Achille lauge biography channel

Achille Laugé was the son of well-to-do farmers in the town of Cailhau near Carcassonne, where he spent most of his life. Laugé began studies in Toulouse in 1878 and continued in Paris in 1881.

At the École des Beaux-Arts he studied with Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Paul Laurens. While at the École, Antoine Bourdelle, whom Laugé had known in Toulouse, introduced him to Aristide Maillol and the three maintained a long and fruitful friendship.

In 1888, after seven years in Paris (including a term of military service), Laugé returned to the south and established himself again at Carcassonne, returning to Cailhau where he spent the rest of his life, recording the familiar and beautiful colors of southern France.

Laugé’s time in Paris spanned the critical years from 1886 to1888 (Seurat’s “La Grande Jatte” was first exhibited amidst much controversy in 1886) and his contact with Neo-Impressionism shoul