Auguste Veillon

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The Nile at Philae 1869

Louis-Auguste Veillon (* 29. December 1834 in Bex , † 5. January 1890 in Geneva ) was a Swiss painter of Orientalism .

Life

Auguste Veillon was born the son of a notary in Bex, in the Rhone Valley . After completing a degree in Reformed theology at the University of Lausanne , he entered the studio of François Diday in Geneva, where he painted seascapes with mountains and views of the Bernese Oberland . From 1858–1859 he studied in Paris , where he met the orientalist Eugène Fromentin , who had a strong influence on his painting. Also predominantly autodidactic studies took Veillon to London in 1862 and to Rome from 1862–1863 . In 1863 he married Laure Émilie Karcher-Dunant, whom he had met in Rome and with whom he lived in Geneva. From 1861 he made regular contributions to the regular exhibitions of the Swiss Art Association . In 1870 the Salon de Paris showed a selection of his works.

Veillon reached Egypt for the first time in 1873 via Venice and Naples . In Cairo he met the Geneva painter Étienne Duval . Here he turned more and more to oriental themes and mostly painted landscapes with the Nile or the Dead Sea . However, in the years 1880, 1881, 1882 and 1883 he spent the summer months in the Netherlands . From 1884 he was drawn to the Mediterranean again: in 1884 he traveled to Tunisia , in 1885 another trip to Egypt followed, in 1886 he visited Jerusalem , in 1887 Damascus and in 1888 he stayed in Constantinople and Athens .

In 1873 Veillon received an award at the World Exhibition in Vienna . His paintings were shown at the Swiss National Exhibition in Zurich in 1883 and at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889 . After his death, major retrospectives followed in Geneva, Lausanne, Basel , Winterthur , Zurich and Bern .

literature

  • Rudolf Pestalozzi-Wiser: Louis Auguste Veillon, (1834–1890). Künstlergesellschaft, Zürich 1891, ( New Year's Gazette of the Künstlergesellschaft in Zürich NF 51, 1891, ZDB -ID 308499-1 ).
  • Paul Barbey: Un peintre originaire de Bex: Louis-Auguste Veillon . In: Revue historique du mandement de Bex. 28, 1995, ZDB -ID 1259134-8 , pp. 32-39.
  • Laurent Langer: “Je séjourne au pays des sultanes”. Les voyages orientaux de Louis Auguste Veillon (1832–1890). In: Revue historique du Mandement de Bex. 32, 1999, pp. 17-38.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Sylvie Wuhrmann, 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. 64 .
personal data
SURNAME Veillon, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Veillon, Louis-Auguste; Veillon Pacha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Bex
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1890
Place of death Geneva