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Ker Xavier Roussel
1867
Born December
10
in Lorraine, France.
1870
–
71
The family moves to Paris after the Franco-Prussian War. Attends the Lycée
Condorcet with Vuillard and Maurice Denis.
1888
–
89
Studies at the Académie Julien and joins the
Nabis
with Bonnard,
Vuillard and Denis.
1890
Exhibits at the galleries of Le Barc de Boutteville, Durand-Ruel, Druet and
regularly at Bernheim-Jeune. Also exhibits at the gallery of Ambrose Vollard.
1892
Travels to Belgium, Holland, and London with Vuillard.
1893
Marries Vuillard’s sister Marie with whom he will have two children,
Jacques and Annette.
1894
First solo exhibition of pastels, lithographs, and drawings takes place at the offices
of
La Revue Blanche
.
1906
Purchases and moves to a home in L’Etang-la-Ville in the suburbs of Paris.
This will be Roussel’s lifetime residence.
1913
Receives a commission for murals at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
1914
While considering enlisting in the military, suffers a nervous breakdown and
spends the next few years in a psychiatric hospital in Switzerland.
1916
–
18
Receives commission for murals in the Kunstmuseum Winterthur
(reworked in
1926
).
1926
Awarded the Carnegie Prize.
1936
Receives commission for the League of Nations, Geneva.
1937
Receives commission for murals in the Théâtre du Palais de Chaillot.
1944
June
5
dies in L’Etang-la-Ville