Horace de Saussure

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Horace de Saussure (born May 15, 1859 in Geneva ; † September 18, 1926 there ) was a Swiss landscape and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

De Saussure, great-grandson of the naturalist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure , son of the mineralogist and entomologist Henri de Saussure , younger brother of the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and nephew of the landscape painter Auguste de Pourtalès , received artistic training in Munich and Düsseldorf . In the years 1878 to 1886 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy . The painters Hugo Crola , Heinrich Lauenstein , Peter Janssen the Elder were there. Ä. and Wilhelm Sohn his teachers. Under the direction of son, de Saussure led together withPeter von Krafft painted the ceiling of the auditorium for the Düsseldorf City Theater . He worked in Florence and Paris as well as in Munich before settling down as a painter in his hometown. In 1891 he went on a trip to the United States .

literature

  • Saussure, Horace de . In: David Karel: Dictionaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord . Musée du Quebéc, Les presses de l'Université Laval, Quebéc 1992, ISBN 2-7637-7235-8 , p. 738 ( Google Books )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 439
  2. ↑ Painting of the ceiling of the auditorium , in a report on the status and administration of community affairs in the city, for the period from April 1, 1885 to March 31, 1886. VII. Educational institutions, art and science. P. 80
personal data
SURNAME Saussure, Horace de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss landscape and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1926
Place of death Geneva