Jean-Antoine Houdon
Jean-Antoine Houdon (* 25. March 1741 in Versailles ; † 15. July 1828 in Paris ) was a French sculptor of Classicism .
Live and act
Jean-Antoine Houdon became known for numerous statues and portrait busts in the late 18th century. With Houdon, the transition from representative to artistic, motif-related sculpture can be easily understood.
His works are exhibited in famous museums such as the Louvre in Paris , the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt am Main , the Bode Museum in Berlin or the Musée Fabre in Montpellier and the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg , but also in the Ducal Museum in Gotha , the houses the largest collection of his early works. He worked in France, Germany , Russia and Italy and was considered the most successful portrait sculptor of his time. Like no other contemporary sculptor, he understood how to grasp the fine features of his models and to shape their character in marble .
He entered the Weimar Classicism insofar as Carl August or Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel Goethe completed their castles with his works. So u managed. a. Carl August presented a portrait of the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck , whom he had met himself in 1775. In the Wittumspalais Anna Amalias there are Houdon's portrait busts of Voltaire , Diderot and Rousseau , which express the appreciation of the French Enlightenment.
Jean-Antoine Houdon was a member of the Freemasons Association and a member of the so-called Neuf Sœurs Philosopher's Lodge in Paris .
Houdon married in 1786. From his marriage there were three daughters who were often his models.
Works
- 1765 Comte de la Tour d'Auvergne
- 1767 muscle man
- 1768 Mme Adélaïde
- 1771 Morpheus
- 1771 Denis Diderot
- 1771 portrait bust of Isabelle de Charrière
- 1771–1773 Commissions at the Gothaer Hof (Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg )
- 1773 bust of Catherine II of Russia
- 1776 marble bust by Christoph Willibald Gluck
- 1776 statue Diana , in the Ducal Museum Gotha
- 1778 Statue Voltaire , marble, 63 cm
- 1778 Benjamin Franklin
- 1778 portrait bust of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 1778 portrait bust Molière
- 1783 La Frileuse (The Freezing One ), in the Musée Fabre; smaller version from 1793 in the Louvre.
- 1785 bust Comtesse de Sabran
- 1788–1790 statue of George Washington
- 1789 Prince Heinrich of Prussia , in the Park of Tamsel (Polish: Dąbroszyn), lost today.
- 1789 Thomas Jefferson
- 1790 bronze statue of Diana , in the Musée du Louvre
- 1791 portrait bust of Baron Otto Hermann von Vietinghoff
- 1791 portrait bust of Anne-Ange Houdon at the age of 15 months .
- 1801 portrait bust of Dorothea von Schlözer , exhibited in the Paris Salon, today Göttingen University Library
- 1803/1804 portrait bust of Robert Fulton .
- 1806 portrait bust of Napoléon Bonaparte
exhibition
- 2009/2010: Jean-Antoine Houdon. The anniversary exhibition , Liebieghaus , Frankfurt am Main
literature
- HH Arnason, The sculptures of Houdon. London, Phaidon, 1975. X, 294 p. ISBN 9780714816357
- Sauerländer, Willibald: An attempt on the faces of Houdon. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-422-06372-2
- Jean-Antoine Houdon: The sensual sculpture, ed. by Maraike Bückling and Guilhem Scherf, exhibition cat. Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, October 29, 2009 to February 28, 2010, Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-7774-2332-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean-Antoine Houdon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jean-Antoine Houdon at artfacts.net
- Biography at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (engl.)
- Exhibition Jean-Antoine Houdon: The Sensual Sculpture from October 29, 2009 to February 28, 2010 in the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main
- Mentioned in Anna Amalia, Carl August and the Weimar event
Individual evidence
- ↑ HHArnason p.10
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Houdon, Jean-Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1741 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Versailles |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1828 |
| Place of death | Paris |