Louis Royer (painter)
Louis Royer (born August 1, 1793 in Mechelen , Austrian Netherlands , † June 5, 1868 ) was a Belgian-Dutch painter and sculptor .
Life
Royer was a son of the geometer Johan Royer and his wife Barbara Lemaître. Royer received his first artistic lessons at the art academy in his hometown. There he was a student of Jean-François van Geel between 1810 and 1818 .
In the spring of 1819 he went to Paris with his friend and colleague Jean-Baptiste Debay , where he was a student of Alexandre Cabanel for a short time at the École des beaux-arts there . On October 20, 1823 traveled to Rome via Lyon, Geneva, Lausanne, Friborg, Bern, Lucerne, Como, Milan, Bologna and Florence . There he soon found a connection in the circle of artists around the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen .
In April 1826 Royer returned to his homeland. He settled in The Hague and founded a large studio. On June 15, 1831, he married Carolina Frederica Kerst there. In 1829 he was made a knight of the Belgian Ordre du Lion .
Louis Royer died eight weeks before his 75th birthday on June 5, 1858 in Mechelen, where he found his final resting place.
Works (selection)
- as a painter
- Hébe .
- Allegory “vie & mort” .
- Nuits des romains .
- as a sculptor
- Rembrandt Monument on Rembrandtplein , Amsterdam
- Vondel Monument in Vondelpark , Amsterdam
- Gaius Civilis Monument, The Hague
- Michiel de Ruyter monument, Vlissingen
- Michiel Coxcie Monument, Mechelen
- Laurens Janszoon Coster Memorial, Grote Markt, Harlem
Individual evidence
- ↑ today Province of Antwerp , Belgium
literature
- Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous le temps et de tous les pays . New edition Grund, Paris 1999ff., Vol.?, S.?.
- Guus van den Hout: Louis Royer (1793–1868). Een Vlaamse beeldhouwer in Amsterdam . Van Soeren, Amsterdam 1994, ISBN 90-6881-039-1 .
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Royer, Louis |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian-Dutch painter and sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1793 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mechelen |
DATE OF DEATH | June 5, 1868 |