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Émile Schuffenecker
French painter
Claude-Émile Schuffenecker (8 December 1851 – 31 July 1934) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, painter, art teacher and art collector.
A friend of Paul Gauguin and Odilon Redon, and one of the first collectors of works by Vincent van Gogh, Schuffenecker was instrumental in establishing The Volpini Exhibition, in 1889.
Biography
Claude-Émile Schuffenecker, son of Nicolas Schuffenecker (1829–1854) and Anne Monnet (1836–1907)[1] was born in Fresne-Saint-Mamès (Haute-Saône).
His father, a tailor originating from Guewenheim (Alsace, today Haut-Rhin), died when Émile was little more than two years old; the same year his brother Amédée was born in Charentenay (Haut-Rhin).[2] The widow with her two boys moved to Meudon, close to Paris, where part of her mother's family lived, and where she had found work at a laundry.
In the years to follow Émile was raised by his mother's sister, Anne Fauconnet Monnet, and her husba
