Biografie von Alois LECOQUE (1891-1981)

Birth place: Prague, Czech

Addresses: Los Angeles, CA

Profession: Painter, writer

Studied: Acad. Beaux Arts, Zagreb, with Crnic; Acad. Julian, Paris, with Baschett & Emile Bernard; Auguste Renoir.

Exhibited: Gal. Charpentier, Paris, 1912; Anglo-German Exh., Crystal Palace, London, England, 1913; Int. Sect., Biennale Venice, 1926 & 1928; Gals. Bergen, Oslo, 1935; Munic. Tower Gal., Los Angeles, 1958; Alred Loeb, Paris, 1970s. Awards: first prize of Architect Turek, Prague, 1914; Soc. Arts, Science, Letters, Paris Gold Medal, 1966.

Member: Soc. Arts, Science, Letters, Paris; Club Culturel Français, Los Angeles.

Work: Mus. Old Montmartre, Paris; Coll. Beaux-Arts Ville Paris; Mus. Prague; Mus. Davenport, IA; MoMA, Haifa, Israel. Commissions: "Rooftops of Prague," by Pres. Jan Masaryk for Pres. Eisenhower, 1945; portrait, Adlai Stevenson, Chicago, 1952.

Comments: Preferred media: oils, tempera. Publications: auth., La Ragazza dalla Gamba di Legno, 1951, Tragic Weekend, 1965; Renoir My FriendóRenoir Mon Ami, 1968, Capri Unfinished Portrait, 1968 & Monography, 1972.

Sources: WW73; H. Adam, article, Lett Françaises (1961); Maximilien Gauthier, Paris, 1961; Pierre Cailler, Documents (Cahiers Art, 1966).