Auguste Bachelin

Swiss border guards received a group of civilian refugees in the war of 1870/71

Rodolphe Auguste Bachelin (born September 30, 1830 in Neuchâtel , † August 3, 1890 in Bern ) was a Swiss landscape , history and portrait painter as well as a writer , historian and art critic .

biography

Auguste Bachelin was born the son of a carpenter. He began his artistic training together with Albert Anker at Louis Wallingre (1819-1886) in Saint-Blaise NE . In 1850 he came to Paris , where he stayed until 1874, but often visited Neuchâtel. He began his training there in Charles Gleyre's studio and continued it in 1852 at Thomas Couture , who had a decisive influence on his further work.

From 1851 Bachelin regularly sent his works from Paris to the salon of the Society of Friends of the Arts in Neuchâtel. From 1857 to 1874 he also exhibited at the Paris Salon . The monarchist coup d'état of 1856 in the canton of Neuchâtel, which freed himself from Prussian guardianship, seems to be the origin of his appointment as a military painter.

He was interested in the Lombardy War of 1859 and in particular the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871, which provided him with several topics with his rise in the troops in Les Verrières . The Neuchâtel painter was very much influenced by the writings of Rodolphe Töpffer and strove to become a Swiss national painter .

He married in 1874, left Paris and settled in Marin NE not far from Neuchâtel, where his activities diversified. As a novelist, columnist and popular figure in public life in Neuchâtel, he founded the Neuchâtel Historical Society (Société d'histoire de Neuchâtel) and contributed to the success of the collections of the Neuchâtel art and history museum ( Musée d'art et d 'histoire de Neuchâtel ) and wrote more than 200 articles in the journal Musée neuchâtelois about the collections of the Neuchâtel Museum in 25 years.

Philippe Godet published a book on Auguste Bachelin's work and correspondence in 1893.

literature

• Hans Vollmer : Bachelin, Auguste . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 313-314 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Eric-André Klauser: Auguste Bachelin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Philippe Godet : Bachelin, Rodolphe-Auguste . In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon . Volume 1: A-G. Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1905, pp. 65-66 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Auguste Bachelin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Auguste Bachelin. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
• Christine Salvadé: Bachelin, Rodolphe Auguste. In: Sikart (French)
• Auguste Bachelin on artnet
• Albert Anker : Auguste Bachelin in his studio.