Charles Hutin
Charles François Hutin (born July 4, 1715 in Paris , † July 29, 1776 in Dresden ) (also: Karl ) was a painter, sculptor and the first director of the Dresden Art Academy .
Life
Charles François Hutin was trained by François Lemoyne (1688-1736) and Sébastien Slodtz (1655-1726). At the age of 21 he won the First Prize of the Paris Academy for Painting in 1736 and received a royal scholarship to study in Rome. Here he initially studied sculpture under Sébastien Slodtz. In 1742 he returned to Paris, in 1744 he became a licensed sculptor and in 1746 he made his masterpiece: a Charon , with which he was admitted to the Royal Academy. In 1748 he was called to Dresden, where his brother Pierre (Peter) († 1763) accompanied him. He worked here under Louis de Silvestre . With the establishment of the art academy in 1762 he became its director. His successors were Johann Eleazar Zeissig and Giovanni Battista Casanova .
Works
- Charon , in the Louvre
- Fountain with two nymphs (1749)
- Altarpiece crucifixion of Christ (1753) in the Hofkirche Dresden
literature
- Johann Rudolf Fuessli, Hans Heinrich Füssli: General artist lexicon. P. 584 ( digitized version )
- Johann Gottfried Grohmann, Wilhelm David Fuhrmann: New historical-biographical concise dictionary. P. 424 ( digitized version )
- Harald Marx: Hutin, Charles. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , pp. 95 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon , Volume 1, p. 374. ( Digitized version) (With list of works)
Web links
- Works by Charles François Hutin at Artnet
- Charles Hutin at bildindex .de
- various images in French museums in the Joconde database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières.
- ↑ http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=rs_display_res&critere=Charles-Francois+Hutin&operator=AND&photoOnly=true&nbToDisplay=20&langue=fr
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hutin, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hutin, Karl; Hutin, Charles Françios |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and sculptor, director of the Dresden Art Academy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 4, 1715 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1776 |
| Place of death | Dresden |