Georges Lafenestre
Georges Lafenestre (born May 5, 1837 in Orléans , Loiret department , † May 19, 1919 in Bourg-la-Reine , Hauts-de-Seine department ) was a French writer and art critic.
Lafenestre worked as a curator in the Louvre and was associated with the Institut de France in the same function .
After the death of Samuel Bénédite in 1865, Lafenestre married his widow, Isabelle Lisbonne, and adopted their son Georges , the later Egyptologist.
Lafenestre was friends with José-Maria de Heredia , the librarian at the Bibliotheque des l'Arsenal, and through whom he soon got to know other Parnassians ; u. a. also Emmanuel des Essarts and Sully Prudhomme . Together with Maurice Barrès , Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette and also Henri de Régnier , Lafenestre's literary work soon stood for the Parnassian turning to romanticism .
The publisher Alphonse Lemerre also became aware of Lafenestre's work and invited him to work on the later famous anthology Le Parnasse contemporain .
Works (selection)
- Fiction
- Les espérances . Paris 1864.
- Le plongeur . 1870.
- Chansons .
- Juillet .
- Hymn .
- L'ébauche .
- Non-fiction
- Chateaubriand . Hachette, Paris 1882.
- La Fontaine . Hachette, Paris 1895
- Molière . Hachette, Paris 1908
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La peinture Italianne . Picard, Paris 1886.
- Vol. 1: Depuis les origines jusqu'à fin du XVe siècle (no more published?)
- La vie et l'œuvre de Titien . Hachette, Paris 1886.
- Le salon de 1886 . La peinture, la sculpture . Paris 1886 (reprint of the magazine Revue des Deux Mondes ).
literature
- Paul Verlaine : Georges Lafenestre . Paris 1889 (Les hommes d'aujourd'hui; 399)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lafenestre, Georges |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and art critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orléans , Loiret department , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1919 |
| Place of death | Bourg-la-Reine , Hauts-de-Seine department , France |