Eugène Trutat

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Eugène Trutat about 1875

Charles Louis Eugène Trutat (born August 25, 1840 in Vernon , Eure , † August 6, 1910 in Foix , Ariège ) was a French photographer , Pyrenees mountaineer , geologist and naturalist . He was curator of the Musée d'Histoire naturelle in Toulouse .

biography

He is actively involved in exploring the Pyrenees , mainly around Luchon and in the Ariège department . From 1859 he began to take photographs and regularly published specialist books on the subject. About 20,000 photographs of him have survived, including autochrome color pictures . Trutat was president of the Société photographique of Toulouse and member of the commission for the classification of important buildings as monument ( Monument historique ) in Toulouse.

Together with Moritz Gourdon, he carried out studies on glaciers on the Aneto and Maladeta and measured their increase.

In 1876 he founded the Pyrénées centrales section of the Club Alpin Français with Charles Fabre .

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Montagne du Soudour in Tarascon

The Bibliothèque de Toulouse has a fund of 5,000 photographs on glass plates that were taken in the Pyrenees between 1870 and 1910. The Muséum national d'histoire naturelle has 15,000 plates, made between 1875 and 1910, including Autochrome and the only photographs of the 1875 floods in Toulouse.

Grand glacier du Port d'Oô
Chopper Collection Eugene Trutat - Muséum de Toulouse

His photographs cover a wide spectrum and form a source of information for the Pyrenees at the end of the 19th century: landscapes , sights , everyday life , climbs and excursions as well as his friends among the Pyrenees and the mountain guides : Maurice Gourdon, Émile Belloc, Henri Beraldi etc.

Henri Beraldi said of him: Trutat was the apostle, the creator of the Pyrénéist Conference; a sober and elegant emcee, like a professor with long experience teaching in front of a busy audience (in the Museum of Toulouse), yet it was he who stuck to the true principle of the slide show: little talk and never introductory reflections, the audience with impatience pawing the hooves: "Immediately bring the magic lantern!" And that is exactly what a slide show: it is the slide with as little presentation as possible. Kurzweil came among the dead.

Publications

  • La Photographie appliquée à l'archéologie , Paris, Gauthier-Villars , 1879
  • Traité élémentaire du microscope , Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1883
  • La Photographie appliquée à l'histoire naturelle , 1884
  • Les Papiers photographiques par développement ,
  • One excursion to Montpellier-le-Vieux (Aveyron) , Toulouse, imp. Durand, 1885
  • Le Midi pittoresque, la Vallée de la Garonne , Limoges, Marc Barbou et Cie, 1894
  • Les Pyrénées , Paris, librairie J.-B. Baillière, 1896
  • La Photographie animée , 1899

Web links

Commons : Fonds Trutat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henri Beraldi, Cent ans aux Pyrénées , p. 152


personal data
SURNAME Trutat, Eugène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trutat, Charles Louis Eugène (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer, Pyrénéist, geologist and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Vernon
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1910
Place of death Foix