Marcel de Chollet
Marcel de Chollet also Marcel Chollet (born October 26, 1855 in Geneva ; died July 30, 1924 in Geneva) was a Swiss-French painter of the Belle Époque . He was best known for his ceiling paintings in prominent public places in Switzerland and Paris, including political buildings as well as casinos and hotels of the haute société . In addition, he also created a painterly and graphic oeuvre that can be assigned to naturalism and impressionism .
life and work
Marcel de Chollet was born in 1855 as the son of the architect Charles Joseph de Chollet. Little is known about his youth. He left Switzerland before 1880 to study at the academies in Paris, at that time the world metropolis of art. First he visited the studio of Borchgrave and Bidan and completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter. He then enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in the decorative painting course with Pierre-Victor Galland and finally settled in Paris, where he moved into a studio at 17 rue Victor-Massé in Montmartre .
Between 1883 and 1898 de Chollet successfully exhibited still lifes and drawings in art salons in Switzerland, including the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Friborg , the Musée d'art et d'histoire Geneva and the Musée Rath together with important painters of his time , including Ferdinand Hodler . In Paris, his work was shown in the Salon des artistes français . In 1903 Marcel de Chollet received the Mention from the Salon. In Paris, a change in style can be observed from naturalistic still lifes, very much influenced by the brown tone, to airy portraits of women inspired by Claude Monet and Édouard Manet .
Marcel de Chollet became far better known for his picturesque interiors of public buildings, some of which have been preserved to this day. He received his first commission in 1885 with the request to paint the audience room of the Swiss Federal Court in Lausanne . In 1895 he decorated the ballroom of the famous Hôtel des Alpes-Grand Hôtel in Territet . Further commissions followed, but his breakthrough came with the allegorical painting of the office of the President of the National Council in the Bundeshaus Bern . The reading room in the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne followed in 1905 , and parts of the Hotel Montreux Palace in Montreux a year later . In 1908 he was responsible for furnishing the Salle del Castillo in the Casino du Rivage in Vevey . Other works that were destroyed in 1974 were the Grands Magasins du Louvre .
Ballroom in the Hôtel des Alpes-Grand Hôtel in Territet , 1895.
Hotel Le Montreux Palace in Montreux , 1906.
Salle del Castillo in the Casino du Rivage in Vevey , 1908.
literature
- Tamara Robbiani: Marcel Chollet (1855-1924). Un artiste méconnu. In: monuments vaudois , No. 2, 2011, pp. 19-25.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chollet, Marcel de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chollet, Marcel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-French painter of the Belle Époque |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1924 |
| Place of death | Geneva |