Henri_Touluse_Lautrec

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or just Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator. His immersion in the colorful life and theatrical century fin de Paris gave a piece of exciting images, elegant and challenging modern life and sometimes decadent time. Toulouse-Lautrec is known with Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and as one of the greatest painters of the post-impressionists. Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was born in Albi, Tarn in the Midi-Pyrenees region of France, the eldest son of Count and Countess Adele Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec. It has been a member of an aristocratic family (descendants of the Counts of Toulouse and Lautrec and the Viscounts of Montfa, a village and commune in the Tarn department of southern France). A younger brother was also born in the family August 28, 1867, but died the following year. After the death of his brother and his parents separated a nanny took care of Henry through this period. At the age of 8 years, Henry has to live with his mother in Paris. There, he began drawing his first sketches and cartoons on his exercise books. The family soon realized that the talent of Henry slept with drawing and painting, and a friend of his father named Rene Princeteau visited sometimes give informal lessons. Some early paintings by Henri horses are a specialty of Princeteau, and something he would later visit his "Paintings Circus'. In 1875, Henry returned to Albi because his mother recognized his health problems. It took baths Thermal in Amélie-les-Bains and his mother consulted doctors in the hope of finding a way to improve her son's growth and development. The count and countess were themselves first cousins, Henry two grandmothers were sisters, and Henri suffered from a number of congenital health conditions attributed to this tradition of inbreeding. At the age of 13, Henri fractured bone in his right thigh, and 14, left. The breaks do not heal properly. Modern physicians attribute this to an unknown genetic disorder, perhaps pycnodysostosis (also sometimes called syndrome Toulouse-Lautrec), or disorder variant on the model of osteopetrosis, achondroplasia, or osteogenesis imperfecta. Rickets aggravated with praecox virilism has also been suggested. His legs ceased to grow, so as an adult, it was only 1.54 m (5 ft 1 in) tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while keeping her legs the size of children which were 0.70 m (27.5 inches) long. Physically unable to participate in most activities typically enjoyed by men his age, Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in his art. It became an important post-impressionist painter, illustrator, art nouveau, and lithographer and recorded in his works many details of the life of late 19th century Bohemian Paris. Toulouse-Lautrec also contributed a number of illustrations for the magazine Le Rire during the mid-1890. After an initial failure to his college entrance exams, Henry ruled on his second attempt and finished his studies. During his stay in Nice, its progress in painting and drawing impressed Princeteau parents who persuaded Henry to let him return to Paris and study under the famous portrait painter Leon Bonnat. Henry's mother had high ambitions and, with goals from Henry to become a fashionable painter and respected, she used family influence to get Henry in Bonnat's studio. When he graduated from the Corman studio, Lautrec gave himself fully to the bohemian life, spending much of his time drinking, feasting, and constantly sketching in cabarets, racetracks, and brothels. His physique has earned him stunted laughter and contempt, and prevented the experience of many physical pleasures offered at Montmartre, a sorrow that he drowned in alcohol. At first it was beer and wine. Then, brandy, whiskey, absinthe and infamous have found a way into his life. Art and alcohol have been only his mistresses, and they were mistresses to whom he dedicated his time and energy. It was one or two almost every day of his life until his death. Adapt the mode of 19th century Japanese style that prevailed in the French art (asymmetrical composition, flat areas of color) to the flourishing art of the poster image, he created thousands of works of art to time to honor the memory of his friends and to advertise their sites. Among those whose images are now part of art history are the Moulin Rouge dancers Louise Weber (La Goulue) and Jane Avril, the singer and Combat / entrepreneur Aristide Bruant. Toulouse-Lautrec died in September 1901, at the age of 36. It is reported that as he lay on his deathbed with his mother and some friends at his side, his father rarely saw appeared to the amazement of everyone - everyone except Henry who said, "Good Dad I knew you would not want to miss. kill him. "In fact, the last words of Henry were sent to his father, who was fluttering, suggesting that they cut off Henri's beard in accordance with customs Arab he had heard, and they use laces Henry to chase flies. Regarding Henry said his last word: "Old fool." Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's life as the archetypical bohemian artist of the Belle Epoque, the "Belle Epoque" in Paris in the 1890s. Toulouse-Lautrec captured the spirit of an era in his works. He was very prolific in the ten years he spent as a writer until his physical deterioration and death at the age of 37 years. His works included 368 lithographs, etchings, monotypes and posters that he emerged as one of the great masters of post-impressionism.