Albert Aurier

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G. Albert Aurier (1865 - October 5, 1892) was a poet, art critic and painter, devoted to Symbolism.

Son of a notary born in Châteauroux, G.-Albert Aurier went to Paris 1883 to study law, but soon his attention was drawn to art and literature, and he began to contribute to Symolist periodicals. He reviewed the annual Salon in Le Décadent, later he contributed to La Plume, in 1889 to Le Moderniste, and from its foundation in 1890, to the Mercure de France. There the essays were published, on which Aurier's fame as well as the fame of the artists discussed is founded: "Les Isolés: Vincent van Gogh" and "Le Symbolisme en peinture: Paul Gauguin".

After a trip to Marseille, Aurier died premature in Paris, October 5, 1892, from a typhus infection. The next day, friends, writers and artists accompanied his coffin to the funeral train departing from the Orléans station (today Musée d'Orsay) for Châteauroux, where Aurier's remains were entombed in the family grave.^[1]

Already half a year later, in April 1893, his friends published his collected writings (Œuvres posthumes), edited by the Mercure de France.^[2]

[edit] Selected Art Criticism

• Les Isolés: Vincent van Gogh, Mercure de France, January 1890, p. 24-29 |
• Le Symbolisme en peinture: Paul Gauguin, Mercure de France, March 1891, p. 155-165
• Les Symbolistes, Revue encyclopédique 2, 1 April 1892, p. 474-486

[edit] Literature

Sophie Monneret, L'impressionisme et son époque, dictionnaire international, Denoël, Paris 1979 ISBN 2-221-05222-6

[edit] Notes

1. ^ On the funeral, see: G.-Albert Aurier. Mercure de France, November 1892, p. 282-285
2. ^ Œuvres posthumes de G.-Albert Aurier, Edition de Mercure de France, Paris 1893