Frantz Charlet
Frantz Charlet (born January 21 or 29, 1862 in Brussels ; † August 8, 1928 in Paris ) was a Belgian painter, etcher and lithographer.
He was the brother of the painter Emile Charlet (1851-1910) and was also related to the painter Emile Wauters .
Frantz Charlet was a student from 1872 to 1873 and from 1876 to 1881 at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles with Jean-François Portaels . His fellow students included a. Théo Van Rysselberghe and Rodolphe Wytsman .
He continued his studies at the École des Beaux Arts de Paris with Jean-Léon Gérôme , Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran .
In Brussels, Charlet became a member of the artist group “L'Essor”. Together with Théo Van Rysselberghe, Constantin Meunier and Darío de Regoyos , he went on a study trip to Spain from the end of 1882 to the spring of 1883 . Alfred Cluysenaer joined the small group and together they traveled to Tangier and then on to Morocco . Since then, Charlet has often dealt with orientalist motifs.
In 1883 the artist group “L'Essor” disintegrated and Charlet founded the new group “ Les XX ” with Theo Van Rysselberghe and James Ensor , which organized art exhibitions where u. a. Georges Seurat , Camille Pissarro , Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Edgar Degas and Claude Monet took part.
In 1885 he visited Whistler Volendam and the island of Marken with James McNeill . He also visited the then fashionable Zeeland , Switzerland , Germany , Italy and Algeria .
Around 1900 Charlet moved to Paris and stayed there for life. In 1906 Charlet founded the “Société Internationale de la peinture à eau” together with Fernand Khnopff and other watercolorists in Paris .
literature
- Ary Delen: Charlet, Frantz . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 396–397 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Frantz Charlet. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Charlet, Frantz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Charlet, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian painter, etcher and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1928 |
| Place of death | Paris |