Charles Barraud (19 April 1897 – 29 January 1997) was a
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painter from the
canton of Neuchâtel
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Biography
Barraud was born on 19 April 1897, at
La Chaux-de-Fonds
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eldest of several brothers, the sons of an engraver of watch plates, at least four of whom became artists. Between 1910 and 1914, Charles followed an apprenticeship as an engraver while attending the art school of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the evenings, as did his brothers. When his father became ill in 1918 he worked with his brothers in the local workshops, then spent some time in
Geneva
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with
Albert Locca. In 1921, he was awarded a state scholarship in fine arts. In 1926, he opened a picture framing business and married his first wife, Jeanne Pellet (known as
Janebé).
Their daughter Marie-Louise (Malou) was born in 1930.
After some time spent in
Tunisia
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in 1935 he obtained a second state grant in 1936 and in the following year visited
Algeria
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. From 1940, when he moved to
Areuse, he had several very productive years before moving to
Cortaillod
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The Neolithic Cortaillod culture was named after Cortaillod, where four Neolithic villages have b ...
in 1946.
In 1951, he married his second wife, Paulette Kühni. In the same year he took part in a joint exhibition of works by the four Barraud brothers in
Paris
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(repeated in 1961 at La Chaux-de-Fonds) and bought a house in
Blauzac. After several exhibitions, including a retrospective at the
Musée des beaux-arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1958, he made another visit to Algeria in 1973 and to Tunisia in 1989. His last paintings date from 1995.
He died in hospital at
Yverdon-les-Bains
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, on 29 January 1997, aged 99.
See also
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Aimé Barraud
Aimé Barraud (1902–1954) was a Swiss painter, remembered as part of the Neue Sachlichkeit ''(New Objectivity)'' movement which emerged after the war.
Biography
The seven recorded children of the Barraud family (six sons and a daughter) were b ...
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François Barraud
François Barraud (24 November 1899 – 11 September 1934) was a Switzerland, Swiss Painting, painter.
Barraud was the second eldest of four brothers who all painted or sculpted at various points in their lives. The brothers, François, Aimé ...
Notes and references
Sources
* Comtesse, Gérald, 1997: ''Charles Barraud'', Éditions Gilles Attinger: Hauterive
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1897 births
1997 deaths
People from La Chaux-de-Fonds
20th-century Swiss painters
20th-century Swiss male artists
Swiss male painters