Charles-François Daubigny

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Charles-François Daubigny
The confluence of the Seine and Oise
Boats on the Oise
Monument in honor of the painter in Auvers-sur-Oise

Charles-François Daubigny (born February 15, 1817 in Paris , † February 19, 1878 there ) was a French painter and printmaker .

Life

Daubigny was a pupil of his father, a miniature painter, and Paul Delaroche . He has been participating in exhibitions with classical landscapes since 1838, but it was not until the beginning of the 1850s that he achieved full development and general recognition.

His goal was to free the landscape from the poetic and subjective ingredients that, in his opinion, the romantics such as Narcisso Virgilio Díaz de la Peña , Jules Dupré and Théodore Rousseau had added, and to provide an unvarnished and immediate image of nature . The painter's personal feelings should not have a say in the reproduction of what has been seen. Nevertheless, Daubigny found himself with the aforementioned artist colleagues at the Barbizon school .

His sketches, which Daubigny often created as watercolors , were already seen by the public and art critics as "... pretty, pleasing and poetic". Although Daubigny did nothing for it, the landscape pictures that were created - according to these preliminary drafts - were recognized as "poetic". But he did not bring any poetic mood into her, and in order to avoid any suspicion of deliberate poetic stimuli, he chose the most unappealing and inconspicuous motifs, striving solely for absolute truth. Nevertheless, a certain mood element always set the tone for its delicate coloring.

His endeavors to preserve the spontaneity and immediacy associated with outdoor painting in his exhibition pictures should be emphasized . For this he earned a lot of praise in his time, but also harsh criticism. But Daubigny stuck to his painting style and strongly influenced Impressionism in the 1860s with his three-dimensional application of paint and quick brushstrokes. He often painted from a boat what Claude Monet took over from him.

Works (selection)

  • Lock in the Optevoz Valley (around 1855)
  • Spring (1857)
  • The banks of the Oise (1859)
  • The moonrise (1877)
  • The mills in Dordrecht (1872)
  • French orchard at harvest time (1876)

literature

  • Voyage en bâteau. Croquis à l'eau forte . Cadart, Paris 1862 (album of 15 etchings)

Web links

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  1. ↑ Franz Zelger: Surprising Metamorphosis. In: nzz.ch. January 13, 2015, accessed October 14, 2018 .
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personal data
SURNAME Daubigny, Charles-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1878
Place of death Paris