Roger De La Corbiere

(1893 – about 1970)

Roger de la Corbiere was born in Vienna in 893 and studied painting under Choultse, one of the most famous painters of snow scenes in Europe.  It was from these studies that he learnt to contrast light and shade so effectively.  His early paintings were snow scenes, but, eventually sunlight on seawater, with all its phosphorescent luminosity, captured his attention.  The rest of his life was devoted to painting this beautiful subject.

Roger de la Corbiere lived in Northern France and many of his paintings were scenes from points in or near his studio on the Brittany coast.  He lived a long and productive life into his eighties, though the exact year of his death is not known it was almost certainly in the late 1970's at his home in France.

His work is in many collections, from diplomats in the Soviet Union to important ruling families in India, and has brought pleasure to successive generations.  Exhibitions of his work during  his lifetime began at the Salon des Artistes Independants in 1922 and at the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts since 1932. The French Government purchased a selection of his work in 1925.

Without doubt, Roger de la Corbiere was one of the most skillful painters of light on water, capturing the timeless beauty of sunsets and the sea.