Anders Osterlind
| Anders Osterlind | |
|---|---|
| Born |
19 June 1887 Lépaud, France |
| Died | 5 January 1960 (aged 72) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | Per Ekström |
| Known for | Painting |
Anders Osterlind, a French painter, was born in Lépaud (Creuse) on June 12, 1887. He died in Paris on January 5, 1960. He was the son of the painter and the father of watercolorist Nanic Osterlind.
During his youth, Osterlind was close to the impressionist movement, through Armand Guillaume and the aging Auguste Renoir, whom he assisted. He was close to the Fauvism artists at their peak. He also developed mutual friendship and esteem with a number of prominent painters of the School of Paris, such as Amedeo Modigliani, Michel Kikoine, Chaim Soutine, Othon Friesz, Jacques Villon, André Dunoyer de Segonzac. However, Osterlind showed a fierce sense of independence, an extreme sensitivity to nature, and a dedication to pictural mastery. He pursued, over fifty years, and in a total indifference to trends, a landscape artist’s work, original and filled with strong poetic intensity.
Through this period, Anders Osterlind stayed with his parents in Paris, Brittany (Bréhat, Penvern), or the Creuse area (Gargilesse). Whilst in Brittany, amongst his parents’ friends, he met with the philosopher Ernest Renan, the art critics Armand Dayot and Charles Le Goffic, the poets Edmond Haraucourt and Max Jacob, the painter Maxime Maufra and in the Creuse area, the poet Maurice Rollinat. In Paris, he got acquainted with the large group of Scandinavian artists living in the capital at the end of the 19th century, in particular August Strindberg, Prince Eugen of Sweden, and the painter Per Ekström. When he was 5 years old, he also met Auguste Renoir, who was living next to his parents at the bottom of Montmartre hill, and who used to take him for long walks in the Luxembourg gardens. Later in his life, he found back the famous painter in Cagnes in 1918-1919.
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