Girardet (artist family)

The Girardet family was an artist family of copper engravers, wood cutters and painters from Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and mainly active in France . Ancestor was the publisher Samuel Girardet .

The members of the family were highly technical but are said to have lacked creativity. As artists they are largely forgotten today, only the documentary value of their works is valued, in Switzerland they are only known at local level in Le Locle, where they were memorialized in 1948.

Members

• Samuel Girardet (1730–1807) ∞ Fanny Charlotte Favre
  • Abraham Girardet (1764-1823)
  • Alexandre Girardet (1767-1836)
  • Julie Girardet (1769-1817)
  • Abraham Louis Girardet (1772-1821)
  • Charles Girardet (1780–1863)
    • Karl Girardet (1813–1871)
    • Pauline Girardet (1816–?).
    • Edouard Girardet (1819-1880)
      • Henri Girardet (1848-1917)
      • Pierre Girardet (1850-1884)
      • Robert Girardet (1851-1900)
      • Max Girardet (1857-1927)
    • Paul Girardet (1821–1893) ∞ Louise Alexandrine Sandoz
      • Julia Antonine Girardet (1851-1921)
      • Eugène Girardet (1853-1907)
      • Jules Girardet (1856-1938)
      • Léon Girardet (1856–1895)
      • Paul Armand Girardet (1859–1915) ∞ Berthe Imer (1869–1948)
      • Théodore Girardet (1861-1935)

literature

• Auguste Bachelin: Les Girardet, une famille d'artistes neuchâtelois. Neuchâtel 1870.
• Girardet . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 163–168 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• René Burnand: L'étonnante histoire des Girardet. Artistes suisses. La Baconnière, Neuchâtel 1940.
• Les Girardet. Trois générations d'artistes neuchâtelois XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Peinture, gravures, dessins. Exposition, Le Locle, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 23 May - 18 June 1948. Le Locle 1948.
• René Burnand: Les Girardet au Locle et dans le monde. La Baconnière, Neuchâtel 1957.
• Jean-Pierre Jelmini et al. a .: L'art neuchâtelois. Deux siècles de creation. G. Attinger, Hauterive, NE 1992, ISBN 2-88256-058-3 , pp. 36-38, 67-69, 84-87, 349-351.

Web links

• Myriam Volorio Perriard: Girardet. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Girardet. In: Sikart