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Biography of Balthus
Name: Balthus
Birth Date: February 29, 1908
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter, artist
Balthus
Balthus (born 1908) was a French painter and stage designer who worked within the Western tradition of figure painting. He is best known for his paintings of everyday life invested with a sense of mystery, symbolism, and eroticism.Balthus was born Balthasar Klossowski in Paris, France, on February 29, 1908, to a Prussian family that had left Silesia five years before. His parents were both painters, as was his brother, and they lived in Switzerland and Berlin during the turbulent years before, during, and after World War I. Balthus did not study at the Academy of Fine Arts or in the studio of another painter. Instead, he taught himself by copying masterpieces at the Louvre Museum, as had many painters in the 19th century. He did attend sketching classes at the Grand Chaumiere, an informal art school, where he received criticism from Maurice Vlaminck and Pierre Bonnard, two prominent painters associated with the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…th century. Balthus died on February 18, 2001, at his chalet in Rossiniere, Switzerland, at the age of 92. Further Reading For a thorough account of Balthus' life and a good number of color illustrations of work from all periods see Sabine Rewald's Balthus (1984), a catalog for his retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1984. Another monograph with a text by Jean Leymarie, Balthus (1979), was published earlier. There are various catalogs on specific aspects of Balthus' work, such as Balthus, Drawings and Watercolors by Giovanni Carandente, but there is no real examination of the psycho-sexual content in his work. See also Balthus Receives A Visitor by Ted Morgan in the New York Times Magazine, January 9, 1994; and Solitary In the City of Art by Jed Perl in The New Republic, March 13, 1995. Balthus can be found on the Web at A&E Biography, http://www.biography.com/find/find.html.
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