Georges François Louis Jaquemot

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Georges François Louis Jaquemot (born May 19, 1806 Valangin , Canton Neuchâtel , † February 15, 1880 Pforzheim ) was a Swiss copper and steel engraver and drawing teacher .

Life

Jaquemot was the son of pastor Georges Frédéric Jaquemot (1776–1841) and Marianne (née Fabry), daughter of Pierre-Aimé. He studied painting , engraving and sculpture under François Forster and James Pradier in Paris ; He then completed his training in Berlin with Ludwig Buchhorn .

After graduating, Jaquemot gave drawing lessons in Valangin, his birthplace, for a while. Between 1831 and 1833 he worked in Paris, 1836–1842 in Stuttgart , 1842–1856 in Karlsruhe , 1856–1878 in Munich , and from 1878 onwards he lived in Pforzheim. He was a member of the Munich Association for Christian Art .

The politician Gustave Irlet was his brother-in-law.

Works

Around 1859: Turandot, to Ramberg

Jaquemot made copper and steel engravings for various publishers , especially portraits . For the Schiller Gallery he created various engravings based on drawings by Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg , as well as for their Goethe Gallery .

Exhibitions

  • 1828 and 1830 in the Berlin Academy Exhibition
  • 1831, 1833 and 1857 at the Salon de Paris
  • 1842, 1851, 1858 and 1868 at the Société des amis des arts (roughly: “Society of Friends of the Arts”) in Neuchâtel
  • 1871 in the Glass Palace in Munich

literature

Web links

Commons : Georges François Louis Jaquemot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Jutta Assel, Georg Jäger : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Egmont. A tragedy
  2. a b c d e f g h i Laurent Langer: Jaquemot, Georges François Louis. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ^ James Henri Bonhôte, Frédéric Alexandre M. Jeanneret: Georges Frédéric Ja [c] quemot . In: biography neuchâteloise . tape 1 . Eugène Courvoisier, Locle 1863, p. 535-537 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ Association for Christian Art in Munich (ed.): Festgabe in memory of the 50th year. Anniversary. Lentner'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Munich 1910, p. 109.
  5. ^ Éric-André Klauser: Irlet, Gustave. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  6. ^ Friedrich Pecht: List of Figures. In: Schiller Gallery. Characters from Schiller's works. Drawn by Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg, fifty sheets in steel engraving with explanatory texts by Friedrich Pecht , FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1859 (pages without number directly after the foreword, books.google.de ).
  7. Goethe Gallery. Characters from Goethe's works. Fifty sheets in steel engraving with explanatory texts by Friedrich Pecht. Drawn by Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1873 ( babel.hathitrust.org ).