Émile-Marius Beaussier (31 December 1874 – 18 October 1943) was a French painter known primarily for maritime scenes and sunny landscapes.

Biography

He was born in

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. He began his artistic training at the

École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon The École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon is a school of art and design in Lyon, located in Les Subsistances, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, in the Rhône-Alpes region of France. It is part of the École des Beaux-Arts tradition, ...

, from 1889 to 1894, then went to Paris, where he studied with

Jean-Paul Laurens Jean-Paul Laurens (; 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Biography Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexand ...

at the

Académie Julian The Académie Julian () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number a ...

. He served as a Professor in Lyon from 1906 to 1922 and was a member of the Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-arts; serving as its President from 1937 to 1939. He was also a member of the

Société des artistes français The Société des Artistes Français (, meaning "Society of French Artists") is the association of French painters and sculptors established in 1881. Its annual exhibition is called the "Salon des artistes français" (not to be confused with the ...

. After 1892, he presented most of his works at the Salon de Lyon and exhibited in Paris after 1925. His favorite subjects were sunny, seaside villages in southern France, Italy and Spain. He also designed posters, painted

watercolors Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

, and created portraits using the

trois crayons ''Trois crayons'' (; en, "three chalks") is a drawing technique using three colors of chalk: red (''sanguine''), black, and white. The paper used may be a mid-tone such as grey, blue, or tan. Among numerous others, French painters Antoine Watteau ...

technique. One of his favorite spots to paint was the small fishing port of

Martigues Martigues ( in classical norm, ''Lou Martegue'' in Mistralian norm) is a commune northwest of Marseille. It is part of the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the eastern end of the Canal de Caronte. A dir ...

, nicknamed the "Venice of

Provence Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bor ...

", which was also a favorite spot for his friend

Félix Ziem Félix Ziem (26 February 1821 – 10 November 1911) was a French painter in the style of the Barbizon School, who also produced some Orientalist works. Biography He was born Félix-Francois Georges Philibert Ziem in Beaune in the Côte-d' ...

. In 1896, he married Julie-Marie Wuiot. The marriage was childless and they divorced in 1917.Act of matrimony of Émile-Marius Beaussier and Julie-Mari
Municipal Archives of Lyon
/ref> Beaussier died in Lyon in 1943.

References

* Ch. B., "Émile Beaussier", In: ''La Vie Lyonnaise'', Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-arts, municipal archives of Lyon

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beaussier, Emile 1874 births 1943 deaths 19th-century French painters French landscape painters French marine artists Académie Julian Artists from Avignon 20th-century French painters