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1863 Thann, Alsace, Germany - 1928 Brest, France. Known for: Simplification of form painting, semi-abstract.
Among the more eccentric of the artists in the circle of Paul Gauguin in Brittany in the early 1890’s, Charles Filiger was born in Alsace and studied at the Atelier Colarossi* in Paris. He exhibited... Read full biography
Among the more eccentric of the artists in the circle of Paul Gauguin in Brittany in the early 1890’s, Charles Filiger was born in Alsace and studied at the Atelier Colarossi* in Paris. He exhibited some watercolours at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1899, and by the summer of the following... Read full biography
Among the more eccentric of the artists in the circle of Paul Gauguin in Brittany in the early 1890’s, Charles Filiger was born in Alsace and studied at the Atelier Colarossi* in Paris. He exhibited some watercolours at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1899, and by the summer of the following year had settled in the Breton village of Le Pouldu, where he befriended several of the artists working there, including Gauguin, Paul Serusier, Emile Bernard, Claude-Émile Shuffenecker and the... Read full biography
Among the more eccentric of the artists in the circle of Paul Gauguin in Brittany in the early 1890’s, Charles Filiger was born in Alsace and studied at the Atelier Colarossi* in Paris. He exhibited some watercolours at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1899, and by the summer of the following year had settled in the Breton village of Le Pouldu, where he befriended several of the artists working there, including Gauguin, Paul Serusier, Emile Bernard, Claude-Émile Shuffenecker and the artists of the Nabis group. He also met Comte Antoine de la Rochefoucault, who became one of his most important patrons and paid him a yearly pension of 1,200 francs during the 1890’s, in exchange for his paintings. Filiger was a deeply religious man... Read full biography
Among the more eccentric of the artists in the circle of Paul Gauguin in Brittany in the early 1890’s, Charles Filiger was born in Alsace and studied at the Atelier Colarossi* in Paris. He exhibited some watercolours at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1899, and by the summer of the following year had settled in the Breton village of Le Pouldu, where he befriended several of the artists working there, including Gauguin, Paul Serusier, Emile Bernard, Claude-Émile Shuffenecker and the artists of the Nabis group. He also met Comte Antoine de la Rochefoucault, who became one of his most important patrons and paid him a yearly pension of 1,200 francs during the 1890’s, in exchange for his paintings. Filiger was a deeply religious man (indeed, one modern scholar has described him as ‘a Christian mystic’1), and his work – usually on a small scale - is often of a religious or mystic... Read full biography
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Art School
- •Academy Colarossi, Paris, Student
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Salon des Independents