Edward Loevy
Edward Loevy (also Eduard Lövy, Edouard Loevy, born December 18, 1857 in Warsaw , † December 21, 1910 in Paris ) was a Polish-French painter and illustrator.
Loevy began his painting apprenticeship in Warsaw with a graduate of the Munich academy Stanisław Heyman.
At the age of 15 he began his studies on October 9, 1873 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Alexander Strähuber and Otto Seitz . Possibly he continued his studies at the St. Petersburg Art Academy. Since 1878 back in Warsaw, in 1880 he settled in Paris. He visited Warsaw and Krakow several times and exhibited his works in these cities.
In Paris he showed oil paintings at the salons of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts and drawings at the Exposition du Livre. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 he was awarded the bronze medal for a portrait.
As a draftsman and illustrator, he supplied the Polish magazines "Kłosy", " Tygodnik Ilustrowany ", "Biesiada Literacka", "Tygodnik Powszechny" and "Świat". In France he published illustrations in the writings " L'Illustration ", "Revue encyclopédique", "Revue Universelle", and also worked for the Stuttgart magazine " Über Land und Meer ".
For the Éditions Larousse he provided several thousand drawings and illustrated numerous books.
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| SURNAME | Loevy, Edward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lövy, Eduard; Loevy, Edouard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-French painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1910 |
| Place of death | Paris |