Elisa Beetz-Charpentier

Signature Elisa Beetz

Elisa Beetz-Charpentier (* 1859 in Schaerbeek , Belgium , † 1949 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France ) was a French sculptor , medalist and painter .

Life

Elisa Beetz studied sculpture at the academy in Brussels . She was a student of the sculptor Alexandre Charpentier , whom she later married. She was his second wife. Her witnesses were Claude Debussy and Auguste Rodin .

Elisa Beetz-Charpentier was mainly active as an artist from 1905 to 1924. Between 1910 and 1924 Beetz-Charpentier exhibited at the Salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts in Paris, which she had joined in 1905. In 1909 she received first prize in a competition for a plaque to mark the centenary of the Pleyel company in Paris .

As a portrait painter, she liked to take children as subjects, whereas as a sculptor she preferred dancers as subjects. The artist's best-known work, however, is the bronze statuette from around 1903 entitled Beggar by Pont des Arts , which shows a girl in a hooded coat, trousers and boots. As a sculptor and jewelry designer, she worked mainly for the Maison de l'Art Nouveau of Siegfried Samuel Bing .

literature

Elisa Beetz-Charpentier . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , p. 261.

Web links

Elisa Beetz-Charpentier (French, 1875–1949). In: artnet , with pictures of Beetz-Charpentier's work.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Elisa Beetz-Charpentier . In: Musée d'Orsay
↑ ^a ^b Jana Wijnsouw: National Identity and Nineteenth-Century Franco-Belgian Sculpture. Routledge, 2017, ISBN 1-35177-814-5 , p. 393.
^ Roberta Waddell: Art Et Décoration . Courier Corporation, 1977, ISBN 0-48623-515-7 , p. 279.
↑ James H. Rubin, Olivia Mattis: Rival Sisters, Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism, 1815-1915. Ashgate Publishing, 2014, ISBN 1-40942-070-1 , p. 279.
^ Beetz-Charpentier, Elisa (French sculptor, 1875-1949). In: J. Paul Getty Museum Trust
^ ^A ^b Beetz-Charpentier, Élisa - Painter, sculptor. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7 , 2006.
^ Leonard Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists: Supplement AL. Spink & Son, 1923, p. 61.
↑ Objects from July 18, 2018. In: Bares für Rares , ZDF

Remarks

↑ Other publications locate their origin in Holland, but do not give a date of birth. Roberta Waddell calls her "Dutch-born sculptor"; Spink & Son's Biographical Dictionary of Medallists: Supplement AL describes them in 1923 on p. 61 as “contemporary sculptor and medallist, born in Holland […]”; after Matthy Esterhuysen's memorial pennings ter ere van President SJP Kruger in besit van die Nasionale Kultuurhistoriese en Opelugmuseum, Pretoria on p. 77, "Eliza Beetz-Charpentier was born in Holland." Ryno Greenwall mentions in Artists & Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War , Fernwood Press, 1992, ISBN 0-95831-546-9 , p. 328 “BEETZ. ELISA. Dutch-born wife of A. Charpentier; known as a sculptor and medalist. "

personal data
SURNAME	Beetz-Charpentier, Elisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Beetz, Elisa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French sculptor, painter and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schaerbeek , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH	1949
Place of death	Neuilly-sur-Seine , France

[Orsay-1] Elisa Beetz-Charpentier . In: Musée d'Orsay

[Wijnsouw-3] Jana Wijnsouw: National Identity and Nineteenth-Century Franco-Belgian Sculpture. Routledge, 2017, ISBN 1-35177-814-5 , p. 393.

[4] Roberta Waddell: Art Et Décoration . Courier Corporation, 1977, ISBN 0-48623-515-7 , p. 279.

[5] James H. Rubin, Olivia Mattis: Rival Sisters, Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism, 1815-1915. Ashgate Publishing, 2014, ISBN 1-40942-070-1 , p. 279.

[6] Beetz-Charpentier, Elisa (French sculptor, 1875-1949). In: J. Paul Getty Museum Trust

[Bénézit-7] A ^b Beetz-Charpentier, Élisa - Painter, sculptor. In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19977-378-7 , 2006.

[8] Leonard Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists: Supplement AL. Spink & Son, 1923, p. 61.

[9] Objects from July 18, 2018. In: Bares für Rares , ZDF

[2] Other publications locate their origin in Holland, but do not give a date of birth. Roberta Waddell calls her "Dutch-born sculptor"; Spink & Son's Biographical Dictionary of Medallists: Supplement AL describes them in 1923 on p. 61 as “contemporary sculptor and medallist, born in Holland […]”; after Matthy Esterhuysen's memorial pennings ter ere van President SJP Kruger in besit van die Nasionale Kultuurhistoriese en Opelugmuseum, Pretoria on p. 77, "Eliza Beetz-Charpentier was born in Holland." Ryno Greenwall mentions in Artists & Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War , Fernwood Press, 1992, ISBN 0-95831-546-9 , p. 328 “BEETZ. ELISA. Dutch-born wife of A. Charpentier; known as a sculptor and medalist. "