Emile schuffenecker biography

French painter

Claude-Émile Schuffenecker (8 December – 31 July ) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, painter, art teacher and art collector. A friend of Paul Gauguin and Odilon Redon, and one of the first collectors of works by Vincent van Gogh, Schuffenecker was instrumental in establishing The Volpini Exhibition, in

Biography

Claude-Émile Schuffenecker, son of Nicolas Schuffenecker (–) and Anne Monnet (–)^[1] was born in Fresne-Saint-Mamès (Haute-Saône).

His father, a tailor originating from Guewenheim (Alsace, today Haut-Rhin), died when Émile was little more than two years old; the same year his brother Amédée was born in Charentenay (Haut-Rhin).^[2] The widow with her two boys moved to Meudon, close to Paris, where part of her mother's family lived, and where she had found work at a laundry.

In the years to follow Émile was raised by his mother's sister, Anne Fauconnet Monnet, and her husband Pierre Cornu in Paris, educa Emile Schuffenecker - National Gallery of Art VYP