Étienne Morillon (16 July 1884, Soucieu-en-Jarrest - 17 October 1949, Soucieu-en-Jarrest) was a French

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

and engraver.

Biography

His father, Benoit Morillon, was a fabric merchant. After graduating from , a private school in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

, he enrolled at the

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(ENSBA). He was there from 1901 to 1904; studying with , , and

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. From 1905 to 1910, he continued his studies at the

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, where he was exposed to several avant-garde movements, including

Pointillism Pointillism (, ) is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term "Pointillism ...

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, and

Cubism Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement which began in Paris. It revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and sparked artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture. Cubist subjects are analyzed, broke ...

. His first exhibition was in 1908, at the Salon d'automne. He returned to Lyon in 1910, where he took over a studio that once belonged to

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. In 1914, he married Rose Desrats. They had two children. He briefly took part in

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, but was gassed and discharged with a temporary disability pension. During this time, he began exhibiting at the

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, in

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, and would continue to do so through 1924. In 1920, he became one of the first members of , a group of modernist artists in Lyon, and participated in founding their "". Until 1926, he taught drawing at ENSBA. From 1927 to 1930, he worked at the Galerie Saint-Pierre, founded by the Parisian merchant, Alfred Poyet.Bérangère Delaporte, ''Étienne Morillon (1884-1949)'', masters thesis, University of Lyon II, 2002 His

woodcut Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that ...

s appeared in the revues, ''L'ours'' and ', and were used to illustrate ''Un journal d'exil'', by

Alexandre Arnoux Alexandre Arnoux (; 27 February 1884, Digne-les-Bains - 4 January 1973, Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French screenwriter and novelist.Powrie & Rebillard p.135 Selected filmography * '' Quatre-vingt-treize (film)'' (1921) * '' Tillers of the Soil ...

The 1930s and 40s were his most creative years. He served as vice-president of the Salon du Sud-Est in 1938 and 1940; exhibiting regularly at the Galerie des Archers and the Galerie de Troncy. His largest showing was at the Exposition Internationale de Lyon, in 1933. He also participated in the Exposition Universelle of 1937, where he was part of a group of artists that decorated Lyon's pavilion. His works may be seen at the

Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (, ) is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon. Located near the Place des Terreaux, it is housed in a former Benedictine convent which was active during the 17th and 18th centuries. It was res ...

and the , among others.

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''Étienne Morillon (1884-1949) - Un peintre de l'école lyonnaise''
a short biography and works @ the Étienne Morillon website {{DEFAULTSORT:Morillon, Etienne 1884 births 1949 deaths 20th-century French painters French cubist artists Fauvism French engravers People from Rhône (department)

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