Paul Chenavard
Paul-Marc-Joseph Chenavard (born December 9, 1807 in Lyon , † April 12, 1895 in Paris ) was a French painter.
Life
Chenyavard began his artistic training at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon . From November 19, 1825 he studied at the École des beaux-arts de Paris with Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres , Louis Hersent and Eugène Delacroix . He spent the period from 1827 to 1829 in Italy, where he met the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . Under his influence he devoted himself to history painting. His painting should represent the "philosophy of history".
Back in Paris, he continued to study philosophy, which also influenced his painting. During the second visit to Italy, Chenavard met Friedrich Overbeck and Peter Cornelius .
In 1848 Paul Chenavard was formally commissioned by the Interior Minister of the Provisional Government, Alexandre Ledru-Rollin , to carry out the interior decoration of the Pantheon in Paris . In 1851 the order was canceled when Napoleon III. handed the building over to the Catholic Church. It stayed u. a. the design of the mosaic “Philosophy of History”.
Chenavard was awarded the Legion of Honor in July 1853 . He received a medal at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1855 .
He then created a series of philosophical and religious images. Strangely enough, he also painted dozens of erotic watercolors . The 4 by 5 meter painting “Divina Tragoedia ou la fin des religions” (The Divine Tragedy or the End of Religions), exhibited in the Salon of 1869, attracted severe criticism. Since then, the artist has not participated in the exhibitions. During the Paris Commune of 1870, Chenavard joined a battalion in the National Guard at the age of 63. After the war, Chenavard returned to Lyon, where he lived in the house of his friend, painter Joseph Guichard . He spent the last years of his life almost blind in a Paris retirement home, where he died.
literature
- Eugène Vial: Chenavard, Paul . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 455–456 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Paul Chenavard, 1807-1895: Le peintre et la prophète : Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon 2000: ISBN 2711840352
Web links
- Paul-Marc-Joseph Chenavard. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chenavard, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chenavard, Paul-Marc-Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French history painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1895 |
| Place of death | Paris |