Édouard Vuillard

Also known as Jean Edouard Vuillard, e. vuillard, jean edouard vuillard, Vuillard, Edouard Vuilliard

French painter (1868-1940)

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Édouard Vuillard was a French painter, draftsperson, photographer, and lithographer associated with the Post-impressionism, Japonisme, and Les Nabis movements. Born Jean Édouard Vuillard in Cuiseaux, he studied at the Lycée Condorcet, Académie Julian, and Beaux-Arts de Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme. His artistic output included portraits, still lifes, and landscape paintings, and he worked in Paris, Italy, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Spain.

Vuillard was a member of the Académie des beaux-arts and participated in Documenta III. His works are held in the collections of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Art Institute of Chicago. He died in La Baule-Escoublac in 1940 and was buried at Batignolles Cemetery.

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Key facts

Born: ( 1868-11-11 ) 11 November 1868, Cuiseaux , Saône-et-Loire , France
Died: 21 June 1940 (1940-06-21) (aged 71), La Baule , Loire-Inférieure , France
Known for: Painting , printmaking

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Jean
Gender: male
Citizenship: France
Place of birth: Cuiseaux
Place of death: La Baule-Escoublac
Occupation: visual artist
Educated at: Beaux-Arts de Paris
Languages spoken: French
Participant in: Documenta III
Student of: Jean-Léon Gérôme
Field of work: painting
Genre: landscape painting
Movement: Les Nabis
Image: Édouard Vuillard 001.jpg
Work location: Kingdom of Italy

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Commons category: Édouard Vuillard
date of death: 1940-06-21
date of birth: 1868-11-11
Commons Creator page: Édouard Vuillard
member of: Académie des beaux-arts
place of burial: Batignolles Cemetery
name in native language: Édouard Vuillard
birth name: Jean Édouard Vuillard
significant person: Pierre Bonnard

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Works in European collections

21 objects attributed to Édouard Vuillard, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Jean-Édouard Vuillard ( French: [ʒɑ̃ edwaʁ vɥijaʁ]; 11 November 1868 – 21 June 1940) was a French painter, decorative artist, and printmaker. From 1891 through 1900, Vuillard was a member of the avant garde artistic group Les Nabis, creating paintings that assembled areas of pure color. His interior scenes, influenced by Japanese prints, explored the spatial effects of flattened planes of color, pattern, and form. As a decorative artist, Vuillard painted theater sets, panels for interior decoration, and designed plates and stained glass. After 1900, when the Nabis broke up, Vuillard adopted a more realistic style, approaching landscapes and interiors with greater detail and vivid colors. In the 1920s and 1930s, he painted portraits of figures in French industry and the arts in their familiar settings.

Vuillard was influenced by Paul Gauguin, among other post-impressionist painters.

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