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Henri Jean Guillaume Martin (French, 1860-1943)
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Henri Jean Guillaume Martin
Labastide-du-Vert
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Henri Jean Guillaume Martin
Rue Montant vers L’Église de Saint-Cirq-Lapopie circa 1935
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Henri Jean Guillaume Martin
Vierge Dans L’Étable 1893
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Biographie |
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1860 |
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Born August 5th in Toulouse |
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1879 |
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After winning the Grand Prix, moved to Paris where a scholarship enabled him to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Jean Paul Laurens |
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1880 |
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Exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris |
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1883 |
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At the age of 23, was awarded his first medal at the Paris Salon |
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1885 |
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Won a trip to Italy where he studied masters Giotto and Masaccio and, shedding his earlier academic approach, turned almost exclusively to landscape painting upon his return to France |
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1889 |
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Submitted a Pointillist style painting to La Fete de la Federation where he was presented with a gold medal |
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1892 |
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Exhibited in the first Salon de la Rose Croix |
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1893 |
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Featured work in the Munich Secessionist exhibition |
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1896 |
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Exhibited in La Libre Esthetique in Brussels; was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour |
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1898 |
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Featured work in the Vienna Secessionist exhibition |
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1900 |
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Won the grand prize at the Exposition Universelle |
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1914 |
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Named Commander of the Legion of Honour |
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1918 |
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Became a member of the Institute |
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1943 |
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Died |
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Expositions |
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Martin exhibited at all the major venues of the Symbolist painters: the first Salon de la Rose Croix in 1892; the Munich Secessionist exhibition of 1893, La Libre Esthetique in Brussels in 1896 and the Vienna Secessionist exhibition of 1898 |
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