André Henri Dargelas
André Henri Dargelas (born October 11, 1828 in Bordeaux , † June 1906 in Écouen ) was a French genre painter of the children's world.
Dargelas studied from April 6, 1854 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris with François Edouard Picot , a student of Jacques-Louis David . Within three years, Dargelas began exhibiting at the annual salon exhibition.
As he began his freelance career, Dargelas increasingly focused on pictures of children and continued to work in the naturalistic style of other French painters such as Alexandre Antigna .
From 1850 his work in Great Britain was particularly successful after an enthusiastic review by the English art critic John Ruskin , who valued the sentimental vision of the typical childhood of Dargelas. From 1857 he began to exhibit his works in the Paris Salon. A few years later, the 1863 Salon was a success for Dargelas.
In the last phase of his life he moved from Paris to Écouen, where he created the École Écouen, to which various artists came together. When he settled down, he married and raised his family there. The artist colony that developed there was headed by two genre painters, Pierre Edouard Frère and Paul Constant Soyer .
literature
- Dargelas, Andre Henri . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 401 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Andre-Henri Dargelas. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
- André Henri Dargelas in: Rehs Galleries Biography (digitized)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dargelas, André Henri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1906 |
| Place of death | Écouen |