François Bocion
François-Louis David Bocion (born March 30, 1828 in Lausanne , † December 13, 1890 ibid) was a Swiss painter in the style of Impressionism . Bocion achieved international fame as the “painter of Lake Geneva”.
Life
François Bocion came from a wealthy family in Lausanne. At an early age he received drawing lessons from the painter Christian Gottlieb Steinlen at the École de Moyenne in Vevey, then from the French landscape painter François Bonnet in Lausanne. In 1845 he traveled to Paris , where he worked in the studios of Louis-Aimé Grosclaude and Charles Gleyre until 1847 . In the beginning he mainly painted history pictures, but soon he switched to sea painting. Around 1849 he took a position as a drawing teacher at the École de Moyenne in Lausanne. Among his students were Théophile Steinlen and Eugène Grasset , among others .
Works (selection)
Jetty in Ouchy, 1875
The dredger
In Ouchy, 1874
Foce della Vuachère, around 1860
Jeux nautiques (La fête de la Navigation), 1870
Jeune fille de Tourronde, 1886
Pêcheur à la ligne, 1886
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literature
- Bocion, François . 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. 156 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Béatrice Aubert-Lecoultre: Bocion, François-Louis-David. In: Sikart
- Publications by and about François Bocion in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bocion, François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bocion, François-Louis David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter and drawing teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lausanne |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1890 |
| Place of death | Lausanne |