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 fortificat ...

. He grew up in an artistic colony around

Symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...

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 ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

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 fath ...

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 ( , ; gcf, label= Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of F ...

. 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 in France to artists who have devoted their talents to the sea, the French Navy and other maritime subjects. It was set up in 1830 by the July Monarchy an ...

. He also created dioramas of

Brest, France Brest (; ) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of the peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French mi ...

for the Musée de la

Tour Tanguy The Tour Tanguy, Bastille de Quilbignon or Tour de la Motte Tanguy is a medieval tower on a rocky motte beside the Penfeld river in Brest, France. Probably built during the Breton War of Succession, it faces the château de Brest and is now acces ...

. 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