André Lhote (1885 – 1962) was a French painter, illustrator, teacher and art critic.
Early Life and Education
Lhote was born on July 5, 1885, in Bordeaux, France. He began learning wood carving and sculpture at the age of 12 when his father apprenticed him to a local furniture maker to train him as a wood sculptor. He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux in 1898 and studied decorative sculpture until 1904.
While there, he began painting in his spare time, and he left home in 1905, moving into his studio to devote himself to painting. He was influenced by Gauguin and Cézanne and held his first one-person exhibition at the Galerie Druet in 1910, four years after he had moved to Paris.
Biography
After initially working in a Fauvist style, Lhote shifted towards Cubism and joined the Section d’Or group in 1912, exhibiting at the Salon de la Section d’Or. He was alongside some of the fathers of modern art, including Gleizes, Villon, Duchamp, Metzinger, Picabia and La Fresnaye.
The outbreak of the First World War interrupted his work. In 1917, he was discharged from the army and became one of the Cubists supported by Léonce Rosenberg. In 1918, he co-founded Nouvelle Revue Française, the art journal to which he contributed articles on art theory until 1940.
Lhote taught at the Académie Notre-Dame des Champs from 1918 to 1920 and later taught at other Paris art schools—including the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and his school, Academy André Lhote, which he founded in Montparnasse in 1922. His students included Henri Cartier-Bresson, Conrad O’Brien-ffrench, Elena Mumm Thornton Wilson, Kristin Saleri, Adamson-Eric, Simon Elwes, William Crozier, William Geissler, William Gillies, Kuno Veeber, Charlotte van Pallandt, Wesley E. Johnson, Sava Šumanović,[citation needed] Margaret Lefranc, Shirley Russell, Gwyneth Johnstone, Paul Kane, Julie van der Veen, Michael Wishart, Lino Spilimbergo, Amalia Nieto, Héctor Sgarbi, Tamara de Lempicka, Sarah Marindah Baker, Genevieve Pezet, Nancy van Overveldt and Helen Stewart.
Lhote lectured extensively in France and other countries, including Belgium, England, Italy, and, from the 1950s, Egypt and Brazil. In Egypt, Lhote worked with Effat Nagy on Egyptian archaeology.
Recognition
His work was rewarded with the Grand Prix National de Peinture in 1955, and the UNESCO Commission for Sculpture appointed Lhote president of the International Association of Painters, Engravers and Sculptors.
Sources
Byars, M., & Riley, T. (2004). The design encyclopedia. Laurence King Publishing. https://amzn.to/3ElmSlL
Wikipedia contributors. (2021, December 6). André Lhote. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:58, December 30, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andr%C3%A9_Lhote&oldid=1059012252
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