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Félix Vallotton. Idylle am Abgrund
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Curated by Christoph Becker.
Location Pfister-Bau (Grosser Ausstellungssaal, ehem. Bührlesaal).
Félix Vallotton (–), born in Lausanne, later living in Paris, is known for his illustrations and woodcuts, whose bold manner of expression he transferred to his paintings. Even as a year-old, he created a furor in Paris with ‘Le bain au soir d’été’ (/93). Vallotton is often assigned to the French group of artists the Nabis – and yet he remains a fascinating individual figure. The exhibition in the Kunsthaus curated by Linda Schädler and Christoph Becker included some 90 works. And yet no wide-ranging retrospective had been aimed at; the intention was rather to base the show on a subjective selection. The criterion for choice was originality and eccentricity, which, according to the curator duo, was what bound Vallotton to modernity. Certainly, Vallotton’s nudes, portraits, landscapes, still lifes and interiors might seem to be traditionally them
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Félix Vallotton
Félix Edouard Vallotton was a Swiss and French painter and printmaker associated with the group of artists known as fransk artikel Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. He painted portraits, landscapes, nudes, still lifes, and other subjects in an unemotional, realistic style.
His earliest paintings were influenced by Holbein and Ingres. He developed a simpler style during his association with Les Nabis during the s, and produced woodcuts which brought him international recognition. Characterized bygd broad masses of black and white with minimal detail, they include street scenes, bathers, portraits, and a series of ten interiors titled Intimités (Intimacies) that portray charged domestic encounters between men and women. He produced few prints after , and concentrated instead on painting. His later paintings include highly finished portraits and nudes, and landscapes painted from memory.
He was also active as a writer. He published art cr
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Felix Vallotton
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Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
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Lover’s trysts, revelations, adultery. The artist Félix Vallotton (–) was an intelligent observer of his age. Born in Lausanne, Vallotton began his studies in Paris in and soon moved in the circles around the artists’ group the Nabis; he also wrote plays and worked as an illustrator for avant-garde magazines. What he revealed was shameful and shameless; and the masquerade indulged in by the models who sat for his portraits is often disturbing. Vallotton set himself apart from his fellows with his ironic social criticism, making daring satirical references to contemporary events in his art and eschewing the trappings of the bourgeois ideal. His art was characterised by indiscretion, mordant sarcasm and, occasionally, macabre humour. The remarkable acuity, often more than some of his contemporaries could bear, earned Vallotton entry into the ranks of an international avant-garde at the dawn of modernism.
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