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Henri Rousseau: The untrained godfather of modern art
Features correspondent
The self-taught painter Henri Rousseau was mocked for his clumsy compositions and awkward perspectives. But if he had been trained, modern art as we know it might never have happened, writes Alastair Sooke.
Imagine an abundant jungle, tangled with foliage of sumptuous green. Before you, like actors on a stage, a famished lion sinks its fangs into an antelope. Meanwhile, in the undergrowth, a menagerie watches the horror unfold: a panther, two birds of prey dangling strips of flesh from their beaks, and, to the left, a lumbering, lurking, ape-like beast, half-emerging from the forest, with a shaggy pelt and a shining eye. In the distance a blood-red sun sets on this menacing scene.
This vast canvas – more than three metres wide – is The Hungry Lion by Henri Rousseau, one of the most curious characters in modern art. The painting has travelled to Essen in Germany, to be part of The Shadow of the Avant-Garde, a new exhibition at the Museum Folkwang, in which Rousseau will play a starring role.
Towards the end of his life, around the turn of the 20th Century, Rousseau was taken up and championed by a
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Henri Rousseau
(1844-1910)
Who Was Henri Rousseau?
While working as a toll collector in Paris, Henri Rousseau taught himself to paint and exhibited his work almost annually from 1886 until the end of his life. He was given the nickname "Le Douanier" ("the customs officer") by his acquaintances in the Parisian avant-garde. Despite his connections with other artists and dealers, he never profited from his paintings; however, works like "The Dream," "The Sleeping Gypsy" and "Carnival Evening" influenced many artists who came after him.
Early Life and Work
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was born into a middle-class family in the town of Laval in northwest France on May 21, 1844. Rousseau attended school in Laval until 1860. In his late teens, he worked for a lawyer and then enlisted in the army, although he never saw combat. In 1868, Rousseau left the army and moved to Paris, where he began working as a toll collector at the entrance to the city.
Rousseau as Artist
Meanwhile, Rousseau had begun to paint in his spare time. He never had a formal art education; instead, he taught himself by copying paintings in the art museums of Paris and by sketching in the city's botanical gardens and natural history museums.
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