Daniel Baud-Bovy

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Daniel Baud-Bovy (born April 13, 1870 in Geneva ; † June 19, 1958 there ) was a Swiss writer and painter and long-time president of the Federal Art Commission .

Daniel Baud-Bovy was the son of the alpine painter Auguste Baud-Bovy and received his artistic and literary training in Paris , where he frequented the symbolist milieu . In Geneva he was conservator of the Musée Rath from 1905 to 1913 and director of the École des Beaux-Arts there from 1909 to 1919. Together with Fred Boissonnas he made several trips to Greece, with whom he published the book En Grèce, par monts et par vaux in 1910 and climbed Mount Olympus for the first time in 1913 . He published numerous plays for children, novels and short stories, often illustrated by his artist friends, and wrote works on art history and art criticism, including on Ferdinand Hodler and Barthélemy Menn . He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva and in 1928 received the total works prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation .

Works (selection)

  • Peintres Genevois (du XVIIIème et du XIXème siècle 1702-1849) . 2 Séries / Reproductions photographiques par Fréd [éric] Boissonnas, Édité par Le Journal de Genève, Genève: Impression de la Sté anon. des Arts Graphiques, 1903–1904
  • with Albert Malche : La Fête de Juin. Spectacle patriotique. Fred Boissonas & Cie., Geneva 1914
  • Les caricatures d'Adam Töpffer et la Restauration genevoise , Nouv. éd. rev. et augm./ by Olivier Fatio, Lucien Boissonnas and Caroline Guignard, Lausanne, La Bibliothèques des arts, 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucien Boissonnas: Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer (1766-1847) . In: In the light of French-speaking Switzerland. Oskar Reinhart as a collector of art from western Switzerland . Swiss Institute for Art Research , Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-908196-01-9
  2. ↑ Claude Lapaire: Baud-Bovy, Daniel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Baud-Bovy, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1958
Place of death Geneva