Auguste Delacroix
Auguste Delacroix (born January 27, 1809 in Boulogne-sur-Mer , † November 13, 1868 ibid) was a French genre , landscape and marine painter . He also left watercolors and drawings . Part of his work can be assigned to orientalism .
Life
Delacroix participated regularly in the Paris Salon from 1835 to 1865 . From around 1865 he lived in Italy . His favorite subjects were the coasts of Brittany and North Africa . In his genre pictures he depicted rural idylls and North African everyday scenes. In the last years of his life he worked with his left hand due to a right-sided paralysis.
Works (selection)
- Départ des pêcheurs , Salon de Paris, 1839
- Port de St-Valéry-sur-Somme , Salon de Paris, 1841
- Femmes surprises par la marée , Salon de Paris, 1846
- Moissonneurs italiens , Salon de Paris, 1861
literature
- Hans Vollmer : Delacroix, Auguste . 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. 571 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Lynne Thornton: Les orientalistes. Peintres voyageurs 1828–1908. Edition ACR, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-86770-138-4 .
Web links
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delacroix, Auguste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French genre as well as landscape and marine painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boulogne-sur-Mer |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1868 |
| Place of death | Boulogne-sur-Mer |