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Biography of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

(1864-1901)
Movement: Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau
Is often spelled as Toulouse Lautrec, Lautrec Toulouse, Henri Toulouse Lautrec, Toulouse Lautrec Henri, Henri Lautrec Toulouse, Henri Lautrec, Lautrec Henri, henry de Toulouse Lautrec, henry Lautrec.

Many immortal artists lived and worked in Paris during the late 19th century. They included Degas, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, Renoir, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The artist observed and captured in his art the Parisian nightlife of the period.

Henri Lautrec Toulouse was born on Nov. 24, 1864, in Albi, France. He was an aristocrat, the son and heir of Comte Alphonse-Charles de Toulouse and last in line of a family that dated back a thousand years. His father was rich, handsome, and eccentric. His mother was overly devoted to her only living child. Toulouse artist was weak and often sick. By the time hewas 10, he had begun to draw and paint.
At 12 young Toulouse-Lautrec broke his left leg and at 14 his right leg. The bones failed to heal properly, and his legs stopped growing. The artist reached young adulthood with a body trunk of normal size but with abnormally short legs. He was only 1.5 meters tall.

Deprived of the kind of life that a normal body would have permitted, Henri Lautrec lived wholly for his art. He stayed in the Montmartre section of Paris, the center of the cabaret entertainment and bohemian life that he loved to paint. Circuses, dance halls and nightclubs, racetracks--all these spectacles were set down on canvas or made into lithographs.
Lautrec Henri was very much a part of all this activity. He would sit at a crowded nightclub table, laughing and drinking, and at the same time the painter would make swift sketches. The next morning in his studio he would expand the sketches into bright-colored Toulouse art.

In order to become a part of the Montmartre life--as well as to protect himself against the crowd's ridicule of his appearance--Henry de Toulouse Lautrec began to drink heavily. In the 1890s the drinking started to affect his health. Toulouse artist was confined to a sanatorium and to his mother's care at home, but he could not stay away from alcohol. He died on Sept. 9, 1901, at the family chateau of Malrome. Since then Toulouse Lautrec works and posters--particularly Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Moulin Rouge group -- have been in great demand and bring high prices at auctions and Toulouse art sales.