Edouard Castres

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Édouard Castres (born June 21, 1838 in Geneva , † June 28, 1902 in Annemasse ) was a Swiss painter, he was mainly known for the Bourbaki panorama .

Life

Edouard Castres was born to Alexandre Paul Castres and his wife Marie Josette Rigaud. After training as an enamel and ceramic painter with Justin Dupont in Geneva, he took lessons in oil painting from Barthélemy Menn , a technique that he mainly used from then on. He studied from 1859 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and worked in the studios of Hippolyte Flandrin and Émile Signol . After a short stay in Geneva, he returned to Paris to study figure painting with Michel Zamacoïs y Zabada . As an artist, Castres was fond of military subjects and genre painting .

During the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871, Castres served in Le Havre and southern France as a medic for the Red Cross . In the later course of the war he came to the eastern front, where General Charles Denis Bourbaki exercised command of the Armée de l'Est and was forced to cross the Swiss border with his units from February 1 to 3, 1871. In the snowy heights of the Jura , the Armée de l'Est was disarmed and interned . After Castres received initial recognition in Geneva in 1868 and at the Salon de Paris in 1872 , he achieved his artistic and commercial breakthrough in 1881 with L'Entrée de l'armée française aux Verrières , which became known as the Bourbaki Panorama . The monumental circular painting has been in Lucerne since 1889 . In 1877 he married Eugénie Miffon and lived with her in Étrembières in Savoy ever since . The later phase of his work again shaped monumental works, such as the work Grande revue sur la plaine de Plainpalais vers 1840 , which was created in 1898 for the town house of Plainpalais , or the painting of the frieze on the Hôtel des Exercices de l'Arquebuse et de la Navigation from 1900 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Edouard Castres  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christian Klemm (ed.): From anchor to Zünd - Art in the young federal state 1848–1900 . Scheidegger & Spiess / Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich 1998, ISBN 3-906574-00-8 , p. 397 (In contrast to the other biographical texts in the cited book, this article is not signed. It is based on: Louis Hautecoeur: Edouard Castres . Geneva 1950; and: Oskar Bätschmann , 1989).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f William Hauptman: Edouard Castres. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland. August 23, 2005, accessed January 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Castres, Edouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castres, Edouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1902
Place of death Annemasse