Émile Schuffenecker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Émile Schuffenecker

French painter

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1851

Place of Birth: Fresne-Saint-Mamès, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 31-Jul-1934

Profession: painter, art collector, art forger

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Émile Schuffenecker (8 December 1851 – 31 July 1934) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, painter, art teacher and art collector.
A friend of Paul Gauguin and Odilon Redon, and one of the first collectors of works by Vincent van Gogh, Schuffenecker was instrumental in establishing The Volpini exhibition, in 1889.
His own work, however, tends to have been neglected since his death—and even worse, recent season campaigns in the media have reactivated resentments virulent since the late 1920s, when Schuffenecker was suspected to have imitated the work of other contemporary artists, among them, Van Gogh.
Still a contentious issue, it has not been established whether or not he produced forgeries.
Meanwhile, serious scholarly research at least has provided the base for a sober historical approach to Schuffenecker's life and work.



Alternative names	Emile Schuffenecker Claude-Émile Schuffenecker
Description	French art collector, painter and art forger
Date of birth/death	8 December 1851	31 July 1934
Location of birth/death	Fresne-Saint-Mamès	Paris
Work location	Paris, Bretagne, Normandie
Authority control	: Q286456 VIAF: 29642540 ISNI: 0000 0000 8108 6715 ULAN: 500013470 LCCN: n78062740 WGA: SCHUFFENECKER, Emile WorldCat