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| Felix Vallotton |
| 1865-1925 |
| European Artist |
| Vallotton was a French post-impressionist painter, associated with the Nabis movement. At the age of seventeen, he left for Paris to learn painting at the well-known Académie Julian, where many famous post-impressionist and Les Nabis group artists went studying in the late 19th Century. Within ten years the young Swiss succeeded in making a name in avant-garde Paris and internationally. He regularly exhibited in Paris and in Switzerland as well as in the best known international exhibitions. A dedicated worker, he was instantly searching for new ways of expression. Thus, although deeply affected by the events, did he find in World War I new sources of inspiration that led him to the margin of abstraction. Success returned with the restoration of peace. But the artist's premature death on the 29th December 1925 prevented him from further enjoying it. |
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