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Belgian, 20th century, male.

Born 1918, in Ghent.

Painter. Figures, seascapes.

Having studied at the fine art academy in Brussels, Marc Abel went on to work in Hamburg, Munich and London. His style was influenced by Fauvism. His favourite themes were the sea, ports, and cafés with girls. He also painted still-lifes and flowers....

French, 20th century, male.

Born 1908; died 2000.

Painter. Landscapes, landscapes with figures, waterscapes, mountainscapes, seascapes.

Henri Auchère's evolved over several different periods, and belies a Fauvist influence; he was advised from Montezin. He was also a jeweller.

German, 20th – 21st century, female.

Born 1951.

Painter. Portraits.

New Fauves.

Elvira Bach worked in West Berlin, and first exhibited at St Paul de Vence in 1986. Female portraits are the core of her work.

Munich, 5 June 1987: Red Nude (1983, oil on panel...

Slav, 20th century, female.

Active in Germany.

Born 1885; died 1960.

Painter. Figures, nudes, landscapes, still-lifes.

Born in Yugoslavia, Erma Barrera-Bossi completed her arts studies in Munich. She worked within the parameters of neo-fauvist art.

Closely linked with Gabriele Münter and Kandinsky, she featured between ...

Belgian, 20th century, male.

Born 1890, in Brussels; died 1953, in Brussels.

Painter. Figures, landscapes.

Gaston de Beer was a student at the academy of fine arts in Brussels. His painting belongs to the Brabantian Fauvist school.

Swiss, 20th century, male.

Born 23 April 1882, in Pforzheim; died 1961, in Geneva.

Painter. Nudes, landscapes, portraits, still-lifes.

Alexandre Blanchet worked initially in Paris. Although his painting exhibits Expressionist, Fauvist and Cubist influences, it is clear that he was greatly influenced by the work of Cézanne in particular. This is most evident in his paintings of traditional Swiss themes, which are executed in a decidedly Post-Impressionist style. His forceful treatment of volume and space and his accomplished and evocative use of blocks of colour impart a sense of Cézanne-like 'sculpture' to his work. This similarity is intensified by his technique of painting parallel lines in different shades of the same colour, a feature of ...

Belgian, 20th century, male.

Born 1884, in Brussels; died 1953, in Dilbeek.

Painter. Figures, nudes, portraits, landscapes with figures, seascapes, still-lifes, flowers.

Brabant Fauvism.

Jean Brusselmans was apprenticed at a very early age to the Belgian Society of Lithographers ; he took evening courses from the age of fifteen until ...

German, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1954, in Jena (Thuringia).

Painter.

New Fauves.

There have been solo exhibitions of Büttner's works in several galleries in Germany, the USA and Spain. He was influenced by the work of his fellow countryman Jorg Immendorf. His paintings use muted colours and synthetic compositions, and show a desire to use classical methods to express new ideas....

French, 20th century, male.

Born 9 January 1899, in Le Passage (Lot-et-Garonne).

Painter. Landscapes.

Roger de Cardelus painted large areas of flatly applied colour in the Fauvist manner. He was a regular exhibitor at the Salon d'Hiver in Paris from 1949 to 1953. He also exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants ...

Swiss, 20th – 21st century, male.

Active since 1978 active in Germany.

Born 1951, in Lucerne.

Painter (gouache/mixed media), performance artist. Figures, nudes.

Body Art, New Fauves.

Luciano Castelli lives and works in Berlin. He appeared on the international art scene at the beginning of the 1980s, at the same time as German Neo-Expressionism and Italian Transavanguardia. He soon emerged as the key figure among what critics called the New Fauves. He practises a form of art in which performance, painting and concert are combined and complement each other. In ...

French, 20th century, male.

Born 20 October 1882, in Paimboeuf (Loire-Atlantique).

Painter, fresco artist. History painting, portraits.

Chapleau's style was influenced both by late Post-Impressionism and later Fauvist works. Between 1913 and 1924, he exhibited religious and mythological subjects at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He also painted portraits and frescoes....

Belgian, 20th century, male.

Born 1879, in Ixelles (Brussels); died 1949, in Ukkel.

Painter. Figures, nudes, landscapes, still-lifes.

Brabant Fauvism.

Philibert Cockx was a pupil of Isidore Verheyden at the fine arts academy in Brussels. In 1922, he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, where he showed two pictures, ...

Belgian, 20th century, male.

Born 7 January 1884, in Verviers; died 1971, in Brussels.

Painter, draughtsman.

Brabant Fauvism.

Counhaye began his studies at the art school in Verviers and then entered the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He exhibited for the first time in 1914 at the 'Salon des Bleus' and from 1916 onwards featured in the Salon des Artistes Indépendants in Paris. On his return to Belgium, he executed various works such as tapestries, mosaics and stained glass windows. He exhibited in Belgium and also in New York in 1961. A fine draughtsman, he excelled in the technique of the Indian ink wash, portraying piteous nudes and affecting scenes. He also produced monumental works such as stained glass windows and tapestries. He was a professor at the academy at La Cambre....

German, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 8 October 1954, in St Tönis (Krefeld).

Painter.

New Fauves.

Mülheimer Freedom Group.

Dahn took part in several group exhibitions, including: 1976, Beuys and his Pupils at the Kunstverein in Frankfurt; 1980, Even if the Guinea-Fowl Weeps Quietly with H.-P. Adamski, P. Bömmels and J. G. Dokoupil in Cologne and ...

Belgian, 20th century, male.

Born 1870 or 1872, in Brussels; died 1940, in Brussels.

Painter. Landscapes, figures, still-lifes.

Brabant Fauvism.

Charles Dehoy was self-taught, and encouraged by Auguste Oleffe he exhibited at the Antwerp Salon in 1901. However, he only became known during the period of Brabant Fauvism. His travels in France, mainly in Provence, initiated him into modern French painting. He evolved from a delicate impressionism to works made up of blotches of pure colour whose tones express light and joy. His chromatic range would subsequently become more subdued. His still-lifes, which are permanent features of his work, reveal a sense of poetic intimacy achieved by means of transformations of techniques and colours....

French, 20th century, male.

Born 18 February 1877, in Nancy; died 1924.

Painter. Portraits, genre scenes, landscapes.

Auguste Desch is linked to Fauvism by his use of a vivid palette. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris. He became a member in 1901, and was awarded a 3rd class medal in 1906 and a travel bursary in 1909....

Czechoslovak, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1954, in Krno.

Painter (mixed media), watercolourist.

New Fauves.

Mülheimer Freedom Group.

In 1968 Jiri Georg Dokoupil fled the former Czechoslovakia and went to live first in Vienna and later in the former West Germany. From 1976 to 1978 he attended various art schools in Cologne, Frankfurt and the Cooper Union in New York where he had gone with the particular intention of meeting Hans Haacke and Joseph Kosuth. In 1984 he was made course director at the academy of art in Düsseldorf....

Dutch, 20th century, male.

Active from 1900 and from 1929 naturalised in France.

Born 26 January 1877, in Delfshaven, near Rotterdam; died 28 May 1968, in Monaco.

Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator. Figures, portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures, flowers.

Fauvism.

Kees van Dongen’s father first placed him in a school of industrial design and decorative art in Rotterdam. Later, in 1894–1895, he became a pupil of J. Striening and J.G. Heyberg at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam. His first paintings of this period were signed C. van Dongen, and from 1896 he published drawings, often of street women, in local newspapers, notably the Rotterdamsche Nieuwsblad where they created a scandal. After a trip to New York in July 1897, he spent time in Paris, living with Siebe Ten Cate, who introduced him to the art dealers Le Barc de Bouteville and ‘le père Soulier’. However, lack of resources obliged him to resort to menial work as a porter at Les Halles, a furniture mover, a portrait painter on the terraces of cafes, and a professional wrestler. In March ...

German, 20th – 21st century, male.

Born 1949, in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

Painter (mixed media).

New Fauves.

From 1969 to 1972, Rainer Fetting trained as a carpenter while simultaneously completing his professional training in stage design at the Landesbühne (country theatre) in Wilhelmshaven. He went to Berlin and studied under Hans Jaenisch at the art academy until 1978. In 1977, with three other contributors, he co-founded the Galerie am Moritzplatz, near the Berlin wall that divided East and West Germany. In 1978, Fetting obtained a German Exchange Grant (DAAD) to stay in New York. When he returned, he collaborated on many group paintings and, from 1976 to 1981, produced several films.

Baselitz, Lüpertz, and Penck were considered to be the first New Fauves; without any significant links with the Fauvist movement of the past, this label distinguished them from the vast Neo-Expressionist movement in Germany and elsewhere; thus, Fetting belongs to the second wave of these New Fauves. Like the Fauves of the past, he follows Van Gogh’s example: he uses and often combines various techniques including charcoal, watercolour, acrylic, and oil. He feels compelled to paint very large pictures; 6 feet (2 metres) is a minimum unit of measurement, and he uses a makeshift technique of colourwashing, spatters and splashes to produce an unfinished effect. He sometimes makes mixed-media collage by inserting bits of wood in faces....

British, 20th century, male.

Born 1891, in Blackburn (Lancashire); died May 1960.

Painter, engraver.

Clive Gardiner studied at the Slade School of Art (1909-1912) and the Royal Academy Schools (1913-1914). He was greatly influenced by Fauvism and a certain method of structuring the canvas in the 1920s. He then returned to figuration. He designed posters for the Underground Group and London Transport ...