Louis-Marie Baader (20 June 1828,

Lannion Lannion ( ; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. It is a subprefecture of Côtes-d'Armor, the capital of Trégor and the center of an urban area of almost 60,000 inhabitants. Climate Lannion h ...

– 2 December 1920,

Morlaix Morlaix (; , ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. History The Battle of Morlaix, part of the Hundred Years' War, was fought near the town on 30 Septembe ...

) was a French painter of German descent.

Life

The son of a German musician (serving in comte Jacques Boudin de Tromelin's regiment) and his

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wife, the count saw Louis-Marie's artistic potential early and with his support he entered the

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in Paris in 1848, in

Adolphe Yvon Adolphe Yvon (30 January 1817 – 11 September 1893) was a French painter known for his paintings of the Napoleonic Wars. Yvon studied under Paul Delaroche, rose to fame during the Second Empire, then finished his career as a teacher. Career Ad ...

's studio. Initially he gained several church and private commissions, but he only exhibited at the

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from 1857 to 1914. In 1866 he won a medal for ''Hero and Leander'' and a third class medal in 1874 for ''Posthumous Glory'', allowing him to sell several paintings to the French state. He worked for a long time as a

history painter History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often (but not exclusively) Greek mythology, Greek and Roman my ...

, but later moved into genre work, especially on Breton life, before ending his career painting military history paintings. He died unmarried and is buried in the cimetière Saint-Charles in Morlaix.

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*Durox Cyrielle and Riou Béatrice, ''Au Salon ! Louis-Marie Baader (1828-1920)'', exhibition catalogue, Musée de Morlaix, juin 2013, 120p. 1828 births 1920 deaths 19th-century French painters 20th-century French painters 19th-century French male artists 20th-century French male artists French people of German descent People from Lannion {{France-painter-19thC-stub

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