,'' 1906,
Metropolitan Museum of Art Maurice de Vlaminck was born on
Rue Pierre Lescot in Paris. His father Edmond Julien was
Flemish and taught violin and his mother Joséphine Caroline Grillet came from
Lorraine and taught piano. His father taught him to play the violin. He began painting in his late teens. In 1893, he studied with a painter named Henri Rigalon on the
Île de Chatou. In 1894 he married Suzanne Berly. The turning point in his life was a chance meeting on the train to Paris towards the end of his stint in the army. Vlaminck, then 23 and already active in anarchist circles in Paris, met an aspiring artist,
André Derain, with whom he struck up a lifelong friendship. for a year before Derain left to do his own military service. He painted during the day and earned his livelihood by giving violin lessons and performing with musical bands at night. In 1911, Vlaminck traveled to London and painted by the
Thames. In 1913, he painted again with Derain in
Marseille and
Martigues. In World War I he was stationed in Paris, and began writing poetry. Eventually he settled in Rueil-la-Gadelière, a small village south-west of Paris. He married his second wife, Berthe Combes, with whom he had two daughters. From 1925 he traveled throughout France, but continued to paint primarily along the
Seine, near Paris. Resentful that
Fauvism had been overtaken by
Cubism as an
art movement, Vlaminck blamed
Picasso "for dragging French painting into a wretched dead end and state of confusion". During the Second World War, Vlaminck visited Germany and on his return published a tirade against Picasso and Cubism in the periodical
Comoedia in June 1942. Vlaminck wrote many autobiographies. Vlaminck died in Rueil-la-Gadelière on 11 October 1958. ==Artistic career==