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Jules Holzapffel , also Jules Holtzapffel (* 1826 in Strasbourg , † April 12, 1866 in Paris ) was a French painter .

life and work

Holtzapffel was the son of the merchant Egide Théodore Holzapffel and his wife Hélène Eléonore Jacobée (née Thomassin) from Strasbourg. The couple had a total of four children, Frédéric Ernest Holtzapffel, Jules Holtzapffel, Louise Elisa Holtzapffel and Camille Holtzapffel, who grew up as half-orphans after their mother's early death. The crab apple, who came from Alsace , was a student in the Parisian studio of the painter Léon Cogniet together with Jules Ravel and François Nicolas Chifflart (1825–1901) . From 1852 he exhibited his work annually in the Salon de Paris . His works mainly include genre paintings and portraits. In 1866 the jury of the Paris Salon rejected his works, whereupon he took his own life by shooting himself in his apartment. In his farewell letter he is said to have written:

«Les membres du jury me refusent, donc je n'ai pas de talent… il faut mourir»

“The members of the jury rejected me. That means that I have no talent. That's why I have to die "

This suicide became known through the press. Holtzapffel's violent death and the publication of his suicide note caused violent reactions against the supposedly heartless jurors. The writer Émile Zola then wrote the highly regarded article Un suicide , which appeared on April 19, 1866 in the magazine L'Événement , but without naming Holzapffel. In this he accused the jury system of the salon.

Some authors believe it is possible that Zola's description inspired Edouard Manet to create his painting The Suicide . However, this possible connection is controversial.

Works in public collections

  • La mère mourante ( The Aspiring Mother ), 1851, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain , Strasbourg
  • L'orphelin ( The Orphan ), 1851, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maisons de Strasbourg. In: fr.nf. Retrieved September 4, 2019 (Fri-FR).
  2. ^ France Nerlich, Alain Bonnet: Apprendre à peindre: Les ateliers privés à Paris 1780–1863 . Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2018, ISBN 978-2-86906-587-1 , pp. 264 ( books.google.de ).
  3. Malcolm Gladwell: David and Goliath: The Art of Vanquishing the Mighty . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39918-8 , pp. 62 .
  4. ^ A b Émile Zola: Mon Salon. L'Evénement, le 19 avril 1866: Un Suicide.
  5. ^ Ed Lilley: Two Notes on Manet. In: The Burlington Magazine. Volume 132, No. 1045, April 1990, pp. 266-269.
  6. Beth Archer Brombert: Edouard Manet, rebel in a frock coat. Little, Brown, Boston 1996, ISBN 0-316-10947-9 , p. 187.
  7. ^ Theodore Reff: Manet's Incident in a Bullfight. Frick Collection, New York 2005, ISBN 0-912114-28-2 , p. 53.
  8. Painting in the online directory culture.gouv.fr.
  9. Painting in the online directory culture.gouv.fr.
  10. ^ Directory of the municipal painting collection in Strasbourg. 2nd Edition. Alsatian printing and publishing house, Strasbourg 1903, p. 116 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).