Alfred Chavannes
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Alfred Chavannes, photo by Arnold Overbeck , Gebr. G. & A. Overbeck in Düsseldorf
Alfred Chavannes (born January 2, 1836 in La Sarraz , Canton of Vaud ; † January 10, 1894 in Aigle , Canton of Vaud) was a Swiss landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Chavannes first studied architecture in Lausanne . Then he turned to painting, which he studied with Jean Bryner (1816–1909) and Alexandre Calame in Geneva . He then went to Düsseldorf , where he received private lessons from Oswald Achenbach from 1860 to 1874 and worked in his studio . From 1861 to 1875 Chavannes was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . He returned to Lausanne in the mid-1870s. In the 1860s and 1870s, Chavannes' works were exhibited in Düsseldorf and Berlin .
Works (selection)
- Rhone Plain and the Dents du Midi , 1878
- Mountain lake with shepherdess and cows , 1879
- Plaine du Rhône près de Roche , 1880
- View from Montreux to Lake Geneva and Dents du Midi , 1880
- Ruisseau environs de Lausanne , 1886
- Lac Léman avec Château Chillon et Dents du Midi
literature
- Chavannes, Alfred . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon . Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 103 ( digitized version )
- Erica Billeter et al .: Chefs-d'œuvre du Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts , Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne , 1989, pp. 122–123
- Maurice Jean-Petit-Matile: Le Pays de Vaud vu par les peintres , Lausanne, Edita, 1986, p. 86-87
Web links
- Chavannes, Alfred , entry in the portal oxfordindex.oup.com
- Alfred Chavannes , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Alfred Chavannes , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
- Alfred Chavannes. In: Sikart
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. 428
- ↑ Inventory list , website on the malkasten.org portal , accessed on March 24, 2016
- ↑ Lac Léman avec Château Chillon et Dents du Midi , website in the artsalesindex.artinfo.com portal , accessed on March 24, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chavannes, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Sarraz , Canton of Vaud |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1894 |
| Place of death | Aigle , Canton of Vaud |