Gaston Guignard
Alexandre Gaston Guignard (born March 8, 1848 in Bordeaux , † October 16, 1922 in Paris ) was a French animal, landscape and genre painter.
Gaston Guignard initially studied law and became a member of the Paris Bar Association. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 he fought in a dragoon regiment . He then studied painting in Bordeaux in the studio of the painter Jules Jean Ferry and continued his studies in Paris with Henri Gervex and Fernand Humbert . He made his debut in 1874 at the Salon de Paris with portrait, landscape, animal and battle painting. In 1883 he received a medal of honor at the international exhibition in Nice and a silver medal at the world exhibition in Paris in 1889 . In 1891 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor .
Gaston Guignard was elected a member of the Société nationale des beaux-arts . He also exhibited at the Salon de la Société des pastellistes and Société des aquarellistes français.
He went on study trips to Argentina in 1906 , to Brazil in 1908 and to Corsica in 1910 . He exhibited his works in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro .
literature
- Guignard, Gaston . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 289 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Emmanuel Bénézit (founder): Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs , 3rd edition, Gründ, Paris 1976, volume 5, p. 287
Web links
- Alexandre Gaston Guignard. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guignard, Gaston |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guignard, Alexandre Gaston |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French animal, landscape and genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1922 |
| Place of death | Paris |