Alphonse Osbert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alphonse Osbert

French painter

Date of Birth: 23-Mar-1857

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 11-Aug-1939

Profession: painter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Alphonse Osbert (23 March 1857 – 11 August 1939) was a French Symbolist painter. Educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, his earliest passion was for the great Spanish masters, particularly Jusepe de Ribera.
A shift away from his academic style took place in the late 1880s under the influence of several acquaintances associated with Post-Impressionism and Symbolism.
Osbert abandoned naturalistic painting in favour of a Pointillist technique like that employed by Seurat and Signac.
Also inspired by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and the Symbolists, he chose to forsake depiction of real-world subject matter, and developed a poetic visual language of his own.
His signature style consists of ghostlike Muses in mysterious landscapes bathed in the unearthly light of a sun or moon, rendered with abundant use of the colour blue.
In the 1890s he was associated with Joséphin Péladan and his order of Rosicrucianism. Osbert's later works include a few commissioned murals, for sites including the Centre Thermal des Dômes in Vichy (1903 and 1904), and the Church Of Saint-Louis in Vichy (1915).
An overview of his career titled 'Le peintre symboliste Alphonse Osbert', written by Véronique Dumas, was published by CNRS in 2005.



Alternative names	H. G. Ibels; Henri-Gabriel Ibels; Henri-Gaspard Ibels; h. g. ibels; Ibels H. G.; g. h. ibels
Description	French artist, illustrator, printmaker, painter and author
Date of birth/death	30 November 1867	February 1936
Location of birth/death	10th arrondissement of Paris	10th arrondissement of Paris
Authority control	: Q2084619 VIAF: 9838500 ISNI: 0000 0001 0653 0174 ULAN: 500016306 LCCN: n94122766 GND: 125010133 WorldCat