Charles-Louis Guigon
Charles-Louis Guigon (born June 9, 1807 in Geneva , † June 15, 1882 ibid) was a Swiss landscape painter , watercolorist , etcher and lithographer .
Life
Charles-Louis Guigon was born the son of the watchmaker Jean-Louis Guigon. After a year of high school, Guigon took drawing lessons from Anne Alméras-Chappuis and continued with the enamel painter Jacques-Marc Henry. He then became a student of François Gédéon Reverdin at the drawing school in Geneva. From 1827 to 1828 he studied with Louis-Victor Godin in Paris.
Guigon dealt almost exclusively with landscape painting from the Bernese Oberland, Savoy and Valais. He also went on study trips to Italy, especially to Venice.
From 1826 to 1881 he took part in art exhibitions in Geneva every year, and in Paris in 1840. He became a member of the Geneva Artists Society. In addition to his work as a painter and lithographer, he gave private lessons. In 1843 he founded a painting course for women in Geneva.
He was married to Jeanne-Françoise Vettiner.
literature
- Werner Weisbach : Guigon, Charles-Louis . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 290–291 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Guigon, Charles-Louis . In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon . Volume 1: A-G. Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1905, pp. 636-637 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Lucien Boissonnas: Guigon, Charles-Louis. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Web links
- Guigon, Charles-Louis. In: Sikart (as of 2011).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guigon, Charles-Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss landscape painter, watercolourist, eraser and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1882 |
| Place of death | Geneva |