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Othon Friesz
"Without the sublime truth of painterly light, no fullness of form, no agreement, no unity."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Othon Friesz, peintre un temps fauve, décédera dans le 6e arrondissement de Paris dans sa soixante-dixième années, le 10 janvier 1949. Né au Havre, il repose à Paris, au cimetière Montparnasse (Division 27). En son hommage, avec respect, nous déposons un iris jaune sur sa dernière demeure.
"Othon Friesz - grand Fauve assagi, qui dispensa un enseignement généreux et attentif, sans se prévaloir de l'importance de son oeuvre." - Guy de Rougemont
"La vie et l’œuvre d’Othon Friesz reflètent tout un pan de l’histoire de l’art en France de la fin du XIXe au milieu du XXe siècle." - Conservateur de La Piscine (Roubaix)
"Nous voulons vous offrir de vastes et étranges domaines où le mystère en fleur s’offre à qui veut le cueillir. Il y aura là des feux nouveaux de couleurs jamais vues, mille fantasmes impondérables auxquels il faut donner la réalité." - Guillaume Apollinaire
"Othon Friesz ne laisse rien au hasard, tout est pensé et jamais rien n’est fait dans la précipitation, comme si son esprit perfectionniste était celui d’un ingénieur ou d’un architecte." - Clive Bell (1921)
"Les tableaux d’Othon Friesz ont parfois des élans proches du baroque. Tous présentent beaucoup de courbes qui, aux yeux du peintre, expriment la force contenue, et peu d'angles, dans lesquels il voit l'expression d'une nervosité impatiente." - Philippe Cros (Directeur de la Fondation Bemberg)
"Être classique, c'est éviter la surcharge." - Maurice Barrés
Notes of biography
Henri (Emile Othon) Friesz is born in Le Havre in 1879. At the age of thirteen, he takes night classes at the School of Fine Arts in his hometown. There he meets Raoul Dufy, befriends Georges Braque. In 1898, Othon Friesz win a scholarship that allows him to pursue his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Paris until 1903 (atelier Bonnat).
He befriends Matisse, Rouault, Marquet, Vlaminck, Derain. He paints landscapes in the tradition of Impressionism, inspired by Pissarro and Guillaumin. He exhibits in groups exhibitions (Salon des Indépendants, Salon d'Automne).
His first solo exhibition is held in Paris in 1904. Othon Friesz joins the fauvism movement at the end of the year 1905. He simplifies and summarizes his forms and paints canvases with clear and pure colors (ports, portraits, landscapes of southern France). Around 1909, Friesz adopts a more classical "way" which remains his until the end of his work.
In 1912 the artist opens a studio in Paris where he teaches painting, interrupted by war, this activity starts again in 1919. In 1913, he participates in the Armory Show in New York. Mobilized in 1914, he is wounded the following year and posted at the technical services of Aeronautics in Paris; this gives him the occasion to become the instigator of the origin of a museum of aviation documentary. Outside his usual way, in 1915, he paints a series of expressive paintings inspired by the war. Throughout the course of the inter-war years, Friesz continues to explore, in his classical style, the themes that are dear to him: nudity, landscape, female figure, still life, flowers and portraits.
From 1911 to 1938, Friesz successively travels to Portugal, Belgium, Italy and the United States. In 1941, as Derain, Othon Friesz participates to the journey of French artists in Nazi Germany. The artist creates tapestry cartoons and painted murals.
Othon Friesz dies in Paris in 1949.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
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*« L’oeuvre peint », Vol. I, R. Martin & O. Aittouares, Paris, 1995, 2000 *« C. R. », Vol. II en préparation, R. Martin & O. Aittouares All the complete worksBibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « E.-O. Friesz », A. Salmon, Les Peintres Fr. Nouveaux n°5, Ed. N.R.F., 1920
- « Friesz », F. Fleuret & autres, Ed. Chroniques du Jour, Paris, 1927
- « Othon Friesz », Roger Brielle, coll. Les Artistes Nouveaux, Ed. G. Crés, 1930
- « Othon Friesz », M. Gauthier, Ed. P. Cailler, Genève, 1957
- « Othon Friesz », coll., cat., Ed. Musée Galliera, Paris, 1959
- « Rétrospective O. Friesz », c« Othon Friesz », coll.,at., Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, 1979
- « E.-O. Friesz, rétrospective », cat., Galerie K. Granoff, Paris, 1989
- « Braque - Friesz », coll., cat., Musée de Lodève, Ed. Mazzotta, 2005
- « Othon Friesz », Jean-Luc Chalumeau, Ed. Cercle d'Art, 2006
- « Othon Friesz : Le fauve baroque », David Butcher, Ed. Gallimard, 2007
To read from the artist :
- « O. Friesz, notices diverses », J. Busse, P. Cailler, Genève, 1958
Website :
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Stamp by Othon Friesz
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Artist's autograph
Michelle Champetier Collection / This document is not for sale
+ Watch
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+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Othon Friesz
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Othon Friesz, peintre un temps fauve, décédera dans le 6e arrondissement de Paris dans sa soixante-dixième années, le 10 janvier 1949. Né au Havre, il repose à Paris, au cimetière Montparnasse (Division 27). En son hommage, avec respect, nous déposons un iris jaune sur sa dernière demeure.
"Othon Friesz - grand Fauve assagi, qui dispensa un enseignement généreux et attentif, sans se prévaloir de l'importance de son oeuvre." - Guy de Rougemont
"La vie et l’œuvre d’Othon Friesz reflètent tout un pan de l’histoire de l’art en France de la fin du XIXe au milieu du XXe siècle." - Conservateur de La Piscine (Roubaix)
"Nous voulons vous offrir de vastes et étranges domaines où le mystère en fleur s’offre à qui veut le cueillir. Il y aura là des feux nouveaux de couleurs jamais vues, mille fantasmes impondérables auxquels il faut donner la réalité." - Guillaume Apollinaire
"Othon Friesz ne laisse rien au hasard, tout est pensé et jamais rien n’est fait dans la précipitation, comme si son esprit perfectionniste était celui d’un ingénieur ou d’un architecte." - Clive Bell (1921)
"Les tableaux d’Othon Friesz ont parfois des élans proches du baroque. Tous présentent beaucoup de courbes qui, aux yeux du peintre, expriment la force contenue, et peu d'angles, dans lesquels il voit l'expression d'une nervosité impatiente." - Philippe Cros (Directeur de la Fondation Bemberg)
"Être classique, c'est éviter la surcharge." - Maurice Barrés
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+ ARMORY SHOW / 1913 / Constantin Brancusi, Charles Camoin, Marcel Duchamp, Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, etc.
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