Georges-Albert-Léon Laujol de Lafage

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Georges-Albert-Léon Laujol de Lafage , also Georges de Lafage-Laujol (born December 25, 1832 in Saint-Denis , † March 23, 1858 in Paris ) was a French landscape painter.

Life

The French painter Georges Laujol de Lafage was born in 1832 in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, the son of a naval officer. When the father recognized his son's artistic talent, he and his younger brother Amilcar took him to the studio of Pierre Roch Vigneron for training . However, Georges did not last long there and he became a pupil of the painter Narcisso Virgilio Díaz de la Peña .

In preparation for a competition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on the occasion of the award of the Prix ​​de Rome (1849), he also enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts . In 1850/51 three of his landscape studies were accepted for exhibition at the Paris Salon . Its soft and fresh-looking color scheme quickly met with approval from the public. Following the example of Antoine Chintreuil , Lafage prefers the young green of spring and the mother-of-pearl white of the morning sun.

In 1853 he presented two more paintings, a landscape of the Limousin and one of the Île-de-France, as well as a lithograph after a painting by Jean-Joseph Bellel . He also showed a beautiful reproduction of a painting by Chintreuil entitled Soir d'automne .

At the world exhibition of 1855 Lafage was represented with four paintings. He received an honorable mention for his paintings exhibited at the Salon de Paris in 1857.

Georges Laujol de Lafage died of pulmonary tuberculosis on March 23, 1858 at the peak of his artistic career .

Works (selection)

Lafage-Laujol Paysage avec pécheurs sur la rivière (1855)
  • Prairie ( Musée d'Orsay ), 1852, 13 cm × 42.2 cm, oil on panel
  • Paysage (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry), 19.8 cm × 32.7 cm, oil on canvas
  • Paysage avec pécheurs sur la rivière (Alte Kunst Gallery, Vienna), 1855, 25 cm × 15 cm, oil on canvas

literature

  • La Fage, Georges Laujol de . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 200 .
  • Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays par un groupe d'écrivains spécialistes français et étrangers. Nouvelle Édition. Volume 8: Köster - Magand . Éditions Gründ, Paris 1999, p.?.
  • Frédéric Henriet: Peintre contemporains. Jean Desbrosses . A. Levy, Paris 1881
  • Bellier-Auvray: Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours. Architectes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Engravers, Lithographes . Volume 1: A-L . Renouard, Paris 1882, p.?.

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personal data
SURNAME Laujol de Lafage, Georges-Albert-Léon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lafage-Laujol, Georges de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Denis , France
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1858
Place of death Paris , France