Georges Clairin
Georges Jules Victor Clairin (born September 11, 1843 in Paris , † September 2, 1919 in the seaside resort of Pouldu in the municipality of Clohars-Carnoët ) was a French portrait, genre and history as well as oriental painter .
Georges Clairin studied from 1861 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Isidore Pils and François-Edouard Picot . From 1866 he exhibited his works at the Paris salons.
He traveled to Spain with the painter Henri Regnault and the Swiss sculptor Marcello (Adèle d'Affry) , and to Italy with the painters François Flameng and Jean-Léon Gérôme . He met the Catalan painter Marià Fortuny during a stay in Morocco, where they visited Tetouan together . In 1895 he traveled to Egypt with the composer Camille Saint-Saëns .
From his travels through exotic countries, Georges Clairin brought back many, mostly sketchily painted pictures of Orientalism. He later settled in Paris and became known as a portrait, genre and history painter.
He was best known for his portraits of Sarah Bernhardt , with whom he had a long friendship. He portrayed her both in her home and in stage costumes.
Clairin also dealt with the ceiling painting . He created ceilings in the foyer of the Opéra Garnier in Paris (1874) and in the Theater of Cherbourg , Grand Theater of Tours , Theater of Epernay and in the dome of the Paris Stock Exchange (Africa and Asia).
Clairin also painted twenty large-format paintings for the Cousiño Palace in Santiago de Chile , many of which were destroyed by the fire in 1968.
Georges Clairin was the best man of Louis Besnard, son of the painter Albert Besnard , at his wedding on December 19, 1898.
In 1878 he bought the castle of Magnanville , which he sold in 1898 to the aristocrat Alfred de Gramont (1856-1915).
literature
- Hans Vollmer : Clairin, Georges . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 40–41 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Christine Peltre: Dictionnaire culturel de l'orientalisme . Editions Hazan, Paris 2008, ISBN 2-85025-882-2 ,?
Web links
- Georges Clairin. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
- biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clairin, Georges |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clairin, Georges Jules Victor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French portrait, genre and history as well as oriental painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 2, 1919 |
| Place of death | Clohars-Carnoët |