Fernand Humbert

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Fernand Humbert: Portrait de Colette , ca.1896

Jacques Charles Fernand Humbert (born October 8, 1842 in Paris ; † October 6, 1934 there ) was a French portrait and history painter . At the beginning of the 20th century he ran the private painting school “Académie Humbert” in Paris.

life and work

Fernand Humbert (also Ferdinand Humbert) studied from 1861 at the École des Beaux-Arts with François-Édouard Picot , Alexandre Cabanel and Eugene Fromentin . In 1865 he took part in the Salon de Paris for the first time (with the painting The Flight of Nero ). In 1866, 1867 and 1869 he was awarded medals. He was an officer, later "Commandeur" of the Legion of Honor and until 1902 professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. Humbert began in 1874 with his main work Pro Patria , a series of monumental wall paintings for the Panthéon in Paris, which he did not finish until 1900. His subjects were motifs from the history of France and Paris and the depiction of the triumph of the republic. For his “classic, modern style”, Humbert was also famous in contemporary German literature and was considered a great portraitist of Parisian women.

The Geneva landscape painter Jean Charles Ferdinand Humbert (1813–1881), who had studied with Ingres , was his uncle.

Académie Humbert

After he had already given private painting lessons with his colleague Henri Gervex , he founded the so-called “Académie Humbert” in his studio in 1898, which was located on the Boulevard de Clichy, near the Moulin Rouge in Montmartre . In the beginning, the school was particularly popular with American art students. From 1902 to 1904 she also visited Francis Picabia , and it was here that Georges Braque met Marie Laurencin , whom he introduced to the Picasso gang . Other students were Braque's friends Raoul Dufy and Othon Friesz .

However, due to his good reputation, Humbert primarily gave the school his name, but showed little presence. He was only present for a few hours on Saturdays, while lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays were given by his colleagues Albert Wallet (1852-1918) and François Thévenot (1856-1943). Nude models of all ages, walking unaccompanied through the rooms, were available to the students for an annual fee of CHF 320.

literature

  • Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon. Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 1905–1917 (4 volumes).
  • Elisabeth Cazenave: Les artistes de l'Algérie. Dictionnaire des Peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs 1830–1962. Giovanangelis, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-909034-27-5 .

Web links

Commons : Fernand Humbert  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Virginia Jackson (ed.): Art Museums of the World. Greenwood Press, New York 1987, ISBN 0-313-21322-4 , p. 308.
  2. Thomas W. Gaehtgens (Ed.): Artistic Exchange (Files of the XXVIII International Congress for Art History, Vol. 1). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-002296-5 , p. 266.
  3. Alex Danchev : Georges Braque. A life. Arcade Press, New York 2005, ISBN 1-55970-743-7 , p. 24.