Charles Henri Joseph Cordier

Charles Cordier, ca.1860

Charles Henri Joseph Cordier (born October 19, 1827 in Cambrai , † April 30, 1905 in Algiers ) was a French sculptor .

Life

The French sculptor entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1846 , where he trained under Jacques Auguste Fauginet and François Rude . The French government sent him to Africa because he showed a fondness and skill for representing different groups of people at an early stage. Since then he has made a large number of oriental statues and especially busts: in 1851 he made the bust of a resident of Timbuktu , in 1852 the bust of an "African Venus" and the group of a Chinese couple. In the bronze busts of a Mongol and a Mongolin (1853) he tried to achieve a richer color effect, the direction of which he has remained true to since then. In the Salon in 1857, twelve African busts, mostly made of bronze, appeared. Cordier often tried to reinforce the painterly principle that was expressed in all these works by combining different materials and by adding silver; So he created many works that were composed of bronze and marble, but went even further and sent the bust of an "Algerian Jewess" made of enamelled bronze, onyx and porphyry in the Salon in 1863, and in 1864 a "young mulatto" made of bronze, enamel and Onyx, 1866 the life-size statue of an “Arab” made of bronze, enamel and onyx, 1867 the bust of a “Fellah” made of bronze, gold, silver, turquoise and porphyry.

Cordier also has the statue of Marshal Gérard (1856 in Verdun), the triumph of Amphitrite (1861), John the Baptist for the tower of St. Jacques la Boucherie in Paris, the statues of harmony and poetry for the old Paris Opera , the statue the St. Clotilde on the neo-Gothic facade of Ste-Clotilde . created among other things. Cordier is a realist with little imagination, but shows a keen power of observation.

literature

• Charles Cordier, 1827-1905, l'autre et l'ailleurs [à l'occasion de l'Exposition Charles Cordier (1827-1905), Sculpteur, l'Autre et l'Ailleurs ... à Paris, Musée d'Orsay du 2 fevrier au 2 may 2004; à Québec, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec du 10 June on 6 September 2004; à New York, Dahesh Museum of Art on October 12, 2004 on January 9, 2005] / [authors: Christine Barthe ... Coordination editorale: Brigitte Govignon]. Paris: La Martinière, 2004. ISBN 2-7324-3078-1 .
• Facing the other: Charles Cordier (1827-1905), ethnographic sculptor . Laure de Margerie, Édouard Papet; with contributions by Christine Barthe and Maria Vigli; translated from the French by Lenora Ammon, Laurel Hirsch, and Clare Palmieri. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004. ISBN 0-8109-5606-3 . English translation of 1 .

gallery

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  Arabe d'el-Aghouat en burnous 1857

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  Capresse des colonies 1861

Web links

• Photographs of some of Cordier's works in the Musée d'Orsay

Commons : Charles Henri Joseph Cordier  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Woermann: History of art of all times and peoples , Volume 3, 1. French art from 1848 to around 1905. Leipzig, Bibliographisches Institut p. 237 ff

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