Auguste Baud-Bovy
Auguste Baud-Bovy (born February 13, 1848 in Geneva , † June 3, 1899 in Davos ) was a Swiss painter .
Life
Auguste Baud-Bovy grew up in Geneva as the son of Henri-Georges Baud and the French Augusta Dutertre. The father ran his own jewelry store.
From 1864 to 1867 Baud-Bovy was at the Geneva Art School ( École des Beaux-Arts ) a student of Barthélémy Menn , with whom he worked on the artistic painting of the Greyerz Castle . The castle also served the Bovy family as an artists' colony.
In 1868 he married the enamel painter Zoé Bovy, with whom he had sons Daniel and Valentin . From then on he signed his work with the alliance name Baud-Bovy and learned the craft of enamel painting for financial security. From 1870 to 1880 Baud-Bovy was professor at the Ecoles municipales d'art in Geneva, where he taught figure drawing.
From 1873 he maintained friendly relations with refugees from the Paris Commune in Geneva, including Henri Rochefort , Paul Pia , and the anarchists Élisée and Elie Reclus . With a passport stolen by his father, he enabled Gustave Courbet to enter Switzerland. In 1880 Baud-Bovy traveled to Madrid and Seville for the works a. a. from Francisco de Goya and Diego Velázquez . Many sketches were made on this trip.
After returning to Geneva, he quit his job as a teacher and traveled with his family to Paris in 1882, where he lived until 1888. In Paris, Baud-Bovy was able to exhibit regularly at the salon . For the first time in 1885 and permanently from 1888, he then lived in a chalet in Aeschi near Spiez and made friends with the landscape painter Eduard Bühler (1853–1912).
The painting Panorama des Alpes bernoises , shown at the world exhibition in Chicago, was created in 1891 and is now lost.
His work was under the influence of Gustave Courbet, later by Camille Corot . In 1893 he was awarded the French Legion of Honor through the intercession of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Auguste Rodin . In 1896 some of his pictures were shown at the Swiss National Exhibition in Geneva. In 1897 Paul Durand-Ruel's gallery in Paris showed his works in a solo exhibition.
After a year-long stay in Antibes in 1898, Baud-Bovy traveled back to Switzerland and died of tuberculosis in the climatic health resort of Davos in 1899 .
Works (selection)
- Child at the Toy Chest (1877), Museum Oskar Reinhart , Winterthur
- The Distribution of Salt (1887), Kunstmuseum Winterthur
- The village of Aeschi (1890), municipal administration, Aeschi
- The mountain (the Niesen from the Suldtal) (1895), Musée d'art et d'histoire , Geneva
- Béatitude, Lake Thun from Krattigen (1896), municipal administration, Aeschi
- The Wild Woman from Bundalp , Basel Art Museum
literature
- Auguste Baud-Bovy. A Swiss mountain painter. In: Schweizer Illustrierte, Vol. 4, 1900, pp. 313-320.
- Valentina Anker: Auguste Baud-Bovy, (1848–1899) . Benteli, cop., Wabern near Bern 1991. p. 259.
Web links
- Valentina Anker: Baud-Bovy, Auguste. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Various reproductions of Baud-Bovy's pictures
- Publications by and about Auguste Baud-Bovy in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Valentina Anker: Baud-Bovy, Auguste. In: Sikart
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Valentina Anker, et al .: From Anker to Zünd - Art in the Young Federal State 1848–1900 . Ed .: Christian Klemm. Scheidegger & Spiess / Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich 1998, ISBN 3-906574-00-8 , p. 389 .
- ↑ Eduard Bühler (1853–1912)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baud-Bovy, Auguste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 1899 |
| Place of death | Davos |