André Lhote (5 July 1885 – 24 January 1962) was a French

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painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes and

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. He was also active and influential as a teacher and writer on art.

Early life and education

Lhote was born 5 July 1885 in

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, France, and learned

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and sculpture from the age of 12, when his father apprenticed him to a local furniture maker to be trained as a sculptor in wood. He enrolled at the

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in Bordeaux in 1898 and studied decorative sculpture until 1904. Whilst there, he began to paint in his spare time and he left home in 1905, moving into his own studio to devote himself to painting. He was influenced by

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and Cézanne and held his first one-man exhibition at the Galerie Druet in 1910, four years after he had moved to Paris.

Career

After initially working in a

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style, Lhote shifted towards

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and joined the

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group in 1912, exhibiting at the Salon de la Section d'Or. He was alongside some of the fathers of modern art, including Gleizes, Villon,

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, Metzinger,

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and La Fresnaye. The outbreak of the First World War interrupted his work and, after discharge from the army in 1917, he became one of the group of Cubists supported by

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. In 1918, he co-founded ''Nouvelle Revue Française'', the art journal to which he contributed articles on art theory until 1940. Lhote taught at the Académie Notre-Dame des Champs from 1918 to 1920, and later taught at other Paris art schools—including the

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and his own school, Academy André Lhote which he founded in

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in 1922. His students included

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and Helen Stewart. Lhote lectured extensively in France and other countries, including Belgium, England, Italy and, from the 1950s, also in Egypt and Brazil. In Egypt, Lhote worked with Effat Nagy using Egyptian archaeology as subject matter for their work.Pioneers: Saad El-Khadem and Effat Nagy Museum
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commission for sculpture appointed Lhote president of the International Association of Painters, Engravers and Sculptors.

Death

Lhote died in Paris in 1962.

Gallery of works

File:André Lhote, 1912, Paysage français, oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.JPG, ''French Landscape'', 1912, oil on canvas, 89 x 116 cm,

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File:André Lhote, 1913, L'Escale, oil on canvas, 210 x 185 cm, Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris.jpg, ''L'Escale (The Stopover)'', 1913, oil on canvas, 210 x 185 cm, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris File:André Lhote, 1913, Dessin pour L'escale, published in Montjoie, n.5, 14 April 1913.jpg, ''Sketch for L'Escale'', 1913, published in ''Montjoie!'', n.5, 14 April 1913 File:André Lhote, 1913-14, Port de Bordeaux-Poincaré, 14 juillet, oil on canvas, 65 x 81.5 cm.jpg, ''14 July, Port de Bordeaux-Poincaré'', 1913–14, oil on canvas, 65 x 81.5 cm, private collection

References

External links

André Lhote at artcyclopedia.com
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