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Georges Rouault Biography
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1871 |
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Born: in Paris, France on May 27th
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1880 |
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His parents entered him in school
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1885 - 1890 |
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Apprenticed to a stained glass artisan, and there he learned to restore medieval stained glass windows
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1894 |
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Recipient, the Concours Chenavard first prize
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1891 - 1898 |
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Studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, France where Gustave Moreau became his mentor and friend
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1903 |
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Was a co-founder and participant in the first Salon d’Automne of 1903 along with Matisse and other artists who would later be called Fauves
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1903 |
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Became the curator of the Musée Moreau
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1910 |
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Had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Drouet
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1916 |
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Began to illustrate a number of books at the advice of his dealer, Vollard
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1916 - 1936 |
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Devoted himself entirely to printmaking, to the exclusion of painting for the first ten
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1937 |
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Had a large exhibition at the Petit Palais
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1958 |
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Died: in Paris, France on February 13th
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2011
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Rouault, au Pays d’Ubu, Yoshii Gallery, Paris, France
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2011
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Georges Rouault: Cirque de L’Etoile Filante, East Gallery, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VM
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2011
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Georges Rouault, landscapes, Shiodome Museum, Rouault Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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2010 - 2011
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Georges Rouault: The Sacred and the Profane, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao, Spain
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2010
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Dürer, Rouault, and the Passion of Christ, Centro Comunale d’Arte e Cultura Exma, Cagliari, Italy
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2009 - 2010
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Georges Rouault, Landscapes, Musée d’Art Moderne, Troyes, France
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2009
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Georges Rouault – Makoto Fujimura: Soliloquies, Dillon Gallery, New York, NY
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2008
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Mystic Masque: Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, MA
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2008
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The Redemptive Vision of Georges Rouault, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
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2008
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Georges Rouault-Miserere, Galeria Ariete, Bologna, Italy
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2007
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Georges ROUAULT, Galerie Tamenaga, Paris, France
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2007
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PASSION- oeuvres de Georges Rouault, Musée d’Art Religieux, Lemvig, Denmark
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2006 - 2007
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Georges Rouault: Retrospective, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
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2006 - 2007
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Paysages Légendaires, Shiodome Museum Rouault Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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2006
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Georges Rouault: the Master of Our Own Day, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
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2004 - 2005
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Rétrospective Rouault, Centre culturel Caixa Catalunya, La Pedrera, Barcelona, Spain
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2004 - 2005
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Georges Rouault et le Cirque, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chambéry, France
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2004
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Rouault and Icons, Shiodome Museum Rouault Gallery, Shiodome, Tokyo
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2004
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Revelations: Georges Rouault at Work, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
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2003 - 2004
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Versailles, vie artistique, littéraire et mondaine 188-1939, Musée Lambinet, Versailles, France
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2003
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Exposition de l’oeuvre gravée, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Moji-ku, Japan
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| Links to further information |
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