Charles-Ferdinand Ceramano
Charles Ferdinand Ceramano , pseudonym of Charles Ferdinand Semain, (born May 31, 1831 in Tielt , † April 22, 1909 in Barbizon ) was a Belgian landscape and animal painter and illustrator of the Barbizon School .
Charles Ferdinand Semain was born the second of nine children to Philippe Sermain, a decorator from Kortrijk , and his wife Anna Gheysens. The couple settled in Tielt in 1829, some time after their marriage.
From 1844 to 1845 he studied at the newly founded Tielter Art School.
The family moved in 1849 and settled in Brussels, where he joined the studio of the animal painter Eugène Verboeckhoven (1798–1881). He married Clémentine George, a seamstress, on June 21, 1858. The marriage fell apart after a few years.
In the fall of 1872 he moved to the studio of Narcisso Virgilio Díaz de la Peña in Barbizon . From that moment on he took the pseudonym "Ceramano".
In Barbizon he painted animals and romantic landscapes with flocks of sheep in the foreground. His works showed the influence of Charles Jacque .
His forest landscape was acquired by a Chicago art lover and art dealer, Joseph Bula , who made him famous in the United States .
In 1878 he bought a small house that he called "Vertefeuille" in the Grande rue de Barbizon. At the 1881 census he was living with Marie Jeanne Rosalie Van Eeckhout, the sister of his witness in his first marriage, and a boy and a girl. In 1885 he lived in Paris.
He settled in Vaux de Cernay around 1888, about twenty kilometers south of Versailles . His friend, the painter Léon Germain Pelouse (1838-1891), owned a studio there. He painted many paintings there. Ceramano returned to Barbizon in 1896.
On October 1, 1905, his wife, from whom he had been separated for a long time, died in his home in Paris. On June 9, 1906, at the age of 75, he married his partner Jeanne Rosalie Van Eeckhou, with whom he had lived for more than thirty years.
literature
- B: Ceramano, Charles-Ferdinand . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 290 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Charles-Ferdinand Ceramano. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ceramano, Charles-Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Semain, Charles Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian landscape and animal painter and illustrator of the Barbizon School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tielt |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1909 |
| Place of death | Barbizon |