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Item Number: 132471
Title: EDOUARD VUILLARD 1868-1940
Author: Schwarz, Dieter (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783038500001
Description: Wädenswil: Nimbus, 2014. 29cm., pbk., 256pp., 140 illus., most in color. Exhibition held at Kunstmuseum, Winterthur. German text. Summary: The present exhibition of Édouard Vuillard's works is based on the subjects of his paintings in the Kunstmuseum Winterthur Collection. It begins with the interiors from the 1890s in which the mother and sister of the artist appear, surrounded by their sumptuously furnished flat. Here, Vuillard proves himself to be a master of dramatic staging, which he created by carefully placed furniture, a sophisticated use of light and vistas from room to room, followed by a series of family scenes, inspired by the birth of Vuillard's niece Annette. They show Vuillard as a subtle observer of intimate life. With the landscapes painted in 1900, a new chapter began for the painter, who had previously barely gone beyond the inhabited worlds of interior rooms. First views were created in the environs of Paris, then Vuillard continued to work on Lake Geneva, along with his colleague Felix Vallotton, who focussed on the same subjects. Another new theme were the nudes, whom he began to paint in his studio after 1900. They, too, inspired him to pictorial innovations: thus, for instance, his rapprochement to the new classicism his friend, painter Maurice Denis, espoused around this time. During his holidays in Brittany in 1908 and 1909 Vuillard got to know the landscape on numerous road trips, which he then recorded in sketches. The harbour scenes, which he thereupon painted in his studio in an unusually loose style, recall the townscapes of the Japanese woodcut artists. The exhibition finishes with an impressive series of paintings, which show the artist's mother sitting at a richly laden table at home and illustrate the truth of his comment of "ma maman, c'est ma muse!".
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