Charles Blanc
Charles-Alexandre-Philippe-Auguste Blanc (born November 17, 1813 in Castres , France , † January 7, 1882 in Paris ) was a French art theorist and critic and brother of Louis Blanc .
Blanc studied in Paris with the engravers Paolo Mercuri and Luigi Calamatta until 1835 . In 1845 he published his work Histoire des peintres français du dix-neuvième siècle , in which he criticized contemporary painting.
After the February Revolution in France in 1848 , Blanc was director of the fine arts department in the Paris Ministry of the Interior until 1850. There he laid down the guidelines for state funding for the arts. His goals were among other things the democratization and popularization of art. For example, he sponsored the painting of train stations, the organization of artistic folk festivals and the decoration of the Pantheon .
From 1848 to 1876 he worked on his work Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles , in which he collected biographies of the most important painters in European schools. In 1859 he founded the first international art magazine Gazette des Beaux-Arts and became its editor-in-chief.
From 1870 to 1873 Charles Blanc was again director of the Department of Fine Arts. After the end of his political activities he designed a new color system in 1879 with which he wanted to explore the possibilities of simultaneous contrast and optical mixing and which became the basis for pointillism . He dealt with this color system in his last work, Grammaire des Arts du Dessin , which was published in French and English.
For a planned museum of copies, he commissioned the painter Charles Loyeux (1823–1898) to produce oil paintings based on the frescoes by Piero della Francesca in the Bacci chapel of the Franciscan Church of Arezzo . The two copies ended up in the chapel of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where, according to Roberto Longhi , they could have had an influence on Georges Seurat .
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- ↑ Pierre Vaisse: Charles Blanc and the "Musée des Copies" . In: Journal for Art History . 39., H. 1. Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH Munich Berlin, 1976, p. 54-66 , doi : 10.2307 / 1481917 , JSTOR : 1481917 .
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| SURNAME | Blanc, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blanc, Charles-Alexandre-Philippe-Auguste (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French art theorist and art critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Castres |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1882 |
| Place of death | Paris |