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Louis Vivin

Louis Vivin (1861 - 1936) was active/lived in France.  Louis Vivin is known for Naive style painting, architectural paintings, buildings in cities and landscapes.

Louis Vivin (born 28 July 1861, Hadol, France; died 28 May 1936 in Paris) was a French primitivist painter.

Vivin was self-taught and a representative of naïve painting. He showed great enthusiasm for painting as a child, but his career took him in a completely different direction: he worked as a postal clerk until 1922, pursuing his art only in his spare time. Eventually, he was discovered by the German art critic Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), an association which helped him start exhibitions and build a reputation as a serious artist.

When he worked in the postal service, his job was an inspector. Once he retired in the year of 1923, Louis Vivin finally took up the full-time part of being an artist. His birthplace was in the city of Hadol, France. He moved to Paris, France in the year of 1889 where he lived with his wife in the district of Montparnasse.
The subjects of Vivin's paintings were still life, hunting subjects, and the city of Paris.[6] Vivin was a contemporar   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2404 characters.]  Artist bio

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