Gustave Jeanneret

Gustave-Auguste Jeanneret (born April 6, 1847 in Môtiers , † September 13, 1927 in Cressier ) was a Swiss landscape , genre and still life painter and portraitist. He also dealt with graphics and ceramics .

Gustave-Auguste Jeanneret

biography

Gustave Jeanneret was the son of a merchant. Jeanneret began his painting apprenticeship together with his brother, the future writer Georges Jeanneret, with his uncle, the painter and drawing teacher Georges Grisel (1811–1877).

He began his professional practice in 1864 at the wallpaper manufacturer Zuber in Rixheim ( Alsace ). In 1867 he came to Paris , where he worked as a ceramic designer. He studied painting at the Académie Suisse in Paris . Since 1876 he showed his works in the Paris salons.

Jeanneret became a member of the First International and the Jura Federation of the Anarchist Tendency in 1870 , where he worked with the historian James Guillaume . Back in Switzerland in 1878 he settled in Neuchâtel , married Emma Wolfrath in 1888 and bought a winegrower's house in Cressier , where he set up his studio.

Together with Eugène Burnand and Karl Alfred Lanz , he was commissioner of the Swiss Art Department at the Paris World's Fair in 1889 . From 1903 to 1904 he held the post of President of the Society of Swiss Painters and Sculptors , and from 1901 to 1905 Chairman of the Federal Commission for Fine Arts.

The influence of Gustave Courbet , Ferdinand Hodler and Claude Monet is noticeable in Jeanneret's works . Many of his works show the artist's social commitment.

literature

• Gaspard Vallette: A Neuchâtel Painter: Gustave-Auguste Jeanneret. In: Schweizer Illustrierte , Vol. 10, 1906, pp. 273–279.

Web links

Commons : Gustave Jeanneret  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pascal Ruedin: Jeanneret, Gustave. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Pascal Ruedin: Gustave Jeanneret. In: Sikart (French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sikart: Grisel, Georges