Karl Girardet
Karl Girardet (born May 3, 1813 in Le Locle ; † April 24, 1871 in Versailles ) was a painter from Switzerland who worked in Paris .
Life
Karl Girardet was the son of the engraver Abraham Girardet , who settled in Paris in 1822, where Karl grew up. There he was a student of Léon Cogniet . He made long trips in Switzerland , Germany , Italy , Spain , Algeria , Egypt and Turkey , from which he brought home landscapes and genre paintings. In some cases he left landscape painting and created actual historical images , such as the painting “Protestants attacked by Catholic soldiers and monks during their devotion” from Le Locle from 1842 shows. Girardet also worked as a book illustrator, as the illustrated editions of the Ariosta and the Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire attest.
literature
- Girardet, Karl . 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 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 167 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- René Burnand: Les Girardet au Locle et dans le monde . Ed. de la Baconnière, Neuchâtel 1957.
- François Fièvre: Karl Girardet illustrateur chez Mame, ou le voyage pittoresque à destination de la jeunesse . In: Romantisme. Revue du dix-neuvième siècle No. 147, 2010/1, pp. 97–108 ( cairn.info digitized).
Web links
- Publications by and about Karl Girardet in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Karl Girardet in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lucie Girardin-Cestone: Girardet, Karl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Sylvain Bauhofer: Girardet, Karl (Charles). In: Sikart
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Girardet, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter, active in Paris |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Locle |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1871 |
| Place of death | Versailles |