Jean-Louis Brémond
Jean-Louis Brémond (born November 22, 1858 in Paris , † 1943 in Meudon , Département Hauts-de-Seine ) was a French landscape painter .
Live and act
Brémond was the son of the history painter Jean-François Joseph Brémond and his wife, the miniature painter Louise Pauline Vaillant; the impressionist Albert Besnard was his half-brother.
Brémond received his first artistic lessons from his parents; with their support he later came to the École des Beaux-Arts and was there a. a. Pupil of Alexandre Cabanel .
He soon found his own style and from 1881 was able to regularly take part in the major annual exhibitions of the Société nationale des beaux-arts . He liked the public as well as the official art critics and in 1904 he was commissioned to decorate the French pavilion at the world exhibition in St. Louis, Missouri .
Jean-Louis Brémond died in Meudon in 1943 and found his final resting place there.
Honors
- 1933 Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
Works (selection)
- Paysage à la barrière et aux corbeaux . 1881
- Vue du vieux Passy . 1894
- Les seasons . 1900.
- Soleil couchant en mer . around 1900.
- Vue de la rive gauche depuis Le Boulevard Delessert in Paris .
- Les cygnes .
literature
- Emmanuel Bénézit (founder): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume 2. Gründ, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7000-3012-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brémond, Jean-Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1943 |
| Place of death | Meudon , Hauts-de-Seine department |