Lucien Vogt (1891 - 1968) Oil On Canvas Signed

Oil on canvas by Lucien Vogt signed lower left L. Vogt Probably Moret sur loing where the painter used to paint

Dimensions without frame: 46 x 38 centimeters Dimensions including frame: 58 x 50 centimeters

Lucien Vogt, born on 28 February 1891 in New York and died in 1968, is an American painter and draftsman.

Biography

Lucien Vogt was born in New York on February 28, 1891. His father, a naturalized American, had emigrated to the United States after 1860, at the same time as thousands of other Alsatians. The latter, perhaps torn between disillusionment and nostalgia, decided in April 1895 to return to Alsace. At the age of four, young Lucien, who retained his American nationality, returned to his family's homeland. His beginnings in the applied arts took him to Paris where he took classes with François Flameng at the Academy of Fine Arts. The latter opened a workshop in 1905 which welcomed, in addition to Lucien Vogt, Henri Sollier, 5 years his senior. Exhibitions at the Salons In 1914, his training completed, Lucien Vogt participated, for the first time, in the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he became a member in 1922. For his first public appearance, Lucien Vogt showed himself to be respectful of academic conventions, in phase with the expectations of the Show. he represented himself there, in 1920, 1922 and for the last time in 1924, with a landscape in tawny colors which demonstrated the progress he had made since his first participation in 1914.

From then on, his submissions to Parisian salons became more regular. In 1926, at the Salon des Tuileries, he exhibited Women by the Sea, introducing - for once - the life-size human figure into the landscape. This will make its appearance later in his career, albeit in a suggestive way, within his numerous views of Paris that he paints on small, quickly sketched wooden panels. In this format only, he is interested in bourgeois life painted in the emblematic setting of the capital's monuments and public gardens. The artist paints to the rhythm of the seasons. Thus, he frequently returns to the same place, such as Anduze, an authentic village in the Cévennes, to paint the site in winter and then in summer. His favorite seasons are clearly autumn and spring, the times of the year when nature displays its most flamboyant colors. He excels in the transitions from brown to red and in the range of intense greens which adorn the foliage of the poplars on the banks of the Loing, a river which flows in Seine-et-Marne where Vogt spent his last years as a painter exploring the countryside. The study of the reflections of trees in water, one of his favorite motifs, inevitably refers to previous impressionists, starting with Alfred Sisley who remained, until his last days, faithful to Moret-sur-Loing and his peaceful and green countryside. In the 1940s, Lucien Vogt took as a model the paintings of Pierre Bonnard, more specifically those of the 1920s, painted on the Côte d'Azur and in Le Canet, from which he retained the broad and diffuse touch which gave its particular vibration to his landscapes of the Cévennes and those of the Alpes-Maritimes. In 1957, the Raymond Duncan gallery, in Paris, organized a retrospective of the works of Lucien Vogt, who remains under the pen of Henri Zislin, famous Alsatian illustrator and caricaturist, as the painter of “luminous landscapes”. He died near Paris in 1968.