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Biography
28 December 1865: Félix Édouard Vallotton is born in Lausanne. His father, Adrien Vallotton, has a chandlery and grocery shop. His brother is born in 1864 and his sister Hélène in 1867.
1875: At the age of ten, he is sent to a high school in Lausanne.
1882: He completes his high-school studies, specialising in Latin and Greek, and already shows a certain talent for the arts and for painting. He leaves for Paris and takes lessons at the Académie Julian. There he meets Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard.
1883: Vallotton passes the entrance examinations for l’École des Beaux-Arts, in which he is placed fourth out of seventy students.
1887: He becomes interested in portraits and presents his portrait of Jasinski at the Salon des artistes français.
1891: He makes his first wood engravings and shows ten of them at the Salon des Indépendants, where he participates for the first time. He is accepted into the Nabis group alongside Sérusier, Bonnard and Vuillard.
1892: He continues to work on engraving and on xylography and is lauded in an article published by the journal L’Art et l’idée.
1893: He paints Bain au soir d’été, which causes a sensation at the Salon des Indépendants.
1894: He writes several articles for the journals Le Courrier français, La Revue blanche, and Le Rire. He exhibits wood engravings in Geneva and in Yverdon and works on a project for a stained-glass window.
1897: Vallotton exhibits with the Nabis once again, at the the Galerie Vollard in Paris.
1899: He marries Gabrielle Rodrigues-Henriques.
1900: Vallotton finally obtains French citizenship. He exhibits at the Vienna Secession, at the Centennale de l’Art français at the World Exhibition in Paris, and then at the Berlin Secession.
1902: He paints landscapes, interiors, and portraits.
1908: He takes part in a range of exhibitions. Several of his canvasses are bought at the exhibition organised by the magazine The Golden Fleece in Moscow and at the Munich Secession, principally by the collector Arthur Hahnloser.
1909: He helps to found l’Académie Ranson with Bonnard, Denis, Roussel, and Vuillard. The Künstlerhaus Zürich organises the first exhibition which is completely dedicated to him.
1912: A new exhibition is organised by the Galerie Druet in Paris. He sends forty-three paintings to l’Éxposition d’Art français at the Kunsthaus in Zurich (formerly Künstlerhaus Zürich) and six paintings to the Centennale de l’Art français in St Petersburg.
1919: He undertakes several journeys to Switzerland and to Brittany.
1920: He spends time in Avignon, where he paints the Saint André fort and the famous bridge.
1925: Vallotton dies at the age of sixty.
Introduction
That very strange Vallotton
– that was how Thadée Natanson, the publisher of La Revue blanche magazine, referred to the friend of his youth. In fact, Félix Vallotton did not bare his soul immediately, even to close friends. In the artistic milieu of Paris to which they both belonged, there were no ordinary people, but even among them, Vallotton stood out as being a most unusual individual. The reasons lay not so much in his character, which was indeed full of surprises, as in the phenomenon of his creative biography.
Having fallen in love with painting, Vallotton suddenly abandoned it and became the greatest European engraver of the turn of the century.
Having devoted a total of only eight years to printmaking, he mastered that most forgotten of all the graphic arts – xylography. Despite his culture and intellectualism, and his membership of the group of Symbolists, Vallotton’s works were easily understood, even by the man-in-the-street. In painting, he earned fame as a conservative and a Neo-Classicist, while contriving to keep up with both the latest trends and the most progressive understanding of colour.
Although he never had any intention of shocking the public, the artist nevertheless was given much attention in the press from the moment his creations made their first appearances at exhibitions in Paris. Vallotton’s œuvre has not been overlooked by any of the most important critics and art historians.
Vallotton’s legacy has not been forgotten even now in the 21st century.
Vallotton’s works have been exhibited in many countries, and he has been the subject of various monographs, including a work by Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler, a Swiss collector of Vallotton’s paintings.
The details of the artist’s hard life, contacts with friends, intimate relationships, the creative process, and his dealings with his patrons are assembled, fragment by fragment, in excerpts from his letters and diary and in painstaking commentaries. While acknowledging gratitude for that work, we offer yet another essay on the artist, in the hope that it will help the reader penetrate the world of his art in some measure.
This is the story of Félix Vallotton, who was born in the pretty town of Lausanne, on the shores of Lake Geneva, and who became famous as an engraver and artist in Paris, lived sixty years to the