Anders Osterlind

Who is Anders Osterlind?

Anders Osterlind, a French painter, was born in Lépaud on June 12, 1887. He died in Paris on January 5, 1960. He was the son of the painter Allan Österlind and the father of watercolorist Nanic Osterlind.

During his youth, Osterlind was close to the impressionist movement, through Armand Guillaume and the aging Auguste Renoir, whom he assisted. He was close to the Fauvism artists at their peak. He also developed mutual friendship and esteem with a number of proeminent painters of the School of Paris, such as Amedeo Modigliani, Michel Kikoine, Chaim Soutine, Othon Friesz, Jacques Villon, André Dunoyer de Segonzac. However, Osterlind showed a fierce sense of independence, an extreme sensitivity to nature, and a dedication to pictural mastery. He pursued, over fifty years, and in a total indifference to trends, a landscape artist’s work, original and filled with strong poetic intensity.