Nationality French Name Emile Colinus | Known for Painting | |
Born 17 November 1884 ( 1884-11-17 ) Paris, France Died 18 August 1966(1966-08-18) (aged 81)
Paris, France | ||
Emile Colinus (born 1884 in Paris, died 1966 in Paris), was a French painter and illustrator .
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Biography
Colinus first studied at the Academie de Montmartre under the leadership of Andre Lhote, with whom he learned how to simplify forms. The paintings he shows at the Salon des Independants from 1925 synthsise the heritage of Fernand Cormon and Andre Lhote in a personal way.
Colinus married Renee Unik, who was a painter as well. Having studied with Jules Adler and Georges Berges at the Academie Julian she was a specialist of portrait paintings. The couple didn't travel far but in 1931 they went to the shore of the Mediterranean where Colinus painted a landscape that he would later exhibit at the Salon des Independants the same year. In 1956 Colinus spent all summer in Martel, Lot, in a villa with a garden where he painted a portrait of his wife seated behind her easel.
He died in Paris on 18 August 1966.