Posts in Category: november 11
Frans Snyders
Frans Snyders, November 11, 1579 – August 19, 1657, was a Flemish painter born and based in Antwerp. He was recorded as a pupil of Pieter Brueghel the Younger in 1593 and later trained with Hendrick van Balen. He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1602 and traveled to Rome and Milan in 1608–1609.
After returning to Antwerp, Snyders worked with Peter Paul Rubens and collaborated with artists including Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, and Jan Wildens. He served as dean of the Guild of Saint Luke in 1628. Jan Fyt was among the painters who worked in his workshop.
Snyders produced still lifes, market scenes, hunting scenes, and animal paintings. His works are held by the Museo Nacional del Prado, Louvre Museum, State Hermitage Museum, Alte Pinakothek, National Gallery of Art, and Art Institute of Chicago, among other collections.
Paul Signac
Paul Signac, November 11, 1863–August 15, 1935, was a French painter, watercolorist, printmaker, and writer associated with Neo-Impressionism. Born in Paris, he abandoned architectural studies in 1880 and was largely self-taught, learning through close study of Claude Monet and the other Impressionists.
In 1884 Signac met Georges Seurat and helped develop the Divisionist method of applying separate touches of unmixed color according to optical theory. He was a founder of the Société des Artistes Indépendants that year and served as its president from 1908 until his death. His artistic circle included Seurat, Camille Pissarro, Maximilien Luce, Henri-Edmond Cross, Théo van Rysselberghe, and the critic Félix Fénéon; his encouragement and example also affected younger painters including Henri Matisse.
Signac traveled extensively by sailboat and worked along the Seine, the Atlantic coast, and the Mediterranean, producing paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints. Major holdings of his work are in the Musée d’Orsay, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Kröller-Müller Museum, and other public collections in Europe and the United States. He died in Paris on August 15, 1935.
Édouard Vuillard
Édouard Vuillard, November 11, 1868–June 21, 1940, was a French painter, printmaker, and decorative artist born at Cuiseaux. He studied at the Lycée Condorcet and at the Académie Julian and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he formed lasting friendships with Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, and Ker-Xavier Roussel.
Vuillard was a founding member of the Nabis. He painted domestic interiors, portraits, and decorative panels, often using richly patterned textiles and wallpaper; he also made lithographs and designed for the theatre. Major holdings of his work are in the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée d’Orsay, and Petit Palais.
From the early twentieth century, Vuillard worked closely with the dealer Jos Hessel and his wife Lucie, who became frequent subjects of his paintings. He continued to paint portraits and interiors until his death at La Baule in 1940.
