Gustave Lino Paintings

Gustave Lino was born in Mulhouse on October 27, 1893. Adolescent, he often visited the museum of the city and was interested in painting. In 1912, at only 19 years old, he went to Marseille and discovered the particular light of Provence. Without anyone knowing why he embarks for Algiers. In 1914, the war broke out. Lino learned painting alongside a fellow countryman. He painted many paintings and decorated the hotel Solferino d'Ajaccio and the castle of Malaspina-Massa in Belgodère. At the end of the war, he returned to Algiers. Lino followed the courses of Georges Rochegrosse. Particularly talented, he exhibited in Paris in Salons and galleries, such as the Salon des Artistes French from 1926 and the Danton Gallery, Rue La Boétie in 1927. To perfect his training, Lino then undertook a long stay in Spain, where he studied chiaroscuro. Back in Algeria, he traveled the north and the great south of Algeria (Laghouat, Touggourt, El Oued among others ...). He was very interested in Albert Marquet's painting, which particularly seduces him. Lino specialized in still lifes, Algerian landscapes and seascapes. He left Algiers for Bou-Saada. After the Second World War, Lino made several trips. In Tunisia, where he was gone for a few days, he spent six months in Sidi-Bou-Said, crunching every corner of the city, seizing the habits of the inhabitants. He spent six months in the Balearic Islands and later in Mallorca. He returned to Corsica long after his internment and traveled the island for several months. In 1954, he spent a few weeks in Venice and the works are the opportunity of an exhibition that is a real success. Very close to the group called Painters of Poetic Reality. Lino's palette was particularly colorful, often linear, with a predilection for blues, taking as a subject all the towns and villages visited. But his creativity is not limited to landscapes, he was also an accomplished portraitist and his talent gradually evolved from Expressionism to a more and more contemporary painting, whose modernism is revealed at the end of his life. through his compositions. It is part of contemporary post-war Algerian painting with Sauveur Galliero, Jean Simian, René-Jean Clot, Pierre Pruvost, Jack Chambrin, Jean-Pierre Blanche, Pierre Clement, etc. Lino became an eminent member of the Algiers School and exhibited at the Galerie de l'Institut - rue de Seine in Paris in 1957, after which the City of Paris bought him a painting, Intérieur, which was exhibited at the Palais du Luxembourg. Lino died in 1961. He posthumously won the last Algerian Grand Prix Artistique in 1962. Lino was of German nationality. It is for this reason that he is incarcerated in Corsica at the convent of Corbara.