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François Barraud (14 November 1899 – 11 September 1934) was a Swiss painter.[1][2]
Barraud was the eldest of four brothers who all painted or sculpted at various points in their lives.[2] The brothers, François, Aimé, Aurèle and Charles, were largely self-taught artists having been raised as professional plasterers and house painters.[1][2] Barraud attended evening classes at the local art school in 1911 together with his brothers.[1] In 1919, he exhibited his paintings in La Chaux-de-Fonds and participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Basel.[3] Encouraged by the success of the exhibitions he left Switzerland in 1922, and moved to Reims in France where he worked as a house painter for two years.[1][3] He married Marie, a French woman, in 1924.[3][4] Marie subsequently featured as a model in several of his paintings.[3][4] Around 1924 or 1925, Barraud found work in Paris as an artist and craftsman.[4] While living in Paris he studied painting at the Louvre.[1][4]
François Barraud painted mainly still lifes, female nudes and portraits, including several double portraits of himself and his wife, Marie[2][5] His precise, realist style of painting developed under the influence of the old Flemish and French masters he had studied at the Louvre.[2]
Barraud suffered periods of illness throughout his life and died of tuberculosis in Geneva, in 1934, at the age of 34.[2]
Arthur Stoll held a major collection of François Barraud's works. His works are also held in the Musée des beaux-arts in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the Coninx Museum in Zurich and the Foundation for Art, Culture and History in Winterthur.
References
1. ^ a b c d e f g h Düchting, Hajo; Wieland Schmied, Hypo-Kulturstiftung (2001) (in German). Der kühle Blick: Realismus der Zwanzigerjahre in Europa und Amerika. Prestel Verlag. pp. 104. ISBN 3791325132.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h "François Barraud and his brothers" (in German). kunstaspekte. http://www.kunstaspekte.de/index.php?tid=9023&action=termin. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
3. ^ a b c d Crittin, Pierre-Jean (1998). "Datenblatt" (in French). Schweizerische Institut für Kunstwissenschaft (SIK-ISEA). http://www.sikart.ch/KuenstlerInnen.aspx?home=1&id=4023376. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
4. ^ a b c d "JAHRESBERICHT 2005 - 85. Jahresbericht des Kunstvereins Winterthur" (in German). Kunstmuseum Winterthur. 2006-05-15. http://www.kmw.ch/sites/default/files/page/documents/kunstverein_jb_2005.pdf. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
5. ^ "Die Farben der Melancholie in der Neuenburger Malerei 1820-1940, von Léopold Robert bis François Barraud" (in German). MAHN (Museum of art and history). 2004. http://www.mahn.ch/expos/couleurs/guide_all.pdf. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
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