Bathers by Othon Friesz

Bathers by Othon Friesz

• 🎨 Othon Friesz, born Achille-Émile Othon Friesz, was a French artist associated with the Fauvist movement.
• 🏫 He studied at the Le Havre School of Fine Arts and later in Paris, where he met prominent artists like Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Georges Rouault.
• 🖌️ Friesz rebelled against academic teaching and joined the Fauves, exhibiting with them in 1907, but later returned to a more traditional style of painting.
• ⚔️ He served in the army during World War I and resumed painting in Paris afterward, with occasional trips elsewhere.
• 💼 Friesz’s later works departed from Fauvism, showing influences of artists like Cézanne, with a more restrained palette and a focus on logical composition.
• ⚰️ He died in Paris in 1949 and is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse.
• 🖼️ Friesz’s notable paintings include “Paysage à La Ciotat,” “Le Travail à l’Automne,” and “Les Baigneuses des Andelys.”

Available as a fine art print and as a stretched canvas panel (heavy fine art canvas stretched over 1.5 inch deep edge solid wood frame).