François Emile Ehrmann

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François Emile Ehrmann (born September 5, 1833 in Strasbourg , † March 26, 1910 in Paris ) was a French painter and glass painter .

Life

Ehrmann initially devoted himself to construction and later joined the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He switched to painting on the advice of Robert Fleury and was accepted into Charles Gleyre's studio.

This occupied him only with drawings for two years, but kept him away from painting. The pupil therefore secretly painted a picture, which was not admitted to the exhibition of 1860, so that he lost courage, turned his back on Paris and went to Italy.

After spending two years here, he returned to Paris in 1865, where he exhibited his painting The Fish Ending Siren , which won the first medal and went to the Strasbourg Museum, with whose treasures it perished in 1870. The following carefully executed pictures should be emphasized:

  • The Conqueror,
  • Ariadne abandoned by Theseus (1873, Musée du Luxembourg),
  • The Liberation of Andromeda (the last two watercolors),
  • Venus Passing by the Sun (1875),
  • The source of youth
  • The Fates.

From then on he devoted himself almost exclusively to decorative painting, in which area an art-historical frieze depicting Greece, Rome, barbarism and the Middle Ages (in Mr Girard's hotel), the muses as a ceiling painting for the Palace of the Legion of Honor (1877) and wisdom, uniting the arts and industry (1884), are his greatest achievements.

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