Daniel Urrabieta Vierge

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Daniel Urrabieta Vierge, self-portrait.

Daniel Urrabieta Ortiz y Vierge (also: Daniel Vierge ; born March 5, 1851 in Madrid , Spain , † May 10, 1904 in Boulogne-sur-Seine , France ) was a Spanish painter, draftsman and illustrator who mainly worked in Paris . He was the son of the draftsman Vicente Urrabieta y Ortiz . He signed his works with his second name “Vierge” or “D. Vierge ". The family lived in Spain for the first few years, but after the family moved, he spent most of his life in France. He worked for magazines such as Le Monde Illustré . At the age of thirty he suffered hemiplegia from which he would not recover for years and which forced him to draw with his left hand. He illustrated several works by Victor Hugo as well as classics of Spanish literature such as Don Quixote de la Mancha and La vida del Buscón .

Life

Illustration of the Histoire de France by Jules Michelet (1880) drawn by Vierge, engraved by Arthur Collingridge.

youth

Vierge was born in Madrid as the son of the illustrator Vicente Urrabieta y Ortiz and Juana Vierge de la Vega . He began his training at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Madrid . Vierge himself reports that he began his training there in 1864 and that his teacher was Federico Madrazo . As early as 1867 he illustrated "Madrid la Nuit" by Eusebio Blasco .

Move to Paris

He went to Paris with his family early on, probably around 1869, in search of happiness and driven by his Spanish temperament. He began to work for Le Monde Illustré in 1870 , just at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War , where he, like many other illustrators, was strongly influenced by the powerful personality of Edmond Morin ; This influence is evident in works such as Fusillade de la rue de la Paix dans la journée du 22 mars, á deux heures de l'après midi (executions in rue de la Paix on March 22nd at 2 p.m.), Lyon - La fête des écoles - Le banquet sur l'herbe (Lyon - the festival of schools The banquet ...), or Souvenir de Coulmiers clearly perceptible. In 1871 he witnessed and illustrated the events of the Paris Commune , and in this context he also drew portraits of revolutionary leaders such as Gustave Flourens and Raoul Rigault .

Ruins of the Palais des Tuileries después de la Paris Commune , drawn by Vierge, engraved by Amédée Daudenarde , Le Monde Illustré , 1871.

Vierge also made numerous illustrations of the Tercera Guerra Carlista (Third Carlist War) for the moons . He was one of the artists who introduced the technique of guillotaje , which replaced the woodcut . The painter soon demonstrated the extraordinary power and pictorial quality of his art: in addition to his devotion to his own works, he also worked on illustrations sent in by correspondents from other countries, such as works by Luc-Olivier Merson from Rome and his own own brother Samuel Urrabieta in Spain.

From 1871 to 1878 he developed his distinctive style. During these years he made some of his most famous drawings. In 1873 he illustrated L'Année terrible by Victor Hugo with remarkable strength and skill and contributed to an edition of Les Miserables (1882). His work seemed to grow with the writer's admiration. One of his most important works as an illustrator was the Histoire de France (History of France) by Jules Michelet in the Lacroix edition of 1880. Between 1877 and 1878 he worked in Paris with the painter and engraver Ramón Canudas Serra , a Catalan . In 1878 he was sent by Le Monde Illustré to celebrate the wedding of Alfonso XII. with María de las Mercedes de Orleans , which took place on January 23rd. His works also appeared in La Ilustración Española y Americana and La Revue Illustré , in 1879 he drew for La Vie Moderne and in 1880 traveled with the painter Martín Rico through Galicia and Castile to create illustrations. It was around this time that he began to illustrate an edition of the Historia de la vida del Buscón (The Life of Buscón) by Francisco de Quevedo .

Paralysis and recovery

First drawing by Vierges after his paralysis in 1893.

Vierge suffered an attack of one-sided paralysis ( paresis , hemiplegia) in either 1881 or 1882 while working on the Buscón . The right half of his body remained paralyzed, his speech and memory were impaired, but he partially recovered. He was also able to resume work later by learning to draw with his left hand. In 1888 he was one of the sponsors of the L'Estampe Originale magazine. On September 29, 1889, he even won a first medal at the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 . In an edition of La Ilustración Artística from February 10, 1890, which also preceded a portrait of him (a drawing by Paul Renouard ), there are some of his illustrations, which were made for artists such as Tony Beltrand , August Lèpere , Clément Bellenger and Florian were manufactured. In 1891 he illustrated L'Espagnole by Émile Bergerat and in the same decade Le Cabaret des trois vertus (The cabaret of the three virtues).

“Once upon a time there was a child whom the good fairies who presided over its birth agreed to enlarge its life with colors and lines. And just as a famous poet said that for him life has no other logical goal than the production of a good book, and so our artist might think that the highest act of a person is to paint a good cuadro (illustration). At a very young age he came to paint. So much so that Paris, which usually does not want to be a mother and does not feel the swollen breasts of the juice for hers, has adopted him in his strict adherence to art and the name of Daniel Vierge came so far in a short time To achieve the resonance and glory of a word that was cut for immortality. "

Illustration for El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha , 1916, Salvat & C.ª .

One of his most outstanding works, already done with the left hand, was a series of drawings for an edition of Don Quixote ( The Tale of the Brave and Cunning Wandering Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha ), translated by Thomas Shelton and published in 1906. Fraguas described these drawings as «el clímax de su arte» (peak of his art). Mancing also affirmed that Vierge had “achieved a harmony between illustration and text that is seldom matched, if ever in an edition of the novel by Miguel de Cervantes”. For Ricardo Gutiérrez Abascal (“Juan de la Encina”), Vierge's work for Don Quixote “does not go beyond the purely picturesque - a kind of illustration fortunysta ” For his inspiration for this work, Vierge traveled through La Mancha in 1893 , accompanied by the manchan painter Carlos Vázquez, to document his impressions and to make sketches and drawings in Argamasilla de Alba , Alcázar de San Juan and Campo de Criptana . He wanted to illustrate later editions of Don Quixote .

Last years of life

In 1898 the Pelletan-Helleu Gallery in Paris organized an exhibition of his illustrations for Le Dernier Abencérage by François-René de Chateaubriand and the following year there was another exhibition of his works (including the illustrations for Don Quixote ) in the "Galería Art Nouveau" also in Paris. In 1898 Vierge worked for L'Image , a magazine devoted to the representation of the woodcut technique and two years later, at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 , he won a first prize. Vierge also connected with the Asturian painter Evaristo Valle , whom he met in France and who later, when he returned to Spain at the beginning of the century, was announced as "a pupil of the famous Vierge, of Paris". In 1902 Vierge exhibited a scene from the Franco-German War in the “Nuevo Salón” .

The La Ilustración Artística writes Vierge has "retained a filial love for Spain and it seems that his absence has revived the cult of the local colors of his homeland to him and let him develop an unmatched uniqueness of taste." And in the words of José Francés (“Silvio Lago”): “Despite the time and the distance, Daniel Vierge always kept a deep love for Spain”. The latter also writes that his wife Clara and his mother had, especially since he both survived. His mother did not die until April 1904, just over a month before his own death in Boulogne-sur-Seine on May 10, 1904 .. His house in Boulogne-sur-Seine, where he lived for the last twenty years, was small and had a narrow, elongated garden. It was relatively modest in contrast to the luxury that Paris artists often indulged in. Vierge was buried on the Cimetière Montparnasse . In the winter of 1912 another exhibition of his works was organized in the Pavillon de Marsan in his honor .

Portrait photograph by Vierge on the opening pages of a copy of Don Quixote .

The American critic Joseph Pennell writes:

“I think one of the Spaniards who should be in the same class as Fortuny and Rico, and indeed above them, as a pen-drawer and illustrator, is Vierge, a man who does all of Fortuny's pen-drawing art and Menzel has the color and brilliance of Rico, the grace and beauty of Abbey , the eccentricity and courage of Blum , Brennan and Lungren ; in a word, a man who, in the few short years of his working life, has shown himself to be the greatest illustrator who has ever lived. I appreciate Vierge about Fortuny and Rico because he devoted himself more to black and white work. "

Eusebio Blasco praised Vierge and pointed out that it was necessary to go to France so that his career as a draftsman could succeed at all. In a letter from Martín Rico to Abelardo de Carlos , the founder of La Ilustración Española y Americana , which is published in this magazine together with a section by Eusebio Martínez de Velasco , Ríco compares the works of Vierge with those of Adolph von Menzel , even if they are both work in entirely different genres. Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier regards him, together with Menzel, as one of the best draftsmen of the century. Nevertheless, Vierge has been forgotten in Spain over the years. Still, its effect on other authors such as Thomas Hart Benton or Howard Pyle ; not to be underestimated and he has been called the "father of modern illustration".

gallery

Works

Illustration by Vierge, in the novel L'Homme qui rit by Victor Hugo .

literature

Portrait of Vierge, by Paul Renouard , La Ilustración Artística, 1890.

Web links

Commons : Daniel Urrabieta Vierge  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Bastida de la Calle y Nieva cites March 5, 1851 (Bastida de la Calle 1990: 305; Nieva 1996: 3), which Vierge himself confirms in an autobiographical note in La vida del Buscón by Quevedo 1892. (Quevedo 1892: xiv) Marthold y Villar Garrido add that he was born in calle de las Huertas (Marthold 1906: 4; Villar Garrido 2006: 50.) Roberto Castrovido goes even further by also giving and writing the house number 34 that the Ayuntamiento de Madrid had put up a memorial stone or plaque on June 10, 1921 (Castrovido 1921: 1.) This house is located right next to the Palacio del Marqués de Molins ( Boletín Oficial del Estado : REAL DECRETO 154/2004, 23 Jan. Palacio del Marqués de Molins boe.es , No. 31: 4983-4984) Martín Rico simply writes that he was born in Madrid. (Martínez de Velasco 1890: 355). José Francés , "Silvio Lago", on the other hand writes that Vierge was born in Getafe (Lago 1918: 7)
  2. Bastida de la Calle dates his death on May 10, 1904, (Bastida de la Calle 1990: 305.);
    La Ilustración Artística. 1904, p. 350.
    Wells in Brush and Pencil (Wells 1904: 201.), however, others cite May 11 and Luis Ballesteros Robles'
    Diccionario biográfico matritense May 12 (Ballesteros Robles 1912: 634.)
  3. Fraguas 2005.
  4. Fraguas 2005; Bosch 1890: 28; Bastida de la Calle 1990: 273.
  5. ^ Pennell 1889: 32
  6. According to Hamerton, he used "Vierge" in Paris because this name was much easier to understand for the French (Hamerton 1892: 228.); Marthold, however, claims that he wanted to differentiate himself from his father by doing this. (Marthold 1906: 26.) His brother, Samuel Urrabieta , who was “very talented but less brilliant” (“muy talentoso pero menos brilliant”), signed with “S. Urrabieta ”. Pennell 1889: 32: "Daniel Vierge must not be confounded with his very talented but less brilliant brother, who signed his name S. Urrabieta, while Vierge always omits the Urrabieta and simply signs himself D. Vierge. His brother died recently. ”† March 18, 1886. Ballesteros Robles 1912: 634.
  7. Palencia Tubau 1920: 10.
  8. var. aut. 1911: 57.
  9. Jaccaci 1893: 201-202.
  10. Varios autores 1911: 57
  11. ^ Villar Garrido, Villar Garrido 2006: 50.
  12. Quevedo 1892: xiv; probably also: M. de Hatt ( Carlos de Haes  ?) Jiménez Jiménez 2014: 186; and Borglini. Quevedo 1892: xiv.
  13. Quevedo 1892: xiv.
  14. Palencia Tubau 1920: 10.
  15. The Encyclopædia Britannica speaks of 1867, Var. aut. 1911: 57., also José María de Heredia , Heredia 1894: 550. Fraguas mentions that Urrabieta went to Paris at the age of 18, so that would have been around 1869, Fraguas 2005. Quevedo 1892: xiv así como Bastida de la Calle: Bastida de la Calle 1990: 305. "Joaquina García Balmaseda (La Condesa de Valflores)" García Balmaseda 1875: 3rd Jiménez Jiménez 2014: 186. José Francés (Silvio Lago) mentions that he was with his at the age of 20 Family moved to France. Lago 1918: 7. After Palencia Tubau, the family moved to Paris, but, with the exception of Vierge, fled to Spain again in the course of the Franco-Prussian War. Palencia Tubau 1920: 10.
  16. var. aut. 1911: 57.
  17. Marthold confirms his first illustration in Le Monde Illustré on September 17, 1870. Marthold 1906: 28.
  18. var. aut. 1911: 57; Charles Yriarte , who was then the director of Le Monde Illustré, offered him to work for the magazine. Jaccaci 1893: 196; Lago 1918: 7.
  19. var. aut. 1911: 57; Gómez Carrillo 1900: 1.
  20. Varios autores 1911: 57.
  21. ^ Nieva 1996: 3
  22. Jaccaci 1893: 198.
  23. Bastida de la Calle 1990: 274-275.
  24. Jiménez Jiménez 2014: 190.
  25. var. aut. 1911: 57.
  26. La Enciclopedia Britannica is one of them: Navidades en España , El mitin republicano en Trafalgar Square , Ataque a un tren en Andalucía , Fiesta de Santa Rosalía en Palermo , En el jardín de aclimatación , El incendio de la biblioteca de El Escorial , Bandolerismo en Sicilia , Fiesta nocturna en Constantinopla , Episodio de la Guerra Civil en España , Boda del rey de España o La pelea del toro . Var. aut. 1911: 57; During this time, woodcuts such as Le combat de Manaria, près Bilbao, le armée attaquée par les carlistes , Derniers combats au Père-Lachaise , Réunion, dans l'hôtel du duc d'Albe, des grands d ' also appeared in Le Monde Illustré. Espagne opposés à la liberation inmédiate des esclaves des colonies .
  27. Bastida de la Calle 1990: 274-275.
  28. var. aut. 1911: 57.
  29. Joaquina García Balmaseda wrote in the newspaper La Iberia that he was the favorite of Víctor Hugo ("el favorito de Víctor Hugo"). The Spanish journalist and writer also recounts an alleged dialogue between Victor Hugo and his editor in which, after asking Hugo about Vierge to illustrate his work L'annee terrible (The Terrible Year), the editor complains that “he did not is known. "Victor Hugo replied:" And that is what matters? If you don't know what this stranger is worth, I know! There is an absolute shortage of cartoonists in France. You are landscape architects and portraitists, we have excellent copyists of paintings; but we are totally lacking in people who know how to draw characters and represent figures, believe me and leave the pages of my book to this boy. ”García Balmaseda 1875: 3.
  30. var. aut. 1911: 57; Jaccaci 1893: 189.
  31. ^ Moline 2012.
  32. Jiménez, Jiménez 2014: 200.
  33. Lago 1918: 7; Cuenca 1904: 299; Román Salamero 1904: 4. There he was introduced in 1872 as “one of our artistic correspondents in the capital of France” (uno de nuestros corresponsales artísticos en la capital de Francia). In the same issue of the magazine, two drawings appeared, signed “Urrabieta” and “Vierge”. Henri Regnault: La Ilustración Española y Americana. Volume 16, 15: 229 . Madrid April 16, 1872. ISSN  1889-8394 .
  34. Vierge was in fact one of the founders of this publication after leaving Le Monde Illustré . Palencia, Tubau 1920: 10; Wells 1904: 211.
  35. var. 1911: 57.
  36. ^ Francisco Nieva recorded February 28, 1881; Nieva 1996: 3. Other authors record February 14, 1882; Bäzner, Hennerich 2006: 181-182.
  37. Lago 1918: 7; Jaccaci 1893: 196; Cuenca 1904: 299.
  38. Blackburn 1896: 176.
  39. José Francés (Silvio Lago) writes of a period of "two or three terrible years in which the sweet and passionate glow of Clara, the symbolic man's lover, did not leave him." Lago 1918: 7.
  40. var. 1911: 57; Jaccaci 1893: 201-202; Wells 1904: 211-212.
  41. The magazine was founded in 1888 by French illustrators and engravers such as Lèpere, Félix Bracquemond , Beltrand, Dillon, Boutet and Vierge themselves. Baas 1983: 16.
  42. This is mentioned by Vierge himself in a small autobiographical note for Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper . In it he writes: "On September 29, 1889, I received the gold medal at the World Exhibition of Paris in 1889." "Le 29 September, 1889, j'ai reçu la médaille d'or à la Exposition Universelle de Paris de 1889 ». Quevedo 1892; The award ceremony is confirmed by Le Monde Illustré . Le Monde Illustré , Paris, October 10, 1889: La distribution des récompenses aux exposants 215. “Nos artistes ont eu aussi leur part de récompense dans des groupes divers. M. Vierge, M. Chelmonski, nos brillants collaborateurs, ont obtenu l'un, une première médaille pour ses dessins, l'autre, une medaille d'honneur pour ses tableaux. ”(Our artists also have their share in the success in the different groups: M. Vierge, M. Chelmonski, our brilliant collaborators have received, one, a first medal for his drawings, the other, an honorary medal for his pictures.) gallica.bnf.fr
  43. La Ilustración Artística 1890: 481-485.
  44. ^ According to the Enciclopedia Británica , this edition was published in 1895, Vari. aut. 1911: 57; However, this work was published in August 1894 under the title La taberna de las tres virtudes in La Ilustración Artística . Translated into Castillian by J. Ixart . Heredia 1894: 546,549; La Ilustración Artística . 1904: 350; The work is ascribed to a «Saint-Juirs» (Heredia 1894: 546.), what appears to be a pseudonym of René Delorme (1848-1890).
  45. Erase que se era un niño á quien las buenas hadas que presidieron la fiesta de su nacer acordaron el don de magnificar su vida por medio de colores y de líneas. Y así como un poeta famoso dijo el decir de que para él la vida no tenía otro fin lógico que el de dar lugar á la producción de un buen libro, así nuestro artista pudo pensar que la más alta acción de un hombre consiste en pintar un buen cuadro. A edad muy moza llegó á pintarlos. Tanto, que París, que no suele ser madre ni sentir sus mamellas hinchadas de jugo sino para los suyos, lo adoptó en su estricta filiación de arte, y el nombre de Daniel Vierge llegó á adquirir en poco tiempo la sonoridad y la gloria de un verso tallado para la inmortalidad. Alejandro Sawa , Ilustraciones en la sombra (Illustrations in the shade), 1910: 51.
  46. The original illustrations for the novel were made in Chinese and Aguada ink and later reproduced through a process of heliography . The picture at hand is called: Don Quixote studies the rules of knighthood . Proyecto Cervantes csdl.tamu.edu
  47. Lago 1918: 7.
  48. Cervantes 1906.
  49. Cervantes 1906; Mancing 2004: 751.
  50. Fraguas 2005.
  51. «alcanzado una armonía entre ilustración y texto escrito rara vez igualada, quizás nunca, en una edición de la novela de Miguel de Cervantes» Mancing 2004: 751.
  52. «no pasó de lo puramente pintoresco —una especie de ilustración“ fortunysta ”-». Encina 1918: 10.
  53. Román Salamero 1904 4; Jiménez, Jiménez 2014: 196; Villar Garrido 2006: 50.
  54. Román Salamero 1904: 4th
  55. Fraguas 2005; Heredia 1894: 550.
  56. ^ Villar Garrido 2006: 50.
  57. var. aut. 1911: 57.
  58. var. aut. 1911: 57.
  59. "Discípulo del ilustre Vierge, de París" Natalia Tielve García: Crítica de arte en la Asturias del primer tercio del siglo XX. Universidad de Oviedo 1999: 39. ISBN 978-84-8317-179-0 books.google.es
  60. var. aut. 1911: 57.
  61. «conservaba para España la preferencia de un cariño filial; y aun parece como que la ausencia avivara en él el culto por el color local de su patria y le hiciera saborear su singularismo sin rival »La Ilustración Artística 1904: 350.
  62. "a través del tiempo y de la distancia Daniel Vierge Conservo siempre hondo amor a España" Lago 1918: 7th
  63. According to Cortissoz, after the paralysis, his wife had all concerns for his physical well-being. Cortissoz 1913: p. 324; After Clara died, Vierge probably entered into another sentimental relationship. Lago 1918: p. 7; Palencia Tubau 1920: p. 10.
  64. April 2, 1904 in an apartment in Paris on Calle Gutenberg . Palencia Tubau 1920: p. 10.
  65. Lago 1918: 7; Var. aut. 1911: 57.
  66. ^ Wells 1904: p. 201.
  67. Cortissoz 1913: 323.
  68. Oller 1929: p. 26.
  69. Cortissoz 1913: 321-322.
  70. I think one of the Spaniards who should be ranked with Fortuny and Rico, and indeed above them, as a pen draughtsman and illustrator, is Vierge, a man who has all the draftsmanship of Fortuny and Menzel, the color and brilliancy of Rico, the grace and beauty of Abbey, the eccentricity and daring of Blum, Brennan and Lungren; in a word, a man who, in the few short years of his working life, has proved himself the greatest illustrator who ever lived. I ran Vierge thus above Fortuny and Rico because he has devoted himself more entirely to black and white work. Pennell 1889: 23.
  71. «Por dibujante vulgar pasaba aquí el gran Urrabieta Vierge, que se fué á París despechado, y allí ganó cerca de un millón en pocos años y se le reconoció más talento que á nadie. Triste condición la del español, esta que consiste en mirar con ojos envidiosos al que puede dar gloria á su patria, y padecer constantemente la tristeza del bien ajeno ». Eusebio Blasco, Perfiles femeninos . Ed. L. Martinez, Madrid 1906, volume 26 57
  72. Martínez de Velasco 1890: p. 355.
  73. Wells 1904; P. 201; Jaccaci 1893: 197.
  74. Nieva 1996; P. 3; Villar Garrido, Villar Garrido 2006: pp. 50-51.
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  77. ^ "The padre de la ilustración moderna". Wells 1904: p. 201.
  78. Hugo 1874.
  79. ^ Lesage 1875.
  80. Hugo 1877.
  81. ^ Hugo 1886.
  82. Heredia 1894b; Marthold 1906: 119-120.
  83. Jaccaci 1896.
  84. Les Aventures du dernier Abencerage WorldCat.
  85. ^ Zorrilla 1901.
  86. ^ Joseph L. Laurenti: Catálogo bibliográfico de la literatura picaresca siglos XVI-XX. , Volume 1, Edition Reichenberger 2000: 553 . ISBN 978-3-931887-88-9 .
  87. Cervantes 1906.
  88. Marthold 1906: 150
  89. Les Ames du purgatoire. Biblioteca de Catalunya.
  90. Catálogo de la exposición conmemorativa del iv centenario del nacimiento de Miguel de Cervantes, 1547-1616. Ediciones del Quixote de los siglos xix y xx, Volume 3, 1947: 37 Barcelona, ​​Biblioteca Central de Catalunya.