Marcel Rieder (19 March 1862 – 30 March 1942) was a French painter. He was born in Thann. Rieder came from a distinguished family in

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...

; his grandfather Jean Jacques Rieder (1778–1852) was a minister of the ''Temple Neuf'' Protestant church in

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. Marcel Rieder studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in

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. He became a member of the Société des Artistes Français in 1894, and exhibited almost every year until 1939 in the "

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". Rieder married Marie Poiriault on 25 June 1903. Their son, Jean, was born in August 1906. Rieder's painting style remained realistic throughout his life. He was initially influenced by the

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, as evidenced in his painting ''Dante pleurant Béatrice'' (Dante weeping for Beatrice), now in the Musée de Mulhouse. From 1894 his style changed, and Rieder’s paintings became notable for their peaceful and intimate interior scenes of rooms lit by oil lamps or electric lighting. He also painted twilight landscapes. As a member of the ''Société Bach'' of Paris Rieder came to know Albert Schweitzer. His portrait of the physician is shown in the museum dedicated to Schweitzer. A painting by Rieder, ''Jours Heureux'', was included in an exhibition staged at the

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, Liverpool in the autumn of 1907. It featured in a room highlighting the work of overseas artists and was described by an anonymous columnist in the '' Manchester Courier'' as having "beautiful colour rendering". Rieder spent most of his life in Paris, but in 1927 he retired to Busseu near

Fontainebleau Fontainebleau (; ) is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located south-southeast of the centre of Paris. Fontainebleau is a sub-prefecture of the Seine-et-Marne department, and it is the seat of the ''arrondissement ...

. In later life, Rieder joked that he had gone over to a "impressionistic" painting style, due to fading eyesight and tremors in his hands. He died in

Villiers-sous-Grez Villiers-sous-Grez is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Demographics Inhabitants of Villiers-sous-Grez are called ''Villarons''. See also *Communes of the Seine-et-Marne departmen ...

on 30 March 1942. File:Veillée en bord de mer.jpg, A vigil by the sea, Côte d'Azur File:Soirée romantique.jpg, Romantic soirée File:Choix de bijoux sous la lampe.jpg, Choosing jewellery File:Décoration du sapin de Noël.jpg, Decorating the Christmas tree File:Attente à la fenêtre.jpg, Waiting by the window File:Songeuse devant la cheminée.jpg, ''Songeuse devant la cheminée'' File:Solitude au bord du lac.JPG, ''Solitude au bord du lac'' File:Rêverie au bord du lac d'Annecy.jpg, A revery by the lakeside, Lac d'Annecy

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