- Auguste Herbin
Auguste Herbin (
April 29 1882 -January 30 /31 1960) was a French painter.Biography
Born in
Quiévy , Nord, he studied drawing at theÉcole des Beaux-Arts ,Lille , from 1898 to 1901, when he settled inParis .The initial influence of
Impressionism andPost-Impressionism visible in paintings that he sent to the Salon des Indépendants in 1906 gradually gave way to an involvement withCubism after his move in 1909 to the Bateau-Lavoir studios, where he metPablo Picasso ,Georges Braque andJuan Gris ; he was also encouraged by his friendship withWilhelm Uhde . His work was exhibited in the same room as that ofJean Metzinger ,Albert Gleizes andFernand Léger in the Salon des Indépendants of 1910, and in 1912 he participated in the influentialSection d'Or exhibition.After producing his first abstract paintings in 1917, Herbin came to the attention of
Léonce Rosenberg who, afterWorld War I , made him part of the group centred on hisGalerie de l'Effort Moderne and exhibited his work there on several occasions in 1918 and 1921. Herbin's radical reliefs of simple geometric forms in painted wood, such as "Coloured Wood Relief" (1921; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne), challenged not only the status of the easel painting but also traditional figure–ground relationships. The incomprehension that greeted these reliefs and related furniture designs, even from those critics most favourably disposed towards Cubism, was such that until 1926 or 1927 he followed Rosenberg's advice to return to a representational style. Herbin himself later disowned landscapes, still-lifes and genre scenes of this period, such as "Bowls Players" (1923; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne), in which the objects were depicted as schematized volumes.He died in Paris.
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