Firmin Bouvy
Firmin Gaston Bouvy (born April 9, 1822 in Deinze , † November 4, 1891 in San Francisco ) was a Belgian genre painter and photographer.
Bouvy studied at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen and with Hendrick Joseph Dillens .
He exhibited it for the first time in 1843. From 1855 he gave up painting for photography. He traveled to Paris after 1859, then to Spain, Australia and South America before settling in San Francisco in 1881. One of his works, "Gil Blas", was kept in the Leipzig Museum , but destroyed on December 4, 1943.
literature
- Bouvy, Firmin . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 479 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Bouvy, Firmin in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges (online)
Web links
Commons : Firmin Bouvy - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Firmin Bouvy. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bouvy, Firmin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bouvy, Firmin Gaston |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian genre painter and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Deinze |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1891 |
| Place of death | San Francisco |