Jim Sévellec(21 January 1897 – 21 May 1971), born Eugène Sévellec, was a French painter.

Life

Eugène Sévellec was born at

Camaret-sur-Mer Camaret-sur-Mer (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department in northwestern France, located at the end of Crozon peninsula. Sights Camaret-sur-Mer is home to the '' Tour Vauban'' or ''Tour dorée'' (lit. "Golden Tower"), a historic fortifi ...

. He grew up in an artistic colony around

Symbolist Symbolism or symbolist may refer to: *Symbol, any object or sign that represents an idea Arts *Artistic symbol, an element of a literary, visual, or other work of art that represents an idea ** Color symbolism, the use of colors within various c ...

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

Saint-Pol-Roux Paul-Pierre Roux, called Saint-Pol-Roux (15 January 1861, quartier de Saint-Henry, Marseille – 18 October 1940, Brest), was a French Symbolist poet. Life Marseille Saint-Pol-Roux was born to a middle-class family in Marseille, where his ...

and drew the life of the port whilst very young. Under the influence of the Saint-Pol-Roux, he left for Paris to train under painter

Louis-Marie Désiré-Lucas Louis-Marie Désiré-Lucas (15 October 1869, Fort-de-France, Martinique Martinique ( ; or ; Kalinago language, Kalinago: or ) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It was previously known a ...

. From 1916 he was mobilised in the infantry and served among others as an interpreter for American and Scottish troops. From 1928 he collaborated with the Henriot factory, a faïencerie de Quimper. In 1936 he was made

peintre de la Marine Peintre de la Marine (, ''Painter of the Fleet'') is a title awarded by the minister of Defence (France), minister of defence in France to artists who have devoted their talents to the sea, the French Navy and other maritime subjects. It was set up ...

. He also created dioramas of

Brest, France Brest (; ) is a port, port city in the Finistère department, Brittany (administrative region), Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of a peninsula and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an impor ...

for the Musée de la Tour Tanguy. He died at

Works

*''Brest: Son histoire et son rôle dans la vie de la Basse-Bretagne'', Jim and Joël Sévellec, Brest, 1955

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sevellec 1897 births 1971 deaths 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French male painters French military personnel of World War I Peintres de la Marine