Auguste Poitevin

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Auguste Poitevin (born July 5, 1819 in La Fère ; † August 12, 1873 there ) was a French sculptor .

Life

Poitevins he was a student of the sculptors François Rude and Etiènne Hippolyte Maindron . Paintings by his hand are mainly in French museums in Amiens , Fécamp and Nancy , but also in the Army History Museum in Vienna . He was represented at several exhibitions, for example in the Paris Salon of 1849 with a group of figures placed around the broken mast of the ship Le Vengeur (1794). This work was also shown next to a bust of Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon in an exhibition in the Palais des Tuileries . At that time Poitevin lived at 63 rue du Faubourg-du-Temple. He had a son, Auguste-Flavien Poitevin, who was born in Paris and who was also a sculptor. This was trained by his father. Another of his students was Gustave Joseph Debrie (born September 17, 1842 in Paris).

Works (excerpt)

Réunion des Tuileries au Louvre 1852–1857 Getty Museum vol1 22 "La Renommée", Sculpture by Auguste Poitevin.jpg
Réunion des Tuileries au Louvre 1852–1857 Getty Museum vol1 21 "La Renommée", Sculpture by Auguste Poitevin.jpg
  • Statuette Souvenierts de Crimée , 1855, hollow tin casting, 21.5 × 22 × 52.5 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
  • Statuette Souvenierts de Crimée , 1855, hollow tin casting, 27 × 20.5 × 60 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
  • Cavalier statue , bronze hollow casting, 86 × 30 cm
  • Statue Don Cesar - For God and King , bronze hollow casting

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poitevin, Auguste . In: Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans . Paris 1673, p. 236 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - In the exhibition a group of figures Judith ).
  2. ↑ Potievin, Auguste . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 198 .
  3. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: The images in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 138.
  4. ↑ Auguste Galimard: M. Auguste Poitevin . In: Examen du Salon de 1849 . Paris 1849, p. 170 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Sculptures dans les lieux publics: groupe - Le Vengeur (1849) Sculptor: Auguste Poitevin (1819–1873). nella-buscot.com, accessed January 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Poitevin, Auguste . In: Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans . Salon, Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Paris 1849, p. 202 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Fernand Desnoyers (ed.): La peinture en 1863. Le Salon Des Refusés . A. Dutil, Paris 1863 (French, gutenberg.org ): “M. Auguste-Flavien Poitevin, fils de l'auteur du Vengeur, avait envoyé au Jury un modèle en plâtre d'un Christ […] M. Poitevin fils a reçu et reçoit encore de son père les meilleures leçons de sculpture »
  8. ↑ Debrie, Gustave Joseph . 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. 509-510 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  9. ↑ on artbronze.com ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 21, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artbronze.com
  10. ↑ on stillwellhouseantiques.com , accessed February 21, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Poitevin, Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH La Fère
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1873
Place of death La Fère