Jean-Pierre Laurens (18 March 1875,

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23 April 1932,

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) was a French painter; primarily of figures and portraits.

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He was the youngest son of the painter,

Jean-Paul Laurens Jean-Paul Laurens (; 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a romanticism French painter and sculptor, and he is one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Biography Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon ...

. His older brother,

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also became an artist,. and he was married to the sculptor, Yvonne Diéterle. He studied with

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at the

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. His first exhibit at the

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came in 1899, when he was presented with a third-class medal. In 1900, he was awarded a silver medal and a travel grant. A second-class medal followed in 1906. Shortly after the beginning of

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, he received a bullet wound to the leg and was taken prisoner near Rocquigny. In September, 1914, he was transferred to the prison camp at

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, south of Berlin, where he made sketches of the harsh conditions and the

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epidemic that ravaged the camp. He was later taken to a labor camp in

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and, after the war, spent time at a Red Cross camp in Switzerland. He managed to preserve his drawings and they were published as ''Prisonniers de guerre. Cahier à la mémoire des compagnons de captivité du camp de Wittenberg'' in 1918. In 1928, he was commissioned to decorate the new , designed by Joseph Flandrin (1857-1939) and . He died before the project was completed so his wife, Yvonne, took his place.Obituary: Valfleury, ''

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'', #116, 25 April 1932
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. He also taught at the École and the

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. many of students became well known, including ,

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, Jules Cavaillès, ,

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, ,

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, Arthur Paunzen and . His works may be seen at the Musée départemental de l'Oise, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux,

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, ,

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and

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Laurens, Jean-Pierre 1875 births 1932 deaths 19th-century French painters French portrait painters French genre painters Académie Julian Painters from Paris 20th-century French painters

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