Louise Germain (1874–1939), née Louise Richier was a French painter.

Biography

Although she was born in Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France, Louise Richier lived much of her childhood and adolescence in Algeria, returning to France by the time she was twenty. By 1894 she was studying in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

with the animal painter Walter Bildecombe. She lived in

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

with her husband Eugene Germain and their two children, Émile and Sylvain. At age 25, about 1899, she met

Joseph Ravaisou Joseph Ravaisou (11 November 1865 – 22 December 1925) was a French landscape painter. Ravaisou was born in Bandol, Var. In 1878 he moved to Aix-en-Provence to work as a school teacher, and subsequently became a music conductor and a musi ...

and she took to painting. Reportedly, she also worked alongside

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a ...

, as did Ravaisou. In 1925, she watched over Joseph Ravaisou on his deathbed. Germain died in her flat in Aix-en-Provence in 1939. She is buried in the Saint-Pierre cemetery in Aix-en-Provence.

References

1874 births 1939 deaths People from Gap, Hautes-Alpes French women painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French women artists 19th-century French women artists {{France-painter-19thC-stub