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Ferdinand Humbert
Jacques-Ferdinand Humbert (8 October 1842, in Paris – 6 October 1934, in Paris) was a French painter who specialized in portraits and historical scenes. Life and work His uncle, Jean Charles Ferdinand Humbert (1813–1881), was a famous landscape painter who had studied with Ingres. He received his education at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he enrolled in 1861. His teachers there included François-Édouard Picot, Alexandre Cabanel and Eugène Fromentin. His first showing at the Salon came in 1865, with a canvas depicting the "Flight of Nero". He received awards at subsequent Salons in 1866, 1867 and 1869. In 1874, he began what would become his major life's work; "Pro Patria" (For the Homeland), a series of wall paintings at the Panthéon, which were completed in 1900. They comprised a cycle of the history of France and Paris, as well as a celebration of the Republic. His fame extended outside France and he was especially well-known amon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Braque
Georges Braque ( , ; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century List of French artists, French painter, Collage, collagist, Drawing, draughtsman, printmaker and sculpture, sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque's work between 1908 and 1912 is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso. Their respective Cubist works were indistinguishable for many years, yet the quiet nature of Braque was partially eclipsed by the fame and notoriety of Picasso. Early life Georges Braque was born on 13 May 1882 in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise. He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and interior decorator, decorator like his father and grandfather. However, he also studied artistic painting during evenings at the École supérieure d'art et design Le Havre-Rouen, previously known as the École supérieure des Arts in Le Havre, from about 1897 to 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Grande Encyclopédie
''La Grande Encyclopédie, inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres, et des arts'' (''The Great Encyclopedia: a systematic inventory of science, letters, and the arts'') is a 31-volume encyclopedia published in France from 1886 to 1902 by H. Lamirault, and later by the Société Anonyme de la Grande Encyclopédie (Grande Encyclopédie Company). The general secretaries of its editorial board were Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus and André Berthelot. Major articles are signed and include a bibliography. In its 31 volumes of 1200 pages each, there are about 200,000 articles, 15,000 engraved illustrations and 200 maps. From the Preface: In the article "Encyclopédie": According to the Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The librar ... catalog record, the indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia (: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism. His highly abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in contrasts. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France. He was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment. Biography Early life Francis Picabia was born in Paris of a French mother and a Cuban father of Spanish descent. Some sources would have his father as of aristocratic Spanish descent, whereas others consider him of non-aristocratic Spanish descent, from the region of Galicia. His birth year of 1879 coincided with the Spanish-Cuban Little War; and though Picabia was born in Paris, his father was involved in Cuban-French relations and would later serve as att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Marret
Henri Justin Marret,(February 15, 1878 – July 25, 1964) was a French painter and engraver. He was born in Paris and died in Fourqueux (Yvelines Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.1878 births 1964 deaths Knights of the Legion of Honour 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrée Lavieille
Andrée Lavieille (Paris 11 September 1887 – 14 May 1960 Paris) was a French painter. Daughter and granddaughter of painters (her father, Adrien Lavieille, and her mother, Marie Adrien Lavieille, her grandfather on the father's side, Eugène Lavieille), Andrée Lavieille entered École des Beaux-Arts in 1908. Subjects of her paintings were still lifes, interiors and especially landscapes. She painted at Saint-Jean-de-Monts in Vendée beside Auguste Lepère, at Fontainebleau, Vendôme, Chartres, then in Paris, where she and her husband, Paul Tuffrau, a man of letters, have successively inhabited, in Gironde in the little village of Plassac, and above all in Brittany, which immediately won her heart, particularly at Le Pouldu (1924–1939), and in the region of the Pointe du Raz and the baie des Trépassés (1937–1947). She realized oil paintings, but more and more was attracted by watercolour, more spontaneous for her. Nourished by the classicism of the Chardin of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia Cuţescu-Storck
Cecilia is a personal name originating in the name of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. The name has been popularly used in Europe (particularly the United Kingdom and Italy, where in 2018 it was the 43rd most popular name for girls born that year), and the United States, where it has ranked among the top 500 names for girls for more than 100 years. It also ranked among the top 100 names for girls born in Sweden in the early years of the 21st century, and was formerly popular in France. The name "Cecilia" applied generally to Roman women who belonged to the plebeian clan of the Caecilii. Legends and hagiographies, mistaking it for a personal name, suggest fanciful etymologies. Among those cited by Chaucer in "The Second Nun's Tale" are: lily of heaven, the way for the blind, contemplation of heaven and the active life, as if lacking in blindness, and a heaven for people to gaze upon. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernande Cormier
Fernande Victoire Cormier, born on 17 November 1888 in Toulon and died on 15 August 1964 in Sanary-sur-Mer, was a French painter. Biography Born on 17 November 1888 in Toulon, Fernande Cormier studied under Ferdinand Humbert and . She exhibited from 1913 onwards at the Salon des artistes français in Paris (of which she was a member), winning a silver medal and a travel grant in 1920, at the Salon d'automne from 1919 to 1926 and at the Salon des Tuileries in 1927. She was second grand prix de Rome in 1919. She also participated in the exhibitions of the Society of Modern Women Artists in 1935-1936 and 1938. She traveled to Fez and exhibited her Moroccan paintings in 1926. Linked to Provence her native region, she made sets for the foyer of the Toulon Opera: in her painting of the Foyer Campra at the Opera, she depicts Massenet's '' Poème pastoral'' with a view of the Siou-Blanc plateau, a mountainous massif in the south-western part of the Var department. The subject, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier
Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier (8 September 1886 – 7 November 1965) was a French painter and sculptor. She was born and died in Paris. She had an artistic independence. She studied in the École des Beaux Arts (1903–1909) and met Auguste Rodin. Her work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The op .... She wrote a Journal d’artiste (a diary), from 1930 to her death in 1965. Her mother Madeleine Carpentier was also a painter. References Bibliography * Marion Boyer, ''Une École de Femmes au XXe siècle'', Éditions Un, Deux… Quatre, 1999 * Marion Boyer, ''Paris Trait pour Trait'', Éditions Un, Deux… Quatre, 2001 * Marion Boyer (dir.): ''Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier « La Refu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marius Borgeaud
Marius Borgeaud (21 September 1861 – 16 July 1924) was a Swiss Post-Impressionist painter. He was born in Lausanne. Early life Borgeaud came from a bourgeois milieu; he attended the Industrial School of Lausanne and did not intend to pursue painting. As chance would have it, the future gallerist Paul Vallotton was one of his school-mates. In 1888, he began working in a bank in Marseille and remained there until the death of his father the following year. He inherited a significant legacy. The following decade saw Borgeaud squander that legacy by leading an expensive life, particularly in Paris. His excessive lifestyle threatened his health and forced him to detox on the shores of Lake Constance in 1900 under guardianship. Shortly after he returned to settle in Paris was when he devoted himself to painting. Paris His arrival in Paris, aspiring to become a painter at the turn of the twentieth century, was not out of the ordinary. The Swiss art colony there was healthy; some of it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panthéon - La Liberté (hlw17 0012)
The Panthéon (, from the Ancient Greek language, Classical Greek word , , '[temple] to all the gods') is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It stands in the Latin Quarter, atop the , in the centre of the , which was named after it. The edifice was built between 1758 and 1790, from designs by , at the behest of King Louis XV, Louis XV of France; the king intended it as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve, Paris's patron saint, whose relics were to be housed in the church. Neither Soufflot nor Louis XV lived to see the church completed. By the time the construction was finished, the French Revolution had started; the National Constituent Assembly (France), National Constituent Assembly voted in 1791 to transform the Church of Saint Genevieve into a mausoleum for the remains of distinguished French citizens, modelled on the Pantheon, Rome, Pantheon in Rome which had been used in this way since the 16th century. The first was , although his remains were remov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Othon Friesz
Achille-Émile Othon Friesz (6 February 1879 – 10 January 1949), who later called himself Othon Friesz, a native of Le Havre, was a French artist of the Fauvist movement. Biography Othon Friesz was born in Le Havre, the son of a long line of shipbuilders and sea captains. He went to school in his native city. It was while he was at the Lycée that he met his lifelong friend Raoul Dufy. He and Dufy studied at the Le Havre School of Fine Arts in 1895-96 and then went to Paris together for further study. In Paris, Friesz met Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Georges Rouault. Like them, he rebelled against the academic teaching of Bonnat and became a member of the Fauves, exhibiting with them in 1907. The following year, Friesz returned to Normandy and to a much more traditional style of painting, since he had discovered that his personal goals in painting were firmly rooted in the past. He opened his own studio in 1912 and taught until 1914 at which time he joined the army fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
