Nicolas Gilles
Nicolas Gilles , also Nikola Gilles (born October 8, 1870 in Mönchengladbach , † 1939 in Wiesbaden ), was a German watercolor painter , illustrator and caricaturist .
Life
Gilles studied painting from 1886 to 1888/1889 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Heinrich Lauenstein and Hugo Crola . From October 15, 1889 he was a student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , then until 1891 a student at the Académie Julian in Paris . In the summer of 1895 he was in Rome .
In 1913 he sent 18 watercolors to the Dresden watercolor exhibition and the spring exhibition of the Munich Secession , depicting female nudes, portraits of women and female genre motifs.
After Gilles was found fit for field service in 1915, he took part in the First World War as a soldier from around 1916 to 1919 . Gilles then lived again in Munich and worked for the illustrated weekly magazine Jugend . There he was represented with 33 contributions from 1913 to 1922. He also contributed to the Munich satirical magazine Simplicissimus .
On September 15, 1940, a memorial exhibition for Nicolas Gilles was held at the Wilhelm Ettle Kunsthaus in Frankfurt am Main .
literature
- Gilles, Nicolas . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 37 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Galerie Jacques Fischer / Chantal Kiener (ed.): Nicolas Gilles, 1870–1939. Exhibition catalog, Paris 1989.
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, kunstpalast.de PDF).
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ↑ 00589 Nikola Gilles , register of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
- ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 207.
- ↑ List of contributors “Youth” Vol. 1–25 (as of April 18, 2012, simplicissimus.info PDF), p. 91.
- ^ Institute for Urban History Frankfurt am Main : Stadtchronik 1940 , website in the portal stadtgeschichte-ffm.de , accessed on November 16, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gilles, Nicolas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gilles, Nikola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German watercolor painter, illustrator and caricaturist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mönchengladbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1939 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |