Henry Daras
Henry Daras (born December 9, 1850 in Rochefort , † May 10, 1928 in Angoulême ) was a French painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some of his paintings are in the Musée d'Angoulême .
biography
Henry Daras began his career as a student at the École des Eaux et Forêts in Nancy to become a forester. But after a short time he switched to the studios of the painters Alexandre Cabanel and Jules-Élie Delaunay in Paris. It was not until his third teacher and later friend, the symbolist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , that he felt stylistically and intellectually secure.
He created works for the old Church of St. Francis de Sales in Paris and the Saint-Martial church in Angoulême. After the death of his teacher (1898) he settled in Angoulême; there he developed an increasingly personal style and created numerous portraits and landscapes . Away from the metropolis of Paris, in the last years of his life he created increasingly abstract paintings that managed with only a few rather muted colors and without bright light reflections, etc.
Until his later years he maintained contacts with his younger painter friends Ary Renan (1857–1900), Albert Bartholomé , Albert Siffait de Moncourt and Edmond Aman-Jean , but without being influenced by their painting style.
photos
The burning forest
(around 1895-1900)
Woman weeping by the sea (around 1918)
The Foolish Virgins (1923)
The Anointing Stone (1923)
Web links
- Henry Daras website (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Daras, Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rochefort |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1928 |
| Place of death | Angoulême |