Gabriel Nicolet

Gabriel Émile Édouard Nicolet (born March 5, 1856 in Pons , Charente-Maritime department ; † March 25, 1921 in Villefranche-sur-Mer , Alpes-Maritimes department ) was a French portrait , genre and landscape painter as well as draftsman and illustrator .

Life

Good Samaritan , Portrait of a Red Cross Sister, 1914/1915

Ceramic tiles with fish, 1900

Nicolet, the son of a Swiss clergyman from Le Landeron , attended the Athénée in Liège and then the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Liège. From 1878 to 1884 he was a student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Eduard Gebhardt , Julius Roeting , Carl Ernst Forberg and William son 's teacher. From 1881 to 1885 he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . In 1887/1888 he worked as a draftsman and correspondent for the Illustrated London News in Morocco . Nicolet also drew for various magazines of the publishing house Cassel & Cie . For a while he lived in London . There he was a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters . He participated in numerous exhibitions, including 1916 in New York City . In 1878 the Belgian government honored him with a medal. In 1889 he received a bronze medal and a silver medal in 1900 at the Paris world exhibitions . In 1900 he designed ceramic tiles for the building ceramist Alexandre Bigot (1862–1927) . Stylistically, he was influenced by French impressionism .

literature

Marie Morel: Nicolet, Gabriel-Émile-Édouard. In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon : Dictionnaire des Artistes Suisses. Volume 2: HR. Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1908, p. 473 (French, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Nicolet, Gabriel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 456 .
Gérald Schurr: 1820–1920. Les Petits Maîtres de la peinture. Editions de l'Amateur, 1975, Volume 6, p. 164.
Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Gründ, Paris 1999, Volume X, p. 205.

Web links

Gabriel Émile Édouard Nicolet , biography on the portal alfredflechtheim.com
Nicolet, Gabriel-Emile-Edouard , data sheet in the sikart.ch portal( SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland )
Gabriel Emile Edouard Nicolet , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
Studio photos and portraits in portal photo.rmn.fr

Individual evidence

^ The Sphere. An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home. Volume 85 (1921), p. 128.
↑ Public Opinion. Public Opinion Company, Vol. 30, 1901, p. 84.
↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 437

personal data
SURNAME	Nicolet, Gabriel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nicolet, Gabriel Émile Édouard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French portrait, genre and landscape painter as well as draftsman and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pons , Charente-Maritime department
DATE OF DEATH	March 25, 1921
Place of death	Villefranche-sur-Mer , Alpes-Maritimes department

[1] The Sphere. An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home. Volume 85 (1921), p. 128.

[2] Public Opinion. Public Opinion Company, Vol. 30, 1901, p. 84.

[3] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf. In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 437