Lucien LÉVY-DHURMER (French, 1865-1953)
Lucien LÉVY-DHURMER was a French artist and a leading exponent of fin-de-siècle Symbolism and Art Nouveau salons. His works include paintings, drawings, ceramics, furniture and interior design.
He born to a Jewish family in Algiers, French Algeria in 1865, began studying drawing and sculpture in Paris at the Ecole Supérieure de Dessin et de Sculpture in 1879 and first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1882. In 1895 he left for Paris to begin a career in painting, visited Italy and was influenced by Renaissance art. His paintings soon became popular, he earned high praise for the academic attention to detail with which he captured figures lost in a Pre-Raphaelite haze of melancholy. After 1901, LÉVY-DHURMER moved away from explicitly symbolist content, incorporating more landscapes inspired by his travels in Europe and North Africa into his work, and continued to draw inspiration from music. In 1914, he married Emmy FOURNIER, editor of the early feminist newspaper La Fronde, and began working in a style close to Whistler and Monet. The artist died in Le Vésinet in 1953.
He born to a Jewish family in Algiers, French Algeria in 1865, began studying drawing and sculpture in Paris at the Ecole Supérieure de Dessin et de Sculpture in 1879 and first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1882. In 1895 he left for Paris to begin a career in painting, visited Italy and was influenced by Renaissance art. His paintings soon became popular, he earned high praise for the academic attention to detail with which he captured figures lost in a Pre-Raphaelite haze of melancholy. After 1901, LÉVY-DHURMER moved away from explicitly symbolist content, incorporating more landscapes inspired by his travels in Europe and North Africa into his work, and continued to draw inspiration from music. In 1914, he married Emmy FOURNIER, editor of the early feminist newspaper La Fronde, and began working in a style close to Whistler and Monet. The artist died in Le Vésinet in 1953.