Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse

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Self-Portrait (1908)

Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (born August 2, 1859 in Versailles ; died July 11, 1938 in El Biar , French Algeria) was a French painter and illustrator .

Life

Vitellius in the streets of Rome

Rochegrosse grew up in an artistic and educated environment. His mother was widowed at an early age and was her second marriage to the poet Théodore de Banville . He received his first art courses in Alfred Dehodencq's studio , in which his son Edmond was also trained. He then entered the Académie Julian , where he continued his artistic studies with Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger . There were Marcel Baschet , [Henri] Lucien Doucet (1856-1895), Paul [Joseph] Jamin (1853-1903), Émile Renouf (1845-1894) and Francis Tattegrain (1852-1915) his classmates. The first published works appeared around 1878 in the magazine La Vie Moderne , edited by Émile Bergerat .

He attended the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris to continue his education. At the beginning of his career he worked as a history painter. He applied several times for the Prix ​​de Rome , in 1880 the prize went to his friend Lucien Doucet. In 1881 he did not take part and in 1883 took part again without success. In 1882 he was allowed to take part in the Salon de Paris with the painting Vitellius traîné dans les rues de Rome par la populace . He later received a scholarship to go on a study trip. In 1894 he came to Algeria and settled with his wife Marie Leblond in 1900 in El Biar near Algiers . By encountering the culture of Algeria, he became an orientalist painter . Every summer he visited Paris , where he was a member of the jury of the Salon des artistes français .

Poster for "Roma" by Jules Massenet .

Rochegrosse received numerous awards, including the bronze medal at the World Exhibition in 1889, the Order of Knights of the Legion of Honor in 1892, the Gold Medal of the World Exhibition in 1899 and the Officer's Order of the Legion of Honor in 1910. As a professor at the Art Academy in Algiers, he influenced generations of oriental artists , including Paul Nicolai , José Ortega , Alexandre Rigotard and Marcel Rousseay-Virlogeux .

After his wife's death in 1920, he became known for his religious painting. He was one of the last representatives of academic art . Rochegrosse lived and worked in a house in Paris that also housed the Grand Guignol theater .

He illustrated the works of numerous writers, including Homer's Odyssey , the Satyricon by Titus Petronius , the Orestie by Aeschylus , Victor Hugo's The Laughing Man and The Wretched , Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adams Akëdysseril , Théophile Gautiers Princesses , Gustave Flaubert's Salammbô , Hérodias and La Tentation de saint Antoine and works by Anatole France .

Works (selection)

Parsifal , le chevalier aux fleurs ( Musée d'Orsay , 1894)
  • 1891: The Den of Sin Babylon (painting)
  • 1931: Odysée , translated by Charles Leconte de Lisle , illustrated by Rochegrosse. A. Ferroud, F. Ferroud Successeur, Paris, 501 copies.

literature

  • The Betrothed . In: The Art of the world illustrated in the paintings, statuary, and architecture of the World's Columbian Exposition with Goupil water-color facsimiles, photogravures, and many smaller plates . D. Appleton, New York 1893, picture one page before (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Jean Valmy-Baysse: Georges Rochegrosse, sa vie, son oeuvre . Librairie F. Juven, Paris 1910 (French, archive.org ).
  • Georg Nordensvan : Rochegrosse, Georges Antoine . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 23 : Retzius – Ryssland . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1916, Sp. 555-556 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • Rochegrosse, Georges . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 449 .
  • Celine Doutriaux: Georges Rochegrosse (1859–1938) ou la violence exacerbée. An example of peinture historico-sadique fin de siècle. Dactylogramme, Villeneuve d'Ascq 2002 (university publication).
  • Claudia Schwaighofer: Rochegrosse, Georges-Antoine . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 99, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023265-3 , p. 152.

Web links

Commons : Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean Valmy-Baysse: Georges Rochegrosse, sa vie, son oeuvre . Librairie F. Juven, Paris 1910 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ L'Homme qui rit, Han D'Islande, La Fin de Satan . In: Victor Hugo illustré - catalog album . Librairie Hugues, Paris 1870 ( Text archive - Internet Archive - several images).
personal data
SURNAME Rochegrosse, Georges-Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rochegrosse, Antoine Georges Marie; Rochegrosse, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Versailles
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1938
Place of death El Biar