EMILE FRIANT 1863-1932 Dieuze, France - Video

Émile Friant was born in Dieuze in 1863. After the Franco-Prussian War and the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to the German Empire in 1871, his family moved to the city of Nancy where they settled. There he attends the Loritz College before being admitted to the Nancy School of Fine Arts, in whose halls he has exhibited his works since he was 15 years old.

His exhibitions in the halls of the School of Fine Arts were soon highlighted and the artist found himself rewarded by a scholarship at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, where he frequented the painter Alexandre Cabanel of whom he became a disciple. .

Distinctions

Friant - La Discussion politic
Emile Friant is awarded the second Prix de Rome in 1883 for his work (Edipe maudissant son fils Polynice). In 1889, on the occasion of the universal exhibition, he received the gold medal for his painting La Toussaint. His future was assured and his work was finally recognized. From this moment, commissions for paintings began to arrive from different parts. of the world.

Style

Mathias Schiff and Camille Martin by Émile Friant
Friant is a naturalist painter, belonging to the artistic current of the École de Nancy, although his painting is not framed in the Art Nouveau style, his paintings focus on scenes of daily life or portraits that his family and friends served him of models.

At the time his style was judged too realistic and indeed the realism of Friant's painting is very close to photography and the new technologies that he was passionate about.

In addition to painting, Friant teaches at the National School of Fine Arts in Nancy.

In 1923 he became a member of the Academy of Fine Arts and in 1931 he was decorated with the Legion of Honor, he died in Paris on June 9, 1932, shortly after his beloved Nancy was buried in the Préville Cemetery .

A part of his life is fictionalized in the story by Philippe Claudel, Goodbye, Mr. Friant, Oviedo, KRK, 2017 ISBN 978-84-8367-560-1
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