Albert de Meuron

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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

Alpine landscape with shepherd , 1862

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

Commons : Albert de Meuron  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.
personal data
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