School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

André Lhote

Born: 1885, France, Bordeaux   Died: 1962, Paris

Painter, sculptor and writer. Served an apprenticeship to an ornamental sculptor, 1897, before studying sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, 1898-1904. He turned to painting in 1905 and settled in Paris the following year where he painted Fauvist and Cubist landscapes, portraits and still lifes. In 1922 he founded his own art school, the Académie Montparnasse, later establishing a branch in Rio de Janeiro where Lhote visited in 1952. He was most influential as a teacher and writer and saw some of his treatises on painting published together as 'Traités du paysage et de la figure' in 1958

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Nature Morte [Still Life] PR964 Prints

Polo PR3234 Prints




 
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