Auguste-Henri Berthoud
Auguste-Henri Berthoud (also Auguste-Henry, born April 20, 1829 in Paris , † March 13, 1887 in Neuchâtel NE ) was a Swiss landscape painter from the Barbizon School .
Berthoud studied painting in Paris in the studios of Ary Scheffer and Eugène Lepoittevin . He became a student and friend of Camille Corot . In the Barbizon artists' colony , Berthoud worked with Théodore Rousseau , Charles-François Daubigny , Narcisso Virgilio Diaz de la Peña and Constant Troyon . His landscape paintings showed the stylistic features of the Barbizon school of open air painting . He visited Normandy and Brittany several times .
In 1852 Berthoud moved to Lausanne , where Camille Corot visited him from time to time. In 1856, under the influence of Albert de Meuron , he turned to the alpine landscapes of the Bernese Oberland . He spent 14 years in Interlaken , where he painted the peaks of the region. In 1874 he settled in Colombier NE and Neuchâtel. He spent the winter months in Arles twice . In the last years of his life he also dealt with genre and history painting.
Auguste-Henri Berthoud was the father and first teacher of the painter Blanche Berthoud .
literature
- General artist lexicon. Lives and works of the most famous visual artists , revised and updated editions, prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . Edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer . Volume 1, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1895, p. 116 ( digitized version ).
- Philippe Godet : Berthoud, Auguste-Henri . In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon . Volume 1: A-G. Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1905, pp. 115–116 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Hans Vollmer: Berthoud, Auguste Henri . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 495 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Renate Treydel: Berthoud, Auguste-Henri . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 10, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22750-7 , p. 81.
Web links
- Berthoud, Auguste-Henri. In: Sikart
- William Hauptman: Berthoud, Auguste-Henri. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berthoud, Auguste-Henri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berthoud, Auguste-Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1887 |
| Place of death | Neuchâtel NE |