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
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
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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 |