Louis Gaidan - Artist Info

About Louis Gaidan

  • Biography

    Louis Gaidan was a french landscape painter of the Neo-Impressionism movement.

    His life

    Gaidan was born in Nîmes in 1847 to a wealthy family who owned a bank, the Banque Gaidan.

    He studied in Paris with the Academic painter Jean Jalabert and later in Nîmes with the landscape painter Paulin Bertrand. Jalabert taught him the fine draftsmanship of the Academic tradition and from Paulin Bertrand he was exposed to the painting of landscapes en plein air.

    He debuted at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in Paris in 1887 and continued to exhibit annually there until 1903.?Gaidan did not need to produce a profuse output of paintings; instead, he leisurely painted landscapes of areas th...

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