Carlos Schwabe

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Self-portrait by Carlos Schwabe (ca.1900)

Carlos Schwabe , completely Emile Martin Charles Schwabe (* July 21, 1866 in Altona , † January 22, 1926 in Avon, Département Seine-et-Marne ), was a German, later Swiss symbolist painter and graphic artist .

Life

The Gravedigger and the Angel of Death by Carlos Schwabe (1890s)

Schwabe was born as the son of the businessman Georges Henri Charles Auguste and Jeanne Henriette Christine, nee Bolten, born in Altona in Holstein. Around 1870 his family moved to Geneva , where he attended the École des arts industriels from 1882 to 1884. After studying art, he moved to Paris . There he designed wallpaper and learned the symbolist art style , which was expressed in his drawings and paintings. He exhibited these in Paris and also in Geneva, where he often traveled. Schwabe is also classified as a forerunner of Art Nouveau , as he used extensive floral ornaments in his works of the 1890s and often depicts angel figures and the Virgin Mary.

Schwabe illustrated the novel Le rêve (1892) by Émile Zola , Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (1900), Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande (1892) and Albert Samain's Au Jardin de l'Infant (1908).

He was married twice, first to Marie-Adélaïde Vari (1891), then to Ombra d'Ornhjelm (1913). In 1888 he became Swiss when he was granted citizenship in Geneva .

In 1900 Schwabe was awarded the gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition . The following year he was appointed officer of the French Legion of Honor .

Schwabe lived in France for the rest of his life and died in Avon south of Paris.

literature

Web links

Commons : Carlos Schwabe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Anna Katharina Bähler: Schwabe, Carlos. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Schwabe, Carlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwabe, Emile Martin Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1926
Place of death Avon (Seine-et-Marne)