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Eduard Charlemont (2 August 1848 – 7 February 1906) was an
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painter.


Early life

Eduard Charlemont was born in
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, capital of the
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, in 1848. His father, Matthias Adolf Charlemont, was also a painter, specializing in painting miniature portraits. His younger brother
Hugo Charlemont Hugo Charlemont (18 March 1850 – 18 April 1939) was an Austrian painter. Born in Jemnice, Moriva he was the son of Matthais Adolf Charlemont. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts. He died in Vienna. Life Charlemont was born in Jemnice, M ...
(1850–1939) was an equally famous impressionist painter. At the age of fifteen Charlemont exhibited his works for the first time at the
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, where he studied fine arts. At the same age Eduard Charlemont was also hired by a girls' school to teach drawing.


Career

After graduating from the
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, Charlemont traveled to many countries in central Europe and finally settled in Paris, where he lived for the next thirty years. In Paris, several times he won the first prize of the
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, an annual exhibition held by the French Academy of Fine Arts (). The most famous work of Charlemont is ''The Guardian of the Seraglio'', widely known as ''The Moorish Chief'', depicting a
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swordsman guarding a
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(part of a typical wealthy Arabic villa, where women stayed when strangers entered the house). In 1899 he won the gold medal at the Exposition Universelle, a
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held in
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. Charlemont was also known for his
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s. He painted three of the murals of the
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(the
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n National Theatre in
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and one of the most important
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s in the world) totaling a length of about 55 meters. He died in Vienna in 1906. Today, reproductions of his painting ''The Moorish Chief'' are the best-selling items in the museum store of the
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.


Paintings

*''The Guardian of the Seraglio'' (''The Moorish Chief''), 1878 *''Arranging her Still Life'', 1884 *''At the toilette'' *''The Music Lesson'' *''Hans Makart in his Atelier'' *''Tunisian Artisan'' *''A Drink for the Drummer'', 1889 *''Artist in his Studio'', 1890 *''A Gentleman in an Interior'' *''Wooden Bridge'' *''Scène d'intérieur'' *''La Parisienne'', 1900 *''Cupid sharpening his arrow''


See also

*
List of Orientalist artists This is an incomplete list of artists who have produced works on Orientalism#Orientalist art, Orientalist subjects, drawn from the Islamic world or other parts of Asia. Many artists listed on this page worked in many genres, and Orientalist subj ...
*
Orientalism In art history, literature, and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of the Middle ...


References


Further reading

* Robert Janás: "Strážce harému nebo Maurský náčelník?", In: ''Mezery v historii/Lücken in der Geschichte,'' Cheb 2016, pp. 9–13. *Jennifer A. Thompson,
"The Moorish Chief by Eduard Charlemont (cat. 951)"
' in
The John G. Johnson Collection: A History and Selected Works
', a Philadelphia Museum of Art free digital publication. {{DEFAULTSORT:Charlemont, Eduard 1848 births 1906 deaths Painters from Austria-Hungary 19th-century Austrian painters Austrian male painters 20th-century Austrian painters Austrian orientalists Austrian people of French descent Painters from Vienna Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni Austrian Orientalist painters 19th-century Austrian male artists 20th-century Austrian male artists