Auguste Glaize
Auguste Glaize (born December 15, 1807 in Montpellier , † August 8, 1893 in Paris ), also Auguste-Barthélémy Glaize, was a French history and genre painter , pastelist and lithographer . His work can be assigned to romanticism .
Life
Auguste Glaize trained in Paris under the brothers Achille and Eugène Devéria in painting and lithography and painted pictures of various contents. Alfred Bruyas was one of his sponsors .
The Musée national du château de Versailles et des Trianons in Versailles preserves the portrait of Auguste-Barthélémy Glaize (1878) created by his son Léon Glaize (* 1842 ).
Works
Early paintings:
- 1844: Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
- 1845: The expulsion of Heliodorus from the temple , copy after Raphael, Paris, Musée du Louvre
- 1846: The Star of Bethlehem , Quesnoy-sur-Airaines , church
- 1847: Dante, writing his Divine Comedy
- 1852: The Gallic women defending themselves against the Romans , Paris, Musée d'Orsay
After his early creative phase, he came up with the idea of sensualizing historical-philosophical ideas and moral teachings. The first pictures of this kind appeared under the titles The Schandpfahl , on which 16 martyrs of the idea are exhibited, and What one sees at the age of 20, the sanguine dream of lovers , at the world exhibition in Paris in 1855.
This genus includes:
- 1855: The Stake , Marseille , Musée des Beaux-Arts
- 1861: Misery as a matchmaker
- 1866: Death and lust
- 1872: The drama of human folly (main work)
Of his other creations the following are to be mentioned:
- 1859: Wall paintings in the Church of St-Sulpice de Paris
- 1868: Wall paintings in the parish church of St-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas in Paris
- 1873: Death of John the Baptist , triptych
- 1875: Christ and the adulteress
- 1877: The blind and the lame
literature
- Glaize, Auguste Barthélemy . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 232 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glaize, Auguste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Glaize, Auguste Barthélemy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French history and genre painter, pastelist and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montpellier |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1893 |
| Place of death | Paris |