Alphonse Stengelin
Alphonse Stengelin (van Katwijk) (born September 26, 1852 in Lyon ; † March 12, 1938 Satigny ) was a French portrait and landscape painter, engraver, etcher and lithographer .
Life
Stengelin was a child of Swiss parents from St. Gallen. His father worked in finance and bequeathed him a sufficient fortune to ensure a financially independent life. He was born in France and lived mostly there and in the Netherlands. He was a student of Joseph Guichard, professor at the École des Beaux Arts in Lyon , Fleury Chenu and Némorin Cabane. During this time the friendship with Jean Seignemartins developed. He was strongly influenced by the works of Jan van Goyen , Jacob van Ruisdael or Rembrandt van Rijn , whose works he studied. He also went on study trips to Florence, Montpellier, Munich and Paris. Stengelin's paintings show predominantly Dutch landscapes. Since he particularly liked them, he had declared the Netherlands to be his adopted home. He sometimes lived in Dordrecht or Drenthe and for some time in the Katwijk artists' colony , where he mostly painted pictures of the sea. For this he had a mobile hut built so that he could better observe the sea. He had a small studio in Hooghalen , as well as in Paris on Place Pigalle , where he met Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Benjamin Constant . He signed his works with Stengelin van Katwyk . In 1907 a street there was named "Stengelinstraat" after him. Despite his travels and stays abroad, Stengelin remained connected to his native city of Lyon, in whose suburb of Écully he stayed for a few months every year. Most recently he lived in Satigny in the canton of Geneva.
Works (selection)
His works came to the Musée du Luxembourg , the Musée des Beaux-Arts Lyon , the Mesdag Museum in The Hague and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , among others .
| image | Title (year of creation) | Size, material | Exhibition / collection / owner |
|---|---|---|---|
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Landscape in Drenthe (1875-1910) |
61 cm × 79 cm oil on canvas |
Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam |
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Forest with birches (1875–1910) |
41 cm × 31 cm oil on canvas |
Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam |
literature
- Philippe Zilcken: Alphonse Stengelin . In: Elsevier's Geïllustreerd Maandschrift . 15th year, no. 7 . Elsevier, Amsterdam July 1905 ( dbnl.org ).
- Emile Buttieaz: Stengelin, Alphonse . In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon Dictionnaire des Artistes Suisses Vol 4 . tape 4 : Supplement A-Z . From Huber & Co, Frauenfeld 1917, p. 416–418 (Swiss French, text archive - Internet Archive - with a detailed catalog of works).
- Henri Grandjean: Stengelin, Alphonse, de Saint Gall . In: Marcel Godet, Heinrich Türler, Victor Attinger (eds.): Dictionnaire historique & biographique de la Suisse . tape 16 : Schenk-Uzwil . Administration du Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la Suisse, Neuchâtel 1932, p. 358 (Swiss French, text archive - Internet Archive ).
- Ernest Christen, Roger Oberkampf de Dabrun: Alphonse Stengelin van Katwijk - Sa Vie Son Oeuvre. Publié a l'occasion de son 80e Anniversaire . Atar, Geneva 1932.
- Stengelin, Alphonse . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 591 .
- Ernest Christen, Eug Hécler: Alphonse Stengelin van Katwijk: 1852–1938: in memoriam . Atar, Geneva 1938.
Web links
- Alphonse Stengelin . Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emile Buttieaz: Stengelin, Alphonse . In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Schweizerisches Künstler-Lexikon Dictionnaire des Artistes Suisses Vol 4 . tape 4 : Supplement A-Z . From Huber & Co, Frauenfeld 1917, p. 416–418 (Swiss French, text archive - Internet Archive - with a detailed catalog of works).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stengelin, Alphonse |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stengelin van Katwijk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1938 |
| Place of death | Satigny |