Conférence “Jules Adler, quelques frissons d’humanité”

By Thibault Sinay, biographer of Jules Adler
On the occasion of the publication of the book "Jules Adler Quelques frissons d'humanité", this conference presents a panorama of the painter's life and invites to deepen a theme linked to the permanent collections of the Musée des Ursulines.

A Franc-Comtois painter born in Luxeuil-les-Bains, Jules Adler (1865-1952) was part of the movement of naturalist artists who, at the end of the 19th century, embodied an alternative path between the Impressionist and Fauvist avant-gardes through a more official art. Jules Adler was influenced by the currents of ideas and the political and economic upheavals of his time. Adler's naturalism was directly inspired by the social conditions of his time; he painted a reality that his contemporaries knew and that they found in literature in Zola or the Goncourt brothers. In a period of universal suffrage, democracy and socialism, he was attracted by the spectacles of the ardent life, describing the human and anonymous crowd of the capital, the factories, the countryside...

Limited number of seats. By reservation only.
Public: teenagers-adults / Duration: 1 hour