Charles-Joseph Traviès

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Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers (born February 21, 1804 in Wülflingen , today Winterthur , † August 13, 1859 in Paris ), often just called Traviès , was a Swiss painter and caricaturist who was later naturalized in France .

biography

Charles-Joseph Traviès was born on February 21, 1804 as the son of French emigrants in the then still independent wine-growing village of Wülflingen near Winterthur. Soon afterwards the family moved back to France. When he was five years old, his younger brother Édouard was born in Doullens , who later became famous as an animal artist.

In Paris he learned from 1825 as a student of Potraitmalers François-Joseph Heim and at the École royale des beaux-arts , the genre painting and took in 1832 at the Salon de Paris in part. Later he worked as a caricaturist for the newspapers La Caricature and Le Charivari and with his caricatures he often sided with the socially disadvantaged and outsiders of society.

There he also created the well-known character Mayeux , sometimes also called Mahieux , with whom he caricatured the mistakes of the bourgeoisie under King Louis-Philippe I. Mayeux was subsequently copied by all the major Parisian cartoonists of the time, including Cham , Daumier , Delaporte , Grandville and Robillard. Even Honoré de Balzac has under the pseudonym Mayeux written two articles.

After political caricatures were banned with the September Acts of 1835, Traviès devoted himself increasingly to the graphic documentation of the manners and customs of the population and small-scale crafts. He also helped to illustrate Balzac's works from 1848 to 1855.

Traviès died on August 13, 1859 at the age of 55 in Paris.

Web links

Commons : Charles Joseph Traviès de Villers  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anette Wohlgemut: Honoré Daumier - Art in the Mirror of Caricature from 1830 to 1870 . Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 978-3-631-49844-6 , pp. 352 .
  2. ↑ Christine Ekelhart: French drawings and watercolors of the 19th and 20th centuries the Albertina . tape 11 . Böhlau Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77599-7 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on July 11, 2016]).
  3. ^ Charles Joseph Traviès de Villers. In: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 11, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Traviès, Charles-Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Traviès; Villers, Charles Joseph Traviès de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss, later French caricaturist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Wülflingen (now Winterthur ), Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1859
Place of death Paris , France