Background
Auguste Herbin was born on April 29, 1882 in Quiévy, France. His father was a craftsman.
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Auguste Herbin was born on April 29, 1882 in Quiévy, France. His father was a craftsman.
Since 1899 to 1901, Herbin studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lille.
In 1907, Herbin exhibited at the Salon d'Automne. After his move to the Bateau-Lavoir studios in 1909, Auguste started to experiment with Cubism. In 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, he was exempted from military service because of his short stature and was committed to work in an airplane factory near Paris. After the First World War, Herbin exhibited regularly at Léonce Rosenberg’s Galerie de l’Effort Moderne and started on a series of painted wooden reliefs.
In 1917, the painter moved on to an abstract, geometric phase before gradually discovering Constructivism. In 1922, the painter briefly returned to figurative painting.
During the 1930s, he served as a publisher and author for the journal "Abstraction-Creation. Art non figurativ".
Since 1938, his interest in the Italian Trecento led Herbin to a more concrete, strictly two-dimensional painting style with simple geometric forms.
In 1946, Auguste developed the "Alphabet plastique", a compositional system, based on the structure of letters. He published this compositional system as well as his colour theories, partly derived from Goethe's "Farbenlehre", in his "L'art non-figuratif non-objectif" in 1949.
A lateral paralysis in 1953 forced the painter to learn to paint with his left hand. He continued working until his death in 1960.
Herbin was a co-founder of Abstraction-Création Association in 1931 and a vice president of Salon des Réalites Nouvelles.
His works are kept at numerous museums and galleries, including the Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle, Netherlands, National Galleries of Scotland, Matisse Museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France and others.
The coast at Haute Isle
Still Life with Lamp
Dessert
Composition, Landscape at Ceret
Azalées
The Small Boat
Friday I
Women and Children
Green Landscape
Composition sur le Mots, Poires, Pommes, Pêches
Notre Dame de Paris
Di Mache 1
The Red House
Nature morte à la tasse de café
Untitled
Head
Mill on the Marn, Creteil
Alphabet Plastique II
The yellow bridge at Ceret
Landscape of a waterway
Composition
Hamburgs port
Synchromy in Dark Blue
Untitled
Untitled
Composition
Untitled
Nude
Portrait du peintre Mathieu Battaglia
Still LIfe
Blanc
Still Life with Oranges
Portrait de Jeune fille
Les Joueurs de boules
Abstraction
Portrait of a Man
Bridge over the Oise to Vadencourt
Wooded coast at Roche Goyon
Le Fin
Still Life
Park in Paris
A Street in Bastia
Church at Orgeruse
Pond and Small House
Landscape with poplars
Le massif du Canigou
Maison au bord du Fleuve
Self-Portrait
Mill at Saint Bénin
Landscape
Stationnetje olie op doek
Cherries
Flowers
Untitled
Paysage à Céret
Composition cubiste
Entrance to the Corbeau mill
Dropsgezicht
Corsican Landscape
Villaggio di collina
Cause
Composition monumentale
The Oise at Vadencourt
The Place Maubert in Paris
Pont sur la Loue à Moutier
Untitled (Landscape)
House at the Water
Landscape in Ceret
Untitled
Combat Clair-Obscur
After the rain at la Roche Guyon
Storm
Composition
Paysage cubiste
Snow at Haut Isle
Still Life
The Docks of the Port of Bastia
Composition
Cubist Composition
The Roofs of Paris in the Snow
Critical of Stalinism, Auguste left the Communist Party in the 1940s.
Auguste Herbin was a member of the Association des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires.
