Gustave Loiseau

Born 1865 in Paris
Died 1935 in Paris

In his city scenes and landscapes, Loiseau adapted motifs from the Impressionists, using a special technique to imbue them with his own sensibility.

Loiseau first began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, but after a serious illness decided to pursue his artistic ambitions. An inheritance made it possible for him to enroll in the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1887. He moved to Montmartre and lived in the studio building that would later become famous as the Bateau-Lavoir.

In 1890, Loiseau went to Pont-Aven for the first time; there, an artist’s colony had formed around Paul Gauguin, to which Moret also belonged. The painting of the Pont-Aven School had little influence on Loiseau. Divisionism, on the other hand, found an echo in his late Impressionist painting, to which he remained faithful into the 1920s. Loiseau developed a special hatching technique which became known as en treillis.

Loiseau in the collection

Gustave Loiseau is represented with two works in the Hasso Plattner Collection, on view in the Museum Barberini as a permanent loan from the Hasso Plattner Foundation. With over 110 paintings of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, including masterpieces by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Gustave Caillebotte, and Paul Signac, the museum in Potsdam is one of the most important centers of Impressionist landscape painting in the world.