Book of the month - Short and sweet
Art in focus: Toulouse-Lautrec<br>Udo Felbinger Konemann<br>ISBN 9 783829 029339
The later French impressionist artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's life, as well as his stature, was indeed short and sweet. Born into an aristocratic French family in Albi in 1864 he lived just 37 years, but in that short lifetime he produced a body of work that was both substantial and brilliant.
Toulouse-Lautrec inherited a family bone weakness and when he later broke both of his legs in his teenage years, his height became stunted as a result and in adulthood he stood only five feet tall. This fact sadly affected the artist's life in many ways. It meant that he never married or produced an heir; it also gave the poor man a grotesque appearance. But for all these misfortunes Toulouse -Lautrec went on to produce some of the most evocative and brilliant work of the late impressionist period. He painted life and was particularly good at capturing people from the low-life and cabaret world of Paris of the 1880s and 1890s. His Moulin Rouge paintings are probably his most famous work and he certainly helped to put the Montmartre nightspot on the map of Parisian nightlife.
This little book, which is available from Allied Retail and Commercial at just €4.31 is more than just a record of this amazing artist's life and work. It is a labour of love, for which its author Udo Felbinger should be heartily applauded.
Toulouse-Lautrec inherited a family bone weakness and when he later broke both of his legs in his teenage years, his height became stunted as a result and in adulthood he stood only five feet tall. This fact sadly affected the artist's life in many ways. It meant that he never married or produced an heir; it also gave the poor man a grotesque appearance. But for all these misfortunes Toulouse -Lautrec went on to produce some of the most evocative and brilliant work of the late impressionist period. He painted life and was particularly good at capturing people from the low-life and cabaret world of Paris of the 1880s and 1890s. His Moulin Rouge paintings are probably his most famous work and he certainly helped to put the Montmartre nightspot on the map of Parisian nightlife.
This little book, which is available from Allied Retail and Commercial at just €4.31 is more than just a record of this amazing artist's life and work. It is a labour of love, for which its author Udo Felbinger should be heartily applauded.