François Barraud
Painting, Visual Artist
1899 – 1934
Who was François Barraud?
François Barraud was a Swiss painter.
Barraud was the second eldest of four brothers who all painted or sculpted at various points in their lives. The brothers, François, Aimé, Aurèle and Charles, were largely self-taught artists having been raised as professional plasterers and house painters. Barraud attended evening classes at the local art school in 1911 together with his brothers. In 1919, he exhibited his paintings in La Chaux-de-Fonds and participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Basel. Encouraged by the success of the exhibitions he left Switzerland in 1922, and moved to Reims in France where he worked as a house painter for two years. He married Marie, a French woman, in 1924. Marie subsequently featured as a model in several of his paintings. Around 1924 or 1925, Barraud found work in Paris as an artist and craftsman. While living in Paris he studied painting at the École du Louvre.
François Barraud painted mainly still lifes, female nudes and portraits, including several double portraits of himself and his wife, Marie His precise, realist style of painting developed under the influence of the old Flemish and French masters he had studied at the Louvre.
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- Born
- Nov 14, 1899
La Chaux-de-Fonds - Also known as
- Барро, Франсуа
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Lived in
- La Chaux-de-Fonds
- Died
- Sep 11, 1934
Geneva
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on July 23, 2013
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