Charles Marville
Charles Marville (born July 17, 1813 in Paris , † June 1, 1879 in Paris, actually Charles François Bossu ) was a French photographer.
Life
Originally trained as a painter, engraver and illustrator, Charles Marville became known as a landscape and architecture photographer.
His first known photographs are portraits of his relatives and an architectural view, published in 1851 by Blanquart-Evard. He traveled to Italy, Germany and Algeria and used paper and glass plate negatives.
In the late 1850s, the city of Paris commissioned Marville to remodel and modernize the city's old quarters on behalf of Napoléon III. (carried out by Georges-Eugène Haussmann ) to document. He photographed new buildings and renovations ( Paris Opera , Bois de Boulogne ), but also many old streets and buildings before they were destroyed. In 1862 he was appointed "Official Photographer of Paris". As the “photographer of the Louvre Imperial Museum”, he worked on reproductions of drawings, especially by Ingres .
Exhibitions
- From October 2, 2010 to January 30, 2011, some of his photographs could be seen in the Folkwang Museum in Essen in the exhibition “Pictures of a Metropolis, The Impressionists in Paris”.
- 2013/2014: Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris , National Gallery of Art , Washington, DC , then: Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City and National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa.
literature
- Sarah Kennel (Ed.): Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris . University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2013. ISBN 978-0-226-09278-2 .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marville, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bossu, Charles François (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1879 |
| Place of death | Paris |