Alphonse Lanoë
Born in 1926.
Died in 2009.
According to the sources consulted, Alphonse Lanoë (1926–2009) presents himself as a painter and lithographer associated with Brittany and Switzerland, whose work is dominated by landscapes marked by an attachment to nature and to Breton heritage.
According to the notice, he came from a family of millers and is said to have taken part as a partisan in the Maquis during the Second World War.
After a stay in Paris in 1946, he settled in Switzerland in 1947, a date regarded by several notices as the starting point of his career on Swiss soil.
The documentation also indicates that he was afflicted with tuberculosis and underwent a two-year course of treatment in Davos.
He met his future wife, Margrit (née Jungi, 1931), in the context of a Kunstgewerbeschule, while he worked as a decorator to support himself.
Artistically, his oeuvre consists primarily of landscapes; the notices describe him as a painter and lithographer whose views bear witness to a tenuous connection with nature and a Breton matrix. In addition, offset prints and signed prints are among the documented media, while certain works are accompanied by references to varied provenances.
