A great Canadian master, the painter Albert Rousseau was born in Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon, Quebec in 1908 (died in 1982). He is often considered one of the best landscape painters in Quebec. Rousseau purchased a windmill, "Le Moulin des Arts" in Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon, which became a meeting place for hundreds of artists, who exhibited their works every year. Rousseau is an original artist who constantly cultivates his art, experimenting and varying textures, materials and techniques (oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, pastel, ink, screen printing, engraving and mixed media, etc.). Some traits of Rousseau's works are the luminosity, rich and contrasting colors. Albert Rousseau is a painter of the land, of heritage, his multiple subjects included landscapes, houses, village scenes, city streets, still lifes, ports and portraits.
A Quebec landscape painter
"Albert Rousseau remained an important landscape painter throughout his life, sought after by many collectors. While faithful to tradition, particularly through the rural aspect of his approach, he treated his subjects with great modernity thanks to generous impasto and ubiquitous harmonies of pure color. Albert Rousseau was also an extremely important cultural animator in the Quebec region. In Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon, where he lived and worked, on the south shore of Quebec, his mill proved to be a very dynamic place that is still unequaled. Robert Bernier
A Quebec painter, Albert Rousseau has participated in numerous exhibitions, notably in Quebec, Canada, the United States, and Europe. You will find these paintings in museum collections and in numerous public and private art gallery collections (National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Musée du Québec, Musée Laurier, Canadian Museum of Civilization in Quebec City, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, etc.).
