Jules Flandrin (1871 - 1947) - Lively City

Jules Flandrin (1871 - 1947)
Oil on canvas Signed lower right
60 x 73 cm

Jules Flandrin is a French painter from Grenoble born in 1971, died in 1947. He is a painter of compositions, with characters, religious, mythological, still lifes, portraits, landscapes, painter of tapestry boxes, ceramist, engraver...
He began his artistic studies at the age of fifteen. After his military service in 1893 he left for Paris to study at the School of Decorative Arts, then at the School of Fine Arts where Gustave Moreau, who directed a workshop, was his teacher. There he met Marquet, Matisse, Rouault and Guérin. He also asked Puvis de Chavanne for advice and became a friend of Maurice Denis. It was at the age of thirty-eight that he made his first trip abroad, to Italy: Venice, Florence, Rome. He was forty-three years old when the first war broke out, he drew his comrades "the hairy ones". In 1919 he opened a tapestry workshop which closed in 1924 for financial reasons. From 1905, he began a series of mural compositions for the St-Bruno church in Grenoble. From 1896, he participated in group exhibitions all over the world, Paris, Venice, New York, Japan etc...
In 1895, he met Jacqueline Marval, a painter like him, with whom he lived for thirty-five years. In 1931, he married one of his students, Henriette Deloras.