Alphonse Osbert was born in 1857. He was a student of Henri Lehmann and Léon Bonnat and a classmate of Seurat and Alexander Seon at the School of Fine Arts. He exhibited at the Salon in 1881 works... Read full biography
Alphonse Osbert was born in 1857. He was a student of Henri Lehmann and Léon Bonnat and a classmate of Seurat and Alexander Seon at the School of Fine Arts. He exhibited at the Salon in 1881 works influenced by Spanish painting, reaffirming his personal aesthetic. It became the turn of the 1890s: a... Read full biography
Alphonse Osbert was born in 1857. He was a student of Henri Lehmann and Léon Bonnat and a classmate of Seurat and Alexander Seon at the School of Fine Arts. He exhibited at the Salon in 1881 works influenced by Spanish painting, reaffirming his personal aesthetic. It became the turn of the 1890s: a recognized figure in the Symbolist movement. The color blue is omnipresent in his work that evokes woodland and lake scenery, mostly nocturnal, where cheminent elegiac figures carrier lyre or... Read full biography
Alphonse Osbert was born in 1857. He was a student of Henri Lehmann and Léon Bonnat and a classmate of Seurat and Alexander Seon at the School of Fine Arts. He exhibited at the Salon in 1881 works influenced by Spanish painting, reaffirming his personal aesthetic. It became the turn of the 1890s: a recognized figure in the Symbolist movement. The color blue is omnipresent in his work that evokes woodland and lake scenery, mostly nocturnal, where cheminent elegiac figures carrier lyre or melancholic druids (No. 419 and 422). Osbert made a very successful synthesis of the heritage of the neo-impressionists and his own vision; this material diffuses and partially dotted giving him his world a dreamlike dimension of great poetry. It exposes to... Read full biography
Alphonse Osbert was born in 1857. He was a student of Henri Lehmann and Léon Bonnat and a classmate of Seurat and Alexander Seon at the School of Fine Arts. He exhibited at the Salon in 1881 works influenced by Spanish painting, reaffirming his personal aesthetic. It became the turn of the 1890s: a recognized figure in the Symbolist movement. The color blue is omnipresent in his work that evokes woodland and lake scenery, mostly nocturnal, where cheminent elegiac figures carrier lyre or melancholic druids (No. 419 and 422). Osbert made a very successful synthesis of the heritage of the neo-impressionists and his own vision; this material diffuses and partially dotted giving him his world a dreamlike dimension of great poetry. It exposes to all the shows of the Rose Cross, at Siegfried Bing and in the best galleries (at Georges Petit in 1895). Author of some great scenery, includi... Read full biography
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