Louis Théophile Hingre
Louis Théophile Hingre (born November 19, 1832 in Écouen , † November 12, 1911 in the Val-d'Oise department ) was a French painter, poster artist, illustrator and sculptor of Art Nouveau.
Life
From the age of 12 to 25, Hingre worked in the studio of Henri Louis Gervais and Adrien Possot in Paris, where he learned how to design ornamental bronze sculptures.
At the age of 19, he married Louise Dailly in 1851. They became parents of four children: Maximilien, Clémentine, Marguerite and Léon, who later worked as a painter in England.
Hingre was a member of the Academy of Arts from 1899 and an art teacher from 1908.
During the revolutions of 1848/1849 he met the utopian socialist Louis Blanc . He created sculptures for republican banquets, of which only photographs have survived.
Because of his social commitment , Hingre had to flee to England twice, once in 1848 and once in 1858. During his stay in England he worked in Birmingham as an ornamental sculptor at Elkington & Co. During this employment he first began to sculpt animals. His first work was horse racing trophies.
From 1860, he exhibited his works in the Paris salons, despite his British exile.
After returning to France, he lived in Paris from 1869. There he regularly took part in the competitions of the “ Union centrale des arts décoratifs ” and in art exhibitions.
During the Art Nouveau era from around 1890 onwards, under the influence of Alfons Mucha , he dealt with poster art.
The Association Théophile et Léon Hingre was founded in Écouen in 2001.
literature
- Hingre, Théophile . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924.
- Emmanuel Benezit [ed.]; Jacques Busse [arr.]: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Nouv. éd., entièrement réfondue = [4. éd.]. Paris: Gründ, 1999 ISBN 2-7000-3020-6
- Daniel Baduel, Aude Bertrand, Christian Dauchel, L'École d'Écouen, une colonie de peintres au XXe siècle , pp. 75–78: Domont Impr. 2014: ISBN 978-2-74664-645-2
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hingre, Louis Théophile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter, poster artist, illustrator and sculptor of Art Nouveau |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Écouen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1911 |
| Place of death | Val-d'Oise department |