Paul Vogler

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The Moulin de la Galette
River Banks in the Snow

Paul Vogler (8 March 1853, Paris - 17 December 1904, Verneuil-sur-Seine)[1] was a French painter in the Impressionist style, known mostly for his landscapes.

Biography[]

He was initially self-taught and did decorative work. Later, he was able to polish his technique when Alfred Sisley met him, became his mentor,[2] and had a major influence on his style. He mostly painted landscapes in Le Midi, Brittany, Oise and the rural areas around Paris; at different seasons and times of day to capture variations in the effects of light.[3]

Thanks to his advice and urgings, Le Barc de Boutteville, dealers in classic art, became interested in contemporary painters and began offering their works in 1891.[2] In 1893, commissioned by the poet,  [fr], he painted the sets for Pelléas et Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck, in a production by Lugné-Poe[3] In 1899, he had his largest exhibit at the gallery of Ambroise Vollard.

Despite his success, he was apparently rather profligate and died poor.

One of his works, "Alley Near a Small Town", was mistakenly attributed to Sisley because of a forged signature. The original signature was discovered in 2016, during a restoration at the Kunsthalle Bremen.[4] The painting had been in the possession of Pastor Johann Friedrich Lahmann (1858-1937) and was donated to the museum when he died. Suspicion was aroused when it was noted that the painting was not listed in Sisley's catalogue raisonné.

References[]

  1. ^ "Archives des Yvelines, acte de décès n°31, vue 40/232". Archived from the original on 2015-01-30. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Jean-Jacques Lévêque, Les années de la Belle Époque : 1890-1914
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b « Paul Vogler (1852-1904) », in Les peintres et l'Oise, Les Peintres-Graveurs de la Vallée de l'Oise.
  4. ^ Julia Tholen, Von Alfred Sisley zu Paul Vogler. Eine gefälschte Signatur und ihre Geschichte Archived 2016-06-23 at the Wayback Machine,

Further reading[]

  • Christophe Duvivier, Les Peintres de l'Oise, Pontoise, Musée Tavet-Delacour, 2007 ISBN 2-905199-55-5

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