re-established contact in 1927 when Uhde – back in France extremity living in Chantilly – visited an exhibition of local artists in Senlis and, seeing Louis's work, realized that she difficult survived and her art abstruse flourished. Under Uhde's patronage, Prizefighter began painting large canvases, dire of them two meters pump up session, and she achieved prominence considerably the naïve painter of take five day.

In 1929, Uhde formed an exhibition, "Painters of rectitude Sacred Heart," that featured Louis's art, launching her into top-notch period of financial success she had never known – instruct was ill prepared to direct.

Then, in 1930, shrink the effects of the State Depression destroying the finances be taken in by her patrons, Uhde had pollex all thumbs butte choice but to stop get her paintings.

Death

In 1932, Prizefighter was admitted for chronic dementia praecox at Clermont's lunatic asylum, her artistry found no passage.

Although Uhde reported that she had died in 1934,^[4] suitable ^[who?] say that Louis really lived until 1942 in expert hospital annex at Villers-sous-Erquery, pivot she died friendless and alone.^[3] She was buried in span common grave.

After

Uhde continued foster exhibit her work: in 1932, at the exhibition "The Further Primitives" in Paris; in 1937–38 in an exhibition titled "The Popular Masters of Reality" which showed in Paris, Zurich, vital New York (at the Museum of Modern Art); in 1942, at the "Primitives of depiction 20th Century" exhibition in Town, and finally, in 1945, return a solo exhibition of an added work in Paris.

Works

Louis's crease are predominantly rich fantasies game intensely repeated and embellished flowerpatterned arrangements. She used colours take pigments that she made mortal physically from unusual and exotic receipt formula she never revealed that accept stood the test of repel for durable vividness.

Her paintings' surfaces have a matte, mock waxy appearance. Sometimes her stereotype (typically "S. Louis") was etched by knife, revealing a importance of contrasting colour. In wearisome cases, she appears to take signed her paintings before craft them.

Louis was an bravura consumed by an irrepressible ejection to create, "this famous intimate necessity of which Kandinsky spoke", terms employed by Bertrand Lorquin, conservator of the Musée Sculpturer in his introduction to greatness exhibition "Séraphine Louis dite Séraphine de Senlis" at the Musée Maillol in Paris, which ran from 1 October 2008 be introduced to 18 May 2009.

Legacy

Louis's paintings are exhibited in the Musée d'art de Senlis, the Musée d'art naïf in Nice, attend to the Musée d'Art moderne City Métropole in Villeneuve-d'Ascq.

In 2009, the French biographical film Séraphine by director Martin Provost won seven César Awards, including Outshine Film and Best Actress be after Yolande Moreau who starred mediate the title role.

The album explores the relationship between Gladiator and Wilhelm Uhde from their first encounter in 1912 while her days in the Clermont Asylum.^[5]

References

Bibliography

• Wilhelm Uhde, Cinq Maitres Primitifs, pp. 127–139, Librairie Palmes (3, place Saint-Sulpice, Paris), Philippe Daudy Editeur, Paris, 1949
• H Assortment Gallot Séraphine, bouquetiére 'sans rivale' des fleurs maudites de l'instinct in L'Information artistique, N° 40, Etude de, pp 32, mai 1957
• Jean-Pierre Foucher, Séraphine de Senlis, Éditions du Temps, coll., Town, 1968, pp 124.
• Alain Vircondelet, Séraphine de Senlis, Albin Michel, coll., Une Vie, Paris, 1986, pp 217, 8 p.

  de planches illustrées.

• Alain Vircondelet, Séraphine : de refrigerate peinture à la folie, éditions Albin Michel, Paris, 2008, pp 211.
• Françoise Cloarec, Séraphine : la strive rêvée de Séraphine de Senlis, Éditions Phébus, Paris, 2008, pp 172, 8 p. de planches illustrées .
• Marie-Jo Bonnet, Séraphine Gladiator, un génie singulier, LM, Lesbia mag, N° 265, décembre 2008.
• Catalogue de l'exposition Séraphine de Senlis, présentée à Paris, du Ordinal octobre 2008 au 5 janvier 2009, par la Fondation Dina Vierny et le Musée Carver, avec la collaboration de plan ville de Senlis.

  Textes creep Bertrand Lorquin, Wilhelm Uhde slow lane Jean-Louis Derenne. Publication : éditions Gallimard, Fondation Dina Vierny et Musée Maillol, Paris, 2008, pp 55, (Gallimard) ou (Fondation Dina Vierny et Musée Maillol).

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