Georges Henri Ballot

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Georges Henri Ballot: Sur les marches ( On the stairs ), oil on canvas

Georges Henri Ballot (born June 14, 1866 in Paris , † January 26, 1942 there ) was a French painter . His most important works can be assigned to orientalism .

Life

Georges Henri Ballot was born in Paris in 1866. First he studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . He was a student of William Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury . From 1885 he exhibited in the Salon des Artistes Français , an annual art exhibition of the Société des Artistes Français in Paris. From 1896 he showed his works at exhibitions of the Société nationale des beaux-arts .

In 1905 and 1906 he toured Algeria and Tunisia . After his return, he took part in exhibitions at the Société des peintres orientalistes français , a society founded in 1893 that promoted the art of orientalism as well as trips by artists to the Near and Far East ( French Extreme-Orient ). Ballot's painting Mosquée à Bou-Saada (representation of a mosque in Bou-Saada , a city in Algeria) was purchased by the French state. In 1908 Ballot became a partner in the Société nationale des beaux-arts, and in 1923 he became a member. In 1933 he won the Charles Cottet Prize for his oriental landscapes, which were created under the influence of his travels.

His main works include the painting La Maïda de la Mosquée des Ouled-Hamed , which he exhibited for the first time in 1906 and which was later shown in the Musée des beaux-arts d'Alger and in the Musée Nogent-le-Rotrou , and Aïn Sefra , dated 1918 French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ballot died in Paris in 1942.

Exhibitions

  • Paris, since 1885: Salon of the Salon des Artistes Français
  • Paris, since 1896: Salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts
  • Paris: Intérieur à Bou-Saada. La Guerba , La Maïda de la Mosquée des Ouled-Hamed 1906
  • Paris, 1910: Jeune fille de Colomb-Bechard , Jeune fille du Gourara
  • Paris, 1911 and 1923: Salon of the Société des peintres orientalistes français
  • Paris, 1929: Salon: Le portrait du peintre Bouduquet
  • Paris: 1931: Exposition universelle coloniale: Vieillard à Aïn Sefra (Sud Oranais), Le Caïd

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Hautecœur: Panorama of French painting in 1940. Volume 1, Wildenstein and Company, New York 1940, p. 15.
  2. ↑ Élisabeth Cazenave: Georges Henri Ballot. In: Les artistes de l'Algérie. Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, engravers 1830–1962 . Retrieved from the Arab-Islamic Biographical Archive (AIBA), p. 423.
  3. ^ René Edouard-Joseph: Ballot (Georges-Henri). In: Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporaines 1910–1930, avec nombreux portraits, signatures et reproductions. Retrieved from the Archives Biographiques Françaises. P. 78.
personal data
SURNAME Ballot, Georges Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1942
Place of death Paris