Albert Wolff (journalist)
Albert Wolff (born Abraham Wolff on December 31, 1825 in Cologne ; died on December 22, 1891 in Paris ) was a German - French journalist , writer and playwright .
Life
Abraham Wolff was born in Cologne as the son of Salomon Wolff and his wife Helena, née Ochse. After finishing school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship in Paris. This was followed by studies in Bonn before he settled entirely in Paris in 1857. Here he initially worked as a secretary for Alexandre Dumas (father) . From 1859 he was editor of the magazine Le Charivari under the pseudonym Charles Brissac . He then moved to Figaro , where he became a leading art critic in 1868. He later rose to become the newspaper's editor-in-chief.
His discussions at the Paris Salon had a major impact on the success of contemporary artists. Wolff was an avowed supporter of academic painting, with Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier being one of his preferred artists. The Impressionism accompanied Wolff critical and occasionally he spoke highly of individual works. He later published his precise observations about his adopted home Paris in several books. He also wrote some novels and plays.
Works
- Mémoires du boulevard Paris 1866
- Les deux empereurs Paris 1871
- Le Tyrol et la Carinthie Paris 1872
- Mémoires d'un Parisien: Voyages à travers le monde Paris 1884
- Mémoires d'un Parisien: La haute-noce Paris 1885
- Mémoires d'un Parisien: La Gloire à Paris Paris 1886
- Capitale de l'art Paris 1886
- Figaro Salon Paris 1886
- Le roman d'une femme mariée Paris 1890 (novel)
- Sacré Léonce Paris 1898 (novel)
- Ceux qu'on aime Paris 1895 (play)
- Fidèle Paris 1895 (play)
- Le secret de Polichinelle Paris 1903 (play)
- L'âge d'aimer Paris 1905 (play)
- Le ruisseau Paris 1907 (play)
- Le lis Paris 1908 (play)
literature
- Gustave Toudouze: Albert Wolff: histoire d'un chroniqueur parisien . Paris 1883.
- Adolph Kohut : Famous Israelite Men and Women in Human Cultural History . Leipzig 1901.
- Gotthard Jedlicka: Manet Zurich 1941.
- Georges d'Heylli (Edmond Antoine Poinsot): Dictionnaire des pseudonymes . Slatkine, Geneva 1971.
- Siegfried Kracauer: Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of his time . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-518-10971-5 .
- Guillaume Pradoura: Albert Wolff (1825-1891). Heurs et malheurs d'un critique influent in Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français. Année 2014 , SHAF and Éditions de Boccard, Paris 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guillaume Pradoura: Albert Wolff (1825-1891). Heurs et malheurs d'un critique influent in Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français. Année 2014 , p. 166. The information is based on the documents in the State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia, No. 2056/1825 in Brühl. In the older literature there are different information, especially the year of birth 1835.
- ↑ Georges d'Heylli: Dictionnaire des pseudonymes . P. 54.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolff, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-German journalist, writer and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 22, 1891 |
| Place of death | Paris |