Exhibition The Musée Jenisch in Vevey pays tribute to the artist Félix Vallotton
The Musée Jenisch in Vevey VD is launching the Félix Vallotton Year 2025 to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of the artist from Lausanne. The exhibition is simply entitled "Un hommage". It places Vallotton in dialog with contemporary art.
28.01.2025, 17:12
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In the exhibition, works by Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) are juxtaposed with works by contemporary artists such as Caroline Bachmann, Mathieu Dufois, Valérie Favre, Nicolas Party and Françoise Pétrovitch. Some of these contemporary works were created especially for this exhibition. They refer to Vallotton, "aligning themselves or standing out", as the Musée Jenisch writes.
The exhibition is organized according to themes that are also characteristic of Vallotton's work: Childhood, interior views, landscapes, female nudes and Parisian crowds. The Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL) has carte blanche for the last theme. The students of the art school have developed a program of printed images that will find their place in and around the museum.
Tributes throughout Switzerland
The tribute to Vallotton at the Musée Jenisch is the first in a whole series of exhibitions, publications and events that will be held throughout Switzerland throughout the year. For example, Vallotton will be honored in a major retrospective at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne; and he will be on display at the Kunst Museum Winterthur and the Museo Castello San Materno in Ascona.
The artist has made a name for himself as a painter, graphic artist, wood engraver and writer. Born in Lausanne, he moved to Paris at the age of 17. In the 1890s, he became known above all for his woodcuts with stark black and white contrasts. In his painting, to which he devoted himself from 1899, he was inspired by Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet.
Vallotton became a French citizen in 1900. He died at the age of 60 following a cancer operation near Paris. His oeuvre includes 200 woodcuts, around 1700 paintings, drawings and several sculptures. Vallotton also wrote three novels, plays and essays.
The Musée Jenisch is showing works from its own collection as well as loans from the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève and a private collection. The exhibition "Félix Vallotton. Un hommage" can be seen from January 29 to May 25.
