Gustave Courtois
Gustave Courtois (born May 18, 1852 in Pusey , † November 25, 1923 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French portrait , genre and history painter .
Gustave Courtois was born as the son of the butcher's assistant Étienne Courtois and the laundress Jeanne Claude Jobard.
He attended the Collège de Gérôme in Vesoul . His art teacher Victor Jeanneney noticed his talent. Based on his drawings, Jean-Léon Gérôme recommended him to study at the Paris Academy of Art in 1869 .
Gustave Courtois shared a studio in Neuilly-sur-Seine with his friend and classmate Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret since the 1880s .
He taught painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Académie Colarossi . His students included u. a. Anna von Wahl , Georges d'Espagnat and Maurice Prendergast . He made his debut in 1875 in the Salon des artistes françaises with a few portraits and was the most successful portrait painter in fashionable Paris in the 1880s and 1890s. In 1891 he received the Order of St. Michael III in Munich from Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria . Class .
He spent the First World War with his friend Carl Ernst von Stetten in Ticino . He was buried in the Pusey cemetery.
literature
- Gustave Courtois. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 192 ( archive.org ).
- Otto Grautoff : Courtois, Gustave . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 591 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Robert Fernier: Gustave Courtois, 1852–1923 . Robert Fernier, Paris 1943.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Staff and studio news. In: Art for All. 6, 1890-1891, No. 13 (April 1, 1891), p. 206.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Courtois, Gustave |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Courtois, Gustave-Claude-Etienne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French portrait, genre and history painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pusey |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1923 |
| Place of death | Neuilly-sur-Seine |