Louis Édouard Fournier

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Louis Édouard Fournier (born December 12, 1857 in Paris , † April 10, 1917 there ) was a French painter and illustrator .

La Colère d'Achille (1881)
East facade of the Grand Palais in Paris
L'Enterrement de Shelley (1889)

Fournier studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Alexandre Cabanel . For his painting La Colère d'Achille , which depicts the wrath of Achilles described in Homer's Iliad , he won the Prix ​​de Rome in the painting category in 1881 .

Together with other artists such as Alexandre Falguière he participated in numerous larger artistic projects. Including the mosaics at the Grand Palais in Paris, where he created an 80-meter-long mosaic frieze in the colonnades of the main facade on Avenue Winston Churchill in 1900, depicting important milestones in ancient and French art history.

He also made a number of paintings of the sights of Lyon and numerous wooden sculptures. In Lyon, his well-known fresco Glory of Lyon and Beaujolais is in the consultation room of the Departmental Council of Rhône . One of his most famous paintings, L'Enterrement de Shelley , is in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool , showing the cremation of the corpse of the writer Percy Bysshe Shelley by his friends Lord Byron , Edward John Trelawny and Leigh Hunt on July 12, 1822 at La Spezia . From 1902 to 1904 he created the mosaic panels of Jesus in the temple , flagellation and crowning of thorns in three chapels of the Rosary Basilica of Lourdes . Fournier also made a name for himself as a book illustrator.

Web links

Commons : Louis Édouard Fournier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joconde, ministère français de la Culture: notice no 50510011494 La Colère d'Achille. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  2. ↑ Rmn - Grand Palais Paris: The friezes. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  3. ^ Préfet du Rhône: La salle de délibération du Conseil général. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  4. ↑ lelyondesgones.com: La Préfecture. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  5. ^ Nancy Rose Marshall: "A Fully Consummated Sacrifice upon Her Altar" - Victorian Cremation as Metamorphosis. In: Victorian Studies , Vol. 56, No. 3 (Spring 2014), pp. 458-469.
  6. ↑ Le projet PREPACT. une expérience de collaboration transfrontaliére: L'objet: les mosaïques. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Fournier, Louis Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1917
Place of death Paris