Alfred Dumont

August-Paul-Emile-Etienne Dumont , also Alfred Du Mont (born June 13, 1828 in Baulmes , Canton Vaud ; † August 7, 1894 in Geneva ), was a Swiss landscape and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Geneva, with the haymaking , around 1867

Dumont first studied law. Under Jean-Léonard Lugardon , he turned to painting in Geneva. Then he followed his friends Jean-Jules Adrien Kunkler and Benjamin Vautier to Düsseldorf . From 1852 to 1854 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Christian Köhler . He belonged to the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten in the years 1853/1854. He then stayed for a long time in Charles Gleyre's studio in Paris . He then made several trips, in 1892 a trip around the world, on which he became seriously ill. Dumont has regularly participated in French and Swiss exhibitions since 1867. His works can be found in renowned museums in Geneva, Basel and Bern .

Dumont, Alfred Paul Emil Etienne . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 126 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

↑ 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. 429

personal data
SURNAME	Dumont, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dumont, August-Paul-Emile-Etienne; Mont, Alfred you
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss landscape and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	June 13, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baulmes , Canton of Vaud
DATE OF DEATH	August 7, 1894
Place of death	Geneva