Louis Germain. 세잔의 아뜰리에 (Atelier Cézanne). 액상프로방스(Aix en Provence)

Louis Germain. 세잔의 아뜰리에 (Atelier Cézanne).

액상프로방스(Aix en Provence). 프랑스(France)

 

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Louis Germain

1874-1939. une vie pour la peinture

 

To mark the 140th anniversary of her birth and with the support of her grandson and his family,

the exhibition presents some forty works by Louise Germain (1874-1939), mainly oil paintings

demonstrating her stylistic evolution between Academicism and Impressionism.

 

Louis Richier was born in Gap on 22 April 1874. At the age of 20, she took lessons from the

animal painter Walter Bildecombe in Marseille, who influenced her work.

She lived in Aix-en-Provence. Avenue de Grassi, with her husband Eugene Germain and their

two children, Emile and Sylvain.

She was 24 when she met Joseph Ravaisou in anutumn 1898. This meeting shaped her life as well as her work. Having worked in the Naturalist style until that point, inspired by her teacher

Bildecombe, she now added an extre element of inventiveness. She worked in Ravisou's

studio and travelled around the Aix countryside with him, looking for shared motifs and models.

Between 1899 and 1902, Louise Germain often met Paul Cezanne while accompanying

Ravaisou. The two men joined her in painting on the spot at outdoor locations, mainly in the

woodland around the Chateau Noir. Between 1912 and 1938, Louis Germain lived at 6 Avenue

Pasteur, where her balcony overlooked the Monument Sec garden, which she painted in all

seasons. Sitting by the window, she drew inspiration form the Avenue Pasteur, a hive of

activity on market days.

 

In 1900, Louis Germain went with Joseph Ravaisou to the World's Fair in Paris, where

Impressionist paintings were on display. This discovery would change her way of painting.

Her palette became richer. After Ravaisou fell ill, Louise stayed by his bedside until his death in

1925, which caused her such sorrow that she practically gave up painting. In 1938, she moved

into an apartment on Rue Littera, where she passed away on 13 October 1939. She was buried

at Saint-Pierre cemetery in Aix-en-Provence.

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