René Schützenberger

René Schützenberger
René-Paul Schützenberger
Born	(1860-07-29)29 July 1860 Mulhouse
Died	31 December 1916(1916-12-31) (aged 56) Paris
Nationality	French
Education	Académie Julian Jean-Paul Laurens
Movement	Post-Impressionism

René-Paul Schützenberger (29 July 1860 in Mulhouse – 31 December 1916 in Paris) was a French Post-Impressionist painter.^[1]

Biography

The Head-dress ( 1911)

Reader at the Window (1890), Soissons Museum

Born into an Alsatian family of famous brewers, his father Paul Schützenberger (1829–1897) was a French chemist. The painter Louis-Frédéric Schützenberger (1825–1903) was his cousin.^[2][3]

René Schützenberger studied at the Académie Julian, a private art school founded by Rodolphe Julian under Jean-Paul Laurens.^[4]

In 1891, he married Andree-Marie Bouland.^[5]

Schützenberger started to exhibit at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1889, at the Salon des Indépendants from 1902 and at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1907. He got an honourable mention at the Salon of 1897 and at the Universal Exhibition of 1900.^[6]

In 1911, Schützenberger exhibited at the "Exposition des Peintres du Paris moderne” in the Gallery Georges Petit.^[7]

In 1912^[8] and in 1915, he participated in the Exposition of group of artists called "Cent Artistes” in the Gallery Henri Manuel.^[9]

He practiced genre painting, portraits, nudes and landscapes, treating the subjects of the daily life and intimate subjects. His style is close to the Post-Impressionism movement and was influenced by the Les Nabis group of Post-Impressionists, most of whom also studied at Académie Julian.

Retrospective exhibition Salon des Indépendants took place in 1926. Works by René Schützenberger were exhibited at Grand Palais along with works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Félix Vallotton and other painters.^[10]

Works

Paintings

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  Landscape with a Rick
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  In Front of the Window (12 may, 1887)
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  Portrait of a Woman in Black (1894)
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  Woman in white (1895)
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  Overlooking the Sea (1896)
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  Elegante dame (1904)
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  Islands in the Rhine river near to Strasbourg
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  Au Jardin Du Luxembourg (1908)
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  The Battle (1909)
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  Playing at Dice (1910)
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  Vail of Hair (1911)
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  The Jade Necklace (1914)
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  The Perfume (1914)

References and sources

References

Sources

• Jules Martin, Nos peintres et nos sculpteurs, Paris Flammarion, 1897.
• Catalogue du Salon de la Société lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts, 1898.
• Catalogue général officiel de l'Exposition Internationale Universelle de 1900, Paris.
• Catalogue du Salon de la Société des Amis des Arts de Nantes, 1907.
• L'Art et les Artistes, 7ème année, n°75, juin 1911.
• The Julian Academy, Paris 1868-1939, Spring Exhibition 1989, Sheperd Gallery, New York.
• Benezit, Dictionnaire des artistes, 1999.
• Dominique Lobstein, Dictionnaire des Indépendants (1884–1914), tome III, L'Échelle de Jacob, 2003.
• Gaïte Dugnat, Les catalogues des Salons de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, tome III (1906–1910), L'Échelle de Jacob, 2005.
• Gaïte Dugnat, Les catalogues des Salons de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, tome IV(1911–1920), L'Échelle de Jacob, 2005.
• Paul-René Schützenberger File, Documentation du Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to René Schützenberger.

• Family genealogy Schützenberger
• Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2006, site Oxford Index (subscription or library membership required)
• Société des artistes indépendants. 26, Catalogue de la 26e exposition 1910, no. 4648-4651; Gallica BnF