Eugène Boudin
Eugène Boudin (born July 12, 1824 in Honfleur , † August 8, 1898 in Deauville ) was a French painter, forerunner of Impressionism and one of the first outdoor painters .
Life
As the son of a port pilot, Boudin was already working as a cabin boy on a steam-powered ferry between Le Havre and Honfleur at the age of ten . In 1835 the family moved to Le Havre, where Boudin's father opened a stationery and picture frame shop, which the young Eugène also worked in, before later running his own business.
Eugène Boudin met several local painters and began exhibiting their paintings in his shop. Painters such as Constant Troyon , Jean-François Millet and Eugène Isabey encouraged Boudin to pick up a brush himself. At the age of 22 he gave up his business and worked exclusively as a painter.
With a scholarship from the city of Le Havre, he was able to study in Paris from 1851 . Study trips took him to Flanders , southern France, Venice and, above all, time and again to Brittany - but he always remained true to his homeland, Normandy . After 1850, a small artists' colony was established on the Ferme Saint-Siméon near Honfleur, where Boudin met with painters friends such as Gustave Courbet , Eugène Isabey, Johan Barthold Jongkind , Claude Monet , Constant Troyon and others. a. and whom he inspired to paint in the great outdoors.
From 1859 Boudin took part regularly in the Paris Salon . In 1874 he also exhibited at the first exhibition of the Impressionists in the Paris studio of the photographer Nadar .
In 1881 Boudin met Louis Braquaval , the son-in-law of a good friend, and made him his pupil in Honfleur. They remained on friendly terms even beyond their apprenticeship years. Boudin gave Braquaval's wife a painting with her house in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme . In the summer of 1895 he painted in the city of Rouen, which is popular with painters .
Eugène Boudin died on August 8, 1898 at the age of 74 and rests on the Cimetière Saint-Vincent on Montmartre in Paris . Most of the estate is in the Musée Eugène Boudin in Honfleur and the Musée Malraux in Le Havre.
Museums
- Eugène Boudin Museum, Honfleur
- Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux , Le Havre
- North Frisian Museum. Nissenhaus Husum , Husum
literature
- Jens Rosteck : King of Heaven, Beach Poet - How Eugène Boudin recorded the beginnings of beach tourism in Normandy in his seascapes. Inventor of the beach image and pioneer of impressionism. In: mare No. 98, June / July 2013, pp. 98–109.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eugène Boudin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Eugène Boudin at Zeno.org .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Diederik Bakhuys, et al .: A City for Impressionism - Monet, Pissarro, and Gauguin in Rouen (catalog) . Ed .: Laurent Salomé. 1st edition. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen / Skira Flammarion, Rouen / Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-08-124399-6 , p. 212 .
- ^ Musée Eugène Boudin in Honfleur
- ↑ Musée Malraux in Le Havre ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boudin, Eugène |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Honfleur |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1898 |
| Place of death | Deauville |