Marie Bracquemond
Marie Bracquemond (born Quivoron-Pasquiou ; born December 1, 1840 in Argentan , † January 17, 1916 in Sèvres ) was a French painter and belonged to the Impressionist circle .
After a youth in difficult circumstances, Marie Quivoron-Pasquiou moved to Etampes near Paris to study drawing. She made the acquaintance of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres , who encouraged her and shaped her style without giving her regular lessons. In 1857 she received permission to copy pictures in the Louvre . There she met the painter and graphic artist Félix Bracquemond , who worked as a porcelain painter and graphic artist in Limoges . They married in August 1869. Marie was involved in his work by her husband and created the designs for porcelain, ceramics and wall decorations. She painted landscapes and still lifes and gave drawing lessons at a school.
One of her designs, exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1874, caught the attention of Degas , who introduced the artist to Renoir and Monet , whose paintings she admired. It was above all Gauguin who in 1880 encouraged her to abandon her conventional style and paint in the new manner. She has now participated several times with her own work in the Impressionist exhibitions.
The couple had since moved to Sèvres, where pictures such as On the terrace in Sèvres or The afternoon tea were taken. Félix Bracquemond had little understanding of his wife's artistic direction, and was probably jealous of her success as a woman in art . Worn down by his criticism, she limited her artistic activity to the closest circle in Sèvres and gave it up completely after 1890. Thus her talent did not develop to the full, and the scope of her life's work remained limited. A retrospective exhibition in 1919 at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris showed around 90 paintings, for the most part only sketchy, 34 watercolors and nine engravings.
literature
- Ingrid Pfeiffer (Ed.): Impressionists . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 3-7757-2078-2
Web links
- Literature by and about Marie Bracquemond in the catalog of the German National Library
- Web Museum Paris
- Art Cyclopedia
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bracquemond, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Quivoron-Pasquiou, Marie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Argentan |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1916 |
| Place of death | Sèvres |