Maurice De Vlaminck Biography
Maurice De Vlaminck was born in Paris in 1876 and died in Rueil-la-Gadelière in 1958. From a young age he was dedicated to studying the violin, but after meeting André Derain in Chatou, his interest in painting grew. Self-taught, De Vlaminck began his artistic career producing expressionist works, inspired by the works of Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse. He then came into contact with the Fauves group and was able to participate with them in the exhibition at the Salon d'Automne in 1905 and at the Salon des Indépendants in 1906. Vlaminck was an artist with an instinctive and restless temperament, who expressed his strong personality through a style of great immediacy, exaggerated in the sign and in the chromatic ranges, pure and contrasted. The artist's favorite themes were portraits, landscapes and urban suburbs. After 1907, influenced above all by Cézanne, Vlaminck developed more balanced compositional solutions, arriving, after a brief phase of cubist inspiration, at a landscape painting with muted and painful tones. In 1944 Vlaminck was arrested for collaboration with the Nazis and was marginalized after the war. Finally, he died on October 11, 1958 in Rueil-la-Gadelière.
