Bonnard Roussel Vuillard

Ker Xavier Roussel

1867 Born December 10 in Lorraine, France. 1870 – 71 The family moves to Paris after the Franco-Prussian War. Attends the Lycée Condorcet with Vuillard and Maurice Denis. 1888 – 89 Studies at the Académie Julien and joins the Nabis with Bonnard, Vuillard and Denis. 1890 Exhibits at the galleries of Le Barc de Boutteville, Durand-Ruel, Druet and regularly at Bernheim-Jeune. Also exhibits at the gallery of Ambrose Vollard. Marries Vuillard’s sister Marie with whom he will have two children, Jacques and Annette. First solo exhibition of pastels, lithographs, and drawings takes place at the offices of La Revue Blanche . Purchases and moves to a home in L’Etang-la-Ville in the suburbs of Paris. This will be Roussel’s lifetime residence. 1894 1906 1892 Travels to Belgium, Holland, and London with Vuillard. 1893

Receives a commission for murals at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

1913

While considering enlisting in the military, suffers a nervous breakdown and spends the next few years in a psychiatric hospital in Switzerland.

1914

1916 – 18 Receives commission for murals in the Kunstmuseum Winterthur (reworked in 1926 ). 1926 Awarded the Carnegie Prize. 1936 Receives commission for the League of Nations, Geneva. 1937 Receives commission for murals in the Théâtre du Palais de Chaillot. 1944 June 5 dies in L’Etang-la-Ville