Eugène Alluaud

Gilbert Eugène Alluaud (25 March 1866, Saint-Martin-Terressus – 27 July 1947, Crozant) was a French landscape painter and ceramicist.

Spring (Park) Landscape
Mountain Landscape with Bridge

Biography

He was born to a family of porcelainiers, dating back several generations. His great-grandfather, François (1739-1799), was Director of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Limoges. His grandfather, also named François, worked at Limoges and was a noted geologist. His brother, Charles, broke with family tradition to become an entomologist.

In 1897, he was able to purchase a small manufactory in Limoges, where he created monumental porcelain pieces. Some of them were awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900). Despite this success, increasing production costs forced him into bankruptcy in 1903. Shortly after, Charles Edward Haviland took him into his workshop to manage the decoration process. By 1919, he was able to re-establish a workshop of his own, in Solignac, where he specialized in luxury jars for perfumes.

During these years, he helped to create several organizations devoted to promoting Limoges porcelain. In 1921, he was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor.[1] He was appointed Conservator of the Musée national de la porcelaine Adrien-Dubouché in 1928, and held that position until 1934.[2]

In conjunction with these activities, he was always interested in art; inspired by his father, Amédée (1825-1872), an amateur collector who helped support the group of artists known as the Crozant School.[3] This interest was reinforced when he became friends with the painter, Jules Adler, during his mandatory military service (1885-1886). Immediately after, he enrolled at the Académie Julian, where he studied with William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. After graduating, in 1889, he took a study trip to England, Belgium, Italy and North Africa.

He made his first, brief visit to Crozant in 1887. A longer stay followed in 1891. By 1905, he and his wife, Marcelle, had built a home there, called "La Roca", where they stayed every summer. It soon became a gathering point for the artists' colony. His best friends there included the poet, Maurice Rollinat, and the Impressionist painter Armand Guillaumin, who was a major influence on his middle-period style. Later, he would be more influenced by Cézanne.[4] He was regular exhibitor at the Salon d'Automne.

His works may be seen at museums in Châteauroux, Guéret and Limoges.

References
  1. Documentation @ the Base Leonore
  2. Jean-Marc Ferrer and Camille Tharaud : : l'art de la porcelaine de grand feu, L. Souny, 1994 ISBN 978-2-905262-83-7 Online
  3. Christophe Rameix, L'École de Crozant. Les peintres de la Creuse et de Gargilesse, 1850-1950, Limoges, L. Souny, 1991 ISBN 978-2-911551-87-1
  4. Charlotte Riou et al., Les peintres de la Vallée de la Creuse, une colonie sous influence, Guéret, 1998 ISBN 2-9512954-0-5

Further reading
  • Eugène Alluaud 1866-1947, Paul Madeline 1863-1920, peintres de l'École de Crozant et Gargilesse, Exhibition catalog, Association des amis des peintres de l'école de Crozant et de Gargilesse, Fresselines, 2006.
  • Marie Lissart, "Portrait d'artiste, Eugène Alluaud ", in Être artiste dans la Grande guerre : Limoges 14-18, Limoges, Musée de la Résistance, 2015 ISBN 978-2-9170325-8-9
  • Christophe Rameix, Impressionnisme et postimpressionnisme dans la Vallée de la Creuse, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire/Joué-lès-Tours, Christian Pirot/Ed. La Simarre, 2012.
  • Ernest Tisserand, "Eugène Alluaud", in L'Art et les artistes, 1929, pp. 79–84 available at Gallica
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