Albert de Meuron
Albert de Meuron (born August 13, 1823 in Neuchâtel , Canton Neuchâtel ; † March 20, 1897 ibid) was a Swiss landscape , genre , history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
De Meuron, son of the landscape painter Maximilien de Meuron , was initially a student of his father. He was also a student of Charles Gleyre . From 1841 to 1844 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he was taught by Hermann Stilke and Karl Ferdinand Sohn from 1843 to 1845 . During the summer holidays, he accompanied his father and students on trips to Switzerland.
Under the influence of Léon Berthoud (1822-1892) he went to Paris , where from October 1845 he was one of the first Swiss students in Charles Gleyre's studio . In 1846 he enrolled at the École des beaux-arts . He had his first exhibition in the Salon de Paris in 1848. In 1849 he settled in the Bernese Oberland . There he spent a few summers in Brienz , where he visited the brothers Karl and Edouard Girardet and Benjamin Vautier . He traveled regularly to Paris to meet his friends Auguste-Henri Berthoud , Albert Anker and Pierre de Salis-Soglio (1827-1919). In 1860 he traveled to the Pyrenees with the painter Gustave Colin . In 1866, the year of his marriage to Julie Perrot, daughter of the botanist Louis Perrot, he visited Italy . He and his wife settled in Corcelles-près-Concise . In 1867 he became chairman of the Société des amis des arts de Neuchâtel , in 1878 he headed the art department of the Swiss jury at the Paris World Exhibition , and from 1888 to 1892 he was a member of the Federal Art Commission .
literature
- Meuron, Albert de . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume II, Dresden 1898, p. 30 f.
- Philippe Godet : Le peintre Albert de Meuron d'après sa correspondance avec sa famille et ses amis . Attinger, Neuchâtel 1901.
Web links
- Lucie Girardin-Cestone / AHB: Meuron, Albert de. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Meuron, Albert de. In: Sikart (status: 1998), accessed on May 9, 2017.
- Albert de Meuron , data sheet in portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Albert de Meuron , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 436.
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SURNAME | Meuron, Albert de |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape, genre, history and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1823 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuchâtel , Canton of Neuchâtel |
DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1897 |
Place of death | Neuchâtel , Canton of Neuchâtel |