Painter of the Belle Epoque, Gustave Poetzsch was born in 1870 in Neuchâtel where he started to learn painting very young. Swiss mountains and lakes were the first inspiring influence for the young painter turned to nature.

As he wanted to improve his technique, he went to Paris in 1892 and joined the Julian Academy. He entered the Fine Art School in 1895 and studied in the class of Gustave Moreau near Henri Matisse, Charles Camoin and Paul de Frick.
In 1896, he married Marie-Louise Aulagne, a well-known milliner established on the Faubourg Saint Honoré. Through her, he frequented the fashion places and the upper class. He travelled to Deauville, the Normandy city coast that attracted Parisian people, English aristocrats and Amer...