Felix Chopin
Felix Chopin ( Russian Феликс Шопен , Felix Schopen ; * 1813 ; † 1892 in Paris ) was a French iron and bronze caster active in Saint Petersburg and purveyor to the Tsar's court.
Life
Chopin came from France and was the son of the Parisian foundry Julien Chopin. In 1838 he came to St. Petersburg and in 1840 took over the Guerin foundry, which was facing bankruptcy . He succeeded in making the foundry a sought-after manufacturer of all kinds of bronzes. His candlesticks, both floor and wall sconces and chandeliers, and his small bronzes based on designs by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Lansere were particularly successful .
From 1845 he supplied the chandeliers made of gilded bronze (Ormolu) for the halls in the Great Kremlin Palace of the Moscow Kremlin .
Chopin exhibited his products at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876, where he showed a monumental chandelier for 100 candles made of Ormolu and porcelain. In Petersburg he was used to furnish church buildings and aristocratic palaces. Stylistically, he preferred the Second Rococo for his work . He was purveyor of the tsar and his court supplied with a variety of bronzes, which in some cases also the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory St. Petersburg , to be connected with their products were delivered works.
In 1867/68 he created a series of 64 busts of Russian tsars and grand dukes, each 30 cm high, on a subscription basis .
Around 1889 his foundry was taken over by Karl Berto (also: Charles Bertault , effective 1886–1917), with whom he had worked since 1886.
Works
- Chandelier in the Marble Palace, St. Petersburg (1849)
- Chandelier in Peterhof Palace (1850)
- Monument to Empress Catherine II (1862)
- Base for the Luther Monument (Keila) , Estonia (1862)
literature
- Ludwig Damböck, Jacob Manner: Report on the trade exhibition of the Russian Empire in St. Petersburg in 1849. Vienna 1849, p.
- Friedrich Matthäi: The industry of Russia in its previous development and in its present condition, with special consideration of the general Russian manufacture exhibition in the year 1870. Industrial handbook for the entire territory of the Russian Empire . H. Fries, Leipzig 1873, p.?.
- E.g. Chopin . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 526 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). (to father and son)
- Igor Sycev: Chopin, Felix . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 18, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22758-2 , p. 628.
Web links
- Felix Chopin at mutualart
- Felix Chopin at Dorotheum
- Bronze frame of a vase from the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg near Bonhams
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christie's
- ^ Galina Anatolʹevna Markova: The Great Palace of the Moscow Kremlin. Aurora 1990, ISBN 9785730002845 , pp. 51 and 92
- ↑ James Dabney McCabe: The illustrated history of the Centennial Exhibition , National Publishing Co., 1876, p. 427.
- ↑ Gallery of bronze busts of all Russian Grand Princes, tsars and emperors ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Russianbronze.com
- ^ Cassell's illustrated exhibitor, 1862, p. 171.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chopin, Felix |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schopen, Felix; Шопен, Феликс (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French iron and bronze caster, purveyor to the Tsar's court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1813 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1892 |
| Place of death | Paris |