🖌️🎨Félix Vallotton (French: Félix Vallotton, 1865-1925) was a Swiss artist and printmaker.
He is best known for his woodcuts.
Vallotton was born into a conservative middle-class family in Lausanne.
He studied at the Collège Cantonale, graduating with a degree in classical studies in 1882.
That same year, he moved to Paris to study art with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger at the Académie Julian. He spent much time at the Louvre, admiring the works of Holbein, Dürer, and Ingres, artists who remained models for Vallotton throughout his life.
In 1885, at the age of 20, he painted a portrait of Monsieur Ursenbach, as well as his first self-portrait, which received an honorable mention in 1886 at the Salon des artistes français.
He gained European fame for his woodcuts, examples of which he found in the works of Rembrandt and Millet.
In the winter of 1888-1889, Vallotton and his cousin traveled through Austria and Italy. In 1890, he returned to his parents' house and, having mastered the technique of watercolor, painted a large number of landscapes.
From 1899 onwards, he increasingly devoted himself to painting. He was close to the Nabis group (Bonnard, Maurice Denis, etc.) and Odilon Redon.
In 1896, a Paris publishing house released Vallotton's collection "Female Studies", and in 1898 his collection "The Intimate" appeared, combining 10 woodcuts that were originally published in "Revue Blanche".
In the 1900s, his exhibitions were held with triumph in Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Prague, London, Stockholm, his works were exhibited in the Russian Empire (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Odessa), the Netherlands (Amsterdam).
A documentary film by Heinz Bütler was shot: Félix Vallotton - Maler gegen die Zeit; 2005
✍️ For materials: Bo4kaMeda, wikipedia.
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