Georges Lacombe (painter)
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Georges Lacombe (18 June 1868 – 29 June 1916) was a French sculptor and painter.
Early life[]
Born to a distinguished family of Versailles, he received his artistic training at the Académie Julian from the impressionists Alfred Philippe Roll and Henri Gervex.
The Nabis[]
At the Académie Julian he met Émile Bernard and Paul Sérusier in 1892, shortly afterwards becoming a member of their artist group, Les Nabis.
Like many other Nabi he spent the summers from 1888 to 1897 in Brittany, some sources[citation needed] record that he met Bernard and Sérusier there. He became Le Nabi sculpteur: the sculptor of the group. In fact many sources[citation needed] refer to him solely as sculptor.
Death[]
Georges Lacombe died in Alençon, Orne on 29 June 1916, eleven days after his 48th birthday.
References and sources[]
- References
- Sources
- Frèches-Thory, Claire, & Perucchi-Petry, Ursula, ed.: Die Nabis: Propheten der Moderne, Kunsthaus Zürich & Grand Palais, Paris & Prestel, Munich 1993. ISBN 3-7913-1969-8 (in German and French)
External links[]
- Georges Lacombe in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
- 1868 births
- 1916 deaths
- 19th-century French painters
- French male painters
- 20th-century French painters
- 20th-century male artists
- Post-impressionist sculptors
- 20th-century French sculptors
- 19th-century French sculptors
- French male sculptors
- Alumni of the Académie Julian