Alfred Philippe Roll
Alfred Philippe Roll (born March 10, 1846 in Paris , † October 27, 1919 there ) was a French painter .
Roll began his artistic career as an ornament and pattern draftsman. He later became a student of the painters Jean-Léon Gérôme and Léon Bonnat at the École des Beaux-Arts . Roll's early works, such as B. Don Juan and Haydée after Byron (Museum in Avignon) were still very much in the shadow of his two teachers Bonnat and Gérôme. With his picture Toulouse an der Garonne (Museum in Le Havre) - from the same creative period - Roll addressed the summer floods in June 1875 and won a gold medal at an exhibition in the Paris Salon in 1877 .
If this picture was still influenced by Bonnat's color scheme (e.g. "The Martyrdom of St. Andrew") and Gérôme's picture structure (e.g. The Raft of Medusa ), now a turning point in Roll's work began, as he was always turned more to naturalism .
The Silenian Festival (in the Museum in Ghent), exhibited in 1878 , and even more so the strike of the coal workers (1880, in the Museum in Valenciennes), was marked by his changed style. With images like this, Roll spoke up on social issues; which he again touched in 1885 in a richly figured painting Die Arbeit , a building site in Suresnes on the Seine with stone masons, bricklayers and carpenters. This picture was already carried out according to the principles of naturalistic open-air painting, and his numerous portraits, genre figures and groups, landscapes and navies, which are painted in a very crude manner only for the material effect, move in the same style.
He had been a Knight of the Legion of Honor since 1883 . In 1919, Alfred Philipp Roll was elected an honorary member of the National Academy of Design in New York .
Alfred Philipp Roll died on October 27, 1919 in Paris at the age of 72.
Works (selection)
- Don Juan and Haydée after Byron
- Toulouse on the Garonne
- Feast of Silenus
- The Work (1885)
- Coal workers' strike (1880)
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roll, Alfred Philippe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1919 |
| Place of death | Paris |