Louis Abel-Truchet

Louis Abel-Truchet ( 1857-1918 )

Louis Abel-Truchet was bom on December 29, 1857, Versailles, Yvelines, France and died on September 9, 1918, Auxerre, France.

He was a student of Benjamin Constant and Jules Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian in Paris , Louis Abel-Truchet has made many paintings of nocturnal Parisian life at the turn of the xix th and xx th  centuries, as well as landscapes and genre scenes . His paintings are treated in a post-impressionist style .

In 1907 he founded the Société des humoristes with Louis Vallet .

He is close to Gallé, bourgeois family of Creil. He offered several paintings to Ernest Gallé, whom he named his "uncle" without any family relationship, and Auguste Gallé.

Landscape painter and genre scenes , he painted and engraved boards on Montmartre, participated in "  Vachalcades  " Cabaret Quat'z'Arts and was the author of several tanks. 

Abel-Truchet is appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1911.

During the First World War , he was a volunteer as territorial lieutenant in the 1 st  Engineer Regiment in 1914. The army used his skills as a painter by appointing him to the post of Deputy Guirand Scevola , head of the section camouflage . Abel-Truchet directed the central workshop of this training in Paris. During the war, he published caricatures in the press and in particular Le Petit Journal .

He died as a result of a war injury shortly before the end of hostilities.

After his death, his widow, Julia Abel-Truchet , takes again the brushes of her husband to whom she succeeded the workshop and knows the success with her portraits and her views of flowering garden.

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