Eugène Beyer

Portrait of a rider with a black horse

Eugène Beyer (born February 8, 1817 in Strasbourg , † April 23, 1893 in Nîmes ) was an Alsatian genre and history painter, lithographer and politician.

Eugène Beyer received his first painting lessons from his father, the miniature painter Johann Daniel Beyer, studied with Gabriel-Christophe Guérin in Strasbourg and with Paul Delaroche in Paris . Beyer made his debut in 1842 with the genre painting “The Forgotten Flower”.

During the February Revolution of 1848 he became politically active and was sent to the Paris Constituent Assembly as a member of the Strasbourg constituent assembly . He took part in the Paris uprising from June 22nd to 26th, 1848. On June 13, 1849, Beyer had to leave France and came to Switzerland , where he was interned in the canton of Bern. In exile he continued to paint and remained politically active. He spent some time in Spain and Genoa . He then returned to Strasbourg in 1855. From 1870 to 1875 he was based in Carouge . Eugène Beyer mostly painted historical pictures from the history of Alsace , such as the Battle of Hausbergen in 1256 and the Jewish pogrom in Strasbourg in 1349 .

literature

• André Girodie: Beyer, Eugène . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 565-566 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• P. Muller, La Révolution de 1848 en Alsace , Paris, 1912;
• Dictionnaire de biographie française , VI, 1954, p. 374;
• M. Spisser, Les élections et l'opinion publique en Alsace de 1848 à 1851 , DES, Strasbourg, 1964, pp. 60 to 84.
• Bénézit 1976, vol. II, p. 6
• Busse 1977, p. 107

Web links

Commons : Eugène Beyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fédération des Sociétés d'Histoire et d'Archéologie d'Alsace
• Historical lexicon of Switzerland
• Assemblée Nationale