Biography of Maurice Vlamink


He was a part of the “wild” group Fauve - the structure of his works was fully built on the basis of a color transformed into decorative planes, forming promising plans and setting the rhythm of space. The dark contours of bright shapes on the canvases of the Vaminka significantly influenced the development of abstract painting. Maurice de Vlamink was a good violinist and pmsoter.

He wrote 26 books, including several novels and collections of poems. Maurice de Vlamink was born in Paris in a family of musicians. Maurice studied the violin game under the leadership of his father, a musician-pedagogue. He was engaged in bicycle sports. From the age of 17, Vlamink regularly has been painting in the artist Henri Rigalon Henri Rigalon, located on the island of Chatou.

In his early picturesque works there is the influence of Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Willem Van Gogh, as well as interest in various styles of painting, in particular in impressionism and various areas of postpressionism. Свои ландшафты и пейзажи Вламинк писал практически без контуров, как бы освобождая цвет, и отказывался от традиционного «сюжета». For the first time, his picture was shown in Galerie Berthe Weill in the year.

Maurice de Vlamink is considered one of the main representatives of Fovism. In October, he participated with Henri Matissa Henri Matisse, Andre Deren, Henri Mangen Henri Charles Manguin and Alber Albert Albert Marquet in the scandalous “Autumn Salon”, after which the influential conservative critic Louis Voksel named the young artist and his friends “Fovisters” Fauves is a wild beast.

He presented a series of landscapes consisting of pure, inextricable color planes. He organized the first personal exhibition of the artist for a year. And Vlamink brings interest in cubism for a while. The compositions are becoming more balanced, intermittent blue and green tones dominate. Mobilized in the year in the army, participated in the First World War and experienced all its hardships.

Then he happened to work as a turner and a drawing at a defense enterprise. At the exhibition at Galerie Drewe in the year, the artist’s paintings were sold for the francs. Vamink buys a country house in Valmondois. In the works - he focused the volume of forms less, emphasized the contrast of light and shadow, creating dynamic, emotional paintings. Asymmetric composition, fractional smears, restless rhythmic repetitions create emotional stress in his paintings.

His favorite plots are country roads, wheat fields, remotely standing abandoned houses, streets with lonely passers -by. Its landscapes are excited, exciting, emphasized dynamic, Vamink is more often used by cinnabar, black and white colors. After the German troops entered France, the artist left for Normandy, but soon returned to his rural house. The last years of the life of Maurice Vlaminka were determined by his friendship with the Swiss doctor Sigmund Pollag Sigmund Pollag.

He collected a collection of graphic works by the artist and presented it in the year at Kunstmuseum Bern. Shortly before his death, Vamink admitted: “I still look at the world through the eyes of the child. And today, the greatest enthusiasm causes me all the same things as in childhood: the path in the forest, the road, the river bank, the reflection of the house in the water, the outlines of the boat, the sky with black clouds, the sky with pink clouds.

" And after this he warned young artists: "They do not flirt with nature, possess it." Maurice de vlaminck. Autoportrait Avec Tube. Centre Pompidou Maurice de Vlaminck. Seine Vers Chatou. Ville au Bord de Lac. HERMITAGE ST-PETERSBURG MAURICE de vlaminck. Sur le Zinc. Musee Calvet Avignon Maurice de Vlaminck. Portrait de Pere Bouju. Center Pompidou Paris Maurice de Vlaminck. Kunstmuseum Zurich Maurice de Vlaminck.

Dallas Art Museum Maurice de Vlaminck. Art Institute Chicago Maurice de vlaminck. Private Collection Maurice de Vlaminck. Bateaux sur la Seine. PUSHKIN MUSEUM MOSCOW MAURICE de vlaminck. Nature Morte Avec Bol de Fruits. Albertina Wyen Maurice de Vlaminck. Andre derein. Pont de Chatou. La Perisssoire a Chatou. Les arbres rouges. Vue Sur la Seine. Petit Palais Paris Maurice de Vlaminck.

Nature Morte. Le Pont de Poissy. Pont de Meulon. Maisons dans la Champagne.

Biography of Maurice Vlamink

Madame Lucie Kahnweiler. ST-Michel de Bourgival. Museum Barberini Potsdam Maurice de Vlaminck. La Foret. Paysage de auvergne. Paysage Avec Maisons. Traacteur Rouge. Private Collection.