Louis-Ernest Barrias
Louis-Ernest Barrias (born April 13, 1841 in Paris ; † February 4, 1905 there ) was a French sculptor .
Life
Barrias came from a family of artists; his father was a porcelain painter and his older brother the landscape painter Félix Joseph Barrias . Barrias, too, first wanted to become a painter and became a student of Léon Cogniet after his first artistic lessons from his father .
Barrias later gave up painting in favor of sculpture and became a student in the workshop of the sculptor Pierre Jules Cavelier . Through his recommendation, Barrias was accepted at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in his hometown at the age of 17 . One of his most important teachers there was the sculptor François Jouffroy .
Barrias was soon able to take part in the annual exhibition of the Paris Salon and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1865 . Five years later, his lovely spinner was awarded by Megara at a similar exhibition. However, Barrias only achieved his artistic breakthrough in 1871 with his sculpture Spartacus, who as a youth swore to avenge his dying father .
In 1878 Barrias received the knighthood of the Legion of Honor , in 1881 he was promoted to officer and in 1900 he was appointed commander.
In 1878, when he again participated in the Paris Salon, his sculpture The First Burial (Adam and Eve with Abel's corpse) was awarded a medal of honor. This was followed by the statue of Palissy in 1881 and that of little Mozart with the violin in 1882, a work full of grace and its characteristics. Barrias also created some state graves in the Père Lachaise cemetery , u. a. for Thomas Couture (1879) and Anatole de La Forge (1893).
In 1884 Barrias was appointed as a lecturer at the École de Beaux-Arts; Josep Clarà , Charles Despineau and Victor Segoffin are to be mentioned as his most important students .
The sculptor Louis-Ernest Barrias died in Paris on February 4, 1905, at the age of almost 64.
gallery
- Works by Louis-Ernest Barrias
Henri Regnault (1871). Paris, Musée d'Orsay .
The Defense of Paris (La Défense de Paris) . Paris, La Defense .
The Oath of Spartacus (Le Serment de Spartacus) (1874). Paris, Tuileries Garden .
Tomb of Thomas Couture (1879). Paris, Pere Lachaise Cemetery .
The first funeral (Les premières Funérailles) (1883).
The Alligator Hunters (Les Chasseurs d'alligators) (1894). Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
Nature reveals itself to science (La Nature se dévoilant à la Science) (1899). Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
The Enlightenment (La Reconnaissance) (1900). Mulhouse , Textile Museum.
Monument to Victor Hugo (1902). Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon .
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literature
- Alberto Shayo : Statuettes art deco period. Antique Collectors Club Art Books, 2016. ISBN 1-85149-824-9 . P. 42.
- Lucien Lavour: L'œuvre de Ernest Barrias . Typography Philippe Renouard, Paris 1905.
- Ernest Flammarion: L.-E. Barrias (1841-1905): Notes biographiques . Paris 1905.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barrias, Louis-Ernest |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1905 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |