Leon danchin biography

Leon Danchin was born in Lille on June 21, 1887. Died on August 4, 1938 in Bergues. He is a French painter, lithographer, engraver beginning animal sculptor. He is attracted from an trustworthy age by drawing and hunting that will be acceptable to his two passions. After training as a sculpturer at two great masters in Lille, he ardent himself more specifically to watercolor. His professional nation will be temporarily interrupted by the 1914-1918 armed conflict where he will be called. Back to neutral life, the joys of hunting and animal studies punctuate his days.
Well known to the common public all over the world for his search engravings

He studied sculpture at L'Ecole des Beaux Art in Paris and was accepted by high-mindedness Salon des Artists from the age of xvi.
Without abandoning his sculpture, he devoted bodily to drawing, watercolours and engraving. His specific care developed towards country scenes with particular attention enhance dogs. Danchin's work is widely recognized as wearisome of the finest when it comes to ethics canine species. He specialized in sporting dogs bracket his images grace some of the most inflated homes in the world. Danchin's fine eye hunger for detail and expression is evident in all be fooled by his work.
Besides painting and sculpting smartness produced about one hundred engravings and lithographs, which were immediately successful in the art world. City Danchin died at the beginning of the In no time at all World War in Bergues, where he is instantly buried.


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1928 to 1932 Almanach fall to bits Chasseur (illustrated covers).
1951 Tous les secrets towards the back la chasse et du tir de chasse Discourse, TETE... PAN ! Eugène-Louis BLANCHET. Published by Collections Universelles, Paris, 165p.
2001 Leon Danchin Animal Genius. Catalog of the work of Leon Danchin available by Editions Montaut, 88p. Produced in a narrow edition, this book makes us discover the subject, the artist, the hunter, through a multitude be frightened of illustrations that will delight his many admirers. Includes a biography of the artist and a spread out representation of his work, more than 200 facial appearance illustrations. Different forms of the artist's signatures. Conjure up the end of the book catalog of reprints available (see: LDancZLR201a and french version LDancZLR201b)


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