Arnulf de Bouché, IN THE BUILDING

67.0 x 56.0cm - oil, cardboard signed p.d: A. de Bouché

Arnulf de Bouché - portraitist, painter of still lifes and nudes - son of painter and stained glass artist Carl de Bouché (1845-1920). Arnulf de Bouché took his first drawing and painting lessons from his father, and later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was a pupil of Gabriel von Hackl and Paul Höcker. The artist is best known as a painter of female nudes. He very often depicted his female models, captured in sensual, refined poses, in oriental settings, giving the paintings the appropriate, meaningful titles Saida, Tamara, Fatma, Bajadera or Odalisque. From 1901, he regularly participated in exhibitions held in Munich's Glaspalast, and in 1914 he took part in the Great Art Exhibition in Berlin. His paintings are in the collections of German museums (including his 1912 Self-Portrait at the Stadtmuseum in Nuremberg), but most of them have ended up in private collections. The artist's works often appear at European art auctions, and more recently in Poland.