André Eugène Dauchez (17 May 1870 – 15 May 1948), born in

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, was a French

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list, engraver,

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and

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known for landscapes, waterscapes and seascapes.

Biography

Born in a family of lawyers, his elder sister Jeanne would be an artist and André Dauchez showed early predispositions for graphic arts. His early influence was the works of Gustave Doré. While pursuing his studies, he was encouraged in the way of art by his mother, who found Gaston Rodriguez, an artist-engraver who from 1885 to 1887 taught and educated the young man's ability to see and transcribe only the essential. André Dauchez never abandoned this mode of expression, handling with dexterity the technique of etching. In 1887, his teacher allowed him to present his work after a painting by

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at the ''Salon des Artistes français''. It was the first success for the young man of seventeen who received the encouragements of his peers. Between the years 1887 and 1893 André Dauchez continued working on etching and painting and further studied with Luc-Olivier Merson and at the

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. The influence that nourished the engraved works of André Dauchez was

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's work. André Dauchez had led a comprehensive study of the master and learned the art of light and the importance of values of white and black in a landscape rendering.
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, , Pierre-Louis Moreau. When his sister, Jeanne, married artist Lucien Simon, Dauchez was introduced to a circle of other artists like Émile-René Ménard,

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, Maurice Denis and above all discovered coastal

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and Cornouaille, the bay of Douarnenez, Belle-Île-en-Mer,

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and the charm of the area. Dauchez was seduced by the lines and force of the landscape. From then on, he will dedicate his work to transcribe the many faces of the

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' Cornwall which inspired his best pieces. Art critic André Chevrillon in ''Drogues et Peintures'', Paris, 1940, describes the work of André Dauchez as an "expressive and faithful portrait of

". From the end of 1893, and for over half a century André Dauchez will find an inexhaustible source of inspiration in the landscapes of the Cornish coast: heath, dunes, villages, fishermen, estuaries and coves lined with pine trees, edges of coastline and rivers, rocks at low tide, open landscapes are his favorite motifs. He was an outdoor painter who described the effects on his soul of trees, stones, water and light. André Dauchez' works often present a cluster of trees, a trail, or a body of water, while in the background fades the rest of the composition with contrasts of light and shadow giving intensity to his work in a composition in which one feels life vibrating, transcribing the different effects of shade, sun or wind that alter the appearance of a landscape. Dauchez' talent lies in landscape drawing allied to a subtle artistic sensibility.

Collections

* Musée d’Orsay * Chicago Art Institute *

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* Tokyo National Museum of Western Art * Finnish National Gallery *

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Honors

* 1900 - Silver medal from the

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* 1900 - Carnegie Prize for ''The Kelp Gatherers'', Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania * 1911 - Dauchez is named knight of the

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. He was named an officer in 1932. * 1920 - Jury member at the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania * 1922 - Appointed official painter of the Navy * 1938 - Elected President of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, succeeding

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* 1938 - Elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts, engraving' section.

Publication

* Notice sur la vie et les œuvres de Émile Brulant, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1940

References

External links

André Dauchez on Askart
* , including two at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dauchez, Andre 1870 births 1948 deaths 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French watercolourists French engravers French draughtsmen French illustrators Members of the Académie des beaux-arts Académie Julian alumni Painters from Paris