Alfred Dehodencq
Edme Alfred Alexis Dehodencq (born April 23, 1822 in Paris , † January 3, 1882 there ) was a French painter. His work can be assigned to orientalism .
Life
Together with Wilhelm Amberg and Théophile Gide , Dehodencq was a student of the painter Léon Cogniets in Paris . At the same time, Dehodencq also attended the École des Beaux-Arts there . With the support of his teachers, Dehodencq was able to debut at the age of 22 in 1844 with his painting The Holy Cäcilie on the occasion of an exhibition in the Paris Salon . He remained connected to the Cogniet studio for a few years, but was soon able to make a name for himself with portraits and various biblical scenes.
Politically interested, Dehodencq was involved in the February Revolution of 1848 , where he was also wounded. He cured his gunshot wounds in Barèges ( Pyrenees ), where many sketches and ideas for landscapes were created. The following year Dehodencq traveled to Madrid to study classical Spanish painting. His most important painting from this period, Course de novillos , he presented in 1851 at the major annual exhibition of the Paris Salon.
With his work Bohémiens en route he caused a sensation at exhibitions in 1853, as Théophile Gautier and Prosper Mérimée now campaigned for him in addition to the official art criticism . From this time on, Dehodencq devoted himself - following fashion - like his role models Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps and Auguste Delacroix almost exclusively to "oriental themes".
In 1853 Dehodencq embarked on an extensive study trip through the Orient via Cadiz and Morocco, which would only take him back to France after ten years. Frequent trips to Tangier and Tetuan in particular influenced his work. In 1857 he married Rosa Calderón, a distant relative of the writer Pedro Calderón de la Barca, in Cádiz . He had three children with her; including the later painter Edmond Dehodencq .
When Dehodencq settled back in Paris as a freelance painter in 1863, he met with rejection because of his works. His works bullfighting and storyteller in Morocco achieved little more than a respectable success at the exhibition of the Paris Salon in 1877 and at the world exhibition in Paris in 1878 . His painting Execution of a Moroccan Jew , taken in Tangier, was destroyed by an outraged crowd in his studio.
At the age of almost 66, the painter Alfred Dehodencq committed suicide in Paris on January 3, 1882. He found his final resting place on the Cimetière de Montmartre and his grave is adorned with a bronze bust made by his son Edmond Dehodencq.
Works (selection)
- Bullfight
- The Jewish concert
- The Jewish festival
- Boabdil
- The street of thieves in Morocco
- The Pasha's sons
- Arrest of a Jew in Tangier
- Moroccan prisoners
- Breakfast on the farm
- Bourbonnais and the Jew's Bride
- Charlotte Corday (portrait)
- Christopher Columbus (portrait)
- The awakening of Iairus' little daughter
- Bacchus
- The departure of the mobile guards in 1870
- Execution of a Jewish woman in Tangier
- Narrator in Morocco
- Jew going to a village wedding
Remarks
- ^ Gabriel Séailles: Alfred Dehodencq: L'homme & l'artiste, pp. 114f
- ^ Gérard-Georges Lemaire: Orientalism. The image of the Orient in painting . Könemann, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8331-1433-9 , p. 338.
literature
- Gabriel Sáilles: Alfred Dehodencq. L'homme et l'artiste . Sociéte de propagation de livres d'art, Paris 1910 ( at Internet Archive )
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dehodencq, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dehodencq, Edme Alfred Alexis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1882 |
| Place of death | Paris |