July 29, 1860, Paris December 31, 1916), also known as Paul René Schützenberger, was a French painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

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Biography

Born in an Alsatian

Alsace

Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...

 family of famous brewers, his father Paul Schützenberger

Paul Schützenberger

Paul Schützenberger , French chemist, was born at Strasbourg, where his father Georges Frédéric Schützenberger was professor of law, and his uncle Charles Schützenberger professor of chemical medicine....

 (1829-1897) was a French chemist. The painter Louis-Frédéric Schützenberger (1825-1903) was his cousin.

He studied at the Académie Julian

Académie Julian

The Académie Julian was an art school in Paris, France.Rodolphe Julian established the Académie Julian in 1868 at the Passage des Panoramas, as a private studio school for art students. The Académie Julian not only prepared students to the exams at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, but offered...

 under Jean-Paul Laurens

Jean-Paul Laurens

Jean-Paul Laurens , was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style.Born in Fourquevaux, he was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexandre Bida...

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He started to exhibit at the Salon des artistes français since 1891, at the Salon des Indépendants since 1902 and at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts since 1907. He got an honourable mention at the Salon of 1897 and at the Universal Exhibition of 1900.

He practices genre painting, portraits, nudes and landscapes. He treats subjects of the daily life and intimists subjects. His style is close to the Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Fry used the term when he organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and Post-Impressionism...

 movement. His drawings are influenced by the Nabis

Nabis

Nabis was ruler of Sparta from 207 BC to 192 BC, during the years of the First and Second Macedonian Wars and the War against Nabis. After taking the throne by executing two claimants, he began rebuilding Sparta's power. During the Second Macedonian War, he sided with King Philip V of Macedon and...

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Works

• The Old Sailor - 1889
• Christ and Madeleine - 1890
• Reader at the Window, 1890, Salon of 1891 (n°1509) (Soissons
  Soissons
  Soissons is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France, located on the Aisne River, about northeast of Paris. It is one of the most ancient towns of France, and is probably the ancient capital of the Suessiones...
  
   Museum)
• Woman in white - Salon of 1895 (n°1730)
• Madeleine at the Tumb - Salon des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
  Lyon
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   1898 (n°622)
• The Mill of the Wine Press - Salon des Beaux-Arts de Lyon 1898 (n°623)
• Portrait - Exposition Universelle
  Exposition Universelle (1900)
  The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from April 15 to November 12, 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next...
  
   of 1900 (n°1760)
• Enigma - Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts 1907 (n°1073)
• Before the Tub - Société des Amis des Arts de Nantes, 1907 (n°298)
• Dress - Société des Amis des Arts de Nantes, 1907 (n°299)
• Tears in the Eyes - Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts 1908 (n°1045)
• The Battle, subtitled Notre peau est jaune, la leur est blanche; l'or vaut mieux que l'argent(1909) - Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts 1910
• Playing at Dice (1910) - Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts 1911 (n°1154)
• The Head-dress - Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts 1911 (n°1156)
• Vail of Hair (1911) - Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts 1912 (n°1162)
• The Flowery Folding-screen (1911)- Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts 1912 (n°1161)
• Woman and Flower - Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts 1913 (n°1137)
• The Jade Necklace - Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts 1914 (n°1084)
• The Perfume - Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts 1914 (n°1083)

Paintings