André LHOTE 1885-1962

A painter and sculptor, he was also a prominent critic, writer, and professor of modern art.

Lhote studied decorative sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux from 1898 to 1904. Around 1905, he took up painting and moved to Paris a year later. Lhote initially painted colorful landscapes in a Fauvist style, then joined Cubism.

Developing Cubist theories and gifted as a teacher, he influenced a whole generation of French artists. In 1922, he also founded his own art school in Paris, the Académie Montparnasse. Lhote was also an art critic for La Nouvelle Revue Française from 1917 to 1940 and also wrote important treatises, notably on landscape painting (1939) and figurative painting (1950).