André Castaigne

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
André Castaigne 1893
The Taming of Bucephalus (1888–1889)

Jean Alexandre Michel André Castaigne (born January 7 or 21, 1861 in Angoulême , † February 25, 1929 in Angoulême) was a French-American painter.

Life

André Castaigne's parents were the painter Jean Eusèbe Joseph Castaigne (1828–1902) and his wife Mathilde Debouchaud. He had a brother, the poet Joseph Castaigne (1859-1923), who published under the pseudonym Jean Destrains .

At the age of seventeen André Castaigne began to study in Paris at what was then the Académie Suisse; after a few months he moved to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where his teachers were the painters Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Léon Gérôme . He had his first exhibition in Paris in 1884, after which his picture Dante et Béatrice came to New Orleans and received a lot of attention. In 1887 he exhibited the huge painting The Deluge , which later came to the municipal gallery of his native Angoulême. In 1888 he painted a portrait of Comte de Dampierre in a hunting skirt and in 1889 created a figure After the Combat , which later came to the Peabody Gallery in Baltimore.

After six fruitful years in England, Castaigne came to the United States in 1890 as director and inspector of the Baltimore Charcoal Club . There he toured the cities of Washington, Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, Buffalo, Boston, New York and Philadelphia. From 1900 to 1916 he worked for The Century magazine ; on his behalf he traveled to Corsica, Greece and the Rhine, where he illustrated Augustine Birrell's travelogues. For The Century he produced over 160 illustrations, from November 1898 to October 1899 alone over 36 drawings and paintings of Alexander the Great. From 1901 to 1913 he also worked for Harper's Magazine .

During a six-year stay in France with a winter studio in Paris and a summer studio in Angoulême, Castaigne illustrated William Milligan Sloane's The Life of Napoléon Bonaparte , Richard Whiteing's Paris of To-Day and Bertha Runkles The Helmet of Navarre . Castaigne is best known for his illustrations of the novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux .

André Castaigne was the main draftsman of the then French President Félix Faure , who awarded him the red ribbon of the Legion of Honor at the age of 39 . Castaigne died unmarried on February 25, 1929 in the Sainte-Marthe hospital in Angoulême after a hernia operation.

Works (selection)

  • Dante and Béatrice
  • The Deluge
  • Comte de Dampierre
  • After the combat
  • Underdeck, voyage to America
  • Mining in California

supporting documents

  1. ↑ A New York Times article dated March 23, 1901 (Joseph B. Gilder: Andre Castaigne Revisits America on a Government Mission . In The New York Times , March 23, 1901) states January 7th. (The scanned text is available online as a PDF document at: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9E03E4DE1139E733A25750C2A9659C946097D6CF&oref=slogin ).
    François Castaigne (quoted from http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/castaign.htm ) mentions January 21, 1861.
  2. ↑ http://gw.geneanet.org/garric?lang=fr&p=andre&n=castaigne
  3. ↑ http://gw.geneanet.org/garric?lang=fr&p=andre&n=castaigne

Web links

Commons : André Castaigne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Castaigne, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castaigne, Jean Alexandre Michel André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-American painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1861 or January 21, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Angoulême
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1929
Place of death Angoulême