Eugène Guillaume
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume (born July 4, 1822 in Montbard , Département Côte-d'Or , † March 1, 1905 in Rome ) was a French sculptor , university professor and art critic .
Life
He studied from 1841 under Pierre-Jules Cavelier , Jean-François Millet and Louis-Ernest Barrias at the École des Beaux-Arts . Guillaume won the Prix de Rome in 1845 with his work Theseus Finds the Father's Sword on a Stone . Guillaume became director of the École des Beaux-Arts in 1864 and was director general of the Institute of Fine Arts from 1878 to 1879. Guillaume was director of the Académie de France à Rome from 1891 to 1904 . The sculptor Auguste Rodin made a bronze bust of him in 1903.
His awards include honorary membership in the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1869 and membership in the Académie française (Fauteuil 21) since 1898, succeeding Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale .
Works (selection)
Many of his works can now be found in public places in important cities in France. Further works can be found, for example, in Reims (bronze statue by Colbert ), in Dijon (the Rameau monument). The Musée du Luxembourg houses the statue Anakreon (1852), the statue Un Faucheur (1855) and the marble bust of Mgr Georges Darboy (1874), now the Musée d'Orsay . The Versailles Museum houses the portrait of Adolphe Thiers , the Sorbonne the marble bust of Victor le Clerc . Further works can be found in the Trinity Church in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois and the Church of Saint Clotilde in Paris. The Les Gracques statue (1853) is in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris .
Instrumental music , facade of the Palais Garnier
Reaper , in Brønshøj, Copenhagen
Facade, south side of the Turgot Pavilion, Louvre
Anakreon, 1849/1851, Musée d'Orsay
Art historical writings
- Études d'art antique et modern. Perrin, Paris 1888. ( Online ).
- Essais on the theory of dessin et de quelques parties des arts. Perrin, Paris 1896. ( Online ).
- Etudes sur l'histoire de l'art. Le Panthéon d'Agrippa, les ruines de Palmyre, Dante considéré comme artiste, Apollon, Bacchus, Cérès, le costume, la coiffure, les bijoux, barbare, captif. Perrin, Paris 1900.
literature
- Hans Vollmer : Guillaume, Eugène (Jean-Bapt. Claude Eug.) . 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 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 298–299 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- Literature by and about Eugène Guillaume in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert E. Elsen: Bust of Eugène Guillaume . In: Rodin's Art. The Rodin Collection of Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center of Visual Arts at Stanford University: The Rodin Collection of Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center of Visual Arts at Stanford University . Oxford University Press, New York 2003, ISBN 0-19-803061-4 , pp. 418-419 ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ List of Honorary Foreign Academicians, 1868-1904. In: JE Hodgson, Fred. A. Eaton: The Royal Academy and its Members 1768-1830. Scribner, New York; Murray, London 1905, p. 359. ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ details on Joconde ; Retrieved September 21, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guillaume, Eugène |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guillaume, Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor, university professor and art critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montbard |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1905 |
| Place of death | Rome |