Camille Flers
Camille Flers (born February 15, 1802 in Paris , † June 27, 1868 in Annet-sur-Marne ) was a French painter and draftsman, actor and dancer.
Life and works
Camille Flers was the son of Jean Charles Flers and his wife Marie Thérèse Bloufflerd, who came from Annet-sur-Marne. His father worked in a porcelain factory.
He gained his first artistic experience in the studio of the porcelain decorator Demarcy. He was to receive his further training from the theater painter Cicéri . But Flers decided to become an actor and went to Brazil in 1821 . There, after a few other attempts to earn money, he became a dancer at the Imperial Theater in Rio de Janeiro .
He later returned to France and married Louise Adèle Clauss on November 11, 1826, a daughter of the porcelain manufacturer Jean Marx Clauss and his wife Odille Seeger.
When he returned to Paris, he resumed his studies with Joseph François Pâris . Then he moved to Belleville. He was one of the early plein air painters and created realistic landscapes. For his part, Flers was now training students. In 1831 Louis Cabat entered his studio. In the same year Flers exhibited in the salon for the first time. His painting Cascade de Pissevache was well received, and until 1863 he participated regularly in other exhibitions in the salon. In 1849 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor .
In his later years, Flers, who is considered one of the innovators of French landscape painting of his generation, painted mainly in the area of Aumale in Normandy , also on the Seine and Marne and in the area of Fontainebleau .
Pictures from his hand ended up in the Louvre and in museums in Le Puy , Chalon-sur-Saône , Orléans , Béziers and the Musée Wicar in Lille .
In 1846 he published an article in the magazine L'Artiste on the use of pastel painting in landscape depictions .
Camille Flers was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery.
literature
- Michael Bryan: Dictionnary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Volume I: A-K. London 1886, p. 504 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Théophile Gautier: Histoire du romantisme. Suivie de Notices romantiques et d'une Étude sur la poésie française . Charpentier et Cie, Paris 1874, p. 224-225 ( books.google.de ).
- Hans Vollmer : Flers, Camille . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 91 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Camille Flers . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 41, Saur, Munich a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-598-22781-7 , p. 192.
Web links
- Flers' works in Joconde. Portail des collections des musées de France on www.culture.gouv.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ For example, the statement by Thieme / Becker, here 18 January is named as birthday.
- ^ A b Les artistes locaux: Camille FLERS à Annet-sur-Marne. February 22, 2011 on villeparisis-histoire.over-blog.com
- ^ Mariage de Camille Flers, artiste peintre sur porcelaine, 9, rue des Amandiers, avec Louise Adèle Clauss, 5, rue des Trois-Bornes. FranceArchives, 2010, accessed February 27, 2019 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flers, Camille |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and draftsman, dancer and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1868 |
| Place of death | Annet-sur-Marne |