Camille Gabriel Schlumberger

Camille Gabriel Schlumberger (born November 11, 1864 in Strasbourg , † 1958 in Ribeauvillé ) was an Alsatian textile designer and decorative painter and manufacturer of Toile-de-Jouy (printed calico fabric).

Life

Camille Gabriel Schlumberger, first of three children of the Colmar judge and mayor Camille Schlumberger (1831–1897) and his wife Marie Marthe, née Zindel (1835–1912), studied painting with Heinrich Lauenstein in Düsseldorf from 1883 to 1884 . He also studied art at the École des beaux-arts in Paris and design with Eugène Grasset at the École normal d'enseignement du dessin des Alphonse Théodore Guérin (École Guérin) in Paris. There he began to design floral Art Nouveau patterns for wallpapers and fabrics. On November 5, 1891, he married in Strasbourg Marie Louise Ehrhardt (1868-1892), who died on August 8 of the following year, and on August 29, 1898 in Rappoltsweiler Jeanne Lucie Steiner (* 1872), the daughter of the Rappoltsweiler textile printer and Weaving mill owner Charles Frédéric Steiner (1842–1912), in whose company he worked as a textile designer . The couple had two sons, Charles Camille, called Simon (1899–1972), and Jean Godefroy (1901–1963). In 1927 Schlumberger became head of the cotton weaving and printing company (Toile-de-Jouy).

In 1906 Schlumberger published the book Portraits mulhousiens de la fin da XVIe au commencement du XIXe siècle .

literature

Jean-Marie Schmitt: Camille Gabriel Schlumberger . In: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne , Faszikel 33, 1999, p. 3463

Web links

Camille Gabriel Schlumberger , genealogical data sheet in the gen-gen.ch portal(Société Genevoise de Généalogie)
Camille Gabriel Schlumberger , genealogical data sheet in the portal gw.geneanet.org

Individual evidence

↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 439.
↑ See, for example, the bottle gourd decor on sheet 15 in: Eugène Grasset : La Plante et ses applications ornementales , Paris 1897.
↑ Search result in the sudoc.abes.fr portal , accessed on January 28, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Schlumberger, Camille Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Alsatian textile designer and decorative painter as well as manufacturer of Toile-de-Jouy (printed calico fabric)
DATE OF BIRTH	November 11, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH	1958
Place of death	Ribeauvillé

[1] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 439.

[2] See, for example, the bottle gourd decor on sheet 15 in: Eugène Grasset : La Plante et ses applications ornementales , Paris 1897.

[3] Search result in the sudoc.abes.fr portal , accessed on January 28, 2017.