Frédéric Bazille

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Frédéric Bazille or Jean-Frédéric Bazille (born December 6, 1841 in Montpellier , † November 28, 1870 near Beaune-la-Rolande ) was a French painter and is considered one of the first impressionists . He is known for his en-plein-air landscapes and portraits.

Frédéric Bazille, 1867
The grave of Frédérich Bazille on the Cimetière protestant de Montpellier.

Life

Frédéric Bazille came from a wealthy Protestant family. Through the collector Alfred Bruyas he got to know the paintings of Eugène Delacroix and Gustave Courbet . At his father's request, he first studied medicine in 1860. In 1862 he came to Paris and began to paint. His active time was limited to the eight years from 1862 until his death.

In the capital he studied with Charles Gleyre and met Pierre-Auguste Renoir , with whom he shared a studio. He also met Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley and worked with them. On trips to Fontainebleau and Honfleur in Normandy , they often painted and drew outdoors. Bazille was the model for Monet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe . Bazille can also be seen in the group portrait of artist friend Un atelier aux Batignolles by Henri Fantin-Latour . Frédéric Bazille also supported the artist friends financially from his family's fortune.

In 1866 he was able to exhibit for the first time in the Paris Salon , in 1867 his pictures were rejected; In 1868 he was able to place another work. In total, he was able to show publicly five of the roughly 60 paintings he created. He didn't sell a single one.

Bazille was a music lover and attended concerts with works by Hector Berlioz , Richard Wagner , Ludwig van Beethoven and Robert Schumann .

He served since August 1870 in a Zouave unit in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and fell in the Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande .

One of his most famous works is generally considered to be The Family Reunion of 1867, exhibited in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Other paintings are in the possession of the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, the Louvre , the Art Institute of Chicago and numerous other museums in the United States.

In 2004, up to 5.3 million US dollars were paid for his oil paintings in the art market.

Exhibitions

  • 1978: Frédéric Bazille and Early impressionism . Art Institute of Chicago.
  • 1992: Frédéric Bazille et ses amis impressionnistes , Musée Fabre, Montpellier.
  • 2003/2004: Frédéric Bazille , Musée Marmottan Monet , Paris.
  • 2016/2017: Frédéric Bazille. La Jeunesse de l'Impressionisme , Musée Fabre, Montpellier, then at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Works

  • The family reunion (1867)

  • Fisherman with a Net (1868)

  • Summer scene (1869)

  • Bazille's studio on Rue Condamine (1870), Musée d'Orsay

literature

in order of appearance

  • Gaston Poulain: Bazille et ses amis . La Renaissance du Livre, Paris 1932.
  • François Daulte: Frédéric Bazille et son temps . P. Cailler, Geneva 1952.
  • J. Patrice Marandel, François Daulte: Frédéric Bazille and Early Impressionism . The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1978 (catalog for the 1978 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago).
  • Aleth Jourdan, Didier Vatuone (eds.): Frédéric Bazille et ses amis impressionnistes . Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-7118-2622-8 (catalog for the 1992 exhibition at the Musée Fabre).
  • Dianne W. Pitman: Bazille: Purity, Pose and Paintings in the 1860s . Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa. 1998, ISBN 0-271-01700-7 .
  • Marianne Delafond, Caroline Genet-Bondeville: Frédéric Bazille . La Bibliothèque des arts, Lausanne 2003, ISBN 2-88453-111-4 (catalog for the 2003/2004 exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet).
  • Fréderic Bazille. La jeunesse de l'impressionisme . Special issue of the magazine Dossier de l'art , No. 241 (juillet-août 2016).
  • Michel Hilaire et al. a. (Ed.): Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870). La Jeunesse de l'Impressionisme . Flammarion, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-08-138821-5 (catalog for the 2016/2017 exhibitions at the Musée Fabre and the Musée d'Orsay).

Web links

Commons : Frédéric Bazille  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claudio Zambianchi: Monet e la pittura en plein air. Charles-François Daubigny, Eugène Boudin, Camille Pissarro, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Seurat (= I grandi maestri dell'arte , vol. 2). E-Ducation.it, Florence 2007.
  2. ↑ a b c page of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne ( memento from September 20, 2003 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 6, 2011.
  3. ^ Gaston Poulain: Bazille et ses amis . La Renaissance du Livre, Paris 1932.
  4. ↑ Helmut Mayer: When the Impressionists were still young . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 17, 2017, p. 11.
  5. ^ Entry in The Grove Dictionary of Art , accessed March 6, 2011
  6. ^ Page of an international auction house , accessed on March 8, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Bazille, Frédéric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bazille, Jean-Frédéric (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter; is considered one of the first impressionists
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Montpellier
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1870
Place of death Beaune-la-Rolande