Background
Henri Le Fauconnier was born on July 5, 1881 in Hesdin, France.
Henri Le Fauconnier was born on July 5, 1881 in Hesdin, France.
In 1901 Henri Le Fauconnier moved from northern France to Paris, where he studied law, then attended painting classes in the studio of Jean-Paul Laurens, then in the Academie Julian.
In 1904 and 1905 Henri started exhibiting at the Salon des Indépendants, implementing bold colors in line with Henri Matisse. Then he moved to Brittany in 1907 and painted the landscapes of Ploumanac'h is a proto-Cubist style characterized by chastened tones of brown and greens with thick outlines delimiting the simplified forms. He explored a personal style and put it into practice; painting nudes or portraits. Under the influence of Paul Cézanne, he developed his own form of Cubism. Back in Paris, he mingles with the artistic and literary gathered around Paul Fort at the Closerie des Lilas in Montparnasse. At the 1909 Salon d’Automne Le Fauconnier exhibited alongside Constantin Brâncuși, Jean Metzinger, and Fernand Léger.
At the invitation of Wassily Kandinsky, Le Fauconnier published a theoretical text in the catalog of the Neue Künstlervereinigung. He opened his Rue Visconti studio in Paris to artists eager to apply the lessons of Cézanne. With Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, and Robert Delaunay, he contributed to the Cubist scandal of the 1911 Salon des Indépendants. Le Fauconnier exhibited his vast "Les Montagnards attaqués par des ours" at the Salon d'Automne of 1912 in Paris.
In February 1912 Henri Le Fauconnier was appointed to succeed Jacques-Émile Blanche as chef d'atelier of the avant-garde school of art Académie de La Palette. In 1912, Le Fauconnier participated in the first exhibition of Cubism in Spain, at Galeries Dalmau, Barcelona. At the outset of World War I Le Fauconnier moved to the Netherlands where he stayed for six years. His work at this time combined Cubism and Expressionism, which generated considerable success and influence in the Netherlands. He returned to France in 1920 where his paintings became more realistic. He died of a heart attack in Paris in 1946.
Amaryllis
Portrait of the Poet Georges Bonnamour
Mountaineers Attacked by Bears
The Tree
A view of Zandvoort
Village forestier Grosrouvre
MODELE A LA GUITARE
FLOWER STILL LIFE
Ploumanac'h
Village Among the Rocks
Vielle Femme
Le jardin de l'artiste, Grosrouvres
Abundance
Interior With A Guitar
The Signal
Figures
Little Schoolgirl
Zealand Farmer's Wives
Portrait of Jules Romains
Lake
A still life with a carafe and glasses
Henri Le Fauconnier tried to combine is his works techniqures of Cubism and Expressionism.
