Gaston BUSSIERE

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Gaston Bussière (1862-1928) was a French painter and illustrator. He was born at Cuisery (Saône-et-Loire). He studied under Cabanel and Puvis de Chavannes at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Under the influence of Puvis, Gaston Bussière became friends with Gustave Moreau and Jean-Paul Laurens, and thereafter allied himself with the Symbolists.

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Bussière's first prints were lithographs, but he soon turned to etching and engraving. Gaston Bussière's most famous lithograph, "Brunehild", published by L'Estampe Moderne in 1899, was later reworked as an etching in 1901 and as an engraving in 1903; it reflects the artist's passion for the operas of Wagner.

Around 1905 Gaston Bussière settled in the artistic colony of Cerez-sur-Loing, and gradually abandoned his mythological and symbolist concerns in favour of pastoral subjects.

Biographie en Français

- 1880 -

Exotic Dancers

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- 1886 -

Tahoser

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- 1894 -

La Révélation

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- 1897 -

Brunnhild

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Honoré de Balzac : The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans

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Honoré de Balzac : The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans

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The Garden Arbor

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 - 1901 -

Waterlilies

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- 1902 -

The Nereides

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- 1907 -

Salammbô

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- 1908 -

Joan of Arc

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- 1910 -

Salammbô

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- 1911 -

Isolde

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- 1914 -

Salome

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- 1926 -

Dance of the Seven Veils

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- 1928 -

Abeille

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- Undated -

Hélène de Troie

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Yseult la Blonde

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Two Children with Crowns of Flowers

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Juventa

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Exotic Dancer

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La Danse de Salomé

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Sea Nymphs at a Grotto

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Les Papillons d'Or

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Oriental Beauty

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Oriental Beauty

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Plafond de la Salle du Conseil Municipal de Mâcon, France (Detail)

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Tristan and Iseult

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Ophélie in Water

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La Mort des Preux

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The Death of Roland

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La Mort de l'Archevêque Turpin

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Untitled

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Nymph Toasting

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Brunhild's Awakening

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La Fée des Oiseaux

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Epic Poetry

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Enchantment

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