Paul Guigou

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Paul Guigou: Self-Portrait , 1869

Paul Camille Guigou (born February 15, 1834 in Villars , Département Vaucluse ; died December 21, 1871 in Paris ) was a French painter. He is best known as a landscape painter who created views of Provence in bright colors .

Life

Paul Guigou was born in the village of Villars in Provence in 1834. He came from a wealthy family of farmers and notaries. The family moved to the nearby town of Apt in 1841 , where Guigou first attended college . He was then 1845–1846 at the Petit séminaire in Avignon . The family had planned for him to become a notary who would succeed his uncle Frédéric Ripert in Marseille. Guigou studied law at the University of Aix-en-Provence and graduated in 1851 with the Baccalauréat ès Lettres . He then worked for the notary Madon in Apt. In 1854 he moved to Marseille , where he worked for the notary Joseph Roubaud until 1861.

Already at the Collège in Apt Guigous drawing teacher Camp discovered the talent of his pupil and gave him lessons in the years 1851–1855 after leaving school. In 1855 he visited the World Exhibition in Paris , where he was impressed by the paintings by Gustave Courbet . He also got to know the painter Narcisso Virgilio Díaz de la Peña . In Marseille he was taught by the painter Émile Loubon , and he worked with the painter Adolphe Monticelli . In an exhibition of the Société artistique des Bouches-du-Rhône , Guigou first exhibited paintings in 1859, and from 1861 he was a member of this society. Guigou's early paintings clearly show the influence of his mentor Loubon. Although he was not very successful as a painter, he gave up his job as an employee of a notary and from 1862 devoted himself entirely to art. He was only able to sell a few paintings and received small amounts in return. He received little financial support from his family and from then on was usually in a difficult financial situation. After Loubon's death in 1863, Guigou moved to Paris, where he settled on Rue de La Tour-d'Auvergne in the 9th arrondissement .

Paul Guigou: Les collines d'Allauch

Guigou first exhibited in 1863 at the Salon de Paris , where he showed the painting Les collines d'Allauch . After that, he regularly submitted pictures for this annual exhibition. Since 1865 he was a member of the artist community Société des aquafortistes . His circle of acquaintances included landscape painters such as Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny . In 1866 he went on a study trip to Algeria with several friends . In Paris he received a number of positive reviews, including from Théophile Gautier , Jules Castagnary and Théodore Duret . Through Duret and the critic Philippe Burty , Guigou got to know the circle of artists in the Café Guerbois . Here he met painters like Claude Monet , Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro . He made friends with the painter Frédéric Bazille , who, like Guigou, came from the south of France. Bazille's landscape Paysage au bord du Lez may have been influenced by Guigou.

Guigou traveled annually to his Provencal homeland, where he painted oil paintings and watercolors of the landscapes in the vicinity of Marseille. In his pictures he showed views of the fishing village L'Estaque , the bay of Étang de Berre , the plain of Crau and the banks of the river Durance . These light-flooded landscapes are partially populated with figures.

During the Franco-Prussian War , Guigou was stationed in Graveson in the south of France and did not take part in combat operations. For financial reasons he was forced to give drawing lessons. The art-loving Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild was one of his students . In December 1871 he suffered a stroke and died in the Paris Hôpital Lariboisière . After that, his work, comprising around 450 works, was initially forgotten. It was not until the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 that his pictures were shown again to a larger audience. His paintings can be seen in several museums in France and abroad.

Works in public collections (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Guigou  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The painting is in the Minneapolis Institute of Art . For Guigou's possible role model, see Gary Tinterow , Henri Loyrette : Origins of Impressionism. Harry N. Abrams, New York 1994, ISBN 0-87099-718-1 , p. 338.
  2. ↑ Information on the work in the National Gallery of Athens
  3. ↑ Information on the painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  4. ^ Directory of the painting in the Art Institute of Chicago
  5. ↑ Information on the painting in the Columbus Museum of Art
  6. ^ Directory of the painting in the database of the Art Council England
  7. ^ Directory of the painting in the Städel Museum
  8. ↑ Information on the painting in the Dixon Gallery and Gardens
  9. ^ Directory of the painting in the database of the Art Council England
  10. ↑ Information on the painting in the Petit Palais Paris
  11. ↑ Information on the painting in Norton Simon Museum
  12. ↑ Information on the painting in Norton Simon Museum
  13. ↑ Information on the painting in Norton Simon Museum
personal data
SURNAME Guigou, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guigou, Paul Camille (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Villars , Vaucluse department
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1871
Place of death Paris